Radio 4 Choice
The Radio 4 Choice podcast brings you our pick of the best of the week's documentaries on BBC Radio 4. A new episode is published every Friday and is available to download for 7 days.
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The Wreck of the Alba 10 Jul 09
Fri, 10 Jul 09
Duration:
28 minsMichael Bird, an art historian and surfer, uncovers the universal and local significance of one of the most popular pictures in the Tate, St Ives - The Wreck of the Alba by Alfred Wallis. He interviews people in St Ives who remember the disaster, when the steamer's crew was wrecked on Porthmeor beach in January 1938. Michael also gains access to many recordings of people who knew Wallis, made in the 1960s by Dr Roger Slack, a St Ives GP, and speaks to Chris Stephens, senior curator at the Tate, and to people looking at the painting and surfers on the beach.
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