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Copyright Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Tuesday 21 January
The Last of England
By David Calcutt
This oval-shaped Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece by Ford Madox Brown depicts emigrants on a boat bound for Australia. In the foreground is an artist and his wife, who is clearly holding a young child under her shawl. Against a background of interviews with visitors and staff at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, who give their own personal responses to the painting, writer David Calcutt imagines what happened to these characters once the ship got under sail.
With Simon Chandler, Julia Hills, and Christopher Ashley. Contributors: Jane Farrington, Graham Allen, Debbie Arkinstall, Jack Reid, Professor David Horne.
Producers Rosie Boulton and Peter Leslie Wild.
Wednesday: The Death of Chatterton
Thursday: The Return of the Prodigal Son
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