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Monty Don
Broadcast | 09 Jul 2006
Horticulturalist, Broadcaster
Luxury | Hendrickje Bathing by Rembrandt
Nigel Slater
Broadcast | 05 Jun 2005
Cookery writer, Broadcaster
Luxury | Howard Hodgkin's painting Learning About Russian Music
Lorin Maazel
Broadcast | 03 Apr 2005
Musical Director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Luxury | Vermeer Painting - The Piano Lesson.
Peter Maxwell Davies
Broadcast | 30 Jan 2005
Composer
Luxury | Copper plate engravings of Durer’s Passion
Christopher Ondaatje
Broadcast | 17 Nov 2002
Businessman, Explorer, Philanthropist
Luxury | The Blue Nude by Justin Deranyagala
Philip Pullman
Broadcast | 06 Oct 2002
Children's writer, Booker / Whitbread Prize winner
Luxury | A Jar of Apricots, by Chardin
Sir Kyffin Williams
Broadcast | 10 Jun 2001
Painter
Luxury | A small painting called the Head of a Girl by Michael Sweerts
Sir Timothy Clifford
Broadcast | 20 May 2001
Director-General of the National Galleries of Scotland
Luxury | Renaissance casket with a selection of 15th & 16th century Italian drawings in it
Margaret Drabble
Broadcast | 06 May 2001
Novelist
Luxury | Painting by Maurice Cockerill - Ariadne’s Thread
Shirley Hughes
Broadcast | 25 Mar 2001
Children's writer, Illustrator
Luxury | Painting by Titian: Bacchus & Ariadne
Sir John Mortimer
Broadcast | 04 Feb 2001
Barrister - QC, Dramatist
Luxury | Velasquez painting of old lady frying eggs
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