Awesome Beauty: The Art of Industrial Britain
BBC FOUR, 9.00PM
The Big Painting
Challenge judge Lachlan Goudie explores Britain’s industrial landscapes, and the artists and artworks inspired by them. Visiting ship yards, quarries and steelworks, he refutes that Britain is a merely a picture-postcard cliché of a green and pleasant land by championing the haunting and tense art of Graham Sutherland and photographer Maurice Broomfield. RW