Sketches: Stories Of Art And People

11.30AM, RADIO 4

Mark Knight was taken on a school trip to a museum, and saw a painting that caught his imagination. It was a big painting, teeming with people, and Mark was entranced by the work. He often returned to look at it, losing himself in the painting for hours on end. Then, one day, he went to the museum, and the painting was gone. Mark tells Anna Freeman the whole story in this first of a new series on the power of the arts.

Melvyn Bragg (12 noon, Radio 4)