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| Broken Images | ...As Tate Britain begins its retrospective on the work of FRANCIS BACON, Louisa Buck considers the artist who, for many, painfully captured the 'godless world' and the shattered psychology of the 20th century. With the help of critic and curator Michael Peppiatt, and biographer and writer Martin Harrison, the programme looks at Bacon as an artist set deeply in his own times and explores how photography and film underscored his work.... |
| Centurions | ...FRANCIS BACON - Innocent Screams... |
| Gargoyle Club, The | ...With FRANCIS BACON and Lucien Freud, art dominated 1950s Soho. But their painting contemporaries found life quite different.... |
| Great Essayists, The | ...FRANCIS BACON... |
| In Our Time | ...Melvyn Bragg and guests including Patricia Fara and Stephen Pumfrey discuss FRANCIS BACON, the Elizabethan lawyer, politician and father of the Baconian scientific method.... |
| Scraps Of Bacon | ...Novelist James Maw paints an unofficial portrait of FRANCIS BACON by speaking to his Soho drinking companions and trying to track down the paintings he gave away.... |
| What Are Friends For? | ...FRANCIS BACON wrote 'Those that want friends to open themselves unto, are cannibals of their own hearts'. Professor Justin Champion assesses the writings of Michel de Montaigne and FRANCIS BACON, and the importance of friendship in political life.... |