The Artist and Politics

Clive James and Peter Porter return to discuss the relationship of the artist to politics, from the age of Plato until recent times.

Programme 1
Date of Show: Sat, August 14, 2004
Classical Greece and Rome.

Programme 2
Date of Show: Sat, August 21, 2004
The Renaissance artist and the Enlightened despot.

Programme 3
Date of Show: Tue, September 28, 2004
The poet takes sides: the English Revolution and the French Revolution.

Programme 4
Date of Show: Sat, October 02, 2004
Writers and Revolution: from the French Revolution to Charles Dickens.

Programme 5
Date of Show: Sat, October 23, 2004
The artist as reformer and propagandist: from Shaw to Orwell and Auden.

Programme 6
Date of Show: Sat, October 30, 2004
Getting it wrong: from Thomas Mann to George W. Bush.