Art That Made Us

Art That Made Us (2022)

EndedDocumentary show

An alternative history of the British Isles, told through art.

Network
Scheduleevery Thursday at 21:00

Last Episode

Brilliant Isles
Season 1Episode 859 min

Brilliant Isles

Brilliant Isles, the final episode of the series, explores how the generation of artists who recorded the shocks of global war gave way in the 1950s and 1960s to an explosion of new voices from across the British Isles, reinventing the arts and creating a richer, more diverse culture. Young artists rebelled against the old establishment, kicking against the confines of class, sex, nation and race. Actress Lesley Sharp performs passages from Shelagh Delaney's breakthrough play A Taste of Honey which brought the ordinary lives and unheard voices of working class women to a mainstream audience, while Chila Kumari Singh Burman explores the career of pop artist Pauline Boty. 

As British pop culture seduced the world, other voices lamented for something they felt was being lost. Writer and comedian David Baddiel reflects on Philip Larkin's elegy for the countryside, Going, Going, and addresses the controversy today about Larkin's attitude to immigration and race. Film director Amma Asante meets photographer Charlie Phillips, a photographic pioneer recording the fast changing community of 1960s Notting Hill and we look at the impact of Hanif Kureishi's novel about second generation immigrant life: The Buddha of Suburbia. 

The most striking art of the 1990s chipped away at easy stereotyping and monolithic identities. In Scotland, Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, rooted in raw Scots dialect and a brutal depiction of Edinburgh life, spoke for a world proudly distinct from its English neighbour while the murals on and around the Belfast Peace Lines became loud spaces for declaration of distinct political allegiance. With digital technology and installation art changing British culture, artist Liv Wynter explores the impact of Tracey Emin's work and how it opened up attitudes to class and gender, while actor Michael Sheen remembers his ambitious 2011 production The Passion of Port Talbot, a fusion of traditional mystery play and a 21st century social media event that could weld a community together. And poet Deanna Rodger reflects on how Stormzy and grime took Glastonbury by storm in 2019, and what it might mean for British identity and inclusion.

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