This episode originally aired in 2017.
Neil Gaiman is an author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book. In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.
Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Most of the works for which he is best known were created while he was a patient in psychiatric hospitals.
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Producer: Dan Morelle
Jonathan Foyle
The Cave Art Paintings of the Lascaux Cave - with Professor Alice Roberts
Sutton Hoo Shoulder Clasp - with Jim Peters
Minisode - Flaming June
Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch – with Waldemar Januszack
Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci - with Martin Kemp
Gin Lane by Hogarth - with Lars Tharp
Early One Morning by Sir Anthony Caro – with Alistair Sooke
The Fighting Temeraire by Turner – with Dan Snow
Theodora Mosaic, Ravenna – with Bettany Hughes
Elizabeth I – Armada Portrait
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