A Picture of Britain Season 1 Episode 6

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A Picture of Britain: The Mystical West an enormous area that stretches from Stonehenge in Wiltshire to the furthest tips of Cornwall and Wales is David Dimblebys destination for this weeks episode of A Picture of Britain. In his quest to celebrate the British landscape that has inspired artists for the past 300 years this week David Dimbleby encounters the work of Dylan Thomas Constable JMW Turner and many more. A land of pre-historic ruins ley lines and crop circles of druids and bards King Arthur and Merlin this area has come to epitomise all that is ancient and magical in Britain. Artists have been drawn here not in search of pleasant pastures and pretty hamlets but to immerse themselves in wild landscape and thrilling myth. David journeys to Stonehenge where John Constable and JMW Turner those giants of British landscape painting chose to pit their strengths against one another in a Titanic clash for mastery. In Dorset he goes in search of Thomas Hardys Egdon Heath: the expanse of wild landscape where so many of Hardys characters meet their fate and which later provided the title for one of Gustav Holsts most famous pieces of music. Travelling north to Snowdonia David discovers the work of Richard Wilson - one of the founding fathers of British landscape painting. Returning south David reveals how Dylan Thomas love for the countryside around his native Swansea saved this poet from the pubs of London - if only temporarily. After sailing across the Bristol Channel David ventures into the savage landscapes and legends of Devon and Cornwall that inspired a unique genre of literature: the chilling West Country Gothic of Arthur Conan Doyles The Hound of the Baskervilles and Daphne du Mauriers Rebecca. Finally in St Ives he sees the legacy of the famous artistic community that settled here in the Thirties seeking to rediscover an innocence and purity of artistic vision in the unique and dramatic light of Cornwall.