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A Picture of Britain: David Dimbleby heads east this week to the area of England with the biggest skies of all. This part of Britain spawned more landscape painters per square mile than almost anywhere else in Britain. A Picture of Britain celebrates the British landscape which has inspired artists for the past three hundred years. This week David travels from Constable and Gainsborough country in Suffolk to the Norfolk Broads the Fens and the East coast. David ventures from the River Stour in Suffolk past the idyllic millstreams where Constable worked alongside his father as a boy and on to Sudbury the birthplace of Thomas Gainsborough. From The Haywain to Mr and Mrs Andrews this region has inspired some of the most reassuring and romantic images of the British landscape. Newmarket with its flat fast turf and the worlds champion racehorses is the next stop for David. Here he sees the 2000 racehorses training in the early morning mists has a flutter on the races and learns more about the work of Stubbs the most famous painter of horses ever. He sails on to the Norfolk Broads: home of barges and windmills where its easier to travel by boat than by car. He discovers the work of the home-grown artists John Crome and John Sell Cotman who couldnt easily travel to London so found inspiration in this cut-off region. Then on to the Fens - a land of fertile fields and canals and dykes with The Isle of Ely rising majestically from the heart of it all. Here David gets a fish eye view of the watery landscape. He swims in the River Cam swum before him by the poets Rupert Brooke and Lord Byron and catches eels in the River Ouse with the last known eel catcher in the region. Finally David will reach one of the most isolated and haunting places on these islands - a corner of England unlike any other: the East coast. Here the remorseless sea which eats away at the vulnerable coast has provided inspiration for composers like Benjamin Britten and artists throughout the centuries - from the contemporary artist Maggi Hambling right back to the greatest sea painter of all time JMW Turner.