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Awesome Beauty: The Art of Industrial Britain

Lachlan Goudie explores Britain's industrial landscapes and the artists and artworks inspired by them in a thought-provoking journey that challenges our national stereotypes.

Lachlan Goudie explores Britain's spectacular industrial landscapes and the artists and artworks inspired by them in a passionate and thought-provoking journey that challenges our national stereotypes. Travelling the length and breadth of the UK, and visiting an impressive range of industrial sites, from shipyards to quarries, mines to abandoned wind tunnels, steelworks to space age laboratories, Goudie builds a surprising and compelling alternative picture of Britain.

Featuring revelatory industrial art by the likes of JMW Turner, Graham Sutherland and photographer Maurice Broomfield, the film reveals the awesome beauty, drama and significance of our industrial heritage and proves there is so much more to these isles than the picture postcard cliche of a 'green and pleasant land'.

1 hour

Last on

Fri 7 Feb 2020 01:20

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Music Played

  • Hubert Parry

    Jerusalem

    Singer: Owain Arwel Hughes. Choir: Goldsmiths Choral Union.
  • The Prodigy

    Firestarter

  • The Prodigy

    Firestarter

  • Brian and Michael

    Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats & Dogs

  • The Black Keys

    Thickfreakness

  • The Stranglers

    Nice 'N' Sleazy

  • Colleen

    Babies

  • Nirvana

    Lake Of Fire

  • The Clash

    Straight To Hell

  • Massive Attack

    Man Next Door

  • Beth Orton

    Galaxy of Emptiness

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Lachlan Goudie
Production Company Oxford Film and Television

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