2: A Modest and Reliable Talent
When Godfrey Wintle arrives at his dealer's edgy new gallery, he fears East London's art lovers might not take to his modest watercolours, in William Boyd's savagely funny series.
Adrian Scarborough continues William Boyd's brilliantly funny short story series skewering the contemporary art world.
Giles Flint-Greenfield, a St James' art dealer with a penchant for post-war British watercolours, is finding his world rather small. But when Ludo Abernathy, an old and far more successful art dealer friend, cuts him in on the mother of a deal, new and potentially terrifying horizons open up for him in East London. All too soon Giles has swapped his tweed for black leather, and St James鈥� for a car maintenance shop, and is feeling very much out of his depth among the art lovers of Leyton. Not least because he isn鈥檛 quite sure how Ludo is making him so much money鈥�.
In today's story, Godfrey Wintle makes a decent living from his modest East Anglian watercolours - he's proud of this. But when he arrives at his art dealer's edgy new gallery, east of East London, he fears that Leyton's art lovers might not take to his views of Swaffham Church ...
Reader: Adrian Scarborough
Writer: William Boyd
Producer: Justine Willett
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