2025-02-03
36 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Leila Ishmael.
Our guest today is television scriptwriter and author Joe Tucker.
His new book, the Secret Painter, tells the fascinating story of his uncle Eric,
a working class man from Woking who secretly created over 500 paintings that were uncovered after his death.
Joining Joe in conversation is author and critic Catherine Hughes, whose latest book,
Catland, explores the life of Victorian cat artist Lewis Wayne.
Let's join Catherine now with more.
Welcome to Intelligence Squared.
I'm Kathryn Hughes and our guest today is Joe Tucker.
Joe Tucker originally trained as an animation director before becoming a television scriptwriter.
With his script writing partner, Lloyd Wolf,
he's created and written the BBC shows Witless, Click and Collect and Black Ops.
His new book, which we'll be discussing today is the Secret Painter.
Welcome to INTELLIGENCE Squared show.
Thank you.
Thank you for having me.
The first thing I have to say is that I spent Christmas, we're recording this in late January.
I said over Christmas I, I read your book the Secret Painter and I was completely transfixed.
I, I honestly, I,