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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Portraits
Description: What exactly is a portrait? As the National Portrait Gallery re-opens and Sheffield Documentary Festival begins, Shahidha Bari talks to the gallery's Chief Curator Alison Smith, film-makers Kim Longinotto and Franky Murray Brown about their film Dalton's Dream, photographer Johny Pitts, whose project Home is Not a Place moves to the Photographers’ Gallery in London and New Generation Thinker Ana Baeza Ruiz about an oral history project with 1970s feminist artists.Producer: Sofie VilcinsYou can hear music relating to an image held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery every day on BBC Ra...