Sir Peter Blake
Cerys’s guest is the English pop artist Sir Peter Blake, best known for co-creating the iconic sleeve design for The Beatles album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967.
The English pop artist Sir Peter Blake, best known for co-creating the iconic sleeve design for The Beatles album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967, is Cerys's guest. As this cultural masterpiece celebrates its half century, Sir Peter, knighted at Buckingham Palace in London in 2002 for his services to art, tells Cerys about his career as a cutting edge artist, how he came to be associated with The Beatles, and shares his love of music, including key tracks and reminiscences from the album as well as his youth, and delves into his own much loved collection of jazz music.
Picture: Peter Blake, Credit: Getty Images
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- Sat 12 Aug 201713:06GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
- Sun 13 Aug 201719:06GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa
- Sun 13 Aug 201721:06GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
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