Episode 2
- 02:12 Cecily muses on a tube of 1956 Crimson Alizarin that she found in her great aunt’s* paint cupboard, and wonders where we would be without Sir William Henry Perkin.
- 12:32 Introduction of special guest Hannibal Southwell, discussion of his oeuvre, with remarkable revelations about how he first got started in the unusual medium of sculptural robotic taxidermy.
- 34:03 Play along with the new game Guess the Brush. Cecily paints with different brushes and you can win prizes by guessing correctly which one it is purely by the sound it makes on the canvas.
- 41:00 Interruption by Cecily’s young niece.
- 43:00 An unexpected singsong as Hannibal turns out to be releasing a song “When will I get in the Summer Exhibition”.
- 52:55 Goodbyes and Condolences.
*Cecily’s great aunt was the formidable Lady Ethelreda Axe-Cobb, renowned as the first woman to attempt to paint an African elephant in the wild. She half-succeeded, having got a preliminary sketch down before she was trampled.