Category: 5. Entertainment

Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks

9pm, BBC Two
JMW Turner is an enigma. But while he didn’t leave behind a diary, he did leave 37,000 private sketches that give clues to his character – and they have been made public for the first time. Clinical…

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