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LS Lowry: The Unheard Tapes review – Ian McKellen lip-syncs with precision as the artist bares his soul

The notoriously private Manchester painter agreed in 1972 to be recorded by a young fan. The results, broadcast here for the first time, are tender, revealing – and desperately moving

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TV tonight: Kyla Harris’s ace comedy about best friends returns

Freya has got engaged in We Might Regret This, but where is Jo? Plus: recently discovered audio interviews with LS Lowry. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

LS Lowry believed his paintings would be worthless, interviews reveal

Exclusive: Sir Ian McKellen portrays artist in BBC documentary that draws on trove of previously unheard recordings

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Sir Ian McKellen opens up on challenges of playing LS Lowry for new BBC documentary

Veteran actor will lip-sync the voice of the acclaimed English artist from archive tapes for a new immersive experience

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Sir Ian McKellen: ‘Challenging’ to lip sync as LS Lowry for BBC documentary

The Lord Of The Rings star will play the painter using recordings from his final days.

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Sir Ian McKellen to portray LS Lowry in new BBC documentary

The Lord Of The Rings star will play the painter using recordings from his final days.

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Rare rugby crowd painting by British artist to go on sale for millions

Works by L.S Lowry are expected to fetch millions at auction

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Rare Lowry artworks expected to fetch millions at auction

Going To The Match, the earliest sporting painting ever realised by Lowry and one of only two works he devoted to rugby, is the most valuable work.

Evening Standard

The Guardian’s happiest places to live in Britain revealed

What makes for a great place to live? Access to nature, a sense of community and culture on your doorstep can all help. So which towns make the cut?

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LS Lowry painting bought for £10 in 1926 sells at auction for £800,000

Going to the Mill was bought by the literary editor of the Manchester Guardian and had remained in the family

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LS Lowry painting originally bought for £10 sells for more than £800,000

Lowry, who was lauded for his portrayal of everyday industrial scenes in northwest England, painted the piece in 1925.

Evening Standard

LS Lowry painting originally bought for £10 expected to fetch up to £1 million

The painting, Going To The Mill, was bought by Arthur Wallace for £10 in 1926 and has been in the same family ever since.

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First Thing: Global stock markets slump as Trump’s tariffs take hold

Further tariffs including 104% on China take effect. Plus, conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett becomes target for Maga attacks

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LS Lowry painting sold to Guardian literary editor for £10 could fetch £1m

Rare early work Going to the Mill is to be auctioned after remaining in the Wallace family since 1926

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‘Secret Lowry’: the ex-gravedigger who painted northern life, from factory to fuggy pub

He repaired his car with Sellotape and kept his trousers up with rope. But Eric Tucker had a hidden life – painting drinkers, smokers and factory-workers without saccharine or sentiment. Now a book celebrates his extraordinary life

Evening Standard

Bach manuscript among items worth more than £45 million donated to UK museums

The acquisitions come as part of the acceptance in lieu and cultural gifts schemes.

Evening Standard

How artist L.S. Lowry became 2024's unexpected winter style pin up

‘Bleak weather inspires beautiful clothes’ — why the style set have fallen for L.S. Lowry this year

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The new Lowry x Private White V.C menswear collection is cool but creepy

Is this the start of a worrying new trend?

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Sefton Samuels obituary

Photojournalist who documented life in north-west England, with subjects ranging from LS Lowry and George Best to bingo players and coalminers

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‘It was magical’: hidden self-portrait by English artist Norman Cornish found at museum

Painting, concealed inside one of his well-known works, emerged during work for exhibition celebrating northern art

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Timothy Spall calls on next government not to treat arts as an economic ‘bloodsucker’

Harry Potter actor says ‘whoever takes over’ next should work on removing perception of arts as an ‘elitist’ field

The Guardian - UK

Next UK government must not treat arts as ‘bloodsucker’, says Timothy Spall

Actor calls on whoever wins on 4 July to recognise what the arts bring to society, as Salford’s Lowry theatre turns 25

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‘I put his matchstick men in the bin’: Lowry’s lost sketches go on display for first time

When on holiday in Berwick the artist often gave his work away. Now a new exhibition reveals the value of drawings that survived in a shoebox

The Guardian - UK

‘One of his finest’: LS Lowry seascape expected to sell for up to £1.5m

British artist’s 1947 painting Beach Scene, Lancashire to go to auction after 70 years in Canadian collection

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