Not Forgotten - Class

Ian enters Victory Hall - he looks at works by John Lytton	10:03:01	IAN HISLOP (VO): Inside the Victory Hall is a unique expression of how the misery of the war transformed one aristocrat’s view of Britain and how he used his talent as an artist to present a new, more equal vision of society. That man was local landowner Neville, the Third Earl of Lytton.
Int - Keith and Ian in Victory Hall Continue with Ian and Keith Pan up picture CU pictures on opposite side of hall Picture of Neville playing flute	10:09:22 10:09:36 10:09:42 10:09:53 10:09:57 10:10:05 10:10:07 10:10:10 10:10:39 10:10:41 10:10:42	DR KEITH GREAVES: He truly regarded this as, as a vital commission, as an enormous undertaking and of course, as a homage to men and women of the Great War. IAN HISLOP (VO): Doctor Keith Greaves is a historian who has extensively researched the Balcombe frescos. DR KEITH GREAVES: He says specifically that he was depicting unutterable suffering, despite it being a kind of victorious outcome. IAN HISLOP: Is this … I mean is he actually strangling him? I mean what’s going on in this …? DR KEITH GREAVES: Extraordinary, isn’t it? This sort of hand-to-hand setting, the kind of grim brutalities of war. IAN HISLOP: I mean there’s … there’s no messing about here, it’s about killing people. DR KEITH GREAVES: No. IAN HISLOP (VO): But most surprising, is what Neville Lytton chose to depict on the opposite side of the hall. In stark contrast to the uncompromising picture of the horrors of war, here Neville set out his idealised vision of hope for an egalitarian Britain, where the arts would heal the pain of war. DR KEITH GREAVES: There he is playing the flute. IAN HISLOP: Oh, that’s him with the flute? DR KEITH GREAVES: There he is playing the flute. He wrote that what he had learnt most about his time in France, were the uncommon virtues of the common man. He noted that society could not sustain this kind of sense of deference, that he himself, as a south country squire, could not continue to receive deference from his farm labourers and those whom he had taken to war with him in 1914.