it's titled derived from william blake's poem visions of the daughters of albion we go to the tate britain where we began our interview with curator martin maroney by asking him about that this is a big exhibition is over 300 in the exhibition by plate his prints his drawings and also his illuminated books and with a series of books in the 79 to this revolutionary decade with the revolution in france and the fall out still a lot of america. in britain he created a serious person visions of the daughters of arab in europe prophecy america prophecy which are in the exhibition and which show him translating current day events into these visionary terms using his invented characters and representing the kind of great power struggles within europe to work so hard on preparing an exhibition like this and be very aware of how both the left and the right of politics try to claim blake for their own many people know the last night of the proms the singing of jerusalem what is what emerges in this exhibition as his politics and enduring the fascinating figure and he has been claimed by by the politi

science and nature being exposed to really thank you martin you're only speaking to be there in the tate britain i'm joined now by peter lynn about the author of red brown global burning the title taken from william blake about the struggle of 2 and the privatization revolutionaries peter welcome to. going underground so we have a labor leader he had talking about nationalisation we have an exhibition on william blake of the tate to the gallery just around the corner from this studio tell me about the title of the book read drowned glue bought burning yes it read round go on burning us from a poem by william blake a prophetic poem his response to the 1st successful slave revolt in haiti in 7091 and read round globe hibernian her 1st to the enclosure of senses and this was at a time of the enclosure of land and the enclosure of the hand but for blake it also was a mental kind of enclosure and a spiritual kind he was afraid that the red brown globe which was represented both his heart and the world around him was destined for obliteration and a ray sure a terrible few but one whose prophetic power

burning its title derived from william blake's poem visions of the daughters of albion we go to the tate britain where we began our interview with curator martin maroney by asking him about that poem is that is a big exhibition is over 300 words in the exhibition by plate his prints his drawings and also his illuminated books and with a series of books in the 79 to this revolutionary decade with the revolution in france and the fallout still of a lot of america in britain he created a serious person couldn't visions of the daughters of albion europe or prophecy america or prophecy which are in the exhibition and which show him translating current day events into these visionary terms using his invented characters and representing the kind of great power struggles within europe he wants to work so hard on preparing an exhibition like this and be very aware of how both the left and the right of politics try to claim blake for their own many people know the last night of the proms the singing of jerusalem what is what emerges in this exhibition yet as his politics and how it makes an enduring the f

tate modern. she is not celebrating a monarch‘s reign but questioning britain's imperial past.t are clearly very angry and quite upsetting, so there is a lynching tree, for example. and then it is peppered with humour. yeah, i think a lot of my work is peppered with humour. i think that one of the tricks, in a way, to talking about difficult subjects, particularly when we talk about slavery, when we talk about race, racism, and especially the sort of legacies of racisms that have stemmed forth from, you know, a 400—500 year history of slavery and conquest. and the sharks? sharks are inevitable. not in many fountains. usually dolphins in fountains. the sharks, in this case, the precedent for the sharks comes in the form of our historical references, there's a winslow homer reference here, the gulf stream which has a black man in a, perhaps, imperilled boat in a storm surrounded by sharks. ——for the sharks comes in the form of art historical we have seen over the last decade the rise of many african—american and black artists becoming very successful and many of them female. is t

tate modern. she is not celebrating a monarch's reign but questioning britain's imperial past. quite upsetting, so there is a lynching tree, for example. and then it is peppered with humour. yeah, i think a lot of my work is peppered with humour. i think that one of the tricks, in a way, to talking about difficult subjects, particularly when we talk about slavery, when we talk about race, racism, and especially the sort of legacies of racisms that have stemmed forth from, you know, a 400—500 year history of slavery and conquest. and the sharks? sharks are inevitable. not in many fountains. usually dolphins in fountains. the sharks, in this case, the precedent for the sharks comes in the form of art historical references, there's a winslow homer reference here, the gulf stream which has a black man in a, perhaps, imperilled boat in a storm surrounded by sharks. we have seen over the last decade the rise of many african—american and black artists becoming very successful and many of them female. is the art world changing? the art world is definitely changing. with so many people

tate. sharanjit leyl in singapore for us. —— thanks very much, sharanjit. now let's brief you on some other business stories. brexit carries real risk of disruption to britain'ses, according to the uk's public spending watchdog. a report by the national audit office says the government has taken some steps to manage the risks, but there is still significant work to bedone. 37 million packs of medicine a month are imported into the uk from eu countries. shares of high—tech fitness bike firm peloton have slumped on their first day of trading on the nasdaq, closing down 11%. it's the latest disappointing stock market debut for a start—up company, pointing to a growing scepticism among investors about loss making firms with multi—billion dollar valuations. and now, what's trending in the business news this morning? and there's a definite theme! from cnbc, investors see companies as overpriced." the sports talent agency was the latest start—up to abandon its stock market debut on thursday. from business insider, peloton wipes out more than $900 million of investor wealth in its first day of public trading. and on bloomberg, "wework‘s credit rating gets cut further