Grayson Perry's channel 4 prog

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Did anyone watch it? I thought it was very interesting and it certainly rang a lot of bells for me as a university educated child of working class parents / grandparents. I think it is a very thought provoking programme. Looking forward to next week...

I really fancy a trip up to London to see the tapestries now. I'd love to go when it was really quiet and I could spend ages poring over them. I wonder if they'd let me stroke them

just watched the 2nd one on 4 od -he is amazingly good.

gypsyfloss - thank you so much for mentioning they are on display in London. I just looked it up and they are on display (for free) about 5 minutes walk from my office, I can't believe my luck. I agree they are just fabulous. I love this show. Can't wait fot the upper classes.

101handbags for being able to visit them easily. I hope you have a wonderful time :)

Thank you! I am going to wait until I've seen the third programme before I go.

I watched this last week. I live in Kent and honestly the women from King's Hill are completely deluded. They live on a big, ugly housing estate. It has no character at all, feels completely false and has always reminded me of Toy Town.

When is it on again?

101handbags Have convinced Dh that we should go and see them, unfortunately it's a matter of getting the time. I'd prefer to go during the week as I reckon it could be very hectic on a Sat and I really do want time to stare at them. They're only there till the 11th Aug though :(

hotsauce This Thursday I think .

OMG How HOW could I have missed this??!

Please kind posters.. what is the series called? I am a HUGE admirer of Grayson Perry (and he has the best laugh ever).

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can't wait for tonights!

Thank you nymets

Looks like I can still see last weeks on 4OD but can't find the first one. Sure to be repeated though I should think. Thank goodness I saw this thread! Good to see so many GP fans out there too Yes he should be on tv more, he's brill.

JoannaFight - both episodes already shown are on 4OD and lots of time to watch them
www.channel4.com/programmes/in-the-best-possible-taste-grayson-perry/4od

gypsyfloss -that's great you'll get to seem them. Enjoy!

Brilliant 101 thankyou!!

Hooray something decent to watch whilst dh shouts at the football this evening

Fantastic series, I really enjoyed it, sad it's over now. Wouldn't it be great to see more programmes like this? Why so few good arts programmes? He is FAB! I would LOVE to see the actual tapestries (but sadly not in UK)

I also love Grayson and I'm looking forward to watching g this series when I have time. I refer to myself as "mixed class" which I think des rubes the phenomenon of being middle class from working class parents etc

I have hugely enjoyed this. Don't you just love him? How he can get away with dressing the way he does and have people accept him is a total art.

I'm also an arts graduate from a (very) working class background, so I appreciate his take on class taste. I felt sorry for the woman who bought the show home and everything in it. I think she was embarrassed but I don't think she needed to be.

Tonight's programme was very different imo. The tapestries were very aggressive and I think his antipathy towards the upper classes came through - I felt uncomfortable about the toffs going to look at it when they were being sneered at. Or maybe I'm projecting...

I will definitely go to see the tapestries. I went to see the walthamstow tapestry (with lots of other thi gs) and the xhibition he curated at the British museum AND I have a GP silk scarf. Do I get the prize for. I gets GP fan on MN?!!

Eric! Biggest GP fan. Stupid phone

I thought last night's programme was the least successful to be honest - I really enjoyed the other ones, but I thought he was floundering a bit last night. The final tapestry wasn't really upper class taste - although it did follow his Hogarth line I suppose.

I didn't think it was particularly aggressive - more dismissive or even pitying (?) of the 'noblesse oblige' element of why upper class taste is as it is....which I think is a big part of these families trying to hold onto the family estates.

I think I fall between last week and this week - I live in TW but didn't really connect with the design elements of the houses, although I did see myself in the NCT group -with all of the angst about feeding/pesticides etc! However, my parents' life is more like last night's programme, and my house certainly reflects the passing things down and making do (with old curtains and clothes - nothing wrong with them!). I went to private school - had the whole ponies, house parties and upper class ritual associated with all of that, but my children are being educated by the state (first ones in the family for a very long time - shock, horror), albeit in a 'naice' town and so will have a far more middle class upbringing......

Such an interesting series though - I really hope he does more programmes.

I felt quite sorry for Rollo having his head on the stag being savaged although I thought he stood up for himself by commenting that the stag will often rise up. I was also a bit appalled by the ex Bill actress changing her house so much but then her comment about never being able to paint their own front door brought me up short.

I felt that GP wasn't as unbiased in his depictions this time but that didn't spoil what has been a brilliant series. I feel like I've been educated & can't wait to see them.

Lovely but nearly had to stab myself in the ears to avoid that Rosetta Stone advert. Hope for your sake it was just a 4od phenomenon.

I don't get any ads when I watch it on the iPad . Weird.

the joy of the iPad !

Is it an iPad thing then? I love it even more now :)