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Melvyn BRAGG hosts In Our Time with guests Mary VINCENT, Gijs van HENSBERGEN, and Dacia Viejo ROSE, discussing the Picasso's painting Guernica, from the context of the Spanish Civil War to the reception of the work. Moore mentioned at 27:30ff. as one of those who saw the painting in the studio while Picasso was working on it, along with Roland Penrose.

Documentary on Henry Moore and Münster, presented by Tanja PIRSIG-MARSHALL, the curator of LWL. Discusses the importance of the 1959 documenta exhibition in Kassel for Moore's profile in Germany, Moore's visits to Münster in 1965 and 1976, and three works - Three Piece Reclining Figure No.1, exhibited in 1964 in Münster; Working Model for Stone Memorial, acquired by the LWL and opened by Moore in 1976; and Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae, outside the offices of the bank WestLB in Münster. Uses archive photographs as well as modern shots of Moore's works in Münster.