Season 5, Episode 9: Why are royal portraits so ugly?
Waldy and Bendy lament the direction the BBC is heading when it comes to arts programs, and Bendy talks to Andrew Graham-Dixon about his new Vermeer book. The Waldy and Bendy Awards return, looking at the ugliest royal portraits.
SHOCKING NEWS
BBC's new Civilisations series
THE INTERVIEW
Vermeer A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham-Dixon
The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer
Woman Holding a Balance by Johannes Vermeer
THE WALDY AND BENDY AWARDS
King Henry VII by unknown Netherlandish artist (between 1505-1509), at National Portrait Gallery
Marriage of Richard II of England by Unknown Artist
The Marriage of Henri II and Catherine de Medici by Giorgio Vasari
Charles IV of Spain and His Family by Francisco Goya
Portrait of Ferdinand VII (1814) by Francisco Goya
Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez
Queen Elizabeth I by Unknown English Artist
Henry VIII by Hans Holbein the Younger
Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I 'The Clopton Portrait' by Unknown, English School
Elizabeth I of England by Unknown, English School
Elizabeth I by Steven van der Meulen
Queen Elizabeth II by Lucian Freud
Portrait of Oliver Cromwell by Samuel Cooper
Charles I with M. de St Antoine by Anthony van Dyck
The Swanny Award by Vidar Bratlund-Mæland