"I don't like the South of England. No guts in it. Horrible place." L.S. Lowry is indelibly identified with Manchester and the industrial north of England. We can hear the artist's strident views on other parts of that country in these extraordinary and long-lost taped interviews that Lowry gave in his final years to young fan Angela Barratt. Manchester-born author Jeanette Winterson reflects on what Lowry's paintings tell us about the 'Manchester spirit'. The real voices of Lowry and Barratt ar

When L.S. Lowry's family moved to Pendlebury in Salford, it took him a long time to get used to the pollution, noise and poverty. Then he became fascinated by it: "I began to think after a time, has anybody ever painted this scene? And I found they hadn’t.”⁣ ⁣ Ian McKellen portrays the artist, who died on 23 February 1976, in L.S. Lowry: The Unheard Tapes. Real voices from the past are lip-synced from a series of extraordinary taped interviews Lowry gave in his final years to young fan Angela Ba