Sensationalists: The Bad Girls and Boys of British Art

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  1. Upstarts

  59m

  A look at the origins of the Young British Artists in the art schools of the mid-80s, a shocking and provocative movement which would culminate in the notorious 1997 exhibition Sensation.

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  2. Is It Art?

  59m

  In the 90s, young creatives, grouped together by advertising guru Charles Saatchi, respond provocatively to the decade's wave of optimism. The results are explosive - but is it art?

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  3. Fame and Fortune

  59m

  The Royal Academy’s iconoclastic Sensation is itself a sensation. 300,000 attend the show, causing protests and resignations. Meanwhile, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin reach mega-star status.

Cast

Keith Allen

Self (Narrator)