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An impeccably rule-observing programme from the BBC: Art That Made Us reviewed

Plus: An eye-popping account of Rupert Maxwell’s odyssey from Czech schetl to a fanfare of heraldic trumpets

An undeniably affecting clay carving of a bloke deep in thought: ‘Spong Man’. Credit: BBC/ClearStory/Menace
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