Colour can shock. When Elizabeth Barrett Browning saw the life-sized Tinted Venus in John Gibson’s studio in 1854 she said she had ‘seldom, if ever, seen so indecent a statue’.

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Christopher Benjamin, the actor best known for playing Henry Gordon Jago in Doctor Who and its audio spin-off Jago & Litefoot, has died at the age of 90. The news was announced by Lisa Bowerman ...