BBCNEWS HARDtalk August 31, 2021 03:46:00
On aldeburgh beach... and just for people who don't know, that's this extraordinary... i think it's four tonnes of steel, a sort of elaborate scallop shell shape, which is right on the shingle beach at aldeburgh. yes. it's a shattered scallop, you know, because i think benjamin britten took classical music and wrung it by the neck and reinvented it and so it's the shattering scallop shell. but a friend of mine had come to tea and said, "oh, i thought i was going to be a statue of benjamin britten in aldeburgh, maggi, and i thought you were going to do it." and i said, "vanessa, you're pottier ...