turner was announced on wednesday. by contrast, laura marcus thought the bbc overplayed the news. there was a third death the bbc reported on this week. here s david sillitoe on tuesday. rolf harris, an entertainer for more than 50 years who was revealed to be a serial sex offender. this the final day of his trial in 2014. why would you apologise, mr. harris? his bag already packed for prison. he had arrived in britain from australia in the fifties. an art student who made his name in television singing, joking, painting. beverley maggs was watching that and had this.
has died aged 93. he was found guilty of a string of offences between 1968 and 1986 and was behind bars for more than five years. before his crimes came to light, he was a fixture of family entertainment in britain. he died almost two weeks ago from cancer, six years after he was released from prison. he never apologised to his victims. david sillito reports. reporter: rolf, anyl word for your victims? rolf harris, an entertainer for more than 50 years, who was revealed to be a serial sex offender. this, the final day of his trial in 2014. why won t you apologise, mr harris? his bag already packed for prison. # waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda. he d arrived in britain from australia in the 50s, an art student who made his name in television, singing, joking, painting. the rolf harris show, rolf s cartoon time, animal hospital, rolf on art. when a poll was carried
this, the final day of his trial in 2014. why won t you apologise, mr harris? his bag already packed for prison. # waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda. he d arrived in britain from australia in the 50s, an art student who made his name in television, singing, joking, painting. the rolf harris show, rolf s cartoon time, animal hospital, rolf on art. when a poll was carried out in the 90s asking for the name of an artist, rolf harris was at the top. he was for decades a part of childhood entertainment, a man who appeared to be a jovial, sentimental innocent. he performed at glastonbury to an audience who treated him as a national treasure. and then came his conviction for a string of sexual assaults against women and young girls. the announcement of his death from cancer comes nine years after he was jailed.
in my work, i try to look at these questions in the kind of poetic sense, but it is driven by a kind of social justice. 0k. but how can you look at topics in a poetic sense when they include the documentary, for example, that you made in 1983 called who killed colin roach? about the death of a young caribbean briton at a london police station. i mean, can you deal with such a topic in a poetic way, as you ve just said? well, you know, when i made that film in 1983 as an art student, you know, of course, i was rebelling against my art school teachings. i took my camera onto the street, my new video art camera, and brought it to the demonstration. and so, in a sense, i think in that work, it was made at the time of the advent of video art. i was encapsulating video art technologies, or techniques,
how would you describe your artistic work? because it embodies a whole range of visual arts photographs, drawings, art installations, experimental videos and documentaries. it sounds pretty eclectic. well, i guess you could say i m someone who started making films, and i was very drawn to film making at an early age but then i went to art school. and going to art school, you re exposed to so many different sort of forms. i became so excited, really, as an art student, that i wanted to encapsulate all those forms. so, in a way, film, moving image, photography, sculpture all of those things are part of what i make. and so, i guess, installation films, orfilm installation or moving image art, is the kind of, in a way, form that i chose to present my work in a museum context. right. so, you say you studied at college. in fact, you won a place at the very prestigious saint martin s school of art, in london, which was really pretty good at that time,