Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage
Episodes
Private Property and the Protection of our Heritage
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi are joined by Lord Inglewood to discuss the balance between private ownership of our heritage property and state ...
The Importance of Recent Buildings
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Heritage, and architectural and artistic interest in particular, does not need to be old. Richard Harwood and Clarissa Levi talk to Catherine Croft, t...
Art and Listed Buildings
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What has art to do with listed buildings? When can a painting or sculpture be a listed building or part of a listed building? How can listed building ...
Paying Tax with Art
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is Acceptance in Lieu of tax, and how does the AiL Scheme operate? Richard Harwood and Clarissa Levi are joined by AiL Panel Chair Michael Clark...
World Heritage Sites
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are there really 1248 sites with outstanding universal value? How does the World Heritage Convention work in practice? Richard Harwood and Clarissa Le...
Funding our Heritage
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do we value from our past, and how do we fund it? We discuss the impact of lottery funding on the UK’s heritage landscape, the additionality pr...
Export of Works of Art
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pippa Shirley joins Richard Harwood and Clarissa Levi to discuss the UK’s export controls for cultural objects. How does the Reviewing Committe...
The Heritage Industry - Heaven or Hell?
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How heritage consultants help, retro-fitting and the three characteristics of Gothic architecture. Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi chat to Dr Emm...
Tax in Historic Houses
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does tax policy shape our heritage?39 Essex Chambers barristers Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi of Wedlake Bell are joined by Sarah Roller of...
Heritage Foundations
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
39 Essex Chambers barristers Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi of Wedlake Bell talk to Lucy Brown, Chief Executive of the Hugo Burge Foundation, ab...
The Huguenot Museum
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What brought a wealth of French artists and craftsmen to London in the 16th and 17th centuries? Tessa Murdoch, Chair of Trustees of the Huguenot Muse...
Heritage Uncovered
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To live in historic homes we must keep them modernised. This needn’t mean a loss - updating a home for modern living can reveal and celebrate its h...
Curating Portraits
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does a Chief Curator do, and what goes on behind the scenes at an art gallery?Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi are joined by Imogen Gibbon of...
What do historic buildings and art mean to the historian?
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We often talk of the historic interest in buildings, but what does that mean to the historian? How does art help understand our past? Richard Harwood ...
The Art of Mediation
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s good to talk. Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi chat with barrister and mediator Kelly Stricklin-Coutinho of 39 Essex Chambers about how med...
The Economics of Heritage
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is the viability of a heritage project considered? When do the numbers stack up?Richard and Clarissa talk to David Tomback OBE FRICS, the Developm...
The Real Tennis Episode
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gripped by the nation's annual tennis fever, Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi turn to heritage tennis with Robert Dolman. Robert explains Real Te...
Barts Heritage
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The restoration of the Great Hall and Hogarth Staircase at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in the City of London is one of the most exciting conservation ...
The Value of Art
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we value a work of art? What makes one object sell for millions when a similar object doesn't sell at all? And is that really what those object...
Art and Land
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When is an artwork part of a building or land? Or can you just take the statue with you when you sell up? Dr David Sawtell, barrister at 39 Essex Cham...
By the Seaside
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Funfairs, rollercoasters and ’99 ice creams. Richard and Clarissa talk to leading planning consultant Nick Laister of Laister Planning, about the up...
Mixing Art and Law
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do lawyers relax? Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi chat to Stephen Tromans KC, one of the country’s leading environmental lawyers, about his...
Landmark Trust at 60
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Anna Keay, Director of The Landmark Trust, joins Richard and Clarissa to discuss the origins of Landmark, how its buildings are saved, what they me...
Caring for Cultural Heritage
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In her book 'Caring for Cultural Heritage', Dr Charlotte Woodhead explores the legal and ethical initiatives in the UK for caring for cultural heritag...
SAVE Britain's Heritage at 50
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The historic buildings charity SAVE Britain’s Heritage is 50 years old in 2025. Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Levi talk to Henrietta Billings, the...
Artificial Intelligence and Art
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does Artificial Intelligence affect art and cultural institutions? Richard and Clarissa talk to Emily Gould, Assistant Director of the Institute o...
Gasholders
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are gasholders and how do we mark engineering heritage when technology moves on? Professor Russell Thomas, Technical Director of WSP, and Timur T...
Curating Our Heritage
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Acceptance in Lieu scheme allows Inheritance Tax to be paid with art. Richard and Clarissa talk to Professor Frances Fowle of the University of Ed...
Art and Cultural Heritage in Ireland and Beyond
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How does Ireland deal with treasure? What does a Stratocaster guitar tell us about tax? What does the Irish experience teach us about the legacies of ...
Pilgrimage Routes
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What was it to be a pilgrim? How has pilgrimage continued over the centuries and how authentic are our modern pilgrim ways? Richard Harwood KC of 39 E...
Working in the Art World
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is it like to work in the art world? Richard and Clarissa talk to Alice Minter of the Victoria & Albert Museum about moving from working in ...
The Fate of Looted Art
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What became of the art once owned by Jewish collectors in Nazi Europe? Restitution expert Richard Aronowitz explains his work in provenance research ...
Antiquities and Treasure
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do we mean by antiquities, and what is Treasure? Richard and Clarissa are joined by expert Judith Nugée who explains why antiquities so capture...
Syrian Cultural Heritage
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The work of restoring Syria’s cultural heritage after years of wartime looting goes beyond the antiquities trade. Richard Harwood KC and Clarissa Le...
Keeping the Castle
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are the joys and challenges of life in a castle? Richard and Clarissa speak with Charles Berkeley of Berkeley Castle about combining a family ho...
The Parthenon Marbles Dispute
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are the Parthenon Marbles? Were they lawfully removed from the Acropolis in Athens by Lord Elgin’s agents in the early Nineteenth Century? What...
The Business of Exhibitions – Taylor Swift Songbook Trail and the V&A Museum
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Museum exhibitions are creatures of business…” Richard and Clarissa talk to Anthony Misquitta of the V&A and Keystone Law. They discuss what ...
The British Country House Revival
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most of Britain’s heritage is cared for by private owners. Richard and Clarissa talk to Ben Cowell OBE, the Director General of Historic Houses. The...
Trailer
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Clarissa introduce their new series, Art and Heritage Law: Contested Heritage, focusing on the complexities of heritage and art law throug...