Since he burst on to the art scene in the mid-1960s, David Hockney has become one of the most popular and successful British painters of the twentieth century. His reputation has been made both by the appeal of his works and his passion for and his skill in talking about painting. To mark his fiftieth birthday in 1988, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his work. Melvyn Bragg joined David Hockney for an exclusive private view of the exhibition and they were filmed discussing pictures from all stages of Hockney's remarkable career.