Description: 1.54 Voice over explaining the beginnings of Spare's life with interviews with Robert Ansell – Publisher and Managing Director of Fulgur Ltd; Phil Baker – writer; Stephen Pochin – Curator, Writer and Publisher; Dr. Robert J. Wallis – Professor of Visual Culture, Richmond University. Interviwees discuss the importance of religion, church-going and 19thC spiritualism to Spare.

8:43 2. The Royal Academy and Fame. In 1904 Spare had two book plates accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Hailed as an exceptional young talent.

11:00 Discussion of Spare's first book as being steeped in 19thC despair and pessimism, his exhibition at the Bruton Gallery, meeting with Aleister Crowley, his work on 'Love and the Great Beast', marriage to Elli Gertrude Shaw, a chorus girl and unmarried mother.

15:11 4. The War and the Fall. Employed as a war artist, he went to France at the end of the War which left him traumatised. Returning to the UK his marriage broke down.

19:28 5. Transpontine and the Next War. Moved to Beckett House in Borough and published Focus of Life and Anathema of Zos. Career on the wane, he started to paint portraits of local people.

22:49 Interviewees discuss Hitler trying to commission his portrait from Spare, but this falls through and Spare moves to Brixton.

23:45 6. Gotterdamerung and Renaissance. In 1939 he was living on the Walworth Road.

25:10 In May 1941 his flat and studio were bombed while he was firewatching and his work was destroyed. He was left with psychosomatic damage and had to re-learn how to draw. He was cared for by Ada Payne and began to exhibit again including ‘pub’ shows.

27:03 7. Into the End. In the early 1950s he met Duncan and Steffi Grant who championed his work and had a close friendship, but he did not look after his health and was hospitalised with a burst appendix and died 15 May 1956 at 69.