Bookings and enquiries
Work with Leslie
Invite Leslie to give a lecture, teach a course, contribute to a broadcast or discuss an art-history project that you would like to see created.
Lectures for fine art societies
Leslie is now taking lecture bookings for 2027 and beyond. A one-hour slide lecture for a fine art society costs £550, on subjects from the early Renaissance to Impressionism.
Lectures are given in PowerPoint.
Television appearances
Television
How William Hodges Invented Paradise
Leslie Primo presents a HENI Talks film on the paintings William Hodges made on Captain James Cook's second voyage, and the gap between what he saw and what he chose to paint.
HENI Talks
Television
L.S. Lowry: The Unheard Tapes
A BBC programme about L.S. Lowry, using recordings made by Angela Barratt in 1972.
BBC Two
Television
Turner: The Secret Sketchbooks
A BBC Two documentary that reads J. M. W. Turner's 37,000 private sketches, drawings and watercolours for what they reveal about the man behind the paintings.
BBC Two
Television
Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
A three-part BBC Two series about the rivalry between Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael in Florence around 1504.
BBC Two
Television
Turner – Light and Landscape
Leslie Primo presents this Art on the BBC film, using six decades of the BBC archive to ask why J. M. W. Turner is such a loved name in British art.
BBC Four
Television
Michelangelo: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
An Art on the BBC film about Michelangelo, presented by Sona Datta, in which Leslie Primo speaks about the artist.
BBC Four
Television
Rethinking King George III: In Ten Portraits
A BBC Select documentary in which historians look again at George III through the images that defined his reign.
BBC Select