Artist Peter Ireland has spent much of his 50 years as an artist painting aspects of Captain James Cook.
For this sestercentennial - that's 250, if your Latin's a little rusty - year of Cook's arrival on the Endeavour, Peter's just published almost 70 of his Cook works in a book he calls The Weight of the Captain's Wrist.
It was launched yesterday at the Russell Museum. Lynn Freeman asked Peter Ireland what got him so interested in James Cook, and sustained that interest over the past few decades:
The Weight of the Captain's Wrist is published by Rim Books.
