Until last week 102 pieces of Picasso's ceramic work were in Lord Attenborough's home - on walls, in halls and on tables.

He and his wife began collecting them in the early 50s - before Dicky had made The Great Escape, years before Ghandi or Jurassic Park - going every year to the Madoura Potteries in France, where the artist spent his last twenty years working with clay.

And in 1963 during a pilgrimage to the potteries the actor met the artist. By chance the meeting was on Dicky's 40th birthday, so Picasso, then 82 years old, gave him a signed photograph - although he nearly ran of out of patience with his surname.

The filmmaker grew up in Leicester and came to its museums as a boy with his brother David; he's long been in talks with the curators about handing over his precious Picassos.

More than a hundred of the 170 pieces owned by the Attenboroughs will go on display at the city's New Walk Museum until the end of September.

It reflects the filmmaker's 50 year love affair with Picasso's pottery. But of course sharing this love affair means their own house is suddenly a little bit bare.

Watch the complete uncut interview with Lord Attenborough here.

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