Cathy Tyson prays that she's set the video correctly to record Powerhouse

A TOUCH OF GLASS
The Faces of Liverpool project is a work of art designed to capture the spirit and diversity of the city.

Actress Cathy Tyson, star of Mona Lisa, Priest and Band of Gold, has just become one of thirty-two people to lend their portraits to the piece.

It was Liverpool, of course, where Cathy spent her childhood and formative years. She reflects on her time there as her image is etched into glass.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
To Holcombe Moor near Bury where a hairdressing husband and wife team find out if they have what it takes to create an abstract masterpiece and impress their style-conscious daughter.

The Lord of the Rings

MAPPING MIDDLE-EARTH
It's Britain's most popular book according to the BBC's The Big Read. It's the source for the most acclaimed and profitable movie franchise of all time. It's The Lord of the Rings, which, according to some, owes a debt to the Ribble Valley in Lancashire. J.R.R. Tolkien often stayed at Stonyhurst College to visit his son who studied there for the priesthood. Did this very real and attractive part of the world help shape fantastic Middle-earth? Powerhouse investigates and also meets Mancunian calligrapher, Steve Raw, the official The Lord of the Rings mapmaker.

MY GALLERY
If you had to fill a space with images and objects of particular significance to your own self and life, what would you choose? That's the question we put to actress and Shameless star, Maxine Peake, when we asked her to play curator of her own personal gallery.

Eric Morcambe statue

PEER AT MORECAMBE
There was a time when statues of victorious generals would pop up in North West towns - maybe in the hope that the memories of their glittering achievements would somehow brighten up the dark days of the industrial revolution.

But now those days are gone and public art has to find a new way of bringing people sunshine…

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