Block work

The stuttering production line of the BBC Arts flagship Imagine brings a new episode to BBC2 this Saturday - looking at the work of Rachel Whiteread. It's called Ghost in the Room, referring to her 1990 breakthrough casting of a single room from the inside. There's not much obvious opportunity for international travel for editor/presenter Alan Yentob - unless, of course, he visits Ghost where it now resides in Washington.

The BBC paid Rachel £54,000 in 2003 to make a plaster, wood and metal cast of the inside of Room 101 at Broadcasting House before it was demolished as part of the site-wide re-development. That block was acquired for the Pompidou Centre in 2009 - I can find no record of how much they paid, and to whom.