Peter Saville made several references to a recent working visit to the Bauhaus during the course of Thursday evening, which made your Northern correspondent ponder how one might go about getting such sabbaticals.

Simple. Get asked by a flagship BBC weekly arts programme to contribute a piece to the current series and the doors will surely be opened for you.

Peter Saville's Bauhaus busman's holiday is scheduled to be shown on The Culture Show Saturday 24 November 2007 at 19.10.

There's hope yet for the moist visit to the Roland museum. If it ever exists.

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