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Grayson Perry: All Man

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ24083711 ↗
Source-derived summary

Grayson Perry: All Man is a 2016 British television miniseries about masculinity presented by Grayson Perry.

Episode 1: "Hard Man"

Air date 5 May 2016

Perry meets cage fighters.

Episode 2: "Top Man"

Air date 12 May 2016

Perry meets the police and underclass people in Skelmersdale, Lancashire.

Episode 3: "Rational Man"

Air date 19 May 2016

Perry meets men who work in finance in the City of London.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Grayson Perry: All Man” as television series. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Grayson, Perry and television can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as television series. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24083711. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Grayson Perry: All Man” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.