Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Glass artist Peter Layton has described his Austrian-Jewish family’s escape from Nazi persecution before the Second World War as a “total miracle”. The 89-year-old, a pivotal figure in the British studio glass movement, credits his parents, Edith and Freddy, with enabling his career by managing to flee to Bradford. Layton is renowned for transforming glass from an industrial material into a celebrated art form, a path he states was “all because Edith and Freddy (his parents) managed to get away”. The famous artist told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs: “We caught the last train out in August, arrived here at the end of August, and war was declared a few days later, so it was a narrow escape. “When I get together with my family, or when I think about my family at all, I just think what a miracle, …