London: The Modern Babylon

London: The Modern Babylon

London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.

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The Mountain That Had To Be Painted

The Mountain That Had To Be Painted

Documentary about the painters Augustus John and James Dickson Innes who, in 1911, left London for the wild Arenig Valley in North Wales. Over...

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Dan Cruickshank & The House That Wouldn't Die

Dan Cruickshank & The House That Wouldn't Die

This unique recreation of an 18th-century home, in London's Spitalfields, has to be seen to be believed. Dan Cruickshank smells the rotting food...

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Gods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey

Gods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey

Virginia Woolf said that Homer's epic poem the Odyssey was 'alive to every tremor and gleam of existence'. Following the magical and strange...

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Britain's Most Fragile Treasure

Britain's Most Fragile Treasure

Historian Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of a centuries-old masterpiece in glass. At 78 feet in height, the famous East Window at York...

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Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons

Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-Saxon art treasures. Her basic thesis - and it...

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Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Idol

Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Idol

Paul Morley investigates the lasting appeal of art's very own Pop Idol. From failed Abstract Expressionist to pioneering Pop Art hero, Roy...

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Orpheus in the Record Shop

Orpheus in the Record Shop

Ancient myth is charged with the magical crackle of vinyl in rapper and playwright Testament’s timely musical story of a young man’s journey out of...

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