Duration: 4'25''
Guests discuss the importance of a sketchbook and how its use differs for everyone.
Licence: ERA Licence required
UK only Staff and students of licensed education establishments only Cannot be adapted
Add Notes
Artists discuss their influences | Art & Design
An educational programme aimed at secondary school children aged 14 to 16. Artists are interviewed about the current curricul...
Contextual referencing | Art & Design
Different artists contemplate the context of their work, why they use references and the importance of doing so in art.
Critical evaluation | Art & Design
Different artists contemplate taking criticism about their work, the many forms that it can come in and whether they act on it.
Developing ideas | Art & Design
Different artists discuss how they develop an idea from conception to an art piece.
Drawing | Art & Design
An educational programme aimed at secondary school children aged 14 to 16. Artists are interviewed about the current curriculum and showcase their wor...
Making a living as an artist | Art & Design
Different types of artists explain how they make their living and the importance of self-promotion.
Materials and techniques | Art & Design
Different artists consider their different use of materials for various types of art and sculpture.
Personal responses | Art & Design
Different artists discuss how they respond to the world around them and how that affects their approach to creating their art.
Public art | Art & Design
A case study of the regeneration of Liverpool Lime Street train station, where 1970's buildings are knocked down to create space and public art.
S1E4: West Africa | Lost Kingdoms of Africa
Gus Casely-Hayford travels to Nigeria and Mali to explore the story behind a series of magnificent 16th-century bronzes made in t...
Propaganda films | Age of the Image
James Fox explains the method in which propaganda was created to advertise Nazism.
1: Liberty, Diversity, Depravity | The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour
In 18th century England, out of the Age of Enlightenment came a Gothic obsession with monsters ...
Charles is Executed | Charles I's Treasure Reunited
Brenda Emmanus discusses the execution of Charles I.
1: Ghosts in the Machine | The Genius of Design
The story of the birth of industrial design, from celebrated names to the work of anonymous designers responsible for prosaic...
Benin Bronzes | Civilisations
David Olusoga visits the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum.
1: The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything | Leonardo
Dramatised reconstruction of the life of Leonardo da Vinci. Documentary examining the life of Leonardo da Vinci, from his...
2: Andreas Vesalius | The Beauty of Anatomy
Adam Rutherford tells the story of 16th-century anatomist Andreas Vesalius, who produced the first complete account of the human ...
2: The City and the Soul | The Art of Gothic: Britain's Midnight Hour
As the Industrial Revolution promised more inexplicable wonders of the modern world, Gothic art and lit...
Anatomy in Tudor Britain | The Beauty of Anatomy
Adam Rutherford explains how Vesalius' anatomy had reached and was being used in Tudor England.
Cobalt mining incidents | Panorama
Miners tell their stories of accidents and the working conditions in the cobalt mines of Kolwezi, DRC.
Episode 1 | Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty
Michelangelo and Leonardo struggle to make their reputations in the brutal world of Renaissance Italy, as both must play a ...
4: The Hunter Brothers | The Beauty of Anatomy
How the Hunter brothers transformed medicine and art in 18th-century Britain, believing that anatomy could only be learnt by p...
Charles I's Treasure Reunited
Brenda Emmanus explores the art collection of Charles I, much of which is being reunited for a unique exhibition for the first time since his e...
Early anatomy theatre | The Beauty of Anatomy
Adam Rutherford visits one of the very few surviving original anatomy theatres in the world.
Florence Nightingale's rose diagram | The Beauty of Diagrams
Florence Nightingale's revolutionary and controversial rose diagram showed that hospitals, as they were, could k...
The Industrial Revolution | Civilisations
David Olusoga the social, cultural and scientific changes of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, as depicted in art.
01: Home | Everyday Miracles: The Genius of Sofas, Stockings and Scanners
Mark Miodownik shows that some of the everyday objects that are often taken for granted are in fact...
2: Love and Loss | Becoming Frida Kahlo
Now married and living in 1930s America, Frida sees the ugly side of capitalism, while political scandal engulfs Diego. Miscarriage a...
Banksy: The Mystery
Money, art, politics: what we know about how the secret Banksy empire works.
Cookies help us run our services and give you a better experience. For the full details please read our Cookie Policy.
