iPlayer Arts category featured programmes
Beatrix Potter’s dolls’ house and a portrait that could be of Lawrence of Arabia.
Jane Austen is 17 and beginning to write stories.
Can the team prove a flower picture is by the pioneer of abstract art, Piet Mondrian?
Alan Yentob interviews leading British artist Jenny Saville.
A look at the dazzling, complex period of Liza Minnelli’s life in the 1970s.
Rob and Rylan discover Venice’s biggest work of art and explore the city’s hidden side.
A celebration of Elaine Paige's 60-year career in show business.
Sir Bryn Terfel, Juan Diego Florez and Yuja Wang are guests in a star-studded gala.
Michelangelo struggles to make his name in the brutal world of Renaissance Italy.
Best-selling novelist Dame Jilly Cooper candidly reflects on her life and work.
The incredible story of Clemency Burton-Hill’s recovery following a brain haemorrhage.
Simon Schama explores how artists have shaped who we are in an era of bewildering change.
A documentary from 1993 exploring the work of photojournalist Sebastião Salgado.
Screenwriter and playwright Abi Morgan talks to John Wilson about her creative influences.
Young Beethoven is an unstoppable force until the onset of deafness tears his world apart.
Documentary profile of actor and comedian Charlie Drake. From 2001.
Celia Imrie tells the story of the 1960 epic Spartacus, starring Kirk Douglas.
Salman Rushdie speaks about the devastating knife attack he was subjected to in 2022.
Bill Bailey matches a remarkable young woman with cancer with a realist painter.
The story of ballet dancer Steven McRae's recovery after damaging his Achilles tendon.
Kirsty Wark meets the Scots who have shaped the fashion industry.
Jason Manford hosts a musical celebration with spectacular performances.
Who is the real monster? Robert Louis Stevenson’s defining gothic horror in all its glory.
The artist talks to Katie Razzall about his biggest ever exhibition in Paris, aged 87.
