iPlayer Arts category featured programmes
Bill Bailey matches a remarkable young woman with cancer with a realist painter.
Simon Schama explores how artists have shaped who we are in an era of bewildering change.
A look at RISE, the opening spectacular celebrating Bradford, UK City of Culture in 2025.
Helen Fielding tells the story of how Bridget Jones’s Diary came to be.
Who is the real monster? Robert Louis Stevenson’s defining gothic horror in all its glory.
The truth about the Maria Callas myth and the gift of her extraordinary voice.
Friends, family and co-stars share memories of legendary British icon Roger Moore.
Alan Bennett offers some refreshingly frank thoughts about old age.
Mark Cousins meets US director David Lynch.
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.
Celia Imrie narrates a celebration of one of Britain’s greatest acting icons.
It was hell. But music gave prisoners at Auschwitz a lifeline - and even a way to resist.
Ulster-Scots poet Anne McMaster explores women’s writing in Northern Ireland.
Leonardo trains as an artist and eventually paints a masterpiece, The Last Supper.
The inside story of a waiter turned movie mogul and the scandal that rocked Hollywood.
A nostalgic romp through the rise – and fall – of the 90s lads mag phenomenon.
The story of Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon's exile from his home town of Arbuthnot.
Catherine Tate presents a concert featuring soundtracks from the iconic series.
Spellbinding new film of Benjamin Britten's hauntingly beautiful chamber opera.
1777: 21-year-old Mozart sets out from Salzburg to make it as a musician on his own terms.
A stunning and magical production of Swan Lake, filmed at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Can the team prove a flower picture is by the pioneer of abstract art, Piet Mondrian?
A glamorous widow searches for true love in this sparkling comic opera from Glyndebourne.