- Composer and musician Neil Brand presents a series which explores the magical elements that come together to create our favourite songs.
- Historian Orlando Figes presents the extraordinary story of the relationship between photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Produkin-Gorskii and the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. A pioneer in colour photography, Gorskii's pictures offer a unique record of a culture swept away by the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.
- The story of the son of a coach-maker with a highly developed sense of the macabre, who ended up rivalling Shakespeare. John Webster's life was shadowy and his plays darkly imagined - it was once said that he 'saw the skull beneath the skin'. But his masterpiece The Duchess Of Malfi is one of the jewels of the English …
- Inside Out is a film about the french artist JR giving away his method and the inspiring stories that follow that. JR wins the TED Prize 2011. He gives his prize (the wish to 'turn the world Inside Out') and his art back to the people, creating a global participatory art project inviting people to stand up for what the…
- Paris-based writer Andrew Hussey travels through the glorious art and surprising history of an extraordinary French institution to show that the story of the Louvre is the story of France. As well as exploring the masterpieces of painters such as Veronese, Rubens, David, Chardin, Gericault and Delacroix, he examines th…