1: A Style of One’s Own | Standard Grade Art and Design

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...

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 ...

Cotton mill | Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village

The creation of one of the first cotton mills in Cromford.

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 ...

Anatomy in Tudor Britain | The Beauty of Anatomy

Adam Rutherford explains how Vesalius' anatomy had reached and was being used in Tudor England.

Benin Bronzes | Civilisations

David Olusoga visits the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum.

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...

S2E2: Van Gogh - Life and Art | Art on the BBC

Art historian Kate Bryan explores the BBC archives to create a television history of a man who has become the embodiment of th...

S6E6: Chairs | Inside the Factory

Gregg Wallace visits the Ercol factory in Buckinghamshire to follow the production of a Windsor chair. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey investigate...

Shirley Hughes | What Do Artists Do All Day?

Shirley Hughes works on the final page of her latest Alfie book, discusses her love of illustrating and tells why, at the age of...

The Muscle Men | The Beauty of Anatomy

Adam Rutherford investigates Vesalius' muscle men.

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...

02: Away | Everyday Miracles: The Genius of Sofas, Stockings and Scanners

Mark Miodownik looks at how materials have enabled us to indulge our curiosity about the world arou...

1: A Fashion Democracy - The High Street Look | British Style Genius

What makes British fashion and style so distinctive, beginning with a look at how the High Street made f...

1: A New Reality | Age of the Image

James Fox explores how technological advances in the early 20th century created new ways of seeing the world, making links between artist...

1: Andy Warhol | Modern Masters

Alastair Sooke explores the life and works of the 20th century's most important artists. He begins with Pop Art's king, Andy Warhol, a man ob...

1: Ethiopia | African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power

Afua Hirsch traces Ethiopia's proud 3,000-year history through its art and culture, exploring a civilisation as signi...

1: Galen and Leonardo | The Beauty of Anatomy

Adam Rutherford begins his series investigating the close relationship between discoveries in anatomy and the works of art that...

1: Gang of Four | The Impressionists: Painting and Revolution

Waldemar Januszczak explores the revolutionary achievements of the Impressionists. He delves into the back stor...

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...