3: Seductive Dreams | Age of the Image

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...

Benin Bronzes | Civilisations

David Olusoga visits the Benin Bronzes at the British Museum.

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 ...

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 ...

Making a chair (Part 1) | Inside the Factory

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. First up cutting the diffe...

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

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

Making a chair (Part 2) | Inside the Factory

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. Next up, bending the bow o...

Propaganda films | Age of the Image

James Fox explains the method in which propaganda was created to advertise Nazism.

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...

Sourcing and processing timber | Inside the Factory

Cherry investigates the source of wood used for making Windsor chairs, and the process it undergoes to make it ready for ...

Anatomy in Tudor Britain | The Beauty of Anatomy

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

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...

Making a chair (Part 3) | Inside the Factory

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. Next up, sanding the separ...

Making a chair (Part 4) | Inside the Factory

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. Next up, assembling the co...

Making a chair (Part 5) | Inside the Factory

Gregg visits different parts of the factory to find out how the parts for his Windsor chair get made. Last up, polishing the cha...

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...

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...

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 Industrial Revolution | Civilisations

David Olusoga the social, cultural and scientific changes of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, as depicted in art.

The Muscle Men | The Beauty of Anatomy

Adam Rutherford investigates Vesalius' muscle men.