Galenic anatomy | The Beauty of Anatomy

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.

Episode 1 | Mary Beard's Shock of the Nude

With distinctive wit and flair, Mary Beard takes a personal view of the nude in western art and its troubling power to provoke ide...

Episode 2 | Mary Beard's Shock of the Nude

Mary Beard looks at how artists have rejected the 'body beautiful', challenging viewers to question what it is to be human.

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...

Islamic Art | Civilisations

Mary Beard explores Islamic artwork and the debates within Islam about the role of artists and images.

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...