RHS Hampton Court Garden Show | BBC London

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

Program follows two photographers, Ian Phillips and Roslyn Gaunt, as they each fulfill a fashion photography brief fo...

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: Lights in the Darkness | Art That Made Us

In this alternative history of the British Isles, working artists explore an era once known as the 'dark' ages, finding mysterio...

1: Looking for Paradise | Art of America

Andrew Graham-Dixon begins his history of American art with portraits of Puritan settlers and the dark truth behind Benjamin West's ...

1: The Future Is Now (1907-1939) | Great Artists in Their Own Words

Documentary series unlocking the archives to tell the story of modern art, as told by the artists at the ...

1: Upstarts | Sensationalists: The Bad Girls and Boys of British Art

A look at the origins of the Young British Artists in the art schools of the mid-80s, a shocking and pro...

1: Vienna 1908 | Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities

Dr James Fox tells the story of Vienna in 1908, when Klimt painted The Kiss and Freud revealed the Oe...

140: Philip Johnson | Monitor

Susan Sontag spoke to the architect Philip Johnson at his office in the Seagram Building in New York and his home in New Canaan just outside Ne...

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 ...

2: Is It Art? | Sensationalists: The Bad Girls and Boys of British Art

In the 90s, young creatives, grouped together by advertising guru Charles Saatchi, respond provocative...

2: Modern Dreams | Art of America

Andrew Graham-Dixon discovers how the ambitions of visionary artists and architects helped America remove itself from the shadow of Europe ...

2: Out of the Darkness (1939-1966) | Great Artists in Their Own Words

The story of modern art in the words of the artists themselves travels from Bacon's tortured war-inspir...

2: Paris 1928 | Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities

Dr James Fox tells the story of Paris in 1928, where talents like Magritte, Dali, Bunuel, Hemingway, G...

2: Power Games | Age of the Image

James Fox explores how mass communication and new technology helped 20th-century image-makers transform society, from Leni Riefenstahl's pr...

2: Revolution of the Dead | Art That Made Us

From the chaos of the Black Death comes creative renewal - survivors finding their voice through satire and a revived literature...

2: Senegal | African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power

In Senegal, Afua Hirsch discovers how exuberant hip-hop, film and fashion scenes have fed off colonial history, and sh...