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In the centrepiece film of 麻豆约拍 Four's pop art season, Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the twentieth century, peeling back pop's frothy, ironic surface to reveal an art style full of subversive wit and radical ideas.

Stephen Smith meets with many of Andy Warhol's friends and confidantes to get closer to the man behind the enigmatic public image, experiencing for himself a day in the life of the pop art superstar.

Dr Richard Clay goes in search of what it is that has made us scribble and scratch mementoes of our lives for more than 30,000 years.

Over the past sixty years artist Peter Blake has enjoyed a celebrated career. We spend time with him at work in his studio and follow the process of the Mersey ferry’s makeover.

Derek Boshier was one of the pioneers of the British Pop Art movement. We spend a day at his studio in L.A. as he works on a new painting and reflects on his life and career.

麻豆约拍 Four Pop idents

Pop Artists Peter Blake, Peter Phillips and Derek Boshier are creating unique channel idents for 麻豆约拍 Four, to be shown on television during the season and also available here on the website.

From Boshier to Blake, 6 Music celebrates pop art with a series of programmes about its influence on alternative music.

will be highlighting a different aspect of pop art every day on her show, along with compiling a Peoples Playlist themed around the women of pop art starting from Debbie Harry. will take an in-depth look at the Velvet Underground and Nico, about his most famous protégé Ian Dury and, on Friday August 28, the artist to take a look at the role of art in music.

Radio 4 will broadcast , a play by Sarah Wooley about the last days of Pop Art set in New York in the heady days of Studio 54. And on Radio 3, Paul Morley presents .

Here on the season website, as well as highlights from TV and Radio, we are featuring a bespoke Pop Art collection including a ; galleries of and Billy Name's ; features on , and . Stephen Smith also about the courts of Pop King Warhol and the Sun King, Louis XIV.

A 麻豆约拍 Four curated by Alastair Sooke will be exclusively available on 麻豆约拍 iPlayer, featuring Pop Goes The Easel (1962), Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Idol (2004), Monitor 139: Joe Tilson And Peter Brook (1964), Release Pop Goes To The Hayward (1969) and The Visual Scene: Playing It Cool (1969).

There are also a selection of 麻豆约拍 iWonder guides and timelines created for the season, including What Did British Pop Music Steal From Pop Art? - presented by 6 Music’s Stuart Maconie - exploring the relationship between British bands and pop art; and a looking at the movement's development.