Looking closer at the art movements that have shaped our world.
Kenneth Clark's classic 1969 series looks at how European art survived the Dark Ages.
The eyewitnesses and participants in the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s history recount its triumphs and disasters.
Simon Schama explores the artists who have fought for truth and democracy in his lifetime.
Afua explores how young Moroccans are transforming old traditions into thrilling new art.
A look at the origins of the Young British Artists in the art schools of the mid-80s.
A look at the formative role art and imagination have played in the forging of humanity.
Actor David Harewood travels across America to discover the stories behind his heroes.
Contemporary artists encounter artworks from a period once known as the 'dark' ages.
James Fox uses art to chart humankind’s earliest attempts to gain control over nature.
A cast of hip-hop icons chart the factors that led to the birth of the genre.
A global music craze is born in the loft apartments and basement bars of 1970s New York.
A Beatrix Potter drawing leads to a new find, and Tommy Cooper’s magic tricks reveal all.
How women writers, women readers and women's lives have been central to the novel.
How the development of technology influenced art between 1880 and the end of WWI.
Harry Belafonte, Earl Cameron and Diahann Carroll discuss being pioneers in a white world.
How Warhol both glorified and critiqued American culture.
Alastair Sooke crosses the Sahara and travels the Nile to find Egypt's earliest art.
