Season 1 (2013)

The Kimbolton Cabinet
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March 5, 2013 • 30m

Granted privileged access to the Victoria and Albert Museum after hours, John Bly seeks out the Kimbolton Cabinet, an exquisite pi...Read more

The Art of the Vikings
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March 5, 2013 • 29m

Through interpretations of some of the archaeological treasures of the Swedish National Museum, now on display in Edinburgh, Dr Ja...Read more

Bolsover Castle
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March 27, 2013 • 29m

Lucy Worsley tells the story of Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire. Built in the early 17th century, it became the pleasure palace of p...Read more

Walter Scott’s Castle
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June 1, 2013 • 30m

Stuart Kelly gets behind-the-scenes access as over 13,000 treasures are moved back into Sir Walter Scott’s Abbotsford House.

Stradivarius and Me
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July 15, 2013 • 30m

Clemency Burton-Hill indulges in her lifelong passion for the violin as she explores the mysterious life and lasting influence of ...Read more

The Art of Witchcraft
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August 29, 2013 • 30m

Artist Lachlan Goudie presents a personal documentary, inspired by his father, in which he investigates why witches have cast such...Read more

The Hidden Jewels of the Cheapside Hoard
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October 15, 2013 • 30m

Jewellery designer Shaun Leane uncovers some of the secrets of the hoard of nearly 500 Elizabethan and Jacobean jewels discovered ...Read more

Tracey Emin on Louise Bourgeois - Women Without Secrets
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November 25, 2013 • 39m

Tracey Emin offers an insight into the life and work of the French-American artist Louise Bourgeois, famed for her sculptures and ...Read more

Castiglione - Rogue Genius of the Baroque
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November 26, 2013 • 30m

Helen Rosslyn makes the case for troubled, turbulent 17th century printmaker and draftsman Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione to be se...Read more

Hogarth - One Man and His Pug
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March 26, 2014 • 29m

Lars Tharp appeals to the nation to help him recover a rare piece of long-lost William Hogarth memorabilia - a precious terracotta...Read more

The Russian Revolutionary: Zaha Hadid on Kazimir Malevich
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September 9, 2014 • 29m

Architect Zaha Hadid considers the influence of Russian abstract artist Kazimir Malevich's avant-garde art on her own avant-garde architecture.

The Living Mountain: A Cairngorms Journey
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December 2, 2014 • 29m

Travel-writer Robert MacFarlane presents a documentary telling the story of Scottish poet and novelist Nan Shepherd and her book, The Living Mountain.

In Search of Rory McEwen
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February 13, 2015 • 29m

Jools Holland tells the story of his father-in-law Rory McEwen - aristocrat, artist, folk singer and pioneering TV presenter, and ...Read more

Wondrous Obsessions: The Cabinet of Curiosities
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February 25, 2015 • 30m

Professor Nandini Das reveals the story behind the Cabinet of Curiosities - the original collecting craze that began in Renaissanc...Read more

The Private Life of a Dolls’ House
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March 3, 2015 • 29m

Lauren Child explores the history of dolls’ houses, speaks to craftspeople who create perfect miniatures and meets collectors will...Read more

The Body Beautiful - Ancient Greeks, Good Looks and Glamour
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April 8, 2015 • 30m

Natalie Haynes takes a journey into ancient beauty and modern glamour, examining how our obsession with the body beautiful goes ba...Read more

Nina Simone and Me with Laura Mvula
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May 29, 2015 • 30m

In a personal tribute, British soul singer Laura Mvula travels to New York to celebrate the Nina Simone songs that mean most to he...Read more

Thomas Chatterton: The Myth of the Doomed Poet
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June 15, 2015 • 30m

Michael Symmons Roberts explores the mythic afterlife of the 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton, whose early death was immortalis...Read more

The Art of the Impossible: MC Escher and Me
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September 20, 2015 • 30m

Sir Roger Penrose takes a personal journey through artist MC Escher's work, marvelling at his intuitive brilliance and the light i...Read more

Jacobi on Garrick: Godfather of the British Stage
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November 1, 2015 • 29m

Derek Jacobi goes in search of David Garrick, 18th-century superstar and the man who reinvented acting for the modern era.

A Very British Pornographer: The Jack Kahane Story
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October 31, 2016 • 30m

Neil Pearson looks at the life of Jack Kahane, who combined a career selling low-grade smut with publishing some of the most signi...Read more