Season 1 (2004)

Episode 1
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November 11, 2004 • 1h

Verity Sharp presents an accessible guide to the best exhibitions, books, films and music. As Disney's effects-laden The Incredibl...Read more

Episode 2
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November 18, 2004 • 1h

As the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art in New York reopens, world-renowned art critic Robert Hughes is offered a first look in...Read more

Episode 3
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November 25, 2004 • 1h

Ahead of its official opening by the Queen, Charles Hazlewood gets an advance look inside the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, ...Read more

Episode 4
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December 2, 2004 • 1h

Dissected livestock, a cast of a house, a painting with elephant dung and an electrical time switch - all past winners of the Turn...Read more

Episode 5
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December 9, 2004 • 1h

Germaine Greer meets artist Paula Rego and Andrew Graham-Dixon uncovers the secret of Velazquez's 'Lady with a Fan'. Plus reports ...Read more

Episode 6
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December 16, 2004 • 1h

A report on Gateshead's new Sage music centre, which opens tomorrow, plus the rest of the top stories in art and culture. With Charles Hazlewood.

Episode 7
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January 13, 2005 • 1h

Reports on Charles Saatchi 's rediscovery of painting, the competition to be recognised as Britain's best museum and a close-up lo...Read more

Episode 8
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January 20, 2005 • 1h

The review of the latest developments on the arts and culture scene includes a report on the Celtic Connections music festival, a ...Read more

Episode 9
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February 3, 2005 • 1h

London's Abbey Road Studios opens its doors to the public next month for the first time in 20 years. Mariella Frostrup previews th...Read more

Episode 10
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February 10, 2005 • 1h

Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five was inspired by his experiences in Dresden during the devastating Second World War bombi...Read more

Episode 11
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February 17, 2005 • 1h

Director Martin Scorsese explains the influence of Caravaggio on his films, particularly with regard to light, shadow and realism....Read more

Episode 12
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February 24, 2005 • 1h

A report from Ferryside in Carmarthenshire where a trial for TV's digital switchover is taking place. Plus Liam Neeson on his biop...Read more

Episode 13
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March 3, 2005 • 1h

Woody Allen talks about his latest film Melinda and Melinda, starring Radha Mitchell and Chloe Sevigny, and there's an interview w...Read more

Episode 14
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March 10, 2005 • 1h

As well as an interview with 1960s counter-culture cartoonist Robert Crumb at his house in France, there's analysis of the legacy ...Read more

Episode 15
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March 17, 2005 • 1h

Damien Hirst, dubbed Britain's most expensive living artist, discusses his recently opened exhibition of paintings in New York. Pl...Read more

Episode 16
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April 14, 2005 • 1h

Composer and Master of the Queen's Music Sir Peter Maxwell Davies talks about his career, there's an interview with maverick archi...Read more

Episode 17
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April 21, 2005 • 1h

Sylvie Guillem - widely considered one of the greatest dancers of her generation - is interviewed in the week she and the Ballet B...Read more

Episode 18
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April 28, 2005 • 1h

Conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and music director of the Deutsche Staatsoper i...Read more

Episode 19
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May 5, 2005 • 1h

As Tate Modern celebrates its fifth birthday, Charles Hazlewood considers the extent of its cultural impact. Plus, Matthew Sweet o...Read more

Episode 20
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May 12, 2005 • 1h

American crime novelist Ed McBain talks about turning real life into fiction and discusses his battle with cancer. Plus a visit to...Read more

Episode 21
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May 19, 2005 • 1h

Lawrence Pollard reports on a new approach to public art being trialled in Bristol, with temporary exhibits taking the place of tr...Read more

Episode 22
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May 26, 2005 • 1h

Gillian Ayres discusses her work and Louisa Buck visits two art exhibitions. Lawrence Pollard considers whether 'book towns' such ...Read more

Episode 23
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June 2, 2005 • 1h

Germaine Greer and artist Susan Wilson are among the women explaining what Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's work means to them, and si...Read more

Episode 24
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June 9, 2005 • 1h

Maverick artists Gilbert and George discuss their work for the British Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale. Ewan McGregor talks a...Read more

Episode 25
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June 13, 2005 • 1h

U2 talk about music, politics and 25 years together, on the eve of the UK leg of their world tour. There's a rare interview with c...Read more