Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 281,614 playable programmes from the BBC

Simon Schama's Power of Art

Episode 7: Picasso

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One SouthLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for 9 months

Documentary series in which historian Simon Schama recounts the high drama in the making of eight artistic masterpieces. He tells the story of Picasso's epic Guernica, looking at both the Nazi bombing massacre that inspired the painting and Picasso's extraordinary artistic response.

The film combines Schama's trademark sassy storytelling with dramatisation to ask what art can do in the face of atrocity. Show less

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More