Tenor Jose Cura heads a glittering cast conducted by Carlo Rizzi, as the Royal Opera House hosts a production of Verdi's opera. Sung in Italian with English subtitles.
Exploring how English became the dominant international language.
How this new museum in Bristol interprets the British Empire.
Round-table arts discussion. Shown last Friday on BBC2.
Four profiles of major figures in the arts.
Samuel Fosso
The life and work of one of Africa's most eminent photographers.
12 midnight Barry Who?
How Barry Joule became one of the greatest arts networkers.
1.00 Lucian Freud
Profile of the figurative painter.
1.30-2. 00am Sam Taylor-Wood
The artist talks about her retrospective at the Hayward Gallery.
Andrew Graham-Dixon looks at Freud's relationship with his sitters and tries to pinpoint his view of the human condition. He also explores the influence fellow painter Francis Bacon had on him. Show more
