Organist John Scott Whiteley plays Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C.
Branded degenerate by Hitler, Max Beckmann's pictures of war, sex. carnival and glamour reflected his own dramatic life. Andrew Graham Dixon reports from the Tate Modern's major exhibition.
How the British army fought its first battle at Mons is examined in the first of a double bill. Despite initial success, the British were forced to retreat after two weeks. But the French Commander-in-Chief began to build a surer resistance.
8.15 How faced with German forces, the British and French armies managed to stand firm. The Battle of the Marne proved to be a decisive victory, but the Allies were not able to swiftly end hostilities.
Francois Dupeyron's anti-war drama from 2001, starring Jean-Michel Portal and adapted from the novel by Marc Dugain. At the outset of the First World War, Eric Caravaca is disfigured by a bomb blast. In French with English subtitles.
More topical discussion. Duration is subject to alteration.
