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BBC Proms

2021

John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists

Duration: 2 hours

on BBC Four

Marking his sixtieth Prom, Sir John Eliot Gardiner directs the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in a celebration of the early works of Handel and Bach. Show more

Margaret Mountford examines new evidence to reveal the sequence of events that destroyed the city of Pompeii and attempts to discover what really killed its people. Show more

Documentary. Five scientists, who began their research in the 1960s, revisit their field studies across the globe and how they discovered a single set of rules that govern all life on earth. Show more

Secret Knowledge

Castiglione - Rogue Genius of the Baroque

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Four

Helen Rosslyn makes the case for troubled, turbulent 17th century printmaker and draftsman Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione to be seen as one of the great artists of the Baroque. Show more

BBC Proms

2016

BBC Proms Encores: Schubert's Rondo

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes

on BBC Four

From the 2016 BBC Proms, Martha Argerich performs Schubert's Rondo in A.

Margaret Mountford examines new evidence to reveal the sequence of events that destroyed the city of Pompeii and attempts to discover what really killed its people. Show more

BBC Four

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