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Michael Portillo takes the train from Turin to Venice. Along the way, he recreates the Italian Job, follows fashion in Milan and visits Shakespearean Verona. Show more
Travelling across modern day Greece, Dr Michael Scott uncovers the ancient world of gods, democrats and warriors, inhabited by people who could be as brutal as they were brilliant. Show more
Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the 20th century, peeling back its frothy, ironic surface to reveal subversive wit and radical ideas. Show more
A day with Derek Boshier at his studio as he works on a new painting and reflects on his life and career. Boshier burst onto the British pop art scene in the sixties. Show more
David Reynolds asks why Britain spent much of the war fighting in Africa and Italy, reassessing Churchill's view that the Mediterranean was the soft underbelly of Hitler's Europe. Show more
Film documenting the stories of Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman, two slave labourers who escaped from Treblinka extermination camp in a dramatic revolt in August 1943. Show more
Sound of Cinema: The Music That Made the Movies
Episode 2: Pop Goes the Soundtrack
1 hour
on BBC Four HD
Neil Brand explores how, in the second half of the 20th century, composers and film-makers embraced jazz, pop and rock to bring fresh energy to film scores. Show more
Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the 20th century, peeling back its frothy, ironic surface to reveal subversive wit and radical ideas. Show more
