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Fake or Fortune?

Series 4

Episode 1: Lowry

Duration: 59 minutes

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

Available for years

Art series with Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould. The team investigate whether three small pictures are really the work of one of Britain's best-loved modern artists, LS Lowry. Show more

Fake or Fortune?

Series 4

Episode 2: Renoir

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for years

Art series with Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould. The team investigate whether a painting is really the work of celebrated impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Show more

Fake or Fortune?

Series 4

Episode 3: A Mystery Old Master

Duration: 59 minutes

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

Available for years

Art series with Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould. The team investigate how a possible 16th-century Italian old master found its way into a small English church. Show more

Fake or Fortune?

Series 4

Episode 4: Munnings and Churchill

Duration: 59 minutes

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

Art series with Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould. The team investigate two paintings by two 20th-century icons, Sir Alfred Munnings and Sir Winston Churchill. Show more

Fake or Fortune?

Series 5

Episode 1: Freud

Duration: 59 minutes

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

Art series with Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould. Can the team prove that a portrait is one of Lucian Freud's earliest works, even though Freud himself denied painting it? Show more

Fake or Fortune?

Series 5

Episode 2: Delaroche

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for years

Art series with Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould. The team try to prove the authenticity of a suspected lost masterpiece by 19th-century French artist Paul Delaroche. Show more

Fake or Fortune?

Series 5

Episode 3: Rodin

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for years

Art series with Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould. A sketch of a dancer believed to have been drawn by Auguste Rodin is at the centre of this investigation. Show more

Fake or Fortune?

Series 5

Episode 4: Portraits

Duration: 59 minutes

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

Available for years

Art series with Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould. The team investigate three portraits believed to be by Willem de Kooning, Philip Mercier and Adolph von Menzel. Show more

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for 6 months

In Oxford's Bodleian Library, Dr Bendor Grosvenor spots a finely painted portrait by an unknown artist. Could it be by the greatest portrait painter working in Rome in the 18th century, Pompeo Batoni? Show more

Britain's Lost Masterpieces

Series 4

Birmingham

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for 6 months

Bendor Grosvenor finds two anonymous planks in a drawer at Birmingham Art Gallery. Put together, they show a scene of village life. Is he right in detecting the hand of Flemish master Brueghel? Show more

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for 6 months

In Cardiff, a fake restoration reveals a Madonna. Emma Dabiri explores the story of the two Welsh sisters who donated the work, while Bendor Grosvenor looks for proof of a link with Botticelli. Show more

Britain's Lost Masterpieces

Series 1

Episode 1: Swansea

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Four HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for 5 months

Series tracking down lost and hidden paintings from museums and galleries across Britain. The Swansea museum store contains everything from a stuffed pigeon to a police car. Show more

Britain's Lost Masterpieces

Series 1

Episode 2: Aberdeenshire

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for 5 months

Series tracking down lost and hidden paintings from museums and galleries. In the storerooms of the Montrose Museum lies a mystery painting with a giant hole in it. Show more

Britain's Lost Masterpieces

Series 3

Episode 3: Petworth

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for years

Dr Bendor Grosvenor investigates two paintings found at Petworth House in West Sussex, while Emma Dabiri explores the life of one of its owners, the third Earl of Egremont. Show more

The Culture Show

Your Paintings: A Culture Show Special

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Scotland

The Your Paintings project has put over 200,000 previously inaccessible works from our national collections online. Alastair Sooke looks at some hidden gems. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Alastair Sooke
Presenter:
Alastair Sooke
Participant:
Bendor Grosvenor
Participant:
Bendor Grosvenor
Director:
Katy Homan
Director:
Katy Homan
Series Editor:
Janet Lee
Series Editor:
Janet Lee

The Culture Show

The Lost Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Culture Show Special

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor tries to find out if a long-lost portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie by one of Scotland's greatest artists, Allan Ramsay, still survives. Show more

Britain's Lost Masterpieces

Series 3

Episode 1: Devon

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for years

Dr Bendor Grosvenor and social historian Emma Dabiri travel to Tiverton in Devon to investigate a portrait of Rembrandt in the collection of Knightshayes Court. Show more

Britain's Lost Masterpieces

Series 3

Episode 2: Manchester

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Available for years

The team look at a work by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. But could it actually be by Johann Zoffany? Show more

Britain's Lost Masterpieces

Series 2

Episode 1: Glasgow

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for years

Dr Bendor Grosvenor and Emma Dabiri travel to Glasgow to investigate the mystery behind a long-lost picture of one of the most famous gay men in history. Show more

Front Row

Audre Lorde, Dan Brown, Art Connoisseurship, Harvey Weinstein

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Author Dan Brown discusses the return of Robert Langdon in his latest novel, Origin. Plus Audre Lorde and art connoisseurship. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Stig Abell
Interviewed Guest:
Dan Brown
Interviewed Guest:
Akwugo Emejulu
Interviewed Guest:
Bendor Grosvenor
Interviewed Guest:
Alison Wright
Interviewed Guest:
MIa Galuppo
Interviewed Guest:
Anne Helen Petersen
Producer:
Hannah Robins