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8 Days to the Moon and Back
Episode 1
- Broadcast
- 2019 (88 mins)
8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes, 35 seconds. That’s the total duration of the most important and celebrated space mission ever flown - Apollo 11 - when humans first set foot on the Moon. It was a journey that...
Rome Unpacked
Episode One - When in Rome
- Broadcast
- 2018 (58 mins)
Andrew Graham-Dixon and Giorgio Locatelli’s latest Italian adventure brings them to Rome in search of the greatest food and art that they can find off the beaten track. To really understand Rome you must...
Rome Unpacked
Episode Two - The Eternal City
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
Andrew Graham-Dixon and Giorgio Locatelli’s latest Italian adventure brings them to Rome in search of the greatest food and art that they can find off the beaten track. Andrew Graham-Dixon and Giorgio...
Civilisations
Episode 1 - Second Moment of Creation
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
The first film by Simon Schama in Civilisations looks at the formative role art and the creative imagination have played in the forging of humanity itself. The film opens with Simon’s passionate...
Civilisations
Episode 2 - How Do We Look?
- Broadcast
- 2018 (58 mins)
In this episode of Civilisations Professor Mary Beard explores images of the human body in ancient art, from Mexico and Greece to Egypt and China. Mary seeks answers to fundamental questions at the heart of...
Civilisations
Episode 3 - Picturing Paradise
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
Simon Schama explores one of our deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature. Simon discovers that landscape painting is seldom a straightforward description of observed nature; rather it’s a...
Civilisations
Episode 4 - The Eye of Faith
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
In this film Professor Mary Beard broaches the controversial, sometimes dangerous, topic of religion and art. For millennia, art has inspired religion as much as religion has inspired art. Yet there are...
Civilisations
Episode 5 - Triumph of Art
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
Think Renaissance and you think Italy. But in the 15th and 16th centuries the great Islamic empires experienced their own extraordinary cultural flowering. The two phenomena did not unfold in separate...
Civilisations
Episode 6 - First Contact
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
In the 15th and 16th centuries distant and disparate cultures met, often for the first time. These encounters provoked wonder, awe, bafflement and fear. And, as historian of empire David Olusoga shows, art...
Civilisations
Episode 7 - Radiance
- Broadcast
- 2018 (59 mins)
Simon Schama starts his meditation on colour and civilisation with the great Gothic cathedrals of Amiens and Chartres. He then moves to 16th century Venice where masterpieces such as Giovanni Bellini’s San...