Perspectives

Arts documentary series which features well-known individuals giving their personal take on the life and career of someone who has inspired, captivated or fascinated them. It was one of the best days of Ashley Banjo's life when Michael Jackson invited the young British choreographer and his dance...

Arts documentary series which features well-known individuals giving their personal take on the life and career of someone who has inspired, captivated or fascinated them. Len Goodman has dedicated his life to dance, and in this film he travels across America to explore the extraordinary story an...

Rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman reappraises Antonio Vivaldi's the Four Seasons - one of the most popular piece of classical music of all time but often denounced as muzak for the middle classes. Wakeman thinks the critics are wrong though, and believes that the Four Seasons was so far ahead of its ...

Terry Jones, best known for his work with Monty Python and a long-time fan of silent comedies, offers a personal re-appraisal of the man who changed the face of film comedy. Before the age of ten, Charlie had endured poor school, the workhouse and a succession of cramped, squalid digs he shared w...

Nicky Campbell reckons that in the 1920s and 1930s, New York produced the best songs ever written. He visits Manhattan to explore his lifelong passion for this golden age of song-writing, when the music of packed Broadway theatres fused with the sounds of Harlem's raunchy jazz clubs. He discovers...

Arts documentary series. Award-winning actor Eddie Redmayne, who studied history of art at Cambridge, takes an intensely emotional journey into the field of war art. Eddie visits artists' studios, museums and battlefields to shine a light into the nature of conflict. The First World War had more ...