Art On The BBC
Art On The BBC is a program about music on BBC4. Art historians delve into six decades of the BBC archives. How has television influenced our understanding of the world's greatest artists? The program has been available since 2024. A total of 5 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in August 2025.
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Art On The BBC
Art historian Leslie Primo explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of perhaps the UK’s most beloved artist, JMW Turner.
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Art historian Katy Hessel explores the BBC archives to create a television history of the father of impressionism, Claude Monet.
Art historian Kate Bryan explores the BBC archives to create a television history of a man who has become the embodiment of the 'tortured artist', Vincent van Gogh.
Art historian David Dibosa explores the BBC archives to create a television history of one of art's greatest showmen, Salvador Dali.
Series 1
Michelangelo is a controversial giant of the Renaissance. Art historian Sona Datta explores six decades of BBC archive to discover how TV has influenced our understanding of him.