Perspectives

Perspectives catch up

2022

October 18, 2016

4.0 4 x
David Harewood explores the arresting story of the black nursing legend
Episodes 2016

December 13, 2016

4.0 18 x
David Suchet emulates his grandfather as he captures on camera how Britain has changed.

December 1, 2016

4.0 17 x
Lenny Henry tells the story of how he fell in love with the works of Shakespeare.
Episodes 2015

Episode 1: Perspectives: Eddie Redmayne on War Art

Expired 3.0 44 x
Eddie Redmayne looks at war from the point of view of the war artists. Issues of subject matter affected this brave group of men, who were eyewitnesses to war.

Nicky Campbell on the Great American Love Song

Expired 3.0 35 x
Nicky Campbell visits Manhattan to explore his passion for the golden age of song-writing, when the music of Broadway theatres fused with the sounds of Harlem's raunchy jazz clubs.

In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps with Terry Jones

Expired 3.0 54 x
Terry Jones offers a personal re-appraisal of the man who changed the face of film comedy.

Episode 1: Perspectives: Rick Wakeman and the Four Seasons

Expired 3.0 27 x
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 by the critics.

Episode 1: Perspectives: Len Goodman on Fred Astaire

Expired 3.0 32 x
Arts documentary series. Len Goodman travels across America to explore the career, the extraordinary life and the imaginative mind of his greatest hero, the dancer Fred Astaire.

Episode 1: Perspectives - Michael Jackson's Thriller with Ashley Banjo

Expired 3.0 12 x
Arts documentary series. In this edition, Ashley finds out about the man who inspired him to dance and about Thriller - the album which sold a record-breaking sixty million copies.

Episode 1: Perspectives - David Walliams - The Genius of Dahl

Expired 4.0 50 x
David Walliams explores the storytelling of Roald Dahl, one of the world's most successful children's authors. With contributions from Quentin Blake, Joanna Lumley and others.
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