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Drama that chronicles the trials of a Hackney café owner trying to prevent his son from getting involved in London's gun culture.

Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah tells John Wilson about his early years at stage school, how seeing a production of Joe Turner's 'Come and Gone', by August Wilson, changed the way he saw what theatre could do.

Fusing biography, art and the history of fashion, Amber Butchart explores the lives of historical figures through the clothes they wore. Here, she looks at Dutch painter Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait.

The Bayeux Tapestry is a remarkable and unique work of art that has survived for almost 1,000 years. Made in the 11th century, it tells the story of William of Normandy's claim to the English throne, culminating in the Norman invasion of England and the Battle of Hastings.

BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.

BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.

BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.

BBC FOUR is the BBC channel for people who want more. More depth, more range, more to stimulate the mind.

We celebrate the extraordinary nature of winter on planet Earth, and how animals and plants rise to the dangerous and challenging conditions it brings. This is the most magical, dramatic season of all. With their world encased in snow and ice, animals must find the most...

Starting with the first great revolution in art, the invention of Gothic architecture, Andrew traces its development up until the arrival of Classicism and the Age of Enlightenment, and the very eve of the Revolution.

Magnus Magnusson hosts from Reading University. Specialist subjects include the Alps, symphony orchestra instruments, children's literature and the Old Testament.

Panel game of word definitions and deceptions hosted by Robert Robinson. Team captains Patrick Campbell and Frank Muir are joined by guest panellists Diane Keen, Ian Ogilvy, Nerys Hughes and Tim Rice.

Anita Brookner, art historian, TV presenter and author of the Booker Prize-winning Hotel du Lac, added to her accomplishments in the 1980s by sharing with television audiences her understanding and appreciation for some of the finest works by the world's greatest ever painters....

Leonardo da Vinci trains as an artist and craftsman in Florence; in Milan he paints a monumental fresco of the Last Supper.