Painting
Blue Canvas : The Artist Miles Davis. Audio, 30 minutes
A musical portrait of how the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis became a painter in later life.
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The Essay. Listener, They Wore It, James Whistler's Symphony in White, No 1. Audio, 14 minutes
Art historian James Fox describes an intriguing 1860s painting of a girl in a white dress.
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The Essay. Art in a Cold Climate, Art in a Cold Climate: Ray Hudson on Touching Fire by Carolyn Reed. Audio, 15 minutes
Ray Hudson on Carolyn Reed's Touching Fire and the US state of Alaska.
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The Essay. Art in a Cold Climate, Art in a Cold Climate: Hallgrimur Helgason on Fish Processing in Eyjafjord by Kristin Jonsdottir. Audio, 15 minutes
Hallgrimur Helgason on Kristin Jonsdottir's Fish Processing in Eyjafjord and Iceland.
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The Essay. Art in a Cold Climate, Art in a Cold Climate: Elizabeth Hay on Painting Place III by David Milne. Audio, 15 minutes
Novelist Elizabeth Hay on David Milne's Painting Place III and Canada.
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The Essay. A Short History of Indian Art, The Delhi Book. Audio, 15 minutes
Exploring the Delhi Book, an album containing paintings of 19th-century Delhi.
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The Essay. A Short History of Indian Art, A Leisurely Ride. Audio, 15 minutes
William Dalrymple discusses a painting by Nainsukh celebrating a leisurely horse ride.
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The Essay. A Short History of Indian Art, Ibrahim Adil Shah with Castanets. Audio, 15 minutes
William Dalrymple examines a 17th-century miniature portrait of the Sultan of Bijapur.
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Punt PI. Series 8, The Case of the Missing Cezanne. Audio, 28 minutes
Steve Punt searches for the Cezanne masterpiece, stolen during the millennium celebrations
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In Our Time. Frida Kahlo. Audio, 43 minutes
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Frida Kahlo.
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Incarnations: India in 50 Lives. Nainsukh: Owner Transfixed by Goose. Audio, 15 minutes
The artist whose portraits of a prince's life created a new vision for Indian art.
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The Essay. Just Juvenilia, Just Juvenilia: Harland Miller. Audio, 15 minutes
Writer and painter Harland Miller on how a sign in his local eatery came to inspire him.
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Sunday Feature. Eric Ravilious: Chalk and Ice. Audio, 45 minutes
Alexandra Harris explores the life and work of the elusive artist Eric Ravilious.
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Everyone a Rembrandt. Audio, 30 minutes
Art critic Louisa Buck lifts the lid on the Painting By Numbers craze of the 1950's.
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The Essay. The Genius of Disability, Lucy Jones: Crawling to Glory. Audio, 15 minutes
Tom Shakespeare celebrates painter Lucy Jones, who was born with cerebral palsy.
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The Essay. The Genius of Disability, The Genius of Disability: Bryan Pearce - What Would I Do If I Didn't Paint? Audio, 15 minutes
Tom Shakespeare on painter Bryan Pearce, born with the metabolic disorder phenylketonuria.
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The Essay. Minds at War: Series 1, Der Krieg. Audio, 15 minutes
Cartoonist Martin Rowson on Otto Dix's Der Krieg, a cycle of prints of wartime experience.
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The Essay. Minds at War: Series 1, Paths of Glory. Audio, 15 minutes
BBC correspondent Allan Little reflects on CRW Nevinson's 1917 painting Paths of Glory.
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The Essay. Georgian Portraits, Martin Rowson on William Hogarth. Audio, 15 minutes
Writer and cartoonist Martin Rowson discusses the satiric genius of William Hogarth.
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The Essay. Finish the Bottle, Euan Uglow. Audio, 15 minutes
Art historian Martin Gayford recalls visiting the London studio of painter Euan Uglow.
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The Essay. Finish the Bottle, Patrick Heron. Audio, 15 minutes
Art historian Martin Gayford describes spending a week observing artist Patrick Heron.
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Andy's Dinosaur Adventures. Stegosaurus and Painting. Video, 13 minutes
Andy travels back 150 million years to North America, the home of stegosaurus.
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