Granted privileged access to the Victoria and Albert Museum after hours, John Bly seeks out the Kimbolton Cabinet, an...

Through interpretations of some of the archaeological treasures of the Swedish National Museum, now on display in Edi...

Lucy Worsley tells the story of Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire. Built in the early 17th century, it became the pleasur...

Stuart Kelly gets behind-the-scenes access as over 13,000 treasures are moved back into Sir Walter Scott’s Abbotsford...

Clemency Burton-Hill indulges in her lifelong passion for the violin as she explores the mysterious life and lasting ...

Artist Lachlan Goudie presents a personal documentary, inspired by his father, in which he investigates why witches h...

Jewellery designer Shaun Leane uncovers some of the secrets of the hoard of nearly 500 Elizabethan and Jacobean jewel...

Tracey Emin offers an insight into the life and work of the French-American artist Louise Bourgeois, famed for her sc...

Helen Rosslyn makes the case for troubled, turbulent 17th century printmaker and draftsman Giovanni Benedetto Castigl...

Lars Tharp appeals to the nation to help him recover a rare piece of long-lost William Hogarth memorabilia - a precio...

Architect Zaha Hadid considers the influence of Russian abstract artist Kazimir Malevich's avant-garde art on her own...

Travel-writer Robert MacFarlane presents a documentary telling the story of Scottish poet and novelist Nan Shepherd a...

Jools Holland tells the story of his father-in-law Rory McEwen - aristocrat, artist, folk singer and pioneering TV pr...

Professor Nandini Das reveals the story behind the Cabinet of Curiosities - the original collecting craze that began ...

Lauren Child explores the history of dolls’ houses, speaks to craftspeople who create perfect miniatures and meets co...

Natalie Haynes takes a journey into ancient beauty and modern glamour, examining how our obsession with the body beau...

In a personal tribute, British soul singer Laura Mvula travels to New York to celebrate the Nina Simone songs that me...

Michael Symmons Roberts explores the mythic afterlife of the 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton, whose early death w...

Sir Roger Penrose takes a personal journey through artist MC Escher's work, marvelling at his intuitive brilliance an...

Derek Jacobi goes in search of David Garrick, 18th-century superstar and the man who reinvented acting for the modern...

Neil Pearson looks at the life of Jack Kahane, who combined a career selling low-grade smut with publishing some of t...