Programmes / 2010

A landmark arts series in which David Starkey - Power and Personality; Gus Casely-Hayford - Art for the People; Sir Roy Strong - Visions of England, Howard Jacobson - Flesh; Jon Snow - War and Janet Street-Porter - Modern Times; present six passionate polemics on how British art made us who we are...
Comedian and author, Alan Davies, revisits his teenage years for a refreshingly original evaluation of the decade that made modern Britain: the 1980s. Alan Davies grew up in the 1980s, an era when it seemed everything – music, politics, even the bedroom – was being turned into a battlefield. Packed...
Anne Lister, the young heiress to the 400 acre Shibden Hall Estate, is in love with York doctor’s daughter, the beautiful Mariana Belcombe. Their passion for each other is all too obvious to their female friends but utterly hidden from society at large. But society’s rules cannot be ignored and Ma...
Simon Schama marks the first anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration by exploring what lessons might be drawn from American history in tackling the war in Afghanistan (The Price of Freedom) and the American economy (The End of the Dream?).