Artsworld

The Russian maestro plays the fourth of Bach’s six suites for unaccompanied cello in a recent prize-winning recording

WH Auden's rhymes and Benjamin Britten's music combine in this 1936 short about the overnight postal service

Profile of the actor/director regarded as a pioneer of American cinema verite. Cassavetes was already an established actor when this film was shot, and had moved on to honing his skills as an independent film-maker

A short film of dance performed and choreographed by David Pressault

Documentary based on the best-selling book by Dan Wakefield. Interviews and archive footage reveal the excitement of a time when free expression, hot jazz and radical politics were changing the face of the arts. Contributors include Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Mark van Doren and Robert Redford

Profile of Australian author Tim Winton, who won the Vogel Award for An Open Swimmer at the age of 21 and was more recently shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995 with The Riders

Historic concert footage of one of the greatest divas of the 20th century recorded in 1962 and 1964. Includes arias from ‘Carmen’ and ‘Don Carlos’, and a performance of Act II of ‘Tosca’ with Tito Gobbi

The Welsh National Orchestra in a tour around the world of music. This edition explores the music of Austria and Germany and includes works by Mozart, Mahler, Richard Strauss and Johan Strauss

Thomas Grimm directs three modern dance pieces by Nacho Duato, director of the Compania Nacional de Danza de Espana

Profile of the Nobel-nominated Albanian writer whose books and poems have been translated into over 40 languages

Portrait of the Swiss-born artist best known for his extraordinary sculptures of thin, elongated figures

The celebrated pianist plays Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No 7