Artsworld

Series looking at the landscapes and people which have inspired some of the greatest French painters. This edition visits the right bank of the Seine in Paris

Series in which young people are given advice by some of the most distinguished figures working in the theatre. Choreographer Matthew Bourne talks to an audience at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket

Series going behind the scenes as the world’s great orchestras rehearse a performance. This edition features conductor John Eliot Gardiner with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists as they prepare Bach’s Cantata No 63 - Christen, atzet diesen Tag

Series of interviews conducted by Clive James in his own apartment. This edition features Jeremy Isaacs, the former Channel 4 boss who headed the Royal Opera House with distinction before becoming chairman of Artsworld

Series featuring concert footage of some of the world’s top jazz musicians. This edition features the Headhunters and Joe Zawinul at the North Sea Jazz Festival, and Monday Michiru and Gary Crosby’s Nu Troop at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival

Twentieth-century France through the non-conformist eyes and lens of the famous photographer

Documentary about the rebirth of Khmer classical dance, almost destroyed by Pol Pot but now being revived by those who escaped the killing fields. Over 1,100 main postures from a movement language used to tell centuries-old legends

Historian Michael Wood begins an examination of the history of Western art, from its origins in the ancient civilisations to contemporary modernism. This edition explores the Greek origins of humanism and classical style, together with Roman architecture, engineering and sculpture

Revealing documentary which goes backstage at the Zurich Opera House. Featured projects are a new production of Rossini’s ‘The Barber of Seville’ with Vesselina Kasarova, a workshop for Wagner’s ‘Siegfried’ directed by Robert Wilson, and a rehearsal for Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring’, choreographed by Heinz Spoerli

A look at the history of cinema verite, from the early days of such films as Nanook of the North to the award-winning Blair Witch Project

A concert performance by the acclaimed jazz singer

The Ballet National de Marseille’s production of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, choreographed by Roland Petit, performed in the Piazzetta alongside Venice’s Doge’s Palace. Starring Dominique Khalfouni, Denys Ganio and Jean-Pierre Aviotte