Artsworld

Audrey Hepburn visits the garden at La Roseraie de l’Hays les Roses, and explores the magnificent rose collection at Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire

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

Baritone Gino Quilico and mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli star as Figaro and Rosina in this production of Rossini’s ever-popular comic masterpiece. Gabriele Ferro conducts

Peter Schamoni’s award-winning film takes a look at the life and works of Caspar David Friedrich, one of the great Romantic artists. A specially composed score by Hans Posegga accompanies Friedrich’s images of desolate but beautiful landscapes

Programme featuring the talents of Argentinian composer and bandoneon virtuoso Astor Piazolla, who is credited with reinvigorating the tango

Documentary series exploring the history of Russian art. This edition focuses on the tradition of painting religious icons, and the way the history of the icon Our Lady of Vladimir (or Lady of Tenderness) can shed light on the history of Russia itself

The late maestro Yehudi Menuhin plays one of the great romantic masterpieces, Brahms’s Violin Concerto, in a recital at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. Kurt Masur conducts the Gewandhaus Orchestra

Series about the work of three great artists. This programme is the first of two examining the vibrant canvasses of Jan van Eyck

Series in which young people are given advice by some of the most distinguished figures working in the theatre. Former ‘Angry Young Man’ Arnold Wesker looks at violence in drama in the light of 11 September, and reads his own one-woman play ‘Whatever Happened to Betty Lemon?'

A profile of the acclaimed Belgian conductor Philippe Herreweghe, whose period-instrument performances have breathed new life into baroque classical music. Including rehearsal footage of Herreweghe conducting Bach’s Magnificat and Beethoven’s Choral Symphony

The music of the Afro Cuban All Stars, an explosive mix of rhythm, flashing brass and percussion - led by Ibrahim Ferrer of Buena Vista Social Club and Cuba’s most famous dance band, Los Van Van