Artsworld

A celebration of the work of the great choreographer Alvin Ailey. Gary Deloatch portrays the saxophonist Charlie Parker in a performance of Ailey’s For Bird with Love with the American Dance Theatre

Series of short films based on Dante’s Renaissance masterpiece ‘Inferno’, by Peter Greenaway, Tom Phillips and Raul Ruiz

Series on great literary figures of the 20th century. American hero John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, exposed the iniquities of the Depression at great personal cost. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962

A look at the life and work of the American artist Jasper Johns. Johns is renowned both for works like his ‘Flags’ and for laying the foundations for both pop art and minimalism. This programme includes both new and old conversations with the artist and archive footage of him at work in his studio

Conclusion of the two-part documentary charting the career of one of the greatest bands of the 1960s - the Beach Boys. This programme covers the period from 1966 to the present and includes footage of TV appearances and concerts, plus recent and vintage interviews

Inspirational footage of the maestro Yehudi Menuhin at the Hartt School of Music in Connecticut, teaching, conducting and sharing his philosophy on music and life

Short film by Jacques Rouffio on the theme of time

A celebration of the work of the great choreographer Alvin Ailey. Judith Jamison introduces a performance of Memoria, a lyrical work set to music by Keith Jarrett, commemorating Ailey’s friend Joyce Tinsler, the dancer and choreographer who died in 1979

Short film by Rebecca Rodriguez about two retrievers of the souls of the dead

Series of short films based on Dante’s Renaissance masterpiece ‘Inferno’, by Peter Greenaway, Tom Phillips and Raul Ruiz

Second in a series of Scandinavian music, featuring the complete cycle of seven symphonies by Jean Sibelius. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the mellow Symphony No 2

Crazy comedy, set in 1914, about an assorted group of eccentric showbiz people on a cruise to a small island to scatter the ashes of a late colleague. Also aboard the ship are a band of Serbo-Croatian freedom fighters on the run following the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. The fun begins when an Austro-Hungarian battleship appears, demanding that the desperadoes are handed over or their guns will open fire

A moving anthology of some of the most poignant war poems ever written, composed by the combatants themselves. Featuring battle footage from both World Wars