Artsworld

Series examining the life and works of renowned composers of chamber music. This edition profiles Ludwig van Beethoven and includes a performance of his String Quartet No 10

Short film by Laurent Heynemann about a lone traveller whose adventure starts when he is strip-searched at the airport

Series profiling four leading contemporary ceramicists working in Britain. Featuring Emma Rogers, whose extraordinary animal sculptures have been exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Academy of Art

Sylvain Roumette’s film profile of the French artist reveals an innovator who effected a rigorous return to the classicism of the Italian primitives

The series on Scandinavian music continues with an impressionistic profile of Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara. Aarno Cronvall’s film combines the sounds of Rautavaara’s music with the striking imagery of the Finnish landscape

The series on Scandinavian music continues with a live recording of the premiere of Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara’s choral work ‘On the Last Frontier’

The 1977 production of Henrik Ibsen’s disturbing classic about a mother’s mental anguish as her beloved son’s behaviour triggers memories of her dissolute husband. Starring Dorothy Tutin, Richard Pasco and Brian Deacon

Profile of the life and work of Edward Curtis, an artist who set out to photograph and record the traditional way of life of the Amerindian tribes. Travelling the length and breadth of a continent, Curtis left behind a vast body of work, including 10,000 recordings, 40,000 photographs and 20 volumes of text

La Scala’s dramatic 2001 production of Verdi’s opera about the assassination of a Swedish king. Starring Maria Guleghina, soprano (Amelia); Salvatore Licitra, tenor (Roccardo); and Bruno Caproni, baritone (Renato). Riccardo Muti conducts the Orchestra of La Scala

Documentary exploring the work of David Malouf, a complex and poetic writer whose novel Remembering Babylon won the world’s richest literary prize

The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Celibidache, play ‘Iberia’, the second movement of Debussy’s ‘Images for the Orchestra’