Artsworld

Christopher Frayling interviews leading figures in the arts about their work. Featuring novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi, whose work includes ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ and ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’

Series of 15 programmes in which individuals from across the artistic spectrum talk about the person who has provided their biggest inspiration. Director Kenneth Anger pays homage to Jean Cocteau, and artists Komar and Melamid talk about Andy Warhol

Extravagant staging of Perrault’s fairy tale by the National Ballet of Marseilles, choreographed by Roland Petit. Principal dancers are Patrick Dupont, Dominique Khalifouni and Jean-Pierre Aviotte

Profile of the film-maker who spearheaded the Italian neo-realism movement

Paul Grabowsky and Jaslyn Hall present the series exploring all aspects of music from the musician’s point of view. This edition looks at the human voice and the excitement of learning to sing. Contributors include singer Angie Hart, boy sopranos from the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, and the amazing Tuvan throat singers

The renowned Alban Berg Quartet analyse and then perform Schubert’s string quartet masterpiece, based on the story of a woman seduced by death

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

Documentary tracing the violent history of Haiti through an exhibition of paintings by contemporary local artists

A series of intimate portraits of international jazz musicians featuring concerts, jam sessions, archive material and revealing interviews. This edition features guitarist Mick Taylor, who came to prominence in the 1960s with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers before replacing Brian Jones in the Rolling Stones

Portrait of the late crooner featuring vintage TV footage and reminiscences from friends and acquaintances

A feature on the life and ghosts of Cambridge academic M R James, whose supernatural stories are among the most popular and influential ever written. Contributors include Christopher Lee, Ruth Rendell and Jonathan Miller