Artsworld

Twelve of Britain’s leading sculptors show and talk about their work at Goodwood Sculpture Park

Sixth 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 Symphony No 6

A look at the work of contemporary British video artist Bill Viola

A studio recording of Jiri Kylian’s fantasy ballet set to music by Ravel, with design and costumes by John MacFarlane. Lorin Maazel conducts the Orchestre National de Paris

Robin Baker presents a series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the BFI’s National Film Theatre with lesser-known works from some of Britain’s leading directors. This edition features films on the theme of railways, including Michael Grigsby’s ‘Blue Pullman’ and ‘Flames of Passion’

Profile of one of the greatest painters of the Venetian school, filmed in Venice, Rome, Madrid and Vienna

Series examining the effects of the arts on prisoners in the UK. Bruce Wall from the London Shakespeare Workout brings a group of Shakespearean actors, including Gayle Hunnicutt, into the Young Offenders Drug Rehab Unit in Rochester Prison. How will the inmates, most of whom never finished school, cope with the arcane metrical disciplines of the iambic pentameter?

Series investigating the craft and process of creative writing. This edition looks at the collaboration between writers, actors and directors. Contributors include May-Brit Akerholt, Wesley Enoch and Timothy Daly

Profile of one of the great songwriters of the 20th century. Harold Arlen’s musical legacy includes such classics as Stormy Weather, Let’s Fall in Love and Somewhere over the Rainbow

Melvyn Bragg celebrates 25 years of the landmark arts magazine with a series of archive episodes. This edition profiles Luciano Pavarotti when the superstar tenor was at the height of his popularity

The first film in Marcel Pagnol’s celebrated Marseilles Trilogy is the touching story of Marius, a young man who works in his father’s dockside cafe but yearns for life at sea. Standing between him and the call of the ocean, however, is his love for his childhood sweetheart, Fanny. As well as writing the screenplay, Pagnol both produced and advised on the making of this warm human tale