Artsworld

Series going behind the scenes as the world’s great orchestras rehearse a performance. This edition features the Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen rehearsing Debussy’s La Mer with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Graham Vick’s 1991 production of Prokofiev’s opera, performed in full for the first time in the Marinsky Theatre, St Petersburg. Based on Tolstoy’s novel, the work combines a panoramic view of Russian society during the Napoleonic wars with the love story of Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova. Principal soloists are Alexander Gergalov, Elena Prokina, Nikolai Ochotnikov and Gegam Grigorian. Valery Gergiev conducts

Profile of the French painter Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) widely regarded as the father of modern art, looking at many of his works in detail and drawing upon the observations of a wide range of historians and commentators. Contributors include artists Howard Hodgkin, R B Kitaj, Bridget Riley and John Golding

A look into the world of the fictional female private eye as seen by three leading writers in the genre - Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller and Sara Paretsky

Series of 15 programmes in which individuals from across the artistic spectrum talk about the person who has provided their biggest inspiration. In this edition, South African playwright Athol Fugard pays homage to Bertolt Brecht

Behind-the-scenes arts documentary series. This edition follows RADA students on an exchange programme to Russia, with charismatic Russian director Sergei Tcherkasski

Graham Vick’s 1991 production of Prokofiev’s opera, performed in full for the first time in the Marinsky Theatre, St Petersburg. Based on Tolstoy’s novel, the work combines a panoramic view of Russian society during the Napoleonic wars with the love story of Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova. Principal soloists are Alexander Gergalov, Elena Prokina, Nikolai Ochotnikov and Gegam Grigorian. Valery Gergiev conducts

An interview with the acclaimed German director Peter Stein as he starts work on the first Russian staging of Aeschylus’s tragedy The Oresteia

The French pianist Jacques Loussier gives his own inimitable treatment to Schumann’s Kinderszenen at the Subway Jazz Club in Cologne