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Documentary charting the 20th-century history of Cuba through an examination of the country’s obsession with baseball, which was introduced from America over a century and a half ago

Yo-Yo Ma’s performances of Bach’s solo cello suites are combined with specially commissioned works by artists in other media. Here film-maker Francois Girard conjures up a virtual world based on the prison etchings of Bach’s contemporary, the architect Piranesi, and against this backdrop Ma plays Bach’s Cello Suite No 2

Bollywood choreographer Lollipop describes the making of a now famous song sequence for top Indian star Aamir Khan in the 1998 hit film ‘Ghulam’

Hailed as one of cinema’s greatest achievements, Jean Renoir’s film paints an ironic portrait of the French class system but also illustrates the human complexities that accompany it. When a transatlantic aviator lands in France, he declares that he made the record-setting trip for the love of a woman - who has failed to meet him at the airport. But the woman in question soon makes it clear that the relationship means little to her

Stuart Maconie presents a countdown of the top ten films of all time, as voted by readers of movie magazine ‘Sight and Sound’. The programme features interviews with Nick James, the magazine’s editor, and film critics Jonathan Ross, Alexander Walker and Mark Kermode

Frequently voted one of the best films ever made, Orson Welles’s masterpiece tells the story of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane in a series of flashbacks. A reporter is intrigued by the dying Kane’s last word - rosebud - and sets out to find a new angle on the life of one of the most powerful men in America. Nine Oscar nominations resulted in only one award for the outspoken Welles - Best Screenplay

Three-part series revealing the unofficial history of the modern British art movement. This edition looks at the emergence of Damien Hirst during the late 1980s.

Recorded live at Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre, Douglas Maxwell’s comic and touching play, performed by the Grid Iron Company, follows the fate of a number of variety acts threatened with the final curtain at a Scottish theatre in 1929