Artsworld

A history of the most versatile of instruments, the piano, from the early models of Bartolomeo Cristofori to the Steinway Grand of today. The film features many of the piano’s great works and performers, captured in Europe’s finest concert halls

Profile of Pamela Travers, creator of Mary Poppins, who invented her character to comfort her traumatic childhood

Michael Crawford performs highlights from Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hello Dolly, Aspects of Love and West Side Story, under the baton of Marvin Hamlisch and accompanied by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Loyola Marymount Consort Singers

Highlights of a dance gala at the Royal Albert Hall. Performers include Riverdance, English National Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Jiving Lindy Hoppers, Club Salsa Dance Company, Tamara Rojo and Dmitri Grudzyev, Deborah Bull and Ashley Page, Darcey Bussell and Yuri Yanowsky

A look at life on the road with the anarchic French circus troupe

The series exploring sources of inspiration for great artists visits the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, whose church is immortalised in a painting by Van Gogh

The sculpture ‘Rameses II’ - normally housed in the Louvre - is replaced in its original context in order to get a better understanding of its cultural significance and a greater certainty of its true subject

Semyon Bychkov conducts the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s grandiose symphonic song cycle. Soloists are Waltraud Meier and Torsten Kerl

Profile of Maria Callas, one of the operatic greats of the 20th century. Featuring extensive interviews and a selection of Callas’s greatest performances

Documentary about gumboot dancing, which originated in the gold mines of South Africa during apartheid, focusing on the Rishile Dancers in Soweto

Art expert Tim Marlow presents a series about the lives, loves and passions of Impressionist artists. In this programme, he looks at the work of troubled genius Van Gogh, who sold only one painting throughout his life but now commands record-breaking prices