Artsworld

The innovative designer of vacuum cleaners talks about the art that has influenced his work

Film version of the extraordinarily successful West End theatre production which sprints through all 37 Shakespeare plays and 154 sonnets in just 90 minutes

Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields perform classical favourites in the grounds of Longleat House. The programme includes extracts from Grieg’s Holberg Suite, Handel’s Berenice, Pachelbel’s Canon, Mozart’s Divertimenti for Strings and Bach’s Air on a G String

A lively performance from the Rishile Gumboot Dancers of 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 Claude Monet, a radical whose masterpiece, ‘Lilies’, epitomises the Impressionist style

Series 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 5

The innovative Californian string quartet perform the weird and haunting work by George Crumb and Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera

A star-studded cast features in this six-part adaptation of M M Kaye’s epic tale of love, treachery and battle set in 19th-century British colonial India

First part of the Salzburg Festival’s production of Berlioz’s epic opera based on Virgil’s Aeneid. Sylvain Cambreling conducts the Orchestre de Paris. The cast is led by Deborah Polaski, Jon Villars and Russell Braun

Art expert Tim Marlow presents a series about the lives, loves and passions of Impressionist artists. In this programme, he looks at Pierre-Auguste Renoir, a sensual artist whose work is a celebration of the pleasure of painting for painting’s sake

Melvyn Bragg celebrates 25 years of the landmark arts magazine with a series of archive episodes. This edition profiles the Tallis Scholars, specialists in early vocal music