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The Art Of Germany – Ö÷²¥´óÐã Four

Marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Andrew Graham-Dixon explores Germany through its art. In Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Younger, Caspar David Friedrich, Otto Dix, Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter, Germany has given us some of the greatest artists of all time. But Andrew argues that prejudice following two world wars has made us neglect its 500-year cultural legacy and that a reappreciation is long overdue. He takes viewers on a geographical and chronological journey, exploring en route the great obsessions of Germanic art – landscape, folklore and national identity.

Berlin – Ö÷²¥´óÐã Two

The cultural and emotional history of a city, Berlin is written and presented by Matt Frei, the face of Ö÷²¥´óÐã World News America. Twenty years ago German-born Frei reported the fall of the Berlin Wall and found himself caught up in a personal journey as much as a news story, as he saw the re-unification of his family as well as a nation. Now he explores the city again to uncover the ideas and art that have hugely influenced the modern world and a people who have come to stand for both the best and worst of times, a city of freedom and repression, of good and evil.

Desperate Romantics – Ö÷²¥´óÐã Two

Desperate Romantics, a six-part drama series, follows the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics, as they shamelessly scheme and strive to find fame, fortune and quite a bit of sex along the way.

The Glasgow School Of Art – Ö÷²¥´óÐã Two Scotland

A biography of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s most famous building as it celebrates its 100th birthday in 2009.

Henry VIII – Patron Or Plunderer – Ö÷²¥´óÐã Four

Henry VIII – Patron Or Plunderer explores the paradox of a famously brutal king, who oversaw the murder of writers, the demolition of ancient monasteries, and the destruction of rare artistic treasures and yet was a cultured, well-read man, who brought the Renaissance to England, had a world class collection of tapestry, and funded a building boom of exquisite architecture on an unprecedented scale. These two one-hour films, narrated by Dr Jonathan Foyle, aim to reconcile the apparently opposing characteristics of the cultured romantic and the wrecker of culture.

How To Clean Up In The Art World – Ö÷²¥´óÐã Four

In September 2008, during 48 hours of the worst financial news since 1929, Sotheby’s auctioned art by Damien Hirst to the value of £111million. Now those prices have crashed and the contemporary art bubble has burst like all the others. This film investigates the rise and fall behind the greatest art boom in history.

Jonathan Meades – Scotnav – Ö÷²¥´óÐã Two and Ö÷²¥´óÐã Four

Jonathan Meades recaptures the strangeness and foreignness of Scotland, which he felt when he first visited the country. He sets the controls for a journey around its perimeters; from the Kingdom of Fife to Walter Scottland and beyond.

Manet – Ö÷²¥´óÐã Two

As the reluctant father of Impressionism, Manet is said to have invented modern art. Waldemar Januszczak tells the story of a complex and difficult man who started a revolution that continues to this day.

The Pre-Raphaelites: Revolutionary Painters – Ö÷²¥´óÐã Four

How the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood revolutionised the Victorian art world, focusing on key painters of the period such as John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

A Portrait Of Scotland – Ö÷²¥´óÐã Four

In this feature-length documentary actor and Glasgow School Of Art graduate Peter Capaldi discovers what the great portraits of Scotland tell us about the nation. Talking to experts, collectors, artists and historians, Peter discovers why these paintings are fantastic emblems of the potent social history of Scotland.

The Seven Ages Of Britain – Ö÷²¥´óÐã One

The story of our nation through its art, told by David Dimbleby. From the Iron Age to the present, Britain’s art has been a mirror to the nation, capturing who we are and bearing witness to the defining events of each era. From the Wilton Diptych to Francis Bacon, Beowulf to 1984, the dome of St Paul's to the Crown Jewels, David seeks out the very best of British art and craftsmanship, celebrating the famous as well as discovering some of the most extraordinary forgotten treasures. His journey takes him way beyond British shores as he tracks down some of our most brilliant creations lost to us over the ages by accident of history.

Seven Photographs That Changed Fashion – Ö÷²¥´óÐã Four

Photographer Rankin (John Rankin Waddell) reinterprets some of fashion photography's most famous images, tracing the development of the art from Cecil Beaton to modern photographers such as David Bailey.

The Summer Exhibition – The Culture Show – Ö÷²¥´óÐã Two

In 2009 The Culture Show will again cover the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – the largest contemporary art exhibition in the world which invites submissions from members of the public.

The Victorians – Ö÷²¥´óÐã One

Jeremy Paxman takes his love of Victorian painting as the starting point for a remarkable journey into Victorian Britain. From dramatic scenes of family conflict to crowded railway stations and men in battle, Jeremy explores the passions that drove our Victorian forebears. In military barracks and stately homes, travelling by canal boat and steam train, he looks at how the dream of Ö÷²¥´óÐã Sweet Ö÷²¥´óÐã was destroyed by the philandering of the Victorian male; how the nightmare that was the Victorian city turned into a wonder of the world, and how Victorian Britons came to believe they were born to rule the Earth.