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Blood and Bronze

A Portrait of the Artist

Professor Jerry Brotton explores the darker side of the Italian Renaissance.

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Blood and Bronze

Overture

Cellini鈥檚 early years are spent training as a musician.

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Storming the Capitol

Having built a career as a goldsmith, Cellini becomes a soldier during the Sack of Rome.

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Death in Florence

On his return to Florence, Cellini experiences the horrors of the plague.

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The Scorpion

Cellini roams between the great Italian courts, making art and causing trouble.

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Crime and Punishment

Cellini is imprisoned for over a year in Rome, enduring various attempts on his life.

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Golden Years

Cellini arrives in Fontainebleau to work for Francis I.

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Forging the Renaissance

Back in Florence, Cellini works for Cosimo de鈥� Medici and creates his greatest work.

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Sex and Death

Cellini鈥檚 misconduct leads him back to jail, where he completes another masterpiece.

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Blood and Bronze

Rebirth

Cellini鈥檚 violent life leaves behind a controversial legacy.

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At 主播大秀 with Greg Russell

Greg Russell shares a Labi Siffre song with Verity Sharp that鈥檚 resonating under lockdown.

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At 主播大秀 with Rachel Unthank

Rachel Unthank shares warm family memories of songs she now sings to her own children.

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At 主播大秀 with Nathaniel Mann

Nathaniel Mann shares a song with Verity Sharp from his allotment outside Nottingham.

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At 主播大秀 with Owen Shiers

Owen Shiers shares a song with Verity Sharp that reminds him of his Welsh roots.

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At 主播大秀 with Karine Polwart

Karine Polwart shares a song about The Diggers to celebrate getting back to the land.

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At 主播大秀 with Fatoumata Diawara

Singer Fatoumata Diawara recalls early experiences that made her the singer she is today.

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At 主播大秀 with Chris Wood

Kent-based musician Chris Wood sings about solitude and sofas.

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At 主播大秀 with Lisa O'Neill

From her apartment in Dublin, Lisa O鈥橬eill shares songs she鈥檚 written in recent months.

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At 主播大秀 with Suhail Yusuf Khan

Sarangi player Suhail Yusuf Khan sings an Urdu poem that resonates for him.

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At 主播大秀 with Eliza Carthy

From her home in Robin Hood鈥檚 Bay in North Yorkshire, Eliza Carthy shares a timely song.

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At 主播大秀 with Kate Stables

Paris-based Kate Stables muses on being a twin and how starting over can bring strength.

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At 主播大秀 with Tenzin Choegyal

Brisbane-based Tenzin Choegyal powerfully recalls his Tibetan homeland in song.

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At 主播大秀 with Lizabett Russo

From her home in Edinburgh, Lizabett Russo reflects on her roots in Romania.

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At 主播大秀 with Falle Nioke

Falle Nioke plays the music of his native Guinea from his current home in Margate.

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At 主播大秀 with Peter Broderick

Oregon-born, Galway-based Peter Broderick sings in praise of the blackberry.

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At 主播大秀 with Sam Lee

Sam Lee sings of the sun and the moon and talks movingly about love and hope.

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At 主播大秀 with Stick in the Wheel

Stick in the Wheel鈥檚 Nicola Kearey and Ian Carter celebrate working lives and hard graft.

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At 主播大秀 with Germa Adan

At home in Birmingham, Haitian-born Germa Adan shares thoughts on identity and belonging.

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At 主播大秀 with Julie Fowlis

From her home in the Highlands, Julie Fowlis sings of seals, swans and the otherworldly.

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At 主播大秀 with Nancy Kerr

From her home in Sheffield, Nancy Kerr sings of old haunts lost and pastures new.

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