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Cast
Seasons
- Ep 1
1.The Van Gogh Fakes
26-10-1997Geraldine Norman investigates the growing body of evidence that casts doubt on the authenticity of paintings which have long been held to be works of Vincent Van Gogh.
- Ep 2
2.Big War in Lilliput
03-11-199751mHungarian businessman Gyorgy Klapka attempts to resurrect the once-famous Lilliput dwarf theatre in Budapest, closed down long ago by the Communists, to mount a production of Alfre...
- Ep 3
3.In Search of the Amber Room
09-11-1997Anthony Wilson tries to solve the mystery of the Amber Room of the tsars in St. Petersburg, stolen by the Germans and never found.
- Ep 4
4.A Very British Psycho
23-11-199751mVilified on its release in 1960 as pornographic, Michael Powell's film Peeping Tom is now regarded by many as a masterpiece.
- Ep 5
5.Rebel With a Cause
30-11-1997Can flamboyant US ad-man Tony Kaye market himself as a serious artist?
- Ep 6
6.Naked and Famous
07-12-1997Profile of rap artist and writer Tricky, who returns to the Bristol estate where he grew up.
- Ep 7
7.Ivanov Goes to Moscow
14-12-199751mRalph Fiennes, Harriet Walter, and the rest of the Almeida Theatre Company earlier this year took their acclaimed production of Chekhov's Ivanov back to its roots in Moscow.
- Ep 8
8.Songs from the Golden City
20-12-199751mReturning from exile, Joe Mogotsi of the legendary Manhattan Brothers, takes us on a cinematic journey into the virtuosity, exuberance and resistance of South African jazz. Joe rec...
- Ep 9
9.Making a Killing
28-06-1998Through the story of the Gutmann family's quest to recover the art collection stolen by the Nazis from their parents, questioning the international art market's collusion in Nazi a...
- Ep 10
10.Spy in the House of Love - Anaïs Nin
19-07-199851mBack in the 1960s, the novelist Anaïs Nin was acclaimed as a feminist icon when her revelatory diaries were published. But she had omitted much of her bigamous past, and it is only...
- Ep 11
11.The Fine Art of Crime
26-07-1998The theft of a Caravaggio from a Palermo church nearly 30 years ago shocked the art world. Since then, art has come to play an integral part in the laundering of the proceeds of cr...
- Ep 12
12.The Other Francis Bacon
02-08-1998Art-world orthodoxy holds that Bacon did not prepare or rehearse his paintings. But Bacon's friend and neighbour Barry Joule has revealed an enormous cache of sketches and treated...
- Ep 13
13.The Lost Frescoes
09-08-1998Restoration of frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, badly damaged in a 1997 earthquake, is being held up.
- Ep 14
14.Tuning With the Enemy
16-08-199851mAmerican piano tuner Ben Treuhaft tries to get pianos into Cuba.
- Ep 15
15.Daydream Believers
29-08-1998Tells the story of five people who auditioned to become Monkees but failed to make the cut. Their feelings about it range from relief to embarrassment, self-justification, and regr...
- Ep 16
16.A Roll of the Dice: The Story of The Capeman
06-09-1998The 40-member cast of Paul Simon's Broadway musical disaster The Capeman grapple with the staging of the controversial show based on a true story about a 16-year-old Puerto Rican k...
- Ep 17
17.The Lost Supper
27-12-1998The restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous masterpiece, The Last Supper, produced results some call glorious and others call tragic. Da Vinci’s famously fragile fresco was alway...
- Ep 18
18.Loving Lenin
10-01-1999Imaginative use of archive footage and interviews to examine how Lenin achieved mythical status, and why his death is still mourned by some in Russia.
- Ep 19
19.The Cowboy and the Eclipse
08-08-1999James Turrell is famous for creating the world's largest piece of "land art" - reshaping a volcano. But he has also built a giant camera obscura on a Cornish hillside to record the...
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