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Hazel Stainer — 312 episodes

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1

Berthe Morisot

2

White Space is Important

3

Caravaggesque: the Master and Beyond

4

Fairy-Truths

5

The Courtauld: A History of Art

6

Sir John Soane: Master Hoarder

7

Dahl, the Champion of the World

8

The (Road) Signs of Typography

9

Eastward Ho!

10

Can a graphic novel ever achieve the status of a work of art?

11

Revolution!

12

So many books, so little time

13

St Fagans National Museum of History

14

Inventing Modern Art

15

The Great Miss Lydia Becker

16

A Selection of Books

17

The Colourful World of David McKee

18

The “Cripple” Suffragette

19

The Horniman Museum

20

Sidney Chambers and Other Stories

21

Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance

22

The 8th Wonder of the World

23

Battersea Power Station

24

Painter of Kings and Demons

25

Reader, I Murdered Him

26

Laurence Housman

27

William Blathwayt of Dyrham

28

What to Read Next

29

Discover Eva Gonzalès

30

Fly In League With The Night

31

Making Modernism: Paula Modersohn-Becker

32

What Should You Read Next?

33

Piet Mondrian: (A), B, C

34

The Pros and Cons of Digital Technology in Relation to Illustration

35

Thought, Drew, Created!

36

House of Frankenstein

37

The Roman Baths

38

Alexander: The Making of a Myth

39

Another Five Book Reviews

40

Champollion le Jeune

41

The Astronomers’ House

42

5 More Book Reviews

43

Winslow Homer

44

An American Colourist

45

Black Lives Matter (Part 5)

46

5 Book Reviews

47

Feminine Power

48

Black Lives Matter (Part 4)

49

Can consumer culture be environmentally sustainable?

50

Black Lives Matter (Part 3)

51

The Best Address in Bath

52

Black Lives Matter (Part 2)

53

Jane Austen’s Bath

54

Black Lives Matter (Part 1)

55

Walter Sickert

56

The Father of Modern Photography

57

Lacock Abbey

58

The Painting Demon

59

Raphael

60

A House of Prayer for all Nations

61

Michelangelo and Sebastiano

62

Hockney: 60 Years of Work

63

America After the Fall

64

Michelangelo and the Risen Christ

65

Whistler’s Woman in White

66

Sherlock’s Home

67

The Twelve (Thirteen) Disciples [Part 2]

68

The Twelve (Thirteen) Disciples [Part 1]

69

 Louisa Garrett Anderson

70

Getting Published – Thoughtfully

71

Britain’s Queen of the Desert

72

The Wallace Collection and What We Find There

73

The Art of Money

74

Pop the American Dream

75

2017: Wolfgang Tillmans

76

Giacometti the Obscure

77

Charlie Chaplin: Rags to Riches

78

Echoes Across the Century

79

The Foundling Museum

80

The Woman Who Flew

81

Canaletto & the Art of Venice

82

Picasso: Coloured In

83

The Queen’s House

84

“A Great and Noble Design”

85

Such Ships as These

86

Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!

87

The Art of the Natural World

88

Faith at the Heart of the Nation

89

Figures Seemingly Alive

90

The Other Rembrandt

91

Matisse in the Studio

92

The World’s Leading Museum of Art and Design

93

Oskar Schindler

94

Havering: More than a Museum

95

A Triumphal Arch

96

Havering Palace

97

Treasures of Trafalgar Square

98

The Real Maria

99

St Katharine Docks & the Tower

100

Shattered World, New Beginnings

101

Art in the Park

102

Leonard Bernstein

103

The Other St Paul’s

104

Drawn in Colour

105

Brands, Packaging and Advertising

106

Opera: Passion, Power and Politics

107

Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth

108

Stand Still and Look Stupid

109

Dalí/Duchamp: What is Art?

110

The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson

111

Churchill War Rooms

112

At Home in Antiquity

113

Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia

114

Reflections​

115

Carmina Burana

116

Cézanne Portraits

117

Harry Potter: A History of Magic

118

French Artists in Exile

119

Living with gods

120

Tiddely-Pom: Exploring a classic

121

See Differently

122

Charles II: Art & Power

123

The Mother of Modern Nursing

124

King and Collector

125

Modigliani

126

All Hallows by the Tower

127

The Making of Harry Potter

128

All Too Human

129

Handel with Care

130

Votes for (Some) Women

131

Victorian Giants

132

Out of Austria

133

Picasso, 1932

134

Auguste Rodin and the Parthenon Stone

135

Portraits at the Mall

136

Ingatestone Hall

137

The Rembrandt House

138

Handel & Hendrix in London

139

Twinings of London

140

The Great British Seaside

141

Discover a Whole New World …

142

The Great Spectacle

143

Exploring​ London the Fun Way

144

Shakespeare’s Globe

145

Monet’s Architectural Visions

146

Thomas Cole: Eden to Empire

147

Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up

148

The Beth Chatto Gardens

149

The Genius of Hard Work

150

Michael Jackson: On the Wall

151

Belton House

152

Hope to Nope

153

Capel Manor Gardens

154

Hals of Haarlem

155

Belvoir Castle

156

The Voyages of James Cook

157

Art in the Aftermath

158

A Serious Museum with a Smile on its Face

159

The Order of St John

160

Splendours of the Subcontinent

161

I Object!

162

Bible By Colour – Part 2

163

Mantegna versus Bellini

164

Courtauld Impressionists

165

The Life and Designs of William Morris

166

Barking Abbey

167

Christian Angelology​

168

Hogarth’s World

169

Bible By Colour – Part One

170

Late Constable

171

Edward Burne-Jones

172

Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

173

Russia in London

174

The Art of Breaking the Rules

175

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel

176

Gainsborough’s Family Album

177

Poussin and the Dance

178

I am Ashurbanipal

179

A Walk Through British Art

180

Curiouser and Curiouser

181

Delivering the Unexpected

182

The Metamorphosis of Narcissus

183

The Man Who Drew Everything

184

A Lone Woolf

185

Of a Life/Time

186

Good Grief, Charlie Brown!

187

Paula Rego

188

Staging Magic

189

The Story of A Bear

190

The Colour of Memory

191

Noël Coward’s Art and Style

192

Grimsthorpe Castle

193

The Tower of London

194

Tudors to Windsors (Part Two, Georgians to Windsors)

195

Tudors to Windsors (Part One, Tudors to Stuarts)

196

Jewish Britain

197

Hitting the Right Note

198

London Mithraeum

199

Woolsthorpe Manor

200

Elizabethan Treasures

201

Eastbury Manor House

202

Masterpieces from Buckingham Palace

203

Jodi Picoult

204

Reuniting Rubens

205

Nero: destroyer or builder?

206

The Making of a Saint

207

The Power of Seeing

208

How to Write a Book Review

209

Lady Unknown

210

The Great Arctic Explorer

211

Spanish Master of Light

212

Ain’t I a Woman?

213

Van Gogh and Britain

214

The Renaissance Nude

215

Stamps: A Brief British History

216

Jews, Money, Myth

217

The Phoenix of America

218

Love and Angst

219

Making Your Mark

220

The Greatest Composer of All Time

221

Smoke and Mirrors

222

The Queen of Science

223

Designer of Dreams

224

The Art of Persuasion

225

A Life in Drawing

226

The Home of Young Royals

227

Chopin: The Man Behind the Music

228

Painter of Disquiet

229

Bowling on Through the Years

230

Manga マンガ

231

The Real Cindy Sherman

232

Quantities of Quant

233

GOSH: The Children First and Always

234

Destination Moon

235

The Lost Heroine of Astronomy

236

The Face of a Stranger

237

Antony Gormley

238

The World’s Smallest Police District

239

Valence House – A Place of Discovery

240

A Ball of Wool

241

Gauguin Portraits

242

Blake: Rebel, Radical, Revolutionary

243

Buddhism: Morality, Wisdom & Meditation

244

Pre-Raphaelite Sisters

245

Ólafur Elíasson: In Real Life

246

Inspired by the East

247

Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh

248

The Self-Portraits of Lucian Freud

249

The Enchantress of Number

250

Hogarth: Place and Progress

251

The Virgin of the Rocks

252

Troy: Myth and Reality

253

Accelerating the Modern World

254

Forgotten Masters

255

George IV: Art and Spectacle

256

Dora Maar

257

Picasso and Paper

258

British Baroque

259

Meet Vincent Van Gogh

260

Play Well

261

The History of Postcards

262

The History of Gardening

263

Super Troupers

264

Unicorns: A True Story

265

The Enigma: Ejwsf Zyhcx

266

Inspired by Flowers

267

Following the Stars

268

She Sells Seashells

269

Developing Selfies

270

The High-Life

271

The Finest of the Fine

272

Beside the Sea

273

Spot the Cat

274

The Tale of Beatrix Potter

275

Pastel Style

276

Lady Jane Franklin

277

A History of Handwriting

278

Mata Hari the Dancing Spy

279

Genre Master: The Sphinx of Delft

280

Childhood: A Visual Story

281

A Life of Quixotic Adventure

282

Rowntree’s® of York

283

Dealing With Cards

284

The Scottish Queen

285

The African Mahler

286

London’s Canals

287

London Calling

288

Titian: Love, Desire, Death

289

Dutch Master of the Golden Age

290

Beethoven at 250

291

Pop Art Superstar

292

Cristofori’s Dream

293

London Down Below

294

Lady Godiva

295

Unfinished Business: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

296

Unfinished Business: Sylvia Pankhurst

297

Unfinished Business: Mary Wollstonecraft

298

Unfinished Business: Mary Macarthur

299

Unfinished Business: The Edinburgh Seven

300

Unfinished Business – Harriet Martineau

301

Unfinished Business – Vesta Tilley

302

Papa Haydn

303

Looking Sharp

304

Victor Hugo

305

A Dog’s Purpose

306

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter

307

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

308

The Most Beautiful Girl in the Midwest

309

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott

310

Katherine Mansfield

311

The History of Jeans

312

Alma Mahler