Arts Unwrapped

The gifted young stars visit The Sound of Music locations and perform songs from the film.

Mark Kermode unwraps a glittering selection of Christmas cinematic treats.

Schubert's song cycle Winterreise reimagined in the wintry setting of an Alpine landscape.

Grace Dent goes on a televisual trip back in time to Christmas 1979.

Marin Alsop and the BBC Concert Orchestra with an uplifting take on Handel’s masterpiece.

Lucy Worsley reveals the surprising stories behind our favourite Christmas carols.

Country music’s biggest stars get together for a night full of festive classics.

On its sixtieth anniversary, Juliet Stevenson narrates the story of Carols from King's.

Anne-Marie Duff takes on Scrooge and his well-meaning spirits.

A meditative and poetic sensory immersion into the world of a lone Inuit hunter.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa presents seasonal music, both classical and contemporary. From 1985.

A look at Christmas with the talented Kanneh-Mason family.

Griff Rhys Jones reveals how Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol popularised Christmas.

Sue Perkins exposes the lesser-known reality of the Dickens family Christmas.

Composer Howard Goodall uncovers the surprising history of the Christmas carol.

Uncovering the stories behind The Pogues Christmas classic, Fairytale of New York.

How mankind's struggle with winter has been reflected in western art throughout the ages.