The Aesthetic Brush

Art critic Louisa Buck lifts the lid on the Painting By Numbers craze of the 1950's.

Programme following portrait artist Fiona Graham-Mackay as she paints poet Andrew Motion.

Author Sarah Emily Miano and Maggi Hambling discuss Rembrandt's self-portraits

Artist Maggi Hambling on her favourite painter

Writer Jonathan Meades nominates the English artist Edward Burra.

Will begins looks at some of the most personal royal images in the Royal Collection.

Neil MacGregor continues his history of the world with a painting from the Silk Road.

James Naughtie profiles the haunting artist of suffering, pain and death.

Andrew Marr visits the artist David Hockney at his studio in Bridlington.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists.

Sargy Mann offers an insight into Monet's experience of painting while losing his sight

Irma Kurtz travels to Monet's Giverny garden to hear how losing his sight changed his work

Tim Marlow explores the kinds of sounds and music that influence an artist's art and work.

Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson explains how landscape paintings have inspired him.

Rats under the floorboards, paint on the floor. What makes an artist's studio?

Neil MacGregor focuses on the work of Dürer (1471-1528), the defining artist of Germany.

Author Rosie Dastgir explores how home and roots shape an artist's work and creativity.

Melvyn Bragg explores the history and changing the status of the artist.