Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Moving Pictures

Series that offers listeners the chance to take a long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in incredible detail.

Radio 4,24 episodes

Episodes

ListGrid

An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
11 Feb 2025,28 mins
The War of Troy tapestry
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
04 Feb 2025,28 mins
A Woman Bathing in a Stream by Rembrandt
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
28 Jan 2025,28 mins
Winter Scene on a Canal by Hendrik Avercamp
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
21 Nov 2023,28 mins
Ambulance Call by Jacob Lawrence
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
14 Nov 2023,28 mins
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear by Vincent Van Gogh
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
07 Nov 2023,28 mins
The Campo Santo, Venice by Turner
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
15 Nov 2022,28 mins
The Flagellation of Christ by Caravaggio
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
08 Nov 2022,28 mins
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
01 Nov 2022,28 mins
Mystic Nativity by Sandro Botticelli
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
21 Dec 2021,28 mins
April by Francesco del Cossa
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
14 Dec 2021,28 mins
The Feast of Herod by Peter Paul Rubens
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
07 Dec 2021,28 mins
The Sherborne Missal
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
30 Nov 2020,28 mins
The Detroit Industry Murals by Diego Rivera
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
23 Nov 2020,28 mins
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
16 Nov 2020,28 mins
Kimono
Did a Japanese courtesan wear this robe? Cathy FitzGerald visits the floating world.
19 Mar 2019,28 mins
The Adoration of the Kings by Jan Gossaert
Can you find the hidden angel in Gossaert's masterpiece? With Cathy FitzGerald.
12 Mar 2019,28 mins
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat
Take a walk in Georges Seurat's shimmering, glimmering Parisian park.
05 Mar 2019,28 mins
Series 2
The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Joos van Craesbeeck
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
30 Jan 2018,28 mins
Series 2
Men of the Docks by George Bellows
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
23 Jan 2018,28 mins
Series 2
Hanging by Ann West
A long, slow look at great artworks, photographed in extraordinary detail.
16 Jan 2018,28 mins
Series 1
Scenes in and around Kyoto
Cathy FitzGerald takes a walk around 17th-century Kyoto.
10 Oct 2016,28 mins
Series 1
A Flower Painting by Rachel Ruysch
What is hiding in the undergrowth of Rachel Ruysch's brilliant, beautiful flower painting?
03 Oct 2016,28 mins
Series 1
The Harvesters by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Scything, scrumping and swimming - experience harvest time with Bruegel.
26 Sep 2016,28 mins