Perspectives

Ashley Banjo finds out about the man who inspired him to dance and about Thriller - the album which sold a record-breaking sixty million copies.

Len Goodman travels across America to explore the career, the extraordinary life and the imaginative mind of his greatest hero, the dancer Fred Astaire.

Rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman reappraises Antonio Vivaldi's the Four Seasons - one of the most popular piece of classical music of all time but often denounced by the critics.

Terry Jones offers a personal re-appraisal of the man who changed the face of film comedy.

Nicky Campbell visits Manhattan to explore his passion for the golden age of song-writing, when the music of Broadway theatres fused with the sounds of Harlem's raunchy jazz clubs.

Eddie Redmayne looks at war from the point of view of the war artists. Issues of subject matter affected this brave group of men, who were eyewitnesses to war.