This documentary strand brings together powerful stories and a unique insight into various subjects from a range of individual sources. Perspectives encompasses single factual films from a variety of film-makers and, on occasion, presenters, who delve deeper into the stories they are passionate about.
This documentary strand brings together powerful stories and a unique insight into various subjects from a range of individual sources. Perspectives encompasses single factual films from a variety of film-makers and, on occasion, presenters, who delve deeper into the stories they are passionate about.
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Seasons (6)
Season 1
24 Apr 2011 – 15 May 2011 · 4 episodes
1Looking for Lowry24 Apr 2011
2A Passion for the Pre-Raphaelites1 May 2011
3The Pitmen Painters8 May 2011
4Hugh Laurie: Down by the River15 May 2011
Season 2
25 Mar 2012 – 29 Apr 2012 · 5 episodes
1David Suchet - People I Have Shot25 Mar 2012
2Lenny Henry: Finding Shakespeare1 Apr 2012
3Sergeant on Spike - Father of British Comedy8 Apr 2012
4David Walliams - The Genius of Dahl22 Apr 2012
5The Wind in the Willows with Griff Rhys Jones29 Apr 2012
Season 3
18 Mar 2013 – 5 May 2013 · 7 episodes
1David Suchet: The Mystery of Agatha Christie18 Mar 2013
2Warwick Davis - The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz24 Mar 2013
3Sheila Hancock - The Brilliant Bronte Sisters31 Mar 2013
4Michael Portillo on Picasso7 Apr 2013
5Paul O'Grady: Gypsy Rose Lee - the Queen of Burlesque14 Apr 2013
6Jonathan Ross: Alfred Hitchcock - Made in Britain21 Apr 2013
7Hugh Laurie - Copper Bottom Blues5 May 2013
Season 4
20 Apr 2014 – 25 May 2014 · 6 episodes
1Alan Davies: The Magic of Houdini20 Apr 2014
2Gary Kemp : Kick Out the Jams.27 Apr 2014
3The Man in the Hat - Rene Magritte with Will Young4 May 2014
4Under My Skin: Emeli Sandé In Search of Frida Kahlo11 May 2014
5Freddie Mercury Saved My Life with Alfie Boe18 May 2014
6Bruce Forsyth on Sammy Davis Jr25 May 2014
Season 5
19 Apr 2015 – 24 May 2015 · 6 episodes
1Michael Jackson's Thriller19 Apr 2015
2Len Goodman on Fred Astaire26 Apr 2015
3Rick Wakeman on Vivaldi's Four Seasons3 May 2015
4In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps with Terry Jones10 May 2015
5Nicky Campbell on the Great American Love Song17 May 2015