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6:00 AM
Darbar Festival 2024
Performances by Jasdeep Singh Degun and Dr L Subramanium
Performances from the festival held in London that celebrates the diversity of Indian classical music, featuring Jasdeep Singh Degun and Dr L Subramanium

7:00 AM
Darbar Festival 2024
Performances from the festival
Performances from the festival held in London that celebrates the diversity of Indian classical music

8:00 AM
Artist of the Year: Masterclass
A turtorial on patterns
A tutorial on patterns of painting given by Portrait Artist of the Year and Landscape Artist of the Year contestants

8:30 AM
Artist of the Year: Masterclass
An introduction to watercolour
An introduction to watercolour tutorial given by Portrait Artist of the Year and Landscape Artist of the Year contestants

9:00 AM
Tales of the Unexpected
A man plots to get rid of his wealthy wife
A man plots to get rid of his demanding wife and inherit her money. Starring Anthony Franciosa and Shirley Knight-Temple

9:30 AM
Tales of the Unexpected
A hitman accepts his intended victim's hospitality
A hitman is taken in by his intended victim's hospitality - but it is a harsh lesson that can only be learnt once. Starring Eli Wallach and Anthony Pullen Shaw

10:00 AM
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A woman is warned an escaped convict might come after her
A woman is warned an escaped convict might come after her as years before she had to refused to get off the phone line they shared so he could call a doctor for his wife

10:30 AM
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A professor awaits his fate on death row
Professor Herbert Morrison is on death row while his lawyer tries to get a last-minute stay of execution, but his client says he does not want a reprieve

11:00 AM
The Directors
The life and work of James L Brooks
The life and career of American film and TV director, producer and screenwriter.James L Brooks, who won an Oscar for Terms of Endearment and also commissioned The Simpsons

12:00 PM
André Rieu: Welcome to My World
The violinist's tour of Australia
The violinist reflects on his most memorable performances during his tour of Australia. Plus, a behind-the-scenes look at his time in Melbourne

1:00 PM
Tales of the Unexpected
A man learns how to talk to plants
A man invents a machine that enables him to talk to plants - with unexpected consequences. Harry Andrews stars

1:30 PM
Tales of the Unexpected
Two friends suspect a doctor of murder
Two friends suspect a doctor of murdering his wife and disposing of her body in a cellar. Starring Colin Blakely and Warren Clarke

2:00 PM
Charles Hazlewood: Beethoven & Me
The health conditions that both influenced and disrupted the composer's work
The conductor uses Beethoven's Fiftth Symphony as a starting point to explore the work, genius and various health conditions that both influenced and disrupted the composer's work

3:00 PM
Stories from the National Portrait Gallery
Jim Moir discusses his favourite work in the gallery
Kate Bryan explores portraitures from the 18th and 19th centuries, whlle comedian and artist Jim Moir, aka Vic Reeves, drops in to discuss his favourite work in the gallery

4:00 PM
The Directors
The life and work of Robert Aldrich
The life and career of American director and screenwriter Robert Aldrich, whose films include Vera Cruz, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Dirty Dozen and The Longest Yard

5:00 PM
Discovering: Roy Scheider
A look at the life and career of the actor
A look at the life and career of the actor, whose roles in Jaws, All That Jazz and The French Connection catapulted him to stardom

6:00 PM
Tales of the Unexpected
An accountant's honesty is put to the test
An accountant whose book-keeping is perfect finds his honesty being put to the test

6:30 PM
Tales of the Unexpected
A husband invites his wife's lover to dinner
A husband invites the man he suspects of being his wife's lover to dinner. Starring Anthony Quayle and Nigel Hawthorne

7:00 PM
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The arrival of a new governess has surprising results.
The arrival of new governess Charlotte Hope at the Wellington household has surprising results due her using the Schartz-Metterklume method of teaching

7:30 PM
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A writer investigate the circumstances of a bank robbery
A writer arrives in a small town to investigate the circumstances of a bank robbery in which the money was never found

8:00 PM
Portrait Artist of the Year 2025
With celebrity sitters Adjoa Andoh, Cat Burns and Clara Amfo
Stephen Mangan invites nine artists to paint celebrity sitters Adjoa Andoh, Cat Burns and Clara Amfo as Tai Shan Schierenberg, Kathleen Soriano and Kate Bryan judge the efforts

9:00 PM
Portrait Artist of the Decade
Nine previous winners paint Judi Dench
Stephen Mangan and Joan Bakewell present a special feature-length episode in which nine previous winners return to the Battersea Arts Centre to paint actress Judi Dench

10:30 PM
Art Matters
Melvyn Bragg makes a case for why the arts are important
Melvyn Bragg makes a case for why the arts are important, with guests joining him to explore the power of the arts to enrich lives, strengthen communities and shape the future

12:00 AM
Ai Weiwei: The Artivist
A profile of the Chinese artist and activist
A profile of the Chinese artist and activist, featuring interviews with friends and collaborators, footage from his personal archives and preparations for an exhibition in Germany

1:10 AM
Decoding Turner
An analysis of possible hidden codes in the work of JMW Turner
An analysis of the life and work of JMW Turner as two enthusiasts are joined by art historians and academics to reveal the hidden codes they believe are woven into his paintings

3:05 AM
Sky Arts Book Club
With guest John Boyne
Andi Oliver and Elizabeth Day host as members of Dancing Jumpers book club meet John Boyne, and a Lake District shepherd discusses his bestseller

4:00 AM
Lenny Henry's Got the Blues
The actor explores Britain's failure to produce acclaimed blues stars
The actor and comedy star tries to determine why Britain has failed to produce internationally acclaimed blues singers over the years

5:00 AM
Auction
Margot Fonteyn's ballet shoes and a Jimi Hendrix guitar go up for sale
Christie's sells a masterpiece by Jacob Jordaens that might fetch £1,000,000. At Bonhams, Margot Fonteyn's ballet shoes and a Jimi Hendrix guitar go up for sale

5:30 AM
Auction
Timepieces by Thomas Tompion come up for auction at Sotheby's
Timepieces made by clockmaker Thomas Tompion come up for auction at Sotheby's, while a 1920s Rolls-Royce is expected to fetch one million pounds at Bonhams

6:00 AM
George Balanchine's The Nutcracker
A 2011 performance by New York City Ballet
A 2011 performance by New York City Ballet of choreographer Balanchine's production of Tchaikovsky's ballet based on Hoffman's tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
