Sky Arts HD Thursday

The Dutch violinist and his orchestra perform in Berlin, playing musical favourites including Ravel's Bolero, Lara's Theme from Doctor Zhivago and Auld Lang Syne

Bob Ross paints a scene featuring a lakeside path, with misty background evergreens and a cheerful blue sky

Bob Ross uses a golden selection of colours in this mountain scene, all inside a unique oval shape on canvas

An unhappy man decides to give up on his boring marriage - but his wife seems unwilling to co-operate

An ambitious politician turns vigilante in an effort to crack down on violence

Gangster Dan Varrel has just been released from prison and goes looking for the woman he holds responsible for his brother's death

William Callew is involved in a bad traffic accident on a rural road that leaves him so paralysed he appears lifeless, and when help arrives they think he is dead

A look at the life and career of actor-turned-director Clint Eastwood, known for Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby and American Sniper

A look at the life and career of British actor Robert Shaw. Often cast in menacing roles, he is widely remembered for his performance as shark hunter Quint in Jaws

A young man discovers a window in a peaceful hunting lodge leads to a strange world

A woman's marriage is blown apart when she meets a dashing young writer. Bizarre drama, written by Ruth Rendell

Part two of two. The actor follows in the footsteps of Charles Dickens' little-known journey through Italy's most beautiful cities, examining the country's influence on the author

The singers prepare to perform in public for the first time, singing to 60,000 people at an NFL match at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium, with Katherine Jenkins offering advice

A look at the life and career of Taiwanese film-maker Ang Lee, known for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi

A look at the life and career of the English actor, who won an Oscar for his role as Professor Henry Higgins in the 1964 musical My Fair Lady

A fortune teller sees her own destiny in the cards of a man who has just arrived in town

A couple encounter a shady mechanic while making a trip across the desert

The semi-final takes place at Ouse Valley Viaduct in West Sussex, where host Stephen Mangan is joined by judges Tai Shan Schierenberg, Kathleen Soriano and Eva Langret

The life and career of the American actor, who won an Oscar for his role in The Fugitive and also starred in The Executioner's Song, Men in Black, JFK and No Country for Old Men

A look at cinematic masterpieces, beginning with film critic Ian Nathan examining director Carol Reed's 1949 film noir, starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten

A look at the film adaptations of great adventure novels, exploring how they have been brought to the big screen

A look at the life and career of English director and cinematographer Nicolas Roeg, whose movies include Performance, Walkabout, Don't Look Now and The Man Who Fell to Earth

Documentary about a previously unknown album by the singer-songwriter, who was one of the most gifted vocalists and musiciand of her generation

The singer-songwriter in concert at the Swiss jazz festival, featuring songs including Little Girl Blue, Backlash Blues, Stars and I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free

The columnist reveals why he thinks Jane Austen is overrated, while literature professor John Mullan tries to persuade him otherwise

Andi Oliver and Elizabeth Day host as members of Dancing Jumpers book club meet John Boyne, and a Lake District shepherd discusses his bestseller

A book published by explorer Ernest Shackleton's team goes under the hammer at Sotheby's, while Christie's is expecting more than £400,000 for a photograph by Peter Beard

A much sought-after timepiece by renowned 17th-century London clockmaker Thomas Tompion goes under the hammer at Christie's

Photographs that define the modern age come under the hammer at Sotheby's, including a work by Irving Penn that may fetch nearly a quarter of a million pounds