Sky Arts HD Wednesday

Simon Butteriss explores the success of The Mikado and the rewriting of Ruddigore, and hears how a sceptical Jonathan Miller set about directing a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta

From London's Royal Albert Hall, Pete Townshend, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Robert Ziegler and a host of guests put a classical spin on the Who's 1973 album

Bob Ross creates a scene featuring a beautiful lake hideaway nestled below a towering mountain

Bob Ross creates an atmospheric mountain scene with soft, sloping grass cover, a crystal lake and rock banks

Colonel George Peregrine's comfortable life is disturbed when his wife writes a raunchy novel that becomes a best-seller and he becomes convinced she is having an affair

A surgeon saves the life of a wealthy patient and receives a wonderful gift - but his new asset proves a fearful liability. Starring John Alderton and Alison Fiske

A worker is fired from his job and shoots his boss dead, but when he returns to the office the man is still alive and has no recollection of the incident

Gangster Sam Dunleavy sets up an elaborate alibi so that he can kill his ex-girlfriend Goldie, who left him for another man

The life and work of American film director Don Siegel, best known for 1956 sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers and his work with Clint Eastwood, including Dirty Harry

A profile of the American actress, who starred in Orson Welles' 1958 film Touch of Evil before achieving worldwide fame in 1960 for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

When the new vicar of a church plans radical changes, conflict arises over a secret one of the locals has kept for years

A fencing contest in London lands naive Nicholas Lillie in the middle of a bizarre adventure. Drama, with Benedict Taylor and Jim Broadbent

David Harewood explores Charles Dickens' supernatural tales, delving into his eerie and atmospheric worlds through actor readings and archive footage

A look at the career of the Oscar-winning actress, who starred in The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins

The life and work of American film-maker and choreographer director Stanley Donen, best known for co-directing On the Town and Singin' in the Rain with Gene Kelly

A look at the life and career of the American actor, who starred alongside Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront and won an Oscar for In the Heat of the Night

A woman joins a dating agency to try to overcome her shyness, but her plan backfires when an out-of-town solicitor tries a one-night stand

An American thief faces extradition from a Middle East country for a crime he did not commit. Michael Brandon stars

Escaped convict Sam Cobbett is the object of huge manhunt, and takes refuge in a house where young housewife Mary Schaffner is home alone

One year on from the brutal death of Mr and Mrs Borden, a reporter attempts to interview the couples' daughters about the killings

The grand finale takes place at the Falkirk Wheel where the three artists battle it out for a prestigious £10,000 commission from the National Gallery of Ireland

The programme follows the winner of this year's competition as they travel to Co Mayo to research their £10,000 prize commission for the National Gallery of Ireland

An interview with the award-winning jazz, pop and classical singer Cleo Laine, combining stories of her past with previously unseen footage from her personal archives

The impact of film and TV on the perception of science fiction, tracing the journey from British sci-fi series such as Doctor Who to the blockbusters of Marvel

Critics Ian Nathan, Neil Norman and Stephen Armstrong count down and discuss their top 25 sci-fi films from the past 100 years

First of two concerts at the Edinburgh International Festival Hub, with Orquesta la Pasión, Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, Soumik Datta, the Leonore Piano Trio and Sarah Connolly

The actor discusses his involvement in and the themes relating to David Hare's play

Acting and dance graduates are given the chance to join one of three creative teams staging a 15-minute production in just 24 hours

Bonhams auctions 10 cars that tell the story of early British motoring, including an 1897 Daimler, which could fetch up to £250,000

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