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13. Heroic Materialism
To conclude this landmark series, Kenneth Clark considers the ways in which the heroic materialism of the past hundred years has been linked to an equally remarkable increase in ...
27-05-2024
BBC 4
12. The Fallacies Of Hope
'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive', wrote Wordsworth of the early days of the French Revolution, but the storming of the Bastille led not to freedom but to the Terror, the ...
27-05-2024
BBC 4
11. The Worship Of Nature
Kenneth Clark examines a new force - the belief in the divinity of nature. This takes him to Tintern Abbey and the Lake District of Wordsworth, to the Swiss Alps and the ideas o ...
21-05-2024
BBC 4
10. The Smile Of Reason
Kenneth Clark looks at the beginnings of revolutionary politics in the 18th century. \n\nHis theme takes him from great palaces like Blenheim and Versailles, to Edinburgh, and t ...
21-05-2024
BBC 4
9. The Pursuit Of Happiness
Kenneth Clark reflects on the 18th-century music of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mozart and on the way that some of its qualities are reflected in the best of the rococo architecture ...
14-05-2024
BBC 4
8. The Light Of Experience
Kenneth Clark's story takes him from the Holland of Rembrandt and Vermeer to the London of Wren, Purcell and the Royal Society.
14-05-2024
BBC 4
7. Grandeur And Obedience
Sir Kenneth Clark presents one of the classic episodes of his history of the civilised culture of the western world. He examines the Catholic world in the 16th Century, especial ...
06-05-2024
BBC 4
6. Protest And Communication
Kenneth Clark investigates the Protestant Reformation in northern Europe. He looks at Holbein, Thomas Moore, Erasmus, the printing press and Durer.
06-05-2024
BBC 4
5. The Hero As Artist
Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at Papal Rome in the early 16th century. \n\nThree great artists, Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo ...
30-04-2024
BBC 4
4. Man: The Measure Of All Things
Kenneth Clark continues his personal reflections on civilisation with a look at Renaissance man. \n\nClark visits Florence, where the resurrection of a classical past first gave ...
30-04-2024
BBC 4
3. Romance And Reality
Kenneth Clark journeys from the Loire through Tuscany and Umbria, to the cathedral at Pisa. He explores the aspirations of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy, looking at ...
23-04-2024
BBC 4
2. The Great Thaw
Kenneth Clark traces the reawakening of European civilisation in the 12th century from its first manifestations in Cluny Abbey to the Basilica of St Denis and, finally, to its h ...
23-04-2024
BBC 4
1. The Skin Of Our Teeth
Sir Kenneth Clark begins his classic 1969 series by looking at how European art survived the Dark Ages after the fall of Rome. He travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic He ...
21-04-2024
BBC 4