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A dramatization that traces former UK prime minister Tony Blair's relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

How the brilliant Canadian munitions engineer, Dr. Gerald Bull, agreed to build a super-gun for Saddam Hussein in 1988, when the U.S. cut his funding for the experiment, and how it attracted the attention of several intelligence agencies.

Waldemar Januszczak sets out to correct the misconceptions that have arisen about the art of Rubens.

Writer Broadcaster and Newsnight arts correspondent Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahead at the court of Richard II.

Silhouette Secrets is a one-hour TV documentary in which a modern-day silhouette artist takes a journey back in time to explore the history of his shadowy art, asking the question "Where did it come from?". On the way he meets the world's fastest silhouette artist, who challenges him to a duel of scissors! The journey takes him from a windswept seaside pier - on the north coast of Wales - to an Audi showroom in Houston, Texas, and finishes with an intriguing answer to his question.

The Elizabethan founders of the British Empire have long been considered heroes of great personal genius and skill who civilised the natives and founded one of the greatest empires in the history of the world. In fact they were a bunch of murdering, thieving pirates whose sole ambition was to line their own pockets.

The three finalists of season six are tasked with creating a portrait of author, poet, playwright and broadcaster Lemn Sissay, additionally they are assigned a separate commission before the judges select the winner.

Sheila Hancock investigates the genius of the Bronte Sisters.

Bendor and Emma are in Oxford to examine the painting of a student George Oakley Aldridge, that may have been painted by the renowned Italian portrait artist Pompeo Batoni, in Rome more than a quarter century ago.

At the Carmarthenshire County Museum in Wales Bendor finds a portrait that may have been done by the Dutch artist Peter Lely who served as a court artist before during and after the English Civil War, and another portrait that may be misattributed to him.

Bendor wants to investigate a portrait in storage at the Manchester Art Gallery that was attributed to Nathaniel Dance that he believes may be the work of Johan Zoffany, the gallery also has questions.

Art historian Dr. James Fox explores the Elizabethans' love of secrecy, codes and complexity, and the cultural revolution sparked by an age of discovery and exploration.

Some of Scotland's greatest works of art reside in the Haddo House, a former home to Prime Ministers and earls. Bendor and Kelly explore the archive looking for lost works.

Jacky and Bendor visit the Ulster Museum in Belfast to examine works by the once lowly regarded Flemish artist, Peter Breughel the Younger. A controversial piece that is kept from public view is also explored.