In this five-minute animated video, journey back to the 6th-century BCE workshop of the Athenian master Andokides and witness an ancient artist’s moment of creative ingenuity. For generations Athenian vase painters had employed black-figure technique, in...

Andrew Kershaw shows us a rare and endangered instrument, seldom found in orchestras of today; the serpent - an unusual looking beast, distant relative of the tuba, which composers such as Wagner, Mendelssohn and Berlioz wrote for.

"Essence of Nō" introduces the classical Japanese dramatic art which originated from street performances and agricultural festivities.