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Season 1, 19 episodes

Episode 1: The Van Gogh Fakes
- Now playing
- Oct 26, 1997
Geraldine Norman investigates the growing body of evidence that casts doubt on the authenticity of paintings which have long been held to be works of Vincent Van Gogh.
Episode 2: Big War in Lilliput
- 51m
- Nov 3, 1997
Hungarian businessman Gyorgy Klapka attempts to resurrect the once-famous Lilliput dwarf theatre in Budapest, closed down long ago by the Communists, to mount a production of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi. But after suffering years of exploitation as well as banishment, the dwarf actors are keen to maximise their assets by appearing in other, perhaps more lucrative productions.
Episode 3: In Search of the Amber Room
- Nov 9, 1997
Anthony Wilson tries to solve the mystery of the Amber Room of the tsars in St. Petersburg, stolen by the Germans and never found.
Episode 4: A Very British Psycho
- 51m
- Nov 23, 1997
Vilified on its release in 1960 as pornographic, Michael Powell's film Peeping Tom is now regarded by many as a masterpiece.
Episode 5: Rebel With a Cause
- Nov 30, 1997
Can flamboyant US ad-man Tony Kaye market himself as a serious artist?
Episode 6: Naked and Famous
- Dec 7, 1997
Profile of rap artist and writer Tricky, who returns to the Bristol estate where he grew up.
Episode 7: Ivanov Goes to Moscow
- 51m
- Dec 14, 1997
Ralph Fiennes, Harriet Walter, and the rest of the Almeida Theatre Company earlier this year took their acclaimed production of Chekhov's Ivanov back to its roots in Moscow.
Episode 8: Songs from the Golden City
- 51m
- Dec 20, 1997
Returning from exile, Joe Mogotsi of the legendary Manhattan Brothers, takes us on a cinematic journey into the virtuosity, exuberance and resistance of South African jazz. Joe reconnects with jazz greats Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim as he seeks justice, recognition, and recompense for the Manhattan Brothers’ extraordinary catalogue of music.
Episode 9: Making a Killing
- Jun 28, 1998
Through the story of the Gutmann family's quest to recover the art collection stolen by the Nazis from their parents, questioning the international art market's collusion in Nazi art looting.
Episode 10: Spy in the House of Love - Anaïs Nin
- 51m
- Jul 19, 1998
Back in the 1960s, the novelist Anaïs Nin was acclaimed as a feminist icon when her revelatory diaries were published. But she had omitted much of her bigamous past, and it is only now that a complete picture of this secretive writer is emerging.
Episode 11: The Fine Art of Crime
- Jul 26, 1998
The theft of a Caravaggio from a Palermo church nearly 30 years ago shocked the art world. Since then, art has come to play an integral part in the laundering of the proceeds of crime. Reviewing some of the most famous stolen works of art.
Episode 12: The Other Francis Bacon
- Aug 2, 1998
Art-world orthodoxy holds that Bacon did not prepare or rehearse his paintings. But Bacon's friend and neighbour Barry Joule has revealed an enormous cache of sketches and treated photographs he claims Bacon left to him.
Episode 13: The Lost Frescoes
- Aug 9, 1998
Restoration of frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, badly damaged in a 1997 earthquake, is being held up.
Episode 14: Tuning With the Enemy
- 51m
- Aug 16, 1998
American piano tuner Ben Treuhaft tries to get pianos into Cuba.
Episode 15: Daydream Believers
- Aug 29, 1998
Tells the story of five people who auditioned to become Monkees but failed to make the cut. Their feelings about it range from relief to embarrassment, self-justification, and regret.
Episode 16: A Roll of the Dice: The Story of The Capeman
- Sep 6, 1998
The 40-member cast of Paul Simon's Broadway musical disaster The Capeman grapple with the staging of the controversial show based on a true story about a 16-year-old Puerto Rican kid, Sol Agron, who murdered two people in the 1950s.
Episode 17: The Lost Supper
- Dec 27, 1998
The restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous masterpiece, The Last Supper, produced results some call glorious and others call tragic. Da Vinci’s famously fragile fresco was always going to be a challenge for its secretive Italian restorers. No one, however, could have foreseen how problematic and strange their task would become. Marked by a series of extraordinary mishaps, mistakes, and miscalculations, the incredible restoration is hilarious to watch but may have resulted in the loss of a masterpiece.
Episode 18: Loving Lenin
- Jan 10, 1999
Imaginative use of archive footage and interviews to examine how Lenin achieved mythical status, and why his death is still mourned by some in Russia.
Episode 19: The Cowboy and the Eclipse
- Aug 8, 1999
James Turrell is famous for creating the world's largest piece of "land art" - reshaping a volcano. But he has also built a giant camera obscura on a Cornish hillside to record the eclipse image.

Episodes

E1 Episode 1: The Van Gogh Fakes

E2 Episode 2: Big War in Lilliput

E3 Episode 3: In Search of the Amber Room

E4 Episode 4: A Very British Psycho

E5 Episode 5: Rebel With a Cause

E6 Episode 6: Naked and Famous

E7 Episode 7: Ivanov Goes to Moscow

E8 Episode 8: Songs from the Golden City

E9 Episode 9: Making a Killing

E10 Episode 10: Spy in the House of Love - Anaïs Nin

E11 Episode 11: The Fine Art of Crime

E12 Episode 12: The Other Francis Bacon

E13 Episode 13: The Lost Frescoes

E14 Episode 14: Tuning With the Enemy

E15 Episode 15: Daydream Believers

E16 Episode 16: A Roll of the Dice: The Story of The Capeman

E17 Episode 17: The Lost Supper

E18 Episode 18: Loving Lenin

E19 Episode 19: The Cowboy and the Eclipse

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Episodes

E1 Episode 1: The Van Gogh Fakes

E2 Episode 2: Big War in Lilliput

E3 Episode 3: In Search of the Amber Room

E4 Episode 4: A Very British Psycho

E5 Episode 5: Rebel With a Cause

E6 Episode 6: Naked and Famous

E7 Episode 7: Ivanov Goes to Moscow

E8 Episode 8: Songs from the Golden City

E9 Episode 9: Making a Killing

E10 Episode 10: Spy in the House of Love - Anaïs Nin

E11 Episode 11: The Fine Art of Crime

E12 Episode 12: The Other Francis Bacon

E13 Episode 13: The Lost Frescoes

E14 Episode 14: Tuning With the Enemy

E15 Episode 15: Daydream Believers

E16 Episode 16: A Roll of the Dice: The Story of The Capeman

E17 Episode 17: The Lost Supper

E18 Episode 18: Loving Lenin

E19 Episode 19: The Cowboy and the Eclipse

Episode 1: The Van Gogh Fakes

Episode 2: Big War in Lilliput

Episode 3: In Search of the Amber Room

Episode 4: A Very British Psycho

Episode 5: Rebel With a Cause

Episode 6: Naked and Famous

Episode 7: Ivanov Goes to Moscow

Episode 8: Songs from the Golden City

Episode 9: Making a Killing

Episode 10: Spy in the House of Love - Anaïs Nin

Episode 11: The Fine Art of Crime

Episode 12: The Other Francis Bacon

Episode 13: The Lost Frescoes

Episode 14: Tuning With the Enemy

Episode 15: Daydream Believers

Episode 16: A Roll of the Dice: The Story of The Capeman

Episode 17: The Lost Supper

Episode 18: Loving Lenin

Episode 19: The Cowboy and the Eclipse

Episode 1: The Van Gogh Fakes

Episode 2: Big War in Lilliput

Episode 3: In Search of the Amber Room

Episode 4: A Very British Psycho

Episode 5: Rebel With a Cause

Episode 6: Naked and Famous

Episode 7: Ivanov Goes to Moscow

Episode 8: Songs from the Golden City

Episode 9: Making a Killing

Episode 10: Spy in the House of Love - Anaïs Nin

Episode 11: The Fine Art of Crime

Episode 12: The Other Francis Bacon

Episode 13: The Lost Frescoes

Episode 14: Tuning With the Enemy

Episode 15: Daydream Believers

Episode 16: A Roll of the Dice: The Story of The Capeman

Episode 17: The Lost Supper

Episode 18: Loving Lenin

Episode 19: The Cowboy and the Eclipse