This episode originally aired in 2017.
Neil Gaiman is an author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book. In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.
Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail. Most of the works for which he is best known were created while he was a patient in psychiatric hospitals.
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Producer: Dan Morelle
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo - with Patrick Doorly
Valois Tapestries and Catherine de Medici - with Stephanie Merritt
Bayeux Tapestry - with Greg Jenner
Bayeux Tapestry - with Joe Whitlock Blundell
The Kiss - Gustav Klimt
Douris Psykter - Michael Scott
Miss Ashwanden in Cookham by Stanley Spencer - with Robin Ince
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Portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach the Elder - with Peter Stanford
Yellow-Red-Blue by Wassily Kandinsky - with Marc Canham
Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt by Georges Clairin - with Christophe Leribault
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp - with Adam Rutherford
Equestrian Portrait of Charles I by Anthony van Dyck - with Bendor Grosvenor
Map of Constantinople & The Hereford Mappa Mundi - with Peter Frankopan
Tipu's Tiger - with Sona Datta
Fire! Fire! by Enrico Baj - with Rickie Martin
The Cage Paintings by Gerhard Richter - with Phil Selway
No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock - with Marcus du Sautoy
The Franks Casket - with Tony Robinson
Ely Cathedral - with Will Shank
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