Sky Arts 1 TV Guide
-
Time Show -
- 54 mins ago
Hay SessionsSeason 5 Episode 18: Rupert EverettLiterary editor Paul Blezard is joined by actor Rupert Everett, who talks about his new memoir Vanished Years. From the Hay Festival of Literature & Arts in the Brecon Beacons
-
- in 6 mins
-
Artland USASeason 1 Episode 6: EPISODE: 6
Toby Amies and Mame McCutchin continue their road trip around the great art treasures of the USA. The pair travel from California to Oregon's Crater Lake National Park, taking in a visit to the San Francisco Federal Building
-
- 2:00am
-
Spectacle: Elvis Costello With...Season 1 Episode 4: James Taylor
Singer-songwriter James Taylor performs and gives an insight into the musical influences on his career, which made him a household name in the 1970s and brought folk music into the mainstream charts
-
- 3:00am
-
Neil Young: Silver and Gold
A 1999 solo concert from Austin, Texas, in which the Canadian singer performed hits including Buffalo Springfield Again and Daddy Went Walkin'
-
- 4:25am
-
Screenwriters - The BAFTA and BFI LecturesSeason 1 Episode 3: Paul Laverty
Screenwriter Paul Laverty, who has enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with Ken Loach on films such as Carla's Song, My Name Is Joe and The Wind That Shakes the Barley, reveals the importance he places on working with friends. As a former human rights lawyer offering a voice to people who usually do not feature in commercial movies, he also talks about the difficulties in raising the money to bring his stories to the screen
-
- 5:00am
-
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road took the American literary scene by storm after it was published in 1957, capturing the social and cultural shifts sweeping the US. This documentary explores his hedonistic life and career, from his Catholic upbringing to his death from long-term alcohol abuse aged 47. Featuring interviews with fellow Beat Generation writers including Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William Burroughs
-
- 6:20am
-
In Love with CowardSeason 1 Episode 3: Robert Sheehan and Karen Gillan
Robert Sheehan takes the role of Nicky Lancaster from Noel Coward's The Vortex and Karen Gillan performs the closing voiceover from the playwright's script for Brief Encounter
-
- 6:30am
-
Living The LifeSeason 2 Episode 9: David Bailey in Conversation with Tim Marlow
Photographer David Bailey and art historian Tim Marlow reminisce and discuss their formative years, art, their careers and sex in the 1960s and '70s
-
- 7:30am
-
Tim Marlow on Modern British Sculpture
The art critic presents a guide to the Royal Academy of Arts' Modern British Sculpture exhibition, which features works by Henry Moore, Richard Long, Jacob Epstein and Damien Hirst
-
- 8:00am
-
Spectacle: Elvis Costello With...Season 1 Episode 4: James Taylor
Singer-songwriter James Taylor performs and gives an insight into the musical influences on his career, which made him a household name in the 1970s and brought folk music into the mainstream charts
-
- 9:00am
-
Behind the MusicSeason 2 Episode 7: Lynyrd Skynyrd
A profile of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the band behind hits including Free Bird and Sweet Home Alabama, who lost three members in a 1977 plane crash
-
- 10:00am
-
Everything Is Art
A discussion on the distinctions between art and design, asking whether practical objects can ever be considered as works of art and analysing products by companies including Muji
-
- 11:00am
-
Sky Arts Ignition: Memory Palace
An exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum that combines a new story by author Hari Kunzru with 20 commissions by leading graphic designers, illustrators and typographers
-
- 12:00pm
-
Screenwriters - The BAFTA and BFI LecturesSeason 1 Episode 1: William Nicholson
Seven screenwriters share their thoughts on their craft, beginning with William Nicholson, the Oscar-nominated writer of Gladiator and Shadowlands. He reveals the three rules he believes films must follow to be successful, discusses the importance of sticking to a regimented writing schedule, and reflects on the challenges he faced while creating his best-known works
-
- 12:35pm
-
Neil Young: Silver and Gold
A 1999 solo concert from Austin, Texas, in which the Canadian singer performed hits including Buffalo Springfield Again and Daddy Went Walkin'
-
- 2:00pm
-
Hay SessionsSeason 5 Episode 12: Hay Sessions 2013: Colm Toibin
Colm Toibin discusses his short story The Testament of Mary, which explores the grief of Christ's mother and was adapted for a one-woman Broadway show starring Fiona Shaw
-
- 3:00pm
-
Mariella's Book ShowSeason 8 Episode 8: Mariella's Book Show
Irish author Edna O'Brien joins Mariella Frostrup at the Hay Festival to chat about her autobiography Country Girl, and her compatriot Colum McCann discusses his new novel TransAtlantic. Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein talks about working on his memoirs, his time at the Washington Star in the early 1960s, the TV series about the US Congress he is in the process of writing and his biography of Hilary Clinton
-
- 4:00pm
-
Playhouse Presents: PsychobitchesSeason 1 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4
Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst tells the therapist about her working-class Manchester roots and her spell in prison, as well as the happiest time of her life on Fleetwood beach, while Barbara Castle talks vividly about the sexual tension in politics and reveals her wildest fantasies. Helen of Troy complains about the problems caused by being so pretty and Mary Shelley proves quite intimidating as she explains the plot of her novel Frankenstein. Comedy sketches, starring Katy Brand and Julia Davis
-
- 4:30pm
-
Playhouse PresentsSeason 1 Episode 3: Nixon's the One
Harry Shearer stars as disgraced former American president Richard Nixon in a comedy drama based on transcripts of almost 200 hours of tape recordings made during his time in office. The story examines Nixon's attitudes toward foreign policy, social issues and the crises that would eventually end his presidency, and reconstructs conversations he held with associates including Henry Kissinger and White House chief of staff Bob Haldeman. With Henry Goodman, Demetri Goritsas and Corey Johnson
-
- 5:00pm
-
Nation's Best Am DramSeason 1 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4
The remaining amateur dramatic societies are challenged to put on a performance of King Lear at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. With a place in the final up for grabs, the theatre groups have five weeks to rehearse the scenes necessary and come up with innovative ways to impress judges Miriam Margolyes, Bill Kenwright and Quentin Letts
-
- 6:00pm
-
Falls The Shadow: The Life & Times Of Athol Fugard
To mark the 80th birthday of South African playwright Athol Fugard, this special film by Tony Palmer explores his fascinating past and diverse influences
-
- 8:45pm
-
Playhouse Presents: PsychobitchesSeason 1 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4
Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst tells the therapist about her working-class Manchester roots and her spell in prison, as well as the happiest time of her life on Fleetwood beach, while Barbara Castle talks vividly about the sexual tension in politics and reveals her wildest fantasies. Helen of Troy complains about the problems caused by being so pretty and Mary Shelley proves quite intimidating as she explains the plot of her novel Frankenstein. Comedy sketches, starring Katy Brand and Julia Davis
-
- 9:15pm
-
Playhouse PresentsSeason 1 Episode 3: Nixon's the One
Harry Shearer stars as disgraced former American president Richard Nixon in a comedy drama based on transcripts of almost 200 hours of tape recordings made during his time in office. The story examines Nixon's attitudes toward foreign policy, social issues and the crises that would eventually end his presidency, and reconstructs conversations he held with associates including Henry Kissinger and White House chief of staff Bob Haldeman. With Henry Goodman, Demetri Goritsas and Corey Johnson
-
- 9:45pm
-
Mariella's Book ShowSeason 8 Episode 8: Mariella's Book Show
Irish author Edna O'Brien joins Mariella Frostrup at the Hay Festival to chat about her autobiography Country Girl, and her compatriot Colum McCann discusses his new novel TransAtlantic. Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein talks about working on his memoirs, his time at the Washington Star in the early 1960s, the TV series about the US Congress he is in the process of writing and his biography of Hilary Clinton
-
- 10:45pm
-
Nation's Best Am DramSeason 1 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4
The remaining amateur dramatic societies are challenged to put on a performance of King Lear at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. With a place in the final up for grabs, the theatre groups have five weeks to rehearse the scenes necessary and come up with innovative ways to impress judges Miriam Margolyes, Bill Kenwright and Quentin Letts
-
- 11:45pm
-
Poems on the Underground
A celebration of London Underground's innovative scheme to bring poetry to Tube passengers, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2006. With Tara FitzGerald