In the second part of his Florentine Trilogy, David Swatling focuses on Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), a Dominican friar who arrived in Florence in the late 15th century. His sermons were […]
Monthly Archives: August 2000
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David Swatling presents a portrait of the 12th-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen. She founded her own monastery, had prophetic visions, counseled kings and emperors and wrote books on theology, medicine […]
David Swatling focuses on the relationship between the Dutch masters, their paintings and music. Some paintings in the 17th century had music as a theme. Others, such as paintings of […]
In this documentary, David Swatling visits the Utrecht Early Music Festival and talks to the organisers about why this type of music is becoming increasingly popular. Producer: David Swatling Broadcast: […]
Gareth Mitchell investigates the impact of war on scientific research and the changes it brought about on life in the postwar years. Radar, nuclear weapons and nuclear energy, psychology, new […]
David Swatling examines how the Dutch masters of the Golden Age portrayed children in their paintings and the symbolism of presenting children in a certain way. His guests includes Simon […]
In this programme, David Swatling turns his attention to sex and the masters. While tame to modern eyes, many paintings from the 17th century were full of sexual symbolism. Some […]
David Swatling meets American gay writers Edmund White and David Leavitt and discusses with them, among other things, the concept of “auto-fiction”, which takes as its premise (French, of course) […]