The 13 one-hour TV films in which English art historian, arts administrator, and writer Kenneth Clark historically narrates a “personal view” of the history of Western civilization were first shown in ...

Travelling from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, from the Norway of the Vikings to Charlemagne’s chapel at Aachen, Kenneth Clark illuminates the Dark Ages, the six centuries following the ...

Civilisation, the landmark 1960s series, transformed how TV treated culture. But now, argues a presenter of the series ‘update’, it’s time for a broader sweep across time and place Fifty years ago, in ...

Philip Dodd discusses Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and arts broadcasting with Janina Ramirez, Kim Evans, Gus Casely-Hayford and Charles Uzzell-Edwards, aka artist Pure Evil. Show more What is the ...