Podcasts by Dr Janina Ramirez - Art Detective

#71 - Turner and the Thames: Five Paintings - Featuring Sir David Attenborough from 2020-03-06T17:30:25

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#70 - The Shock of the Nude - Dame Professor Mary Beard from 2020-02-10T17:30:14

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#69 - Lost and Found: Raiders of the Lost Past from 2019-10-30T17:24:38

This episode was recorded in September 2019 at Gloucester History Festival.

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#68 - Drunk Art Detective - Dr Adam Rutherford from 2019-06-28T05:30

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#67 - Rebecca Gonzales-Lauck - Olmec Art from 2019-06-10T13:42:50

The Olmecs were the earliest known major civilization in Mesoamerica following a progressive development in Soconusco. They lived in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in the present...

#66 - Professor Dame Mary Beard - Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos from 2019-05-19T18:31:56

Dame Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of multiple books, including Confronting the Classics, and most recently, ...

#65 - Neil Gaiman on The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd from 2019-05-14T11:38:32

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 ...

#64 Staffordshire Hoard Helmet from 2019-04-02T06:07:40

With Pieta Greaves and Dr Jenni Butterworth. The Staffordshire H...

#63 Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring from 2019-03-10T19:35:48

Since Tracy Chevalier’s 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' was published in 1999, it has sold more than 5 million copies, has been translated into 39 languages and was made into an Oscar-nominated film...

Dr Alexa Frost, Archivist at Blenheim Palace from 2019-03-01T17:00

Exclusive interview with Dr Alexa Frost the Head Archivist at Blenheim Palace.

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Ophelia Field - The Favourite from 2019-02-25T06:30

WE'RE BAACK! Art Detective has landed with a brand new sparkling theme tune by award winning composer, Marc Canham and we're kicking off season 2 with an interview with Ophelia Field, author of ...

Civilisations with David Olusoga from 2018-07-10T11:42:03

Dr Janina Ramirez talks to David Olusoga about Civilisations, how the programme was made, and how art reacts to social change.

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Notre Dame du Taur with Kate Mosse from 2018-07-01T10:48:52

Kate Mosse is a historical novelist, known best for her trilogy of novels set in the Languedoc: Labyrinth, Sepulchre & Citadel. She has been fascinated by mediaeval churches since her childh...

Sarah Churchwell - The relationship between text and visual art from 2018-06-18T16:29:39

Dr Janina Ramirez talks to Professor Sarah Churchwell about e.e.cummings, Charles DeMuth, Grant Wood, and how words can represent visual art.

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The Art of the Ladybird Books - Joel Morris & Jason Hazeley from 2018-06-10T17:57:58

The team behind the Ladybird Books for Grown Ups, Joel Morris & Jason Hazeley, join Janina to discuss the art in the Ladybird books, nostalgic art, and Biblical plague.

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Guernica - Frank McDonough from 2018-06-03T18:38:22

Dr Janina Ramirez talks to Frank McDonough about Guernica, Picasso and modern art in modern wars.

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Plague with Rebecca Rideal from 2018-05-28T00:15:50

Dr Janina Ramirez discusses plague with Rebecca Rideal. Rebecca is a writer, former television producer and historian, specialising in the Stuart dynasty and seventeenth-century England. She now...

Georges La Tour & Artemisia Gentileschi - Mark Gatiss from 2018-05-20T16:52:24

Janina sits down with the incomparable Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Doctor Who, The League of Gentlemen, Game of Thrones) to talk about Groeg La Tour, Artemisia Gentileschi, murder, beheading, and who...

The Arnolfini Portrait - Amber Butchart from 2018-03-13T15:10:23

Art Detective Dr Janina Ramirez meets Amber Butchart at the National Gallery to discuss the Arnolfini Portrait.

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BIrkenhead Priory from 2018-02-27T15:58:34

Dr Janina Ramirez visits an architectural treasure, Birkenhead Prior...

The Singh Twins at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool from 2018-02-06T01:52:02

Art Detective Dr Janina Ramirez talks to the Singh twins about the their work and their new exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

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The History of Magic from 2018-02-02T00:56:32

Dr Janina Ramirez investigates the Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition at the British Library, which explores the historical context of the images used by J.K. Rowling in the Harry Potte...

Imagining The Divine with Jas Elsner from 2018-01-16T01:57:24

Dr Janina Ramirez goes behind the scenes at the Ashmolean's incredible new exhibition: Imagining The Divine, to talk to Jas Elsner. For more exclusive interviews and documentaries, subscribe to ...

The Watts Gallery from 2017-12-15T00:46:37

Dr Janina Ramirez visits the Watts Gallery to discuss the work of G.F.Watts, and the rest of their incredible collection. For more exclusive history documentaries and interviews subscribe to His...

Trees with Christiana Payne from 2017-12-09T19:22:26

Janina and Christiana Payne talk about the importance of trees in British art.

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Tony Robinson from 2017-11-08T06:30

Recorded live at Gloucester History Festival.

From playing turnip-loving Baldrick in Blackadder to Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History, Tony Robinson’s love of history has been at the ...

Neil Gaiman on The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke by Richard Dadd from 2017-10-31T06:30

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, America...

India and Me - Anita Rani from 2017-10-25T05:30

Recorded live at the Gloucester History Festival. Anita Rani, Countryfile and Watchdog presenter, One Show reporter and star of Strictly Come Dancing, made a moving "Who Do You Think You Are?" expl...

Philip Pullman from 2017-10-02T14:08:20

Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English novelist. He is the author of several best-selling books, most notably the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Go...

Frank Cottrell-Boyce from 2017-10-01T18:40:20

Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an English screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children's fiction and for his collaborations with film director Danny Boyle.

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Abbey Life Uncovered from 2017-09-22T17:48:47

Janina takes a break from the usual one on one interview to share a talk she recently gave at the Gloucester History Festival where she serves as President. To celebrate the 900th anniversary of Ci...

Emma Hamilton by George Romney, with Kate Williams from 2017-09-14T07:44

Kate Williams @KateWilliamsme is Professor of History at the University of Reading, is an author, historian and television presenter.

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Victoria & Abdul - Shrabani Basu from 2017-08-16T05:45

Shrabani Basu is a journalist and historian. She is the author of For King and Another Country: Indian Soldiers on the Western Front 1914-18, Victoria & Abdul: The Story of the Queen’s Closest Conf...

Talking Art & Science with Professor Alice Roberts - Live at Latitude Festival 2017 from 2017-08-09T05:50

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The Treasures of St. Cuthbert from 2017-08-02T10:40:41

The Treasures of St Cuthbert have been a focus for prayer and veneration by Christians for centuries. They include his original coffin and his gold and garnet pectoral cross, as well as the portabl...

Enlightened Princesses - Joanna Marschner from 2017-07-26T05:30

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The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel the Elder - with Johnathan Healy from 2017-07-19T13:22:28

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent is an oil-on-panel work painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1559. This painting depicts a common festival of the period, as celebrated in the Southern Netherl...

Codex Aureus - Kate Wiles from 2017-07-12T16:07:44

The Stockholm Codex Aureus is a Gospel book written in the mid-eighth century in Southumbria, probably in Canterbury, whose decoration combines Insular and Italian elements. Southumbria produced a ...

La Belle Iseul by William Morris, with Dr Emma Wells from 2017-06-28T19:30:47

William Morris was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival o...

The Artist's Family by Hans Holbein the Younger, with Jeanne Nuechterlein from 2017-06-23T22:01

Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497) – between 7 October and 29 November 1543) was a German and Swiss artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the ...

The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo - with Patrick Doorly from 2017-06-14T07:22:32

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Valois Tapestries and Catherine de Medici - with Stephanie Merritt from 2017-06-07T05:39

The Valois Tapestries are a series of eight tapestries depicting festivities or 'magnificences' at the Court of France in the second half of the 16th century. The tapestries were worked in the Span...

Bayeux Tapestry - with Greg Jenner from 2017-05-31T12:40:02

Greg Jenner is the historical consultant to Horrible Histories and is the author of A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Everyday Life.

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Bayeux Tapestry - with Joe Whitlock Blundell from 2017-05-24T10:11

The Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres (230 ft) long and 50 centimetres (20 in) tall, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England concerning William,...

The Kiss - Gustav Klimt from 2017-05-17T14:05:39

The Kiss was painted by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt between 1907 and 1908, the highpoint of his "Golden Period", when he painted a number of works in a similar gilded style. A perfe...

Douris Psykter - Michael Scott from 2017-05-10T05:30

Michael Scott @drmichaelcscott is an Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, author of several books on a...

Miss Ashwanden in Cookham by Stanley Spencer - with Robin Ince from 2017-05-03T04:30

Sir Stanley Spencer (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter.[Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes oc...

Bonus Minisode: The Nightwatch by Rembrandt from 2017-05-01T05:01

Watch Janina's new 3-part series, An Art Lovers Guide starting on BBC Four from 1st May at 9pm. Watch on iPlayer here. With sumptuous palaces, exquis...

Portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach the Elder - with Peter Stanford from 2017-04-26T04:30

Lucas Cranach the Elder (c. 1472 – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, ...

Yellow-Red-Blue by Wassily Kandinsky - with Marc Canham from 2017-04-19T16:10

Marc Canham @marc_canham is a composer whose work spans film, video games, and art. His compositions have been remixed and re-interpreted by UNKLE, Amo...

Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt by Georges Clairin - with Christophe Leribault from 2017-04-12T06:42:54

Georges Jules Victor Clairin was a French Oriental painter and illustrator. He was influenced by oriental painting and Moorish architecture, and visited North Africa many times, in particular Moroc...

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp - with Adam Rutherford from 2017-04-07T05:30

Dr. Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster.On radio, he is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s flagship science programme, Inside Science, as well as many documentaries, on the inheritance ...

Equestrian Portrait of Charles I by Anthony van Dyck - with Bendor Grosvenor from 2017-03-31T05:30

Bendor Grosvenor is a British art dealer, art historian and writer. He is known for discovering a number of important lost works by Old Master artists, including Sir Peter Paul Rubens, Claude Lorra...

Map of Constantinople & The Hereford Mappa Mundi - with Peter Frankopan from 2017-03-22T06:00

Dr. Peter Frankopan is a historian at Oxford University, where he is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research.

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Tipu's Tiger - with Sona Datta from 2017-03-17T16:30

Sona Datta is an Art historian and Curator of South Asia at Peabody Essex Museum. Her most recent documentary series for the BBC, 'Treasures of the Indus', tells the story of the Indian sub-contine...

Fire! Fire! by Enrico Baj - with Rickie Martin from 2017-03-15T05:30

Ricky Martin is an artist, director, and animator. His is Creative Director at Aardman Animation and presents the popular children's' TV show 'Art Ninja' on CBBC.

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The Cage Paintings by Gerhard Richter - with Phil Selway from 2017-03-08T08:01

Janina continues to blur the boundaries of Art talking with Phil Selway the drummer for legendary and genre-defying band, Radiohead. Together they peel back the layers of collaboration, performance...

No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock - with Marcus du Sautoy from 2017-03-01T05:30

Marcus Peter Francis du Sautoy FRS OBE, is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.

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The Franks Casket - with Tony Robinson from 2017-02-22T05:30

Sir Tony Robinson is an English actor, comedian, TV presenter and political activist. He is known for playing Baldrick in the BBC television series Blackadder and for hosting Channel 4 programme...

Ely Cathedral - with Will Shank from 2017-02-20T16:57:46

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Jonathan Foyle from 2017-02-15T05:45

Jonathan Foyle is an architectural historian, broadcaster and advocate for heritage sites.

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The Cave Art Paintings of the Lascaux Cave - with Professor Alice Roberts from 2017-02-08T08:45

Alice Roberts is an anatomist, anthropologist and Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. She is also a broadcaster and has presented several landmark BBC series ...

Sutton Hoo Shoulder Clasp - with Jim Peters from 2017-02-01T05:01

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Minisode - Flaming June from 2017-01-29T21:34:55

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Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch – with Waldemar Januszack from 2017-01-25T05:01

View this week's image here. Waldemar Januszczak is a British art critic and television documentary producer and presenter. Formerly the art critic ...

Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci - with Martin Kemp from 2017-01-18T04:45

View this week's image here. Martin Kemp is Professor Emeritus of the History of Art; Honorary Fellow of Trinity College. Professor Kemp has published exte...

Gin Lane by Hogarth - with Lars Tharp from 2017-01-11T05:29

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Early One Morning by Sir Anthony Caro – with Alistair Sooke from 2017-01-04T05:24:31

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The Fighting Temeraire by Turner – with Dan Snow from 2016-12-28T05:30:20

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Theodora Mosaic, Ravenna – with Bettany Hughes from 2016-12-21T05:29:53

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Elizabeth I – Armada Portrait from 2016-12-14T05:05:54

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Introduction from 2016-12-05T12:20:12

Art is the truest expression of the workings of the mind, free from learnt language. More than that, it is the visual expression of culture, politics, society, religion, emotion, zeitgeist, chan...