Sky Arts TV Guide

A divorced husband-and-wife acting duo's constant bickering threatens to disrupts a stage production of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew in which they are the romantic leads. Meanwhile, a case of mistaken identity attracts backstage interlopers in the form of two gangland thugs looking to collect a gambling debt. Adaptation of Cole Porter's Broadway musical comedy, with Alfred Drake and Patricia Morison

Part one of two. The actor and writer follows in the footsteps of Charles Dickens' little-known journey through Italy's most beautiful citie. David uncovers Italy's influence on the author's writing style and political beliefs as he traces the novelist's Grand Tour through Venice, Naples, Genoa and Rome

Jim and Nancy head to Lancashire looking for the cute but elusive bearded tit, and are joined by broadcaster Chris Packham, local experts, birders and artists

The composer conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in a wide-ranging selection of music from some of his best-known film scores

Hannah Gordon presents the art competition in which amateur watercolour painters compete against the clock and each other to capture a scene in just four hours

Hannah Gordon presents the art competition in which amateur watercolour painters compete against the clock and each other to capture a scene in just four hours.

A man is haunted by an unhappy childhood and taunted by school bullies - and a stranger on a train could be responsible for his misery. Drama, starring John Mills and Anthony Steel

Rev George Duckworth has problems attracting female attention, but things change when a beautiful woman joins his congregation. Drama, starring Joan Collins and John Alderton

Even though he has several large bank accounts, miserly Alexander Gifford is so obsessed with money that he begins to see his wife as nothing but a collection of expenses. When she finds his hidden accounts, the trouble really unfolds. With Dennis Day and Alice Backes

A writer interested in a lucrative story makes an arrangement to spend the night in a murderers' den, an area of a wax museum dedicated to infamous killers. But he doesn't get the story he expected. With Barry Nelson and Everett Sloane

A profile of the American actor, who starred in Wild at Heart, Raising Arizona, The Rock and Con Air, and won an Oscar for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas

The worlds created by authors of classic children's literature, revealing much about their characters and the times they lived in

A couple rely on home-made medicine to treat their sickly child, using royal jelly from the family's bee hives. However, the outcome proves frightening. Drama, starring Susan George and Timothy West

A deadly snake strikes in the heat of Kashmir, creeping into a young teacher's bed and settling on his belly. Drama, with Judy Geeson, Andrew Ray, Anthony Steel and Saeed Jaffrey

Three parolled safecrackers plan to heist a fortune in jewels, but inadvertently steal a container of radioactive cobalt. Drama, with James Gregory, Chris Robinson and Norman Fell

Musicians and rock historians discuss the making of Cream's groundbreaking 1967 album Disraeli Gears. Recorded in just six days at Atlantic Records' studios in New York, it was produced by Felix Pappalardi and set the seal on the band's fame

A profile of the English actor, who found fame in TV drama Brideshead Revisited before starring in films including The Mission, and Reversal of Fortune, for which he won an Oscar

The three remaining artists compete in the final, painting celebrity sitter Emeli Sandé before the winner of the career-changing £10,000 commission is announced