El Greco's 'View of Toledo' discussed by Edwin Mullins in 1980 (One Hundred Great Paintings series). @majoresterhazy7012

Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago

A series on some of the world's great paintings dating from Renaissance times to the present day with a new theme each week, in this case Cities.
"View of Toledo" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in which the splendid Spanish city is seen as if threatened by some tremendous supernatural storm.
Written and presented by Edwin Mullins. Start missing.

El Grecos View of Toledo discussed by Edwin Mullins in 1980 (One Hundred Great Paintings series).

Poverty in the U.K. in 1992: Hemlington, Middlesbrough.

Picassos Château de Boisgeloup. Picasso remembered by its owner, his grandson Bernard Picasso.

Imagine a city called Berlin. Closing minutes of Michael Frayns 1975 documentary.

Tarkovskys Ivans Childhood introduced by Neil Norman in 1989.

RAF terrorists Baader, Ensslin und Raspe; Pastor Bruno Streibel remembers presiding at their burial.

Snow Patrol. Set the Fire to the Third Bar. Isle of Wight 2021. TV footage.

Bush Gore - recounts and possible legal challenges. ITN November 2000.

Pavement live (audio) Maida Vale Studios, London 15 May 1999 (Terror Twilight about to be released).

The Arab Spring. BBC Newsnight discussion about its nature. Early 2011.

Wheels of Progress. Selling motorisation in the U.S.A. and the Third Reich. Richard Bessel (1987).

Opening of Tate Modern 11 May 2000. A BBC special.