In the Studio

The world-famous shoe designer with the Oscar-nominated actress Dame Kristin Scott Thomas. The secrets behind the red-soled, stratospherically high-heeled shoes. Travelling the world for inspiration, anything that catches his eye can be transformed into a detail on a shoe: from a Parisian cake decoration to an exotic Portuguese rock garden. And he discusses what makes a high heel incontrovertibly sexy.

From a volcano billowing smoke on the rooftops of Jerusalem to documentary theatre bus trips and Kulna music, Israeli artistic director Itay Mautner navigates the joys and challenges of designing the city’s season of culture - the Mekudeshet Festival.

Writing music and touring Europe with one of the hottest DJs on the planet. Curator. Composer. DJ. Feminist. Black Madonna’s inclusive ethos infuses everything she does. Already a veteran of the USA’s rave scene, join her as she conquers the main stages of Europe.

Tom Cruise starred as the ex-military investigator but how are the novels written? Millions have been sold worldwide. Author Lee Child allows us to join him as he creates his next story.

Image: Lee Child, Credit: BBC

Creating a premiere for the biggest music festival in the world. We follow award-winning composer Hannah Kendall, as she develops her world premiere piece The Spark Catchers for the BBC Proms. It is played by Chineke! - the UK’s first black and ethnic minority orchestra.

"Go beyond words." On set with the multi-award-winning cinematographer, as he creates his latest film. It is a love letter to Hong Kong, “The White Girl”. We watch as Christopher Doyle frames, shoots and muses.

Chocolate, diamonds, leftover pasta – getting creative with everything, with one of Brazil’s most successful artists. Castles on grains of sand and cartoon clouds in the sky. Vik Muniz prepares for an exhibition full of trickery and illusion.

World renowned Chinese artist and activist in his bunker. Imprisoned in China, Ai Weiwei’s views and life are reflected in his work. Discover the mind behind the art. Now living and working in Germany, he reveals the one thing he believes all artists are trying to find.

A poem is like love, arriving “when you’re least looking for it”. Hear poetry being crafted by the award-winning Imtiaz Dharker. She draws her inspiration from the world around her and we join her as she works through the night.

Creating his “African Game of Thrones”, the award-winning novelist reveals his notebooks. We join the Jamaican writer, Marlon James, as he works on his much anticipated Dark Star Trilogy. He won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2015 for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings, based around the assassination attempt on Bob Marley in the 1970s. He is in his studio in Minneapolis in the US.