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Secret Knowledge
Season 1 · Episode 20
The Art of the Impossible: MC Escher and Me
7.030mSeptember 20, 2015
Sir Roger Penrose takes a personal journey through artist MC Escher's work, marvelling at his intuitive brilliance and the light it still sheds on complex mathematical concepts.
Episodes
- Episode 1The Kimbolton Cabinet
- Episode 2The Art of the Vikings
- Episode 3Bolsover Castle
- Episode 4Walter Scott’s Castle
- Episode 5Stradivarius and Me
- Episode 7The Art of Witchcraft
- Episode 8The Hidden Jewels of the Cheapside Hoard
- Episode 9Tracey Emin on Louise Bourgeois - Women Without Secrets
- Episode 10Castiglione - Rogue Genius of the Baroque
- Episode 11Hogarth - One Man and His Pug
- Episode 12The Russian Revolutionary: Zaha Hadid on Kazimir Malevich
- Episode 13The Living Mountain: A Cairngorms Journey
- Episode 14In Search of Rory McEwen
- Episode 15Wondrous Obsessions: The Cabinet of Curiosities
- Episode 16The Private Life of a Dolls’ House
- Episode 17The Body Beautiful - Ancient Greeks, Good Looks and Glamour
- Episode 18Nina Simone and Me with Laura Mvula
- Episode 19Thomas Chatterton: The Myth of the Doomed Poet
- Episode 20The Art of the Impossible: MC Escher and Me
- Episode 21Jacobi on Garrick: Godfather of the British Stage
- Episode 23A Very British Pornographer: The Jack Kahane Story