In Our Time (radio series)

Judith beheading Holofernes, first broadcast February 14, 2019 An art history episode built around one gruesome Bible story and the artists who kept returning to it from the Middle Ages onward. Susan Foister of the National Gallery, John Gash and Ela Nutu Hall follow Judith through versions by Donatello, Caravaggio, Liss and Artemisia Gentileschi, asking what each reveals about power, about attitudes to women and about the artists' own lives. Keep the paintings open on a screen while you listen: radio cannot show them, and this is the one pick that clearly benefits from pictures alongside.