CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS

Civilisations, 9pm, BBC2

SIMON SCHAMA begins this week’s lecture at the great Gothic cathedrals of Amiens and Chartres to look at the links between the use of colour in art and architecture, and spirituality and civilisation itself. His enquiry includes Bellini, Titian and Goya, and moves to Japanese woodblock prints of the 18th and 19th centuries.