Culture

BBC Four aims to touch parts of the brain other channels do not reach. Matthew Reisz speaks to Richard Klein, its controller, who says that academics, together with their passions, have key roles to play in the channel's programming

Duncan Wu's inner adolescent rejoices in a crazy tale of an armed pensioner's battle with injustice

Gauguin and Vaughan Williams had unconventional private lives, but they created beauty, says Gary Day