Sky Arts Friday

Olga Peretyatko and Atalla Ayan star in Rolando Villazón's production of Verdi's La Traviata at the Festspielhaus in Baden Baden, Germany

Bob Ross creates an atmospheric mountain scene with soft, sloping grass cover, a crystal lake and rock banks

Bob Ross gives a lesson in how to capture the unique colours of autumn as he paints trees and bushes surrounding a river with oranges and yellows

A man plots to get rid of his demanding wife and inherit her money. Starring Anthony Franciosa and Shirley Knight-Temple

A hitman is taken in by his intended victim's hospitality - but it is a harsh lesson that can only be learnt once. Starring Eli Wallach and Anthony Pullen Shaw

An angry young man accurately predicts an impending death. Starring Amy Douglass and Norma Crane

A goodhearted man picks up a family of hitch-hikers, but they steal from him every chance they get

A walk through the most planet's most remarkable museums, including Spain's Museum of Arts and Sciences and the Swiss Museum, designed by Renzo Piano

Stephen Mangan continues the search for the nation's best landscape painter in Liverpool, where the next batch of contenders must paint a scene of the city's docklands

A man invents a machine that enables him to talk to plants - with unexpected consequences. Harry Andrews stars

Two friends suspect a doctor of murdering his wife and disposing of her body in a cellar. Starring Colin Blakely and Warren Clarke

The three bands sharpen their competitive performances with one week to go before the World Pipe Band Championships. Plus, meet the next generation of piping stars

Exploring the inspirations behind famous opera houses, including the rebuilt La Fenice in Venice, the stunning Sydney Opera House and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia

A look into the life and career of the actress and comedian, whose breakthrough role came in The Color Purple and who won an Academy Award for Ghost

Stephen Mangan visits Hever Castle in Kent for the third heat, where eight artists and 50 wildcards try to capture the scene of the Italianate loggia on the lake

An accountant whose book-keeping is perfect finds his honesty being put to the test

A husband invites the man he suspects of being his wife's lover to dinner. Starring Anthony Quayle and Nigel Hawthorne

A woman reveals to her invalid husband dependent on a respirator that she is planning to painlessly murder him, but he may have a surprise for her

A man hatches a plan to kill his wife by buying her a new pet that may not be very cuddly and lovable, but might give him the way out that he desires

The story behind Meat Loaf's phenomenally successful 1977 album Bat Out of Hell

The life and music of the Thin Lizzy frontman, telling the story of how a young working-class black boy from 1950s Dublin became one of Ireland's greatest rock stars

A 1995 performance at the Swiss jazz festival, featuring tracks from the Snake album as well as Pogues classics A Pair of Brown Eyes, The Body of an American and Sally MacLennane

The Irish band perform with a host of country music stars, including Ricky Skaggs, Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss Earl Scruggs, Martina McBride, John Hiatt and Gillian Welch

Former Velvet Underground singer Lou Reed discusses the making of his 1972 album Transformer, with contributions by producers David Bowie and Mick Ronson

Activist artist Favour, light sculptor Jack and figurative artist Alice battle it out in the south of England heat, with disciplines including metalwork and computer programming

Exploring the inspirations behind famous opera houses, including the rebuilt La Fenice in Venice, the stunning Sydney Opera House and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia