Hidden Paintings

In Liverpool, Paul McGann is captivated by the work of Britain's youngest war artist and in Manchester he finds some long-lost depictions of the city's prodigious war effort.

Hardeep Singh Kohli visits some of London's museums and galleries to find the paintings of the sailors, slaves and scholars who shaped the city that exists today.

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen uncovers the story behind David Inshaw's The Badminton Game, which once hung at 10 Downing Street but now languishes in a vault, hidden from the public.

Dan Snow retraces the career of artist Arthur Spooner, whose paintings are scattered across the region and record events and people as he saw them. But how reliable is the work?

Meera Syal searches for the paintings that reveal the extraordinary story of Frederick Duleep Singh, the son of the last Maharaja of Punjab.

Kathryn Rayward uncovers the hidden art of the Bloomsbury Set in Sussex, and follows the trail of the set's artistic legacy to the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.