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Stories in Colour

Science

Stories in Colour

The National Gallery

The hunt for the blackest black

June 30, 2026 11:00pm 35 min

Today we're on a hunt with artists through time, searching for the blackest black. We’re after the deepest blacks, the most accurate blacks and the most atmospheric blacks.Beks is joined by artist Stuart Semple to help a...

Rediscovering history’s women colour theorists

June 23, 2026 11:00pm 49 min

You might have heard of men like Isaac Newton or Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, but who were the pioneering women writing on colour theory?To answer that question, we’re joined by cultural historian Alexandra Loske and The ...

Decoding paintings through colour

June 16, 2026 11:00pm 45 min

How do the colours artists choose – and the ways each of us experience them – help us find a story?Join Beks and author Chloë Ashby as they take a closer look at how to ‘read’ colour in some of the National Gallery’s mos...

The mauve measles: when purple went viral

June 09, 2026 11:00pm 50 min

A teenage chemist’s accidental discovery didn’t just revolutionise colour history – it sparked a viral Victorian colour craze!Cultural historian Kassia St Clair joins Beks to uncover the story of mauveine – the world’s f...

Deadly chemical cousins: oranges and yellows

June 02, 2026 10:00pm 41 min

What makes two volcano-born pigments so dangerous? Hint: they weren’t scorching hot when artists used them. Orpiment and realgar both contain arsenic, a foe we’ve previously faced on ‘Stories in Colour’.From volcanoes to...

A blue more expensive than gold − ultramarine

May 26, 2026 10:00pm 51 min

Travel with us beyond the sea to look at ultramarine, a pigment that was once even more precious than gold.In this episode, writer Victoria Finlay joins Beks for a discussion on how researching ultramarine took her to Af...

What is synaesthesia? Can you hear colour?

May 19, 2026 10:05pm 53 min

Welcome back to a new series of 'Stories in Colour'. To kick off, we’re tackling one of the topics we received the most questions about − synaesthesia.Join Beks and this week’s guests, composer Dr Deborah Pritchard and l...

Stories in Colour Returns – Series 2 Trailer

May 19, 2026 10:00pm 1 min

What does colour sound like? Why was mauve the brat green of the Victorian era? And is pink really just for girls?Welcome back to another series of 'Stories in Colour', the National Gallery's vibrant podcast. Join us on ...

The story of gold: modern imaginations (part three)

December 02, 2025 9:00pm 58 min

When the artist Louise Nevelson immigrated to America as a child, she was told that ‘the streets... would be paved in gold’. Obviously, they weren’t, but that hasn’t stopped modern artists turning pretty much everything ...

The story of gold: devotion and design (part two)

November 25, 2025 9:00pm 53 min

When did gold become a colour? In this episode we journey from the majestic mosaics of the Byzantine era to the brilliantly burnished panel paintings of the early Renaissance to answer this very question. Join Laura Llew...

The story of gold: ancient origins (part one)

November 18, 2025 9:00pm 51 min

Welcome back to Stories in Colour! And welcome to the first episode of our new miniseries in which we'll be telling the story of a rare, sparkling and glistening colour – or should we say material?Join Nelly von Aderkas ...

The Story of Gold - Miniseries Trailer

November 18, 2025 4:00am 1 min

Welcome to a new miniseries of ‘Stories in Colour’. The National Gallery’s vibrant podcast returns to tell the story of a rare, sparkling and glistening colour – or should we say material? It's been called the tears of t...

Painting the rainbow

July 08, 2025 6:15pm 1:03

What exactly is a rainbow and how is it formed? Why does it have seven colours? And what have rainbows symbolised in mythologies and art? Join colour expert Dr Alexandra Loske, National Gallery Principal Scientist Joseph...

How snails made purple a royal colour

July 01, 2025 6:15pm 52 min

Why do we see purple as the colour of royalty? It all starts on the Mediterranean coast with some unassuming, and eventually very unfortunate, seasnails.Travel back to ancient times with colour specialist Victoria Finlay...

The fear of colour: chromophobia

June 24, 2025 6:15pm 45 min

Where did all the colour go? And how might Western culture have feared it, or deemed it superficial, in art and philosophy? We celebrate the 25th anniversary of seminal book ‘Chromophobia’ with its author David Batchelor...

Don’t eat your deadly greens

June 17, 2025 6:15pm 1:00

Why does the colour green remind you of poison and radioactivity? We're telling the story of two toxic green pigments to find out. Their stories interact with artists like Berthe Morisot, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Willi...

Why we feel what we feel about colour

June 10, 2025 6:15pm 45 min

We're asking how we feel about colour – or more accurately how colours make us feel – and whether that's the same for all of us. Join colour specialist Zeynep Sagir and National Gallery host Beks Leary to get emotional a...

How bugs turned the world red

June 03, 2025 6:15pm 58 min

We're on the search for the 'perfect red' with a pigment and dye that was so prized that it inspired international espionage and piracy, carried the death penalty if exported without a license, and built empires. But tod...

The first modern synthetic pigment

May 28, 2025 12:02am 44 min

Meet an enigmatic pigment discovered entirely by accident at the start of the 18th century. Its story involves a rogue inventor with an unlikely connection to Doctor Frankenstein, a characterful trio of Johanns, and a re...

Do you see the same colour I see?

May 28, 2025 12:00am 53 min

Welcome to Stories in Colour! We're starting at the very beginning to ask an age-old question: are the colours you see, the same as the colours I see? Join Professor Anya Hurlbert from Newcastle University and National ...

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