哈莫修依，丹麦画家，Michael Palin就是被这位丹麦籍的画家给困惑了20年，在他眼中，这位Vilhelm Hammershoi是带着神秘、诡谲、出色的北欧艺术家。20年前，他参观了位在伦敦南华克区的Hayward Gallery，艺廊里正举办一项「Scandinavian Art」展览，因而第一次接触到Vilhelm Hammershoi这幅令他印象深刻的画作。但是那一次的接触，他并没有积极的寻找这位画家，一直到3年前，他又一次在巴黎的书店里发现了一本「Vilhelm Hammershoi，Danish painter of solitude and light」的画册，有他1997、1998年在哥本哈根、巴黎、纽约的展览作品介绍，其中大部分的作品是风景、人像、裸体等，以他特有的灰阶色调，介于传统与现代之间的画风，带着融合了Johannes Vermeer和Edward Hopper两人的风格，画出了自己的特色。 他形容Vilhelm Hammershoi是位不可捉摸的画家，他死后没有留下任何日记可供追溯，在死之前又销毁了所有的信件，被描述成一位羞怯、隐匿的人物。目前在英国仅有收藏他的两幅作品，一幅在National Gallery，另一幅在Tate Britain。 这次，Michael Palin决定好好的深入探就这位带着神秘感的丹麦画家，BBC1特别制播一集节目，在7月14日晚上10点35分播出。

世界著名奇幻文学大师，托芙·扬松(Tove Jansson，1914～2001)，出生于芬兰首都赫尔辛基，父亲是一位雕塑家，母亲是一位画家。在芬兰，她的家庭属于外来的、说瑞典语的少数民族。 可以想象，在一个很少能够找到和自己说一样语言，有一样生活习惯的邻居的地方，童年时代的杨松多多少少会感觉有些孤单。更何况，有整整六年，杨松是家中惟一的孩子。她的大弟弟皮尔·欧拿夫（Per Olov）出生在1920年，而小弟弟纳斯（Lars）到1926年才降生。 在芬兰的冬天，有整整三个月没有阳光，这时候的晚上，无法像小木民矮子精一样“冬眠”的杨松，就常常坐在火炉前面，听妈妈给她讲圣经里的故事，这些故事总是“讲述着一些渴望回到故乡的人，他们迷失了，但最终还是找到了回家的路。 Moomintroll and the Moomin family are characters loved by children and parents worldwide who have grown up listening to Finnish writer Tove Jansson's delightful stories about a group of philosophical trolls who face a range of adventures in Moominland. This documentary reveals the strong autobiographical slant in the Moomins series as it traces the author's own extraordinary story from living the bohemian life of an artist in war-torn Helsinki to becoming a recluse on a remote island in the Gulf of Finland. Enjoying unprecedented access to Jansson's personal archive, the film reveals an unconventional, brave and compelling woman whose creative genius extended beyond Moominland to satire, fine art and masterful adult fiction - not least her highly-regarded The Summer Book. With home movie footage shot by her long-term female lover and companion, it offers a unique glimpse of an uncompromising fun-loving woman who developed love as the central theme of her work.

Curious about a powerful but violent painting that caught his eye, Michael Palin sets off on a quest to discover the astonishing story of the forgotten female artist who painted it over 400 years ago. Travelling to Italy in search of Artemisia Gentileschi's tale, Michael encounters her work in Florence, Rome and Naples. Michael unearths not only her paintings but a complex life which included her rape as a teenager and the ensuing indignity of a full trial, her life as a working mother and her ultimate success against all odds as one of the greatest painters of the Baroque age who transformed the way women were depicted in art and who was sought after in many courts across 17th-century Europe.