Explores Dali’s introduction to the Parisian fashion world through the creation of his spectacular jewels.

Discusses Dali’s late years, the passing of his beloved Gala and the death of the world's most recognisable artist.

Halsman was the perfect partner for realising Dalí’s ever complex ideas in the medium of photography.

Dali explores the science of optics and meets Alice Cooper to create the first hologram.

Discusses Salvador Dali, nuclear mysticism and the explosion of the first Atomic Bomb.

Dalí loved the idea of Hollywood, with its razzle-dazzle and celebrity and, of course, its potential to reach vast international audiences.

Discusses Dalí’s extraordinary costumes for the Ballets Russes and the events that surround the opening of Léonide Massine’s Bachannale in New York.

Discisses Dalí’s return to the values of the High Renaissance.

Discusses Dali's fascination with Freud and their first meeting which by many accounts did not go particularly swimmingly.

The circumstances of World War II forced Dali and Gala into exile in 1940 - they fled to America where Dalí had become famous.

Discusses Dalí’s politics and life through a time of civil war in Spain and his narrow escape to France.

It had become evident that Dali's fame rested as much on his antics as his art. Is it really true that Dali was nearly decapitated in 1939?

Discusses the showing of Dalí’s work, Memory of the Child-Woman, in the 1939 great exhibition of modern art, during an era where Dalí’s reputation as a significant artist preceded the arrival of his work.

Discusses Dalí's meeting with André Breton in Paris and his involvement in the Surrealist movement.

Discusses the mysterious Gala, Dalí's muse and collaborator.

Discusses Dali's fateful meeting with Gala in 1929 and the repercussions in Dalí’s family life.

Dalí and Buñuel collaborate to create the first surrealist movie Un Chien andalou, an Andalusian dog.

Explores Dalí’s education and the initial meeting of Luis Buñuel and Federico García Lorca.

Discusses Dalí’s childhood and family life in Figueres, Spain.

Dr Gerard Vaughan introduces the exhibition Salvador Dalí: Liquid Desire (NGV International 2009).