Hirst makes beeline for TV

Artist Damien Hirst has moved into yet another medium - designing the title credits for a TV series about composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

The design features a bust of Bach's head swarming with a mane of bees.

The late-night BBC Two series, The Complete Organ Works Of JS Bach, begins on 30 June.

It consists of 50 seven-minute programmes each devoted to a piece of music by the 18th century composer.

The music is performed by York Minster organist John Scott Whiteley, while robotic mini-cameras mounted on hydrogen balloons travel into the heart of the organ.

Hirst, who was at the forefront of the Brit Art phenomenon in the 1990s, has always been fascinated by using animals in his work.

He is best known for pickling a sheep, a shark and a dissected calf in formaldehyde, works which are on display in the new Saatchi Gallery.

For his next project, he plans to do the same with three crucified cows.