Omnibus

Omnibus

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.

Documentary

Seasons

1. Everybody's Expo

Air Date: 1967-10-13

The first edition of a regular weekly programme about the creative world of art and artists. Introduced by Henry Livings. Tonight: Everybody's Expo - An account of a world event.

2. Suliotis Sings

Air Date: 1967-10-20

The British debut of a new world opera star—at the age of twenty-four.

3. Beethoven Symphony No. 3, in E flat (Eroica)

Air Date: 1967-11-03

The first of three performances of Beethoven symphonies conducted by Colin Davis. BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Trevor Williams Part of a public concert in the Royal Festival Hall, London.

4. Tyger, Tyger

Air Date: 1967-11-10

An enquiry into the power of a familiar poem. Introduced by Henry Livings. "Tyger tyger burning bright In the forests of the night What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry" Why does this poem by William Blake 1757-1827 stick in the mind, and seize the imagination of so many different people?

5. Benjamin Britten and His Festival

Air Date: 1967-11-22

6. East of Bedlam

Air Date: 1967-12-08

7. Jacqueline

Air Date: 1967-12-15

8. The World of Coppard

Air Date: 1967-12-15

9. Dante's Inferno

Air Date: 1967-12-22

10. Diaghilev: The Years Abroad (1)

Air Date: 1967-12-28

11. Diaghilev: The Years in Exile (2)

Air Date: 1968-01-09

12. Edith Evans: A Birthday Tribute

Air Date: 1968-01-16

13. Top Brass

Air Date: 1968-01-23

14. Abelard and Heloise

Air Date: 1968-01-30

15. The Exile

Air Date: 1968-02-06

16. Tommy

Air Date: 1968-03-26

17. God's Tunes

Air Date: 1968-04-02

18. China and the Barbarians

Air Date: 1968-04-23

19. Whistle and I'll Come to You

Air Date: 1968-05-07

20. My Name Is Benvenuto Cellini

Air Date: 1968-05-21

21. The Charm of Dynamite!

Air Date: 1968-05-28

22. Corporal Jan

Air Date: 1968-06-18

23. The Ken Russell Festival (1)

Air Date: 1968-06-25

24. The Ken Russell Festival (2)

Air Date: 1968-07-02

1. Song of Summer

Air Date: 1968-09-15

2. J.B. Priestley

Air Date: 1968-09-22

3. Olympia 1936

Air Date: 1968-09-29

4. Blow The Wind Southerly

Air Date: 1968-10-06

5. All My Loving

Air Date: 1968-11-03

The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Pink Floyd, Cream, Donovan, Frank Zappa & Eric Burdon.

6. Rossini: The Long Farewell

Air Date: 1968-11-10

7. The Hunted Man

Air Date: 1968-11-17

8. Paul Gauguin: Quest For Silence

Air Date: 1968-11-24

9. Rubinstein Speaks

Air Date: 1968-12-01

10. Hadrian VII

Air Date: 1968-12-08

11. Tallulah Bankhead

Air Date: 1968-12-15

12. Make A Joyful Noise

Air Date: 1968-12-22

13. Eric Porter

Air Date: 1968-12-29

14. Cream Farewell Concert

Air Date: 1969-01-05

The historic Farewell Concert at Albert Hall in London by one of rock's greatest groups has been dynamically recorded in this film by Robert Stigwood. The group, composed of Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Jack Bruce on bass and lead vocals, and Ginger Baker on drums, give an electrifying performance that is as exciting to watch as it is to hear. Each of the musicians has gone on to become a superstar in his own right, and we get to see fascinating backstage interviews with all of them. Highlights include the long version of "Sunshine of Your Love" and "White Room" along with other Cream hits.

15. The Man Who Dances

Air Date: 1969-01-12

16. Woman From The Shadows

Air Date: 1969-01-19

17. Makers of the Queen's Music

Air Date: 1969-01-26

18. From Today, Painting Is Dead

Air Date: 1969-02-02

19. Myrna Loy

Air Date: 1969-02-16

20. Malcolm Arnold

Air Date: 1969-03-02

21. Shostakovich

Air Date: 1969-03-09

22. A Couple of Brians

Air Date: 1969-03-23

23. 1969 Oscar Awards

Air Date: 1969-04-20

24. Down These Mean Streets A Man Must Go

Air Date: 1969-03-30

25. The More We Are Together

Air Date: 1969-05-04

26. Lawrence Durrell's Paris

Air Date: 1969-05-11

27. Margot Fonteyn: Birthday of a Ballerina

Air Date: 1969-05-18

28. Acting Styles in the 20th Century

Air Date: 1969-05-25

29. The Vital Juices Are Russian

Air Date: 1969-06-01

30. So What If It's Just Green Cheese?

Air Date: 1969-07-20

An improvised celebration of Apollo 11's landing on the Moon.

1. Omnibus at the Proms

Air Date: 1969-08-03

2. Omnibus at the Proms: Sir Adrian Boult

Air Date: 1969-08-17

3. Sir Henry Wood

Air Date: 1969-09-07

4. J.B. Priestley

Air Date: 1969-09-14

5. George Robey

Air Date: 1969-09-28

6. Beautiful Beautiful

Air Date: 1969-10-05

7. Sir Malcolm Sargent

Air Date: 1969-10-12

8. What the Hell Ever Happens in Marlborough?

Air Date: 1969-10-19

9. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Dream Divided

Air Date: 1969-10-26

10. Christopher Isherwood: A Born Foreigner

Air Date: 1969-11-02

Documentary about author Christopher Isherwood, in which he is interviewed about his life and work and which features extracts from films of his novels and stories.

11. Richter

Air Date: 1969-11-09

12. The Confessions of Marian Evans/George Eliot

Air Date: 1969-11-23

13. Noel Coward

Air Date: 1969-12-07

14. Where Are You Going My Pretty Maid?

Air Date: 1969-12-14

15. Tommy Steele and Things

Air Date: 1969-12-21

16. Unashamed Accompanist: Gerald Moore

Air Date: 1969-12-28

17. Ian Fleming Creator of the James Bond Myth

Air Date: 1970-01-04

18. Virginia Woolf: A Day's Sail, a Night's Darkness

Air Date: 1970-01-18

19. Anna Pavlova: 1881 - 1931

Air Date: 1970-01-25

20. Rope Ladder to the Moon: Jack Bruce

Air Date: 1970-02-01

21. John Clare - I am

Air Date: 1970-02-08

22. Dance of the Seven Veils

Air Date: 1970-02-15

An imaginary portrait of composer Richard Strauss.

23. Who Will Buy a Bubble?

Air Date: 1970-02-22

A group of people with regular jobs (factory clerk, Lighterman,Inspector etc) take part in an experimental and improvised drama in which they are encouraged to writhe around the floor making strange noises and movements. The idea being that returning to a primitive state may help them better cope with the modern world. This experiment is then taken to their familiar local streets and landmarks and casual observers are invited to comment or join in.

24. Ralph Vaughan Williams

Air Date: 1970-03-01

25. On the Waltz

Air Date: 1970-03-15

26. The Wandsworth Sound

Air Date: 1970-04-05

27. 1970 Oscar Awards

Air Date: 1970-04-12

28. Kenneth More

Air Date: 1970-04-18

29. To Leningrad with Love

Air Date: 1970-04-26

30. The Hollywood Image-The Silent Era

Air Date: 1970-05-03

31. The Hollywood Image-The Talkies

Air Date: 1970-05-10

32. The Hollywood Image-The Post War Years

Air Date: 1970-05-17

33. A Vow Fulfilled: Oberammergau

Air Date: 1970-05-31

34. The Other Edward Heath

Air Date: 1970-06-28

35. Satchmo at 70

Air Date: 1970-07-05

1. Omnibus at the Proms

Air Date: 1970-08-23

2. Ustinov's Expo

Air Date: 1970-09-13

3. Heart of Britain

Air Date: 1970-09-20

An examination of the life and work of Humphrey Jennings, scholar, writer painter but, above all, filmmaker.

4. Art Therapy-Shapes in the Wilderness

Air Date: 1970-09-27

5. Everything in the Garden 1

Air Date: 1970-10-11

The first part of this special documentary film traces the tempestuous history of the Royal Opera House from the time the first building opened its doors in 1732 up to the present day, 26 years after Sir David Webster 's appointment.

6. Everything in the Garden 2

Air Date: 1970-10-18

A programme in two parts on the past, present and future of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

7. It'll Be All Live on the Night

Air Date: 1970-11-01

An investigation of regional theatre in Britain. Amongst the Theatres - and their Artistic Directors - discussed are the Northcott Theeatre, Exeter; Theatre Royal Windsor, Peter Cheeseman's Victoria Theatre Stoke on Trent and theatres in Nottingham and Hull.

8. Robert Shaw: The Actor as Novelist

Air Date: 1970-11-15

9. A Requiem for Modigliani

Air Date: 1970-11-22

10. Rambert Remembers

Air Date: 1970-11-29

11. Eisenstein 1

Air Date: 1970-12-06

12. Eisenstein 2

Air Date: 1970-12-13

13. I Regret Nothing

Air Date: 1970-12-27

14. The Mysterious Mr Eliot

Air Date: 1971-01-03

15. George Orwell: The Road to the Left

Air Date: 1971-01-10

The film traces Orwell's life during 1936 when he spent time in the depressed north of England, married, set off for the Spanish Civil War and completed his book 'The Road to Wigan Pier', which marked his beginnings as a political author.

16. Chicago Blues

Air Date: 1971-01-24

17. In Prison: A World of Its Own

Air Date: 1971-03-14

18. The Making of Husbands

Air Date: 1971-03-28

19. Brendan Behan

Air Date: 1971-04-04

20. Henri Cartier Bresson

Air Date: 1971-04-11

21. In Search of Lost Time

Air Date: 1971-05-02

An Omnibus Arts documentary made to celebrate the centenary of the birth of author Marcel Proust. The film examines the creation of his autobiographical novel "A La Recherche du temps perdu".

22. This Was Richard Tauber

Air Date: 1971-05-09

23. The Passionate Hunter

Air Date: 1971-05-23

24. Ingrid Bergman Remembers

Air Date: 1971-05-30

25. Three Looms Waiting

Air Date: 1971-06-06

26. James Mossman: To Be a Witness

Air Date: 1971-06-20

27. TheTchaikovsky Competition

Air Date: 1971-06-27

28. Bream at Stratford

Air Date: 1971-07-04

29. Solzhenitsyn

Air Date: 1971-07-11

30. Hail and Farewell-George Moore

Air Date: 1971-07-18

31. Russell's Progress

Air Date: 1971-07-25

Portrait of the filmmaker Ken Russell.

1. The Proms 71

Air Date: 1971-08-29

2. Happy Birthday Dear Albert

Air Date: 1971-09-12

3. Glenda Jackson: A Private Face in a Public Place

Air Date: 1971-10-19

4. The Young Platform

Air Date: 1971-09-26

5. David Lean

Air Date: 1971-10-03

6. There Was an Old Person Called Lear...

Air Date: 1971-10-10

7. Paul Klee: Heart of Creation

Air Date: 1971-10-17

8. Rap Her Te Bank

Air Date: 1971-10-24

An exploration of industrial Folksong in Britain from the birth of the Industrial Revolution through to contemporary events affecting us all.It was filmed in Folk Clubs across Britain.

9. Mind You I Live Here: Stan Barstow

Air Date: 1971-10-31

A portrait of Yorkshire writer and author Stan Barstow; includes contributions from his friends.

10. Will the real Mr Hogarth....

Air Date: 1971-10-31

A personal appraisal of the caricaturist William Hogarth.

11. Duke Ellington and his Orchestra

Air Date: 1971-11-14

12. Vive La Culture!

Air Date: 1971-11-28

A tour of the arts,dance and theatre of Amiens, a town that makes car tyres.

13. Instant Nostalgia

Air Date: 1971-12-05

14. Humphrey Bogart

Air Date: 1971-12-27

15. Paradise Restored

Air Date: 1972-01-02

16. A Modern Turn of Mind

Air Date: 1972-01-30

17. Sir John Barbirolli: Glorious John

Air Date: 1972-02-06

18. Bruno Walter: The Face of Music

Air Date: 1972-02-13

19. Rise Above It: Tyrone Guthrie

Air Date: 1972-02-20

20. Man at the Met: Sir Rudolf Bing

Air Date: 1972-02-27

21. The Fall of Venice

Air Date: 1972-03-19

22. Actor, I Said

Air Date: 1972-04-09

23. The Great American Dream Machine

Air Date: 1972-04-16

24. Leningrad Reborn

Air Date: 1972-04-30

25. Born Black Born British

Air Date: 1972-06-11

Young West Indians give an impression of their life in this country through their paintings, music, and writing.

26. A Dignified Comic Set-to: Groucho Marx

Air Date: 1972-07-02

27. The Man Behind the Mask: Marcel Marceau

Air Date: 1972-07-23

1. Leeds International Piano Competition

Air Date: 1972-09-17

2. The Last Samurai

Air Date: 1972-09-24

3. The Wit & World of George Bernard Shaw

Air Date: 1972-10-01

Christopher Plummer invites the audience into the world of great playwright, George Bernard Shaw, at his home with fellow actors and an actress playing St. Joan.

4. Vincent the Dutchman

Air Date: 1972-10-15

5. Who Needs a Conductor?

Air Date: 1972-10-22

6. The Performers-Goya

Air Date: 1972-10-29

7. Artists in Wartime

Air Date: 1972-11-12

8. Great Orchestras: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Air Date: 1972-11-19

9. Ned Kelly Country: The Paintings of Sidney Nolan

Air Date: 1972-11-26

A journey across Australia through the paintings of Sidney Nolan. Earlier this year Sidney Nolan revisited the country where he was born. He likes long journeys and cannot help painting pictures, and every picture tells a story. In this adventure through myth and imagery Nolan looks again at the Australia of Ned Kelly, Mrs Fraser and the convicts, Burke and Wills.

10. Max Beerbohm Remembers

Air Date: 1972-12-10

11. Judy: Impressions of Garland

Air Date: 1972-12-24

Memories of Judy Garland, from people who knew and worked with her.

12. The Savage Image

Air Date: 1973-01-14

13. Why Culture?

Air Date: 1973-01-21

14. But the People Are Beautiful: Andy Warhol

Air Date: 1973-02-04

Fools Rush In: Morecambe and Wise

15. Fools Rush In: Morecambe and Wise

Air Date: 1973-02-18

This film for Omnibus follows the two weeks of rehearsal that led up to the recording of a Morecambe and Wise Show that aired on 16 February 1973. 'Fools Rush In' was Eric and Ernie's billing in their early days. Thirty years later, they had become Britain's best-known comedians, with regular audiences of nearly 20 million people. Producer John Ammonds, writer Eddie Braben, as well as Eric and Ernie talk about the skill and sheer hard work of comedy.

16. The Name Grierson: The Word Documentary

Air Date: 1973-02-25

17. Master of the Cello

Air Date: 1973-03-11

18. It Must Be Something in the Water

Air Date: 1973-03-18

19. Sir Noel Coward

Air Date: 1973-03-25

20. Colette 1873-1954: A Window in the War

Air Date: 1973-04-15

21. That's My Little Masterpiece

Air Date: 1973-05-06

22. The Passing of the Year

Air Date: 1973-05-13

An Omnibus calendar of tribal England. This film traces how the passing of the seasons is still celebrated with folk song, dance and-ritual. For 12 months cameras have been recording the genuinely surviving ceremonies associated with May Day marches. Summer Dances, Harvest Festivals, Christmas, New Year and Easter.

23. British Jazz

Air Date: 1973-06-03

24. Leonardo-To Know How to See

Air Date: 1973-07-08

25. Ginger Baker in Africa

Air Date: 1973-07-15

The former Cream drummer travels to Nigeria to build a recording studio.

1. The Proms 1

Air Date: 1973-07-29

2. The Proms 2

Air Date: 1973-08-05

3. The Proms 3

Air Date: 1973-08-12

4. The Proms 3

Air Date: 1973-08-26

5. The Proms

Air Date: 1973-09-02

6. A Question of Feeling

Air Date: 1973-09-09

7. André Previn-The Other LSO

Air Date: 1973-09-16

8. The Sydney Opera House

Air Date: 1973-09-23

9. Sir Robert Helpmann

Air Date: 1973-09-30

10. The British Hero

Air Date: 1973-10-07

A tongue-in-cheek look at how heroes have been depicted through the ages.

12. George Stubbs: Make the Knife Go with the Pencil

Air Date: 1973-10-21

13. Hollywood on Trial

Air Date: 1973-11-04

14. The Runaway

Air Date: 1973-11-18

15. François Truffaut

Air Date: 1973-12-02

16. Bejart+Boulez = Ballet

Air Date: 1973-12-09

17. It's Fantastic, It's Futuristic, It's Fatalistic, It's Science Fiction

Air Date: 1973-12-16

18. Marcel Marceau: A Christmas Carol

Air Date: 1973-12-23

A Dickens favourite as interpreted by Marcel Marceau the mime artist.

19. Gershwin's Porgy

Air Date: 1973-12-24

20. Nureyev

Air Date: 1974-01-27

21. Great Orchestras: The London Symphony

Air Date: 1974-02-03

22. Acting a Part?

Air Date: 1974-02-10

23. The Art of the Potter

Air Date: 1974-02-17

24. Don't Take It for Granted

Air Date: 1974-02-24

25. Claire Bloom

Air Date: 1974-03-03

26. Kafka's Castle

Air Date: 1974-03-17

28. Beethoven's 9th Symphony

Air Date: 1974-03-31

29. The Invasion of Space: Novgorod Father of Russia

Air Date: 1974-04-14

30. Wish You Were Here

Air Date: 1974-04-15

Stars of British Music Hall and Variety take a look back at traditional seaside entertainment.

31. Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott's

Air Date: 1974-04-28

Omnibus presents a unique opportunity to see this highly acclaimed performance by Ella Fitzgerald with Tommy Flannagan (piano) Joe Pass (guitar) Bobby Durham (drums) Keeter Betts (double bass) Introduced by Benny Green

32. Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show

Air Date: 1974-05-04

Omnibus presents Ella Fitzgerald in performance at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. This second show confirms yet again all the superlatives which critics have lavished on her in recent weeks.

33. Crystal Palace-The Great Glass Hive

Air Date: 1974-05-05

34. Alan Price: Between Today & Yesterday

Air Date: 1974-05-26

35. W.B.Yeats and the Coming Times

Air Date: 1974-06-02

36. Dame Ninette De Valois

Air Date: 1974-06-09

37. Ernest Brown: Pioneer Photographer

Air Date: 1974-07-07

38. Words by Johnny Mercer

Air Date: 1974-07-14

1. Tommy Steele: My Life, My Song

Air Date: 1974-10-08

2. The Goldwyn Touch

Air Date: 1974-10-20

3. Joseph Conrad

Air Date: 1974-10-27

4. Music from the Flames

Air Date: 1974-11-10

This film is a documentary about Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.

5. The O De Cologne Show

Air Date: 1974-11-17

6. The Jean Rhys Woman

Air Date: 1974-11-24

7. Oscar Peterson & André Previn

Air Date: 1974-12-01

8. Find Me

Air Date: 1974-12-08

9. The Need for Nightmare

Air Date: 1974-12-15

How nightmares inspired the greatest horror writers of the 19th Century

10. Cuckoo: A Celebration of Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy

Air Date: 1974-12-22

Documentary about the classic comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, featuring many film clips and reminiscences from entertainers and associates. Narrated by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.

11. A Circus for a School

Air Date: 1974-12-29

12. Cathedral

Air Date: 1975-01-05

13. Cracked Actor

Air Date: 1975-01-26

BBC documentary showing David Bowie looking back on his Ziggy Stardust character during his Diamond Dogs tour.

14. Auguste Rodin: Changes

Air Date: 1975-02-02

A partially dramatized arts programme about the life and work of Auguste Rodin

15. 21 Not Out

Air Date: 1975-02-16

16. Alphabets, Wild Things, Peter and a Golden Canary

Air Date: 1975-02-23

17. Charles Chaplin: Tramp & Philosopher

Air Date: 1975-03-02

18. The Friendly Invasion from Stephen Foster to Ragtime

Air Date: 1975-03-09

19. Fidelio Finke: Where Are You Now?

Air Date: 1975-03-16

20. African Sanctus

Air Date: 1975-03-30

21. Nijinsky: God of the Dance

Air Date: 1975-04-06

22. The Grierson Award

Air Date: 1975-04-13

23. Great Orchestras: The Vienna Philharmonic

Air Date: 1975-04-27

24. Claes Oldenburg: The Formative Years

Air Date: 1975-05-04

25. Irving Berlin

Air Date: 1975-05-11

Presented by Benny Green and Roy Castle this is a delightful song-filled affectionate tribute to the career of Irving Berlin

28. A Step in the Jungle: Ronald Searle

Air Date: 1975-06-15

1. Exton, Stoppard and Co at the Eleventh Hour

Air Date: 1975-09-21

2. The Great Orchestras: The Boston Symphony

Air Date: 1975-09-28

3. Big Ware

Air Date: 1975-10-05

4. Anatomies: Images in the Work of John Donne

Air Date: 1975-10-12

5. Honore De Balzac: Torrents of the Mind

Air Date: 1975-10-19

6. Thomas Mann: The Fight Against Death

Air Date: 1975-10-26

7. Shafts of Sunlight

Air Date: 1975-11-02

8. The Friendly Invasion: 2 from Jazz to Swing

Air Date: 1975-11-23

9. The Friendly Invasion: 3 the Road to Rock & Roll

Air Date: 1975-11-30

10. Family Scenes: Ivy Compton - The Burne Household

Air Date: 1975-12-07

11. Jane Austen

Air Date: 1975-12-14

A celebration of the novelist, who was born 200 years ago.

12. Come and Dance with Busby Berkeley

Air Date: 1975-12-21

13. Scenes from a Geordie Ceilidh/Overture/Closed on Mondays

Air Date: 1975-12-21

14. The Golden Age of Spanish Painting

Air Date: 1976-01-15

15. The Waltz

Air Date: 1976-01-22

16. Omnibus in Ireland

Air Date: 1976-01-29

17. All Clouds Are Clocks

Air Date: 1976-02-05

An Arts Documentary about the Composer Gyorgy Ligeti whose music became popular after having been used in Kubrick's 2001

18. A Matter of Life & Death

Air Date: 1976-02-12

19. Constable Exhibition

Air Date: 1976-02-19

20. Charles Marowitz

Air Date: 1976-02-26

21. A Kind of Innocence

Air Date: 1976-03-04

22. Placido Domingo

Air Date: 1976-03-11

23. Portraits

Air Date: 1976-03-18

24. The Honourable Out -Of- Step

Air Date: 1976-03-25

25. Richard Avendon

Air Date: 1976-04-01

26. The Spirit of the Land

Air Date: 1976-04-08

27. Monsieur Hulot's Work

Air Date: 1976-05-13

29. Far Away

Air Date: 1976-05-27

30. John Constable

Air Date: 1976-06-03

31. The Sound of Islam

Air Date: 1976-06-10

32. The Green Table- Around the Green Table

Air Date: 1976-06-17

33. An Evening with Gene Kelly

Air Date: 1976-06-24

Dancer, choreographer, director and father of the 'new' American musical of the 1940s. He talks to Gavin Millar about his early life, the struggles to become a dancer and the great days at MGM when a new form of 'cinema-dance' was invented

34. Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

Air Date: 1976-07-01

An account of the events that led up to the American War of Independence from Britain, filmed in the locations where they took place.

35. Beyond a Boundary

Air Date: 1976-07-08

1. All the Superlatives - Anthony Dowell

Air Date: 1976-10-21

2. Omnibus USA: Dave Brubeck

Air Date: 1976-10-28

3. My Homeland

Air Date: 1976-11-03

4. Art - To a Degree

Air Date: 1976-11-11

5. Culture - Who Needs It?

Air Date: 1976-11-11

6. Omnibus USA: Have a Nice Day

Air Date: 1976-11-25

7. Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

Air Date: 1976-12-02

8. Benjamin Britten

Air Date: 1976-12-05

9. The First 70 Years Are the Worst-Two Lives in Music

Air Date: 1976-12-09

New York, New York

10. New York, New York

Air Date: 1976-12-16

Various artists and musicians at work, and performing, throughout a day in the SoHo district of New York City.

11. The Story of Pantomime

Air Date: 1976-12-23

12. Pleasure at Her Majesty's

Air Date: 1976-12-29

13. The Song of Mandelay

Air Date: 1977-01-03

14. A White Wall in Alentejo

Air Date: 1977-01-13

15. Omnibus USA: Doc, Charlie and the Painters

Air Date: 1977-01-20

16. Colour Positive - The Poster Man

Air Date: 1977-01-27

17. Paintings by El Greco

Air Date: 1977-02-03

18. Paintings by Titian

Air Date: 1977-02-10

19. Paintings by Velazquez

Air Date: 1977-02-17

20. Omnibus USA: LA - My Home Town

Air Date: 1977-02-24

21. Toccata at the Plaza

Air Date: 1977-03-03

A fun documentary in which Organist Robin Richmond demonstrates the power, and tells the history, of Cinema Organs. The film was shown as part of an Omnibus programme on Nostalgia

22. Omnibus USA: New York Real, New York Abstract

Air Date: 1977-03-10

23. Orpheus and His Flute

Air Date: 1977-03-17

24. Walton No.1

Air Date: 1977-03-24

25. Stan Tracey: The Original

Air Date: 1977-03-31

26. Omnibus USA: Documentary America

Air Date: 1977-04-07

27. Seeds of a New Life

Air Date: 1977-04-14

28. The Lindsays/Half a Mile from Stoke

Air Date: 1977-04-21

29. The Human Face

Air Date: 1977-04-28

30. Walk to the Moon

Air Date: 1977-05-05

31. The National Youth Jazz Orchestra -Stan's Band

Air Date: 1977-05-12

Introduced by Humphrey Burton the Stan Kenton Band perform Jazz classics. Stan Kenton, Shelly Manne and Bud Shank are interviewed.

32. Italia: Florence After the Flood

Air Date: 1977-05-26

33. Italia: The Madonna & the Volcano

Air Date: 1977-06-02

34. Italia: A Line Through the Labrynth

Air Date: 1977-06-09

35. Victims and Survivors: Whose Colour Is White?

Air Date: 1977-06-23

36. Conductor's Eye View: Little Train

Air Date: 1977-06-30

37. Unita- Bach at Tilford

Air Date: 1977-07-07

38. The Santa Fe Opera

Air Date: 1977-07-14

1. Music of a Thousand Autumns

Air Date: 1977-10-13

'Gagaku' is the ancient Court music of Japan. In this film dancers and musicians discuss and demonstrate the traditional movements, styles and the sounds of an art culture little known in the West. Master players of the Sho and Kyoto demonstrate the special meaning of performance techniques.

2. The Nat Gonella Story

Air Date: 1977-10-20

3. Big Band Jazz

Air Date: 1977-10-27

4. Pure Radio

Air Date: 1977-11-03

5. A Day in the Garden/A Piano's Story

Air Date: 1977-11-10

6. The Garden Beyond

Air Date: 1977-11-17

7. Poetry

Air Date: 1977-11-24

8. For Love or Money 1

Air Date: 1977-12-01

9. For Love or Money 2

Air Date: 1977-12-08

10. Jeanne Moreau

Air Date: 1978-01-12

11. Gustev Courbit/Engine of Revolution

Air Date: 1978-01-19

12. Voices of Children/Profile of a Dancer

Air Date: 1978-02-02

13. Everyone Is a Special Kind of Artist

Air Date: 1978-02-02

14. Marevna & Marika

Air Date: 1978-02-09

15. The Song of the White Horse

Air Date: 1978-02-16

16. Warsaw Autumn

Air Date: 1978-02-23

1. The Art Show of Ed Kienholz

Air Date: 1978-08-02

Edward Kienholz was an American artist known for his found-object assemblages and installations he referred to as tableauxs. In one of his most controversial works, The State Hospital (1966), Kienholz provided a grisly account.

2. The People's Park: Disco Delight or What a Way to End It All

Air Date: 1978-08-09

3. Leos Janacek: 1854-1928

Air Date: 1978-08-16

4. The Pilgrimage of Ti-Jean

Air Date: 1978-08-30

5. The Record Machine

Air Date: 1978-10-12

John Peel Interviews The Mekons, Sham 69, Alternative TV, The Slits, and UK Subs.

6. Living Room

Air Date: 1978-10-19

7. Paul Gauguin: The Savage and the Construction of Paradise

Air Date: 1978-10-26

8. Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision

Air Date: 1978-11-02

A look at "Gonzo journalist", Hunter S. Thompson with his collaborator, British illustrator, Ralph Steadman.

9. 628-E8

Air Date: 1978-12-27

10. Its Stolen Your Face

Air Date: 1978-11-23

11. After the Dream

Air Date: 1978-11-30

12. Getting Away with Murder: The Childhood of Claude Chabrol

Air Date: 1978-12-07

13. She Must Be Joking!

Air Date: 1978-12-21

A look at stand-up comediennes.

14. Lillian Hellman

Air Date: 1979-02-08

15. Rene Magritte

Air Date: 1979-02-05

16. Words Fail Me

Air Date: 1979-02-22

17. Brian Clarke: The Story So Far

Air Date: 1979-03-15

TV documentary about a packed and unpredictable year in the life of 25 year-old artist in stained-glass, Brian Clarke.

18. Natalia Makarova

Air Date: 1979-03-29

19. Drawn & Quartered

Air Date: 1979-05-10

20. Kiss Me, Petruchio

Air Date: 1979-05-17

21. Lotte Lenya

Air Date: 1979-05-24

Documentary on the widow of Kurt Weill, the legendary actress and singer Lotte Lenya.

22. The Brothers Grimm

Air Date: 1979-05-30

23. Dread, Beat N'Blood

Air Date: 1979-06-07

24. The Long Walk of Fred Young

Air Date: 1979-06-14

25. Pig Earth

Air Date: 1979-06-21

26. Gold on Ice

Air Date: 1979-06-27

1. Schalcken the Painter

Air Date: 1979-12-23

2. Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man

Air Date: 1980-01-15

3. Johnny Be Good

Air Date: 1980-01-29

4. Blue Moon

Air Date: 1980-02-05

5. Tuning In

Air Date: 1980-02-26

6. Parting Shots From Animals

Air Date: 1980-03-04

7. Graham Sutherland: The Artist On Film

Air Date: 1980-03-11

8. Hollywood's Wild Angel

Air Date: 1980-03-18

9. Home Movies

Air Date: 1980-03-25

10. Windhover

Air Date: 1980-04-01

11. Bugs and Daffy and Chuck and Porky

Air Date: 1980-04-08

12. Coming Alive

Air Date: 1980-04-22

13. Quinn Running

Air Date: 1980-05-08

14. We Think The World of You

Air Date: 1980-05-15

1. Judy Chicago's Dinner Party

Air Date: 1981-01-13

2. But The Client Loved It...

Air Date: 1981-01-20

3. When The Dancing Had to Stop

Air Date: 1981-01-27

4. The First Freedom

Air Date: 1981-02-03

5. The Story of G...

Air Date: 1981-02-10

6. Dallas The Big Store

Air Date: 1981-02-24

7. Punch & Judy

Air Date: 1981-03-03

8. Stevie Wonder: Innervisions

Air Date: 1981-03-17

9. Norman Foster: Watch This Space

Air Date: 1981-03-24

10. An Actor's Life For Me

Air Date: 1981-03-31

11. Parrots, Bees, Ducks and Finches

Air Date: 1981-04-07

Documentary which looks at the history of the English Stage Company and its base, the Royal Court Theatre in London. Past triumphs and failures are reviewed with the aid of Sir John Gielgud, John Osborne, Max Stafford-Clark, Arnold Wesker, Dennis Waterman, Oscar Lewenstein, Nigel Williams and E.A. Whitehead.

12. Mark Gertler

Air Date: 1981-04-14

13. We Ask the Questions

Air Date: 1981-04-21

14. Landseer: A Victorian Comedy

Air Date: 1981-06-02

1. La Ronde / Frankie Howerd / Great Japan Exhibition

Air Date: 1982-01-10

2. Cats / Holy Blood and The Holy Grail

Air Date: 1982-01-17

3. Alan Ayckbourn / Humphrey Jennings / Labeque Sisters

Air Date: 1982-01-24

5. Bad Apple / James Joyce's Ulysses

Air Date: 1982-02-07

6. Lucie Rie

Air Date: 1982-02-14

7. Paganini / Jonathan Miller / Brian Aldiss

Air Date: 1982-02-21

8. The Cortege / Barbican / Nureyev and Brind

Air Date: 1982-02-28

9. Berlin Requiem / Art and Architecture

Air Date: 1982-03-07

10. Claire Bloom / Masquerade

Air Date: 1982-03-14

11. The Oldest Dance in the World

Air Date: 1982-03-21

12. Academy Awards / Julian Bream

Air Date: 1982-03-28

13. Macbeth RSC / Welsh National Opera

Air Date: 1982-04-04

14. Bernstein - Enigma Variations / Mary Renault

Air Date: 1982-04-18

4. Sir Anton Dolin / Susan Hill

Air Date: 1982-01-31

15. Susan Hill/Beagley Dances/Anton Dolin

Air Date: 1982-05-02

16. Bob Hoskins - South Bank / Stephen Games / Dame Janet Baker

Air Date: 1982-05-09

17. Maurice Sendak / Dennis Potter - Pennies From Heaven

Air Date: 1982-05-16

1. Milan

Air Date: 1982-10-10

2. Poppy - Monty Norman / John Sell Cotman

Air Date: 1982-10-17

3. Apocalypse: Enrico Baj / Pas De Deux / Forss

Air Date: 1982-10-24

4. Freya Stark in Italy

Air Date: 1982-10-31

5. Brits on Broadway: The American Dance Machine

Air Date: 1982-11-07

6. Photography / John Morley

Air Date: 1982-11-14

7. The Folies Bergeres / Van Dyck in England

Air Date: 1982-11-21

8. Raymond Mason in Paris / Pekinel Sisters

Air Date: 1982-11-28

9. Wayne Sleep - Dash / Richard Payne Knight / Count Panza

Air Date: 1982-12-05

10. Gardens / Ligeti

Air Date: 1982-12-12

11. David Puttnam

Air Date: 1982-12-19

12. Peter Pan RSC

Air Date: 1983-01-16

13. Cecile Ousset

Air Date: 1983-01-23

14. Jonathan Miller - Magic Flute / Steven Berkoff

Air Date: 1983-01-30

15. Raymond Briggs and The Bomb / Sutton Place

Air Date: 1983-02-06

16. The Elgin Marbles/Tim White

Air Date: 1983-02-13

17. Alasdair Gray/Cimabue

Air Date: 1983-02-20

18. Richard Long/Landscapes

Air Date: 1983-02-27

19. Writers on the Right

Air Date: 1983-03-06

20. Patrick Heron

Air Date: 1983-03-13

21. Dirk Bogarde

Air Date: 1983-03-27

22. Celibidache and Faure's Requiem

Air Date: 1983-04-03

23. Peter Ustinov

Air Date: 1983-04-10

1. Franco Zeffirelli

Air Date: 1983-10-16

2. Roger Daltrey/The Taste Exhibition

Air Date: 1983-10-23

3. The Old Vic

Air Date: 1983-10-30

4. War Artists

Air Date: 1983-11-06

5. Jean Seberg

Air Date: 1983-11-13

6. Dimitris Sgouros/Eileen Agar

Air Date: 1983-11-20

Tonight Omnibus features two artists separated by more than 60 years. The first is the 14-year-old Greek pianist, Dimitris Sgouros. Already a renowned performer on the international stage, this child prodigy has been compared to Mozart. What is it like to have so much talent so young and what pressures must this boy prodigy endure? The second artist is the painter Eileen Agar. Once described as the 'darling of the Surrealists' she talks tonight about her life and work, recalling the holiday with Picasso, and friendships with Ezra Pound and Evelyn Waugh.

7. The Genius of Venice

Air Date: 1983-11-27

8. Martin Bloch/Philip Core

Air Date: 1983-12-11

9. St George's Chapel/Live Music Now

Air Date: 1983-12-18

10. Dolin, Friends and Memories

Air Date: 1983-12-27

1. Haydn's Lost Mass/Mr Broadway

Air Date: 1984-06-24

2. Goodnight Vienna

Air Date: 1984-07-01

3. A Londoner in New York

Air Date: 1984-07-08

4. The Sound of Musak/Michael Clark

Air Date: 1984-07-15

The sound of Muzak, investigates the background music that we always hear but to which we never listen. Featuring Alan Freeman , Neil Innes (with robots), Brian Eno, Joseph Cooper (at the dummy keyboard) and the music critics of the Bristol Babies Forum. Also in this programme, 22 year old British dancer Michael Clark's work that he and his newly-formed company are preparing for their launch in London and the Edinburgh Festival.

5. Wharfedale Revisited/Squeezing the Frog

Air Date: 1984-07-22

6. The Westmores of Hollywood

Air Date: 1984-07-29

7. Pennington's Chekhov

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9. New Art

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10. The Classiest Juke-Box in the World

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11. The Killing Fields

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1. The Quest for Reginald Goodall

Air Date: 1984-09-16

2. Wells and His Women

Air Date: 1984-09-23

3. The Bristol Showboat Saga

Air Date: 1984-09-30

4. The Face of Christ

Air Date: 1984-10-07

5. Tuscany Revisited

Air Date: 1984-10-14

6. Pennington on Chekov

Air Date: 1984-10-21

7. Lord Gowrie/The Dance Umbrella

Air Date: 1984-10-28

8. New Art

Air Date: 1984-11-04

9. The Classiest Juke-Box in the World

Air Date: 1984-11-11

10. The Killing Fields

Air Date: 1984-11-18

1. From East Cheam to Earls Court

Air Date: 1985-04-26

2. Malcolm Morley: The Outsider

Air Date: 1985-05-03

3. Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story

Air Date: 1985-05-10

4. The Battle for Mansion House Square

Air Date: 1985-05-17

5. The Ritz and the Cotton Club

Air Date: 1985-05-24

6. Klemperer

Air Date: 1985-05-31

7. Studs Terkel's Chicago

Air Date: 1985-06-07

8. Saga on the South Bank

Air Date: 1985-06-14

9. The Treble

Air Date: 1985-06-21

10. The Salesman Goes to China

Air Date: 1985-07-12

11. Quickly Up the Thames

Air Date: 1985-07-19

12. Luck & Flaw's Illustrated Guide to Caricature

Air Date: 1985-07-26

13. At the Proms 1

Air Date: 1985-08-02

14. At the Proms 2

Air Date: 1985-08-09

15. At the Proms 3

Air Date: 1985-08-16

16. At the Proms 4

Air Date: 1985-07-23

17. At the Proms 5

Air Date: 1985-08-30

18. At the Proms 6

Air Date: 1985-09-06

19. At the Proms 7

Air Date: 1985-09-13

20. Cannon in Flowers

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21. Rodin 1840-1917

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1. Huw Wheldon by His Friends

Air Date: 1986-04-11

2. Lawrence and Arabia

Air Date: 1986-04-18

3. Comic Relief

Air Date: 1986-04-25

4. Made in Ealing

Air Date: 1986-05-02

A look at the films produced at Ealing Film Studios in London.

5. Video Jukebox

Air Date: 1986-05-09

6. Alice Walker & the Color Purple

Air Date: 1986-05-16

7. The Last Moguls

Air Date: 1986-05-23

Israeli Go-Go Boys Golan and Globus at the height of their careers - everybody is working for Cannon!

1. The Proms -1

Air Date: 1986-08-08

3. The Bolshoi Ballet

Air Date: 1986-08-28

4. Jessye Norman

Air Date: 1986-09-12

5. Meetings with Ambler

Air Date: 1986-09-19

6. Hitchcock: Its Only A Movie

Air Date: 1986-09-26

7. Hitchcock: Sex, Murder and Mayhem

Air Date: 1986-10-03

8. Courtney Pine and the New Jazz

Air Date: 1986-10-10

9. The Mission

Air Date: 1986-10-17

A documentary that chronicles the making of the movie. It looks at the process of casting real Indians in the film and their importance in adding authenticity to the story, their performances and involvement in the intricacies of the filmmaking process, Native culture today in South America, the history of Jesuit missions, the film's set construction, action scene construction, the picture's story and themes, the presence of the modern-day Colombian Army on the set and the resultant parallels to the film, and much more.

11. Ray Charles

Air Date: 1986-10-31

12. Cannon in Flowers

Air Date: 1986-11-07

13. Rodin 1840-1917

Air Date: 1986-11-14

1. George Grosz: Enemy of the State

Air Date: 1987-05-05

Dramatized documentary about the life of the painter George Grosz.

2. Real Dreams

Air Date: 1987-05-12

3. James Stirling

Air Date: 1987-05-22

4. Michelangelo

Air Date: 1987-05-29

5. A US Journey with Isaac Bashevis

Air Date: 1987-06-05

6. Aretha Franklin

Air Date: 1987-06-12

7. The Big Bang in the Book World

Air Date: 1987-06-19

8. George Gershwin Remembered

Air Date: 1987-07-10

9. The Hackney Way

Air Date: 1987-07-17

10. Eudora Welty

Air Date: 1987-07-24

1. Getting to Dylan

Air Date: 1987-09-19

Todays theme is Getting to Dylan.

2. Towards Antara

Air Date: 1987-09-25

3. Omnibus: 20th Anniversary Show

Air Date: 1987-10-02

4. The Arts & Glasnost: Cinema

Air Date: 1987-10-09

5. The Arts & Glasnost: Artists

Air Date: 1987-10-16

6. The Arts & Glasnost: Writers

Air Date: 1987-10-23

7. Arthur Miller

Air Date: 1987-10-30

1. Irving Berlin - The Voice of the City

Air Date: 1988-05-06

2. A Poisoned Chalice?

Air Date: 1988-05-13

3. Lucien Freud

Air Date: 1988-05-20

4. Memories of a Musical Dog

Air Date: 1988-05-27

A celebration of a century of recording history as seen through the eyes of Nipper the 'His Master's Voice' dog for ever seen listening to a gramophone horn in the world famous trademark. In the programme there are extracts from nearly 100 recordings.

5. The Cinema of Satyajit Ray

Air Date: 1988-06-03

6. My Homeland

Air Date: 1988-06-10

7. Pablo Picasso: The Last Years

Air Date: 1988-06-17

8. From Bitter Earth - Artists of the Holocaust

Air Date: 1988-07-08

9. Songs from the Life of Leonard Cohen

Air Date: 1988-07-15

10. Whale Nation

Air Date: 1988-07-22

1. Korea - A House Divided

Air Date: 1988-09-23

2. Sir Fred- a Celilbration

Air Date: 1988-09-30

3. Gwen: A Juliet Remembered

Air Date: 1988-10-07

4. Eisenstein: Little Boy from Riga

Air Date: 1988-10-14

A study of the life and work of the Russian film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein.

5. Harold Pinter

Air Date: 1988-10-21

Anna Ford speak to Harold Pinter about how life experience had politicized his work.

6. Charles: A Vision of Britain

Air Date: 1988-10-28

7. Caryl Churchill

Air Date: 1988-11-04

8. Paul Simon

Air Date: 1988-11-11

Paul Simon is interviewed by Mark Steyn a couple of years after he released his Graceland album. In response to Steyn's thoughtful questions, Simon reflects on his music, his songwriting and his influences.

9. Episode 9

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1. Tribute to Laurence Olivier

Air Date: 1989-07-14

2. Jessye Norman Sings Carmen

Air Date: 1989-07-21

3. A Second Chance

Air Date: 1989-09-08

4. Rape - That's Entertainment?

Air Date: 1989-09-15

5. Raymond Carver

Air Date: 1989-09-22

6. Butterfly

Air Date: 1989-09-29

7. Art in the Ring

Air Date: 1989-10-06

8. Art in the Third Reich- Power

Air Date: 1989-10-13

9. Art in the Third Reich- Propaganda

Air Date: 1989-10-20

10. Ronnie Scott and All That Jazz

Air Date: 1989-10-27

11. Tim Rollins & Kos: The Art of Survival

Air Date: 1989-11-03

12. The Kirov Ballet: Leningrad Legend

Air Date: 1989-11-10

13. Pipe Dreams

Air Date: 1989-11-24

14. My Most Difficult Book - The Story of 'Lolita'

Air Date: 1989-12-01

How Vladimir Nabokov wrote his most famous novel, and why it is one of the greatest novels ever written.

15. Alan Ayckbourn: Sex and Politics

Air Date: 1990-02-13

Michael Billington, drama critic of The Guardian newspaper, explores the life and work of Alan Ayckbourn, including his latest play due to open in London - Man of the Moment - and also conducts an interview with the playwright and director.

16. Sunday in the Park with Stephen

Air Date: 1990-03-20

17. The Novelist Who Would Be President

Air Date: 1990-03-27

18. Van Gogh

Air Date: 1990-06-20

Vincent Van Gogh [played by Linus Roache] meets Roulin, [played by Jim Broadbent]and Gaughin [played by Jack Shepherd]

1. Malkovich

Air Date: 1990-09-07

2. Plunder - The Stolen Kanakaria Mosaics

Air Date: 1990-09-14

3. King of the Blues

Air Date: 1990-09-21

BBC documentary directed by Iann Potts. Follows BB King's home-coming playing a concert in his home town of Indianola, to Parchman Prison bull ring where he gives a concert to inmates.

4. Jorge Amado and his Tent of Miracles

Air Date: 1990-09-28

5. Life of Python

Air Date: 1990-10-05

6. Building for a New Age - A Romanian Story

Air Date: 1990-10-12

7. L.B - A Portrait of Leonard Bernstein

Air Date: 1990-10-19

8. Antoni Tapies

Air Date: 1990-10-26

9. Garrison Keillor - The Wide Open Page

Air Date: 1990-11-02

10. The Return of the Green Man

Air Date: 1990-11-11

11. Tales of Ordinary Murder - Rian Mala in South Africa

Air Date: 1990-11-30

12. Behind the American Dream

Air Date: 1990-12-07

13. A Profile of Michael Andrews

Air Date: 1991-01-29

14. Inside the Russia House

Air Date: 1991-02-19

15. Sidney Lumet

Air Date: 1991-01-26

16. Tom Jones - The Voice Made Flesh

Air Date: 1991-03-29

17. Episode 17

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18. Episode 18

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19. Episode 19

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20. Episode 20

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1. La Stupenda - A Retrospective of Dam

Air Date: 1991-07-11

2. The Proms/Pictures at an Exhibition

Air Date: 1991-08-30

3. Peter Greenaway

Air Date: 1991-09-13

4. Pablo Casals: Song of the Birds

Air Date: 1991-09-20

5. Don Delillo/The Word, the Image, the Gun

Air Date: 1991-09-27

About the American novelist Don Delillo who is obsessed by violent images and what they can do to the soul of a 20th century culture like his, is dazzlingly, nay blindingly, assembled.

6. Torvill & Dean: Bladerunners

Air Date: 1991-10-04

7. Malcolm Arnold at 70

Air Date: 1991-10-11

8. Martha Gellhorn

Air Date: 1991-10-18

9. Against Pornography: The Feminism of Andrea Dworkin

Air Date: 1991-10-25

Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin's expose on the pornography industry.

10. Irek Mukhamedov

Air Date: 1991-10-11

11. Eric Hebborn: Portrait of a Master Forger

Air Date: 1991-11-08

12. Ulster Says Ho Ho Ho

Air Date: 1991-11-15

13. Joseph Cornel: Worlds in a Box

Air Date: 1991-11-29

14. Shakespeare: A Year with the RSC

Air Date: 1991-12-06

15. The Prince of Paisley Park

Air Date: 1991-12-12

16. Benny Hill: Clown Imperial

Air Date: 1991-12-20

17. Signs of the City

Air Date: 1992-01-21

18. Episode 18

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22. Episode 22

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23. Episode 23

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24. Episode 24

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1. Barcelona with Robert Hughes

Air Date: 1992-07-16

2. Angela Carter's Curious Room

Air Date: 1992-09-15

3. Disney: The Fairy-Tale Years

Air Date: 1992-09-22

4. The Piero Trail

Air Date: 1992-09-29

5. Lost Paradise -The Gardens of Burlemarx

Air Date: 1992-10-06

6. Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott

Air Date: 1992-10-13

7. Who's This Nobody from Quebec?

Air Date: 1992-10-20

8. Avigdor Arikha

Air Date: 1992-10-27

9. Gunter Grass: Fiction at the Frontier

Air Date: 1992-11-03

10. Leonora Carrington: The House of Fear

Air Date: 1992-11-10

11. Horst: Sixty Years and Still in Vogue

Air Date: 1992-11-17

12. John Ford: Part One

Air Date: 1992-12-01

13. John Ford 2

Air Date: 1992-12-08

14. The King's College Choir

Air Date: 1992-12-15

15. Rudolf Nureyev

Air Date: 1993-01-12

16. Vittorio Storaro: Writing with Light

Air Date: 1993-03-02

1. Wild Swans

Air Date: 1993-09-28

2. Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One

Air Date: 1993-10-05

3. Nina Simone -The Legend

Air Date: 1993-10-12

4. Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part Two

Air Date: 1993-10-12

5. Sweet Home Chicago

Air Date: 1993-10-19

6. Houdini

Air Date: 1993-10-26

7. The Magic Lantern

Air Date: 1993-11-02

8. The Russian Striptease

Air Date: 1993-11-09

9. Everything You Wanted to Know About Conductors But Were Afraid to Ask

Air Date: 1993-11-23

10. The Boy Next Door

Air Date: 1993-11-30

A portrait of Boy George. UK telly. Early 90s. Crying Game US release era.

11. Who Killed Tchaikovsky

Air Date: 1993-12-07

A hundred years ago Tchaikovsky died suddenly In St Petersburg, within days of conducting the work many consider to be his greatest, the Pathétique Symphony. How did the great composer meet his death? Officially, he died of cholera, but a Russian emigre living in America has produced evidence to show that he was forced to commit suicide. Anthony Holden conducts an investigation into the mystery, and the film follows clues in New York, St Petersburg and Moscow, clues within the music and the known facts of Tchaikovsky's life, in search of the facts behind the composer's untimely death.

12. Looking Back at You

Air Date: 1993-12-14

13. Sunset Boulevard

Air Date: 1993-12-21

A look behind the scenes of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic movie 'Sunset Boulevard'

14. Freeze, But Is It Art?

Air Date: 1994-02-22

15. The Piero Trail 1

Air Date: 1994-02-23

17. Mister Abbott's Broadway

Air Date: 1994-03-01

18. The Piero Trail 2

Air Date: 1994-03-02

19. Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy

Air Date: 1994-03-08

Profile of the novelist Vikram Seth, including footage from a family reunion in Delhi.

20. Hildegard

Air Date: 1994-03-29

21. Bill T Jones

Air Date: 1994-04-05

22. Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades

Air Date: 1994-04-12

23. Joan Littlewood's Lovely War

Air Date: 1994-04-19

24. Sir John Betjeman

Air Date: 1994-04-26

25. Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo

Air Date: 1994-05-03

26. Duke Ellington 2

Air Date: 1994-05-10

27. Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King

Air Date: 1994-05-24

1. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Air Date: 1994-10-11

2. Doris Lessing: A Part of Me

Air Date: 1994-10-18

3. Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder

Air Date: 1994-10-25

4. About Face

Air Date: 1994-11-01

5. The Trials of Dominick Dunne

Air Date: 1994-11-08

6. Pink Floyd: The Story

Air Date: 1994-11-15

A look back at the band's 30 year career.

7. Henri Cartier-Bresson: Question for a Question

Air Date: 1994-11-22

8. Stevenson's Travels 1

Air Date: 1994-11-29

First part of a two part doc on Robert Louis Stevenson, tracing his life from his childhood in Edinburgh through teenage travels with his father to his time as a wild student in Edinburgh.

9. Stevenson's Travels 2

Air Date: 1994-12-06

Part 2 covers last 14 years of his life and work, including his return to America, touring the South Pacific, and settling in Samoa. Also a newly discovered 1940's interview with step-daughter Belle Strong.

10. The Greatest Living Painter: De Kooning

Air Date: 1995-02-21

Documentary about abstract expressionist artist Willem de Kooning. This explores his late work and the allegations that they have been kept off the market to inflate their value.

11. Carnival: The Biggest Party in the World

Air Date: 1995-02-28

12. Joshua Bell

Air Date: 1995-03-07

13. Ready When You Are, Mr Patel

Air Date: 1995-03-14

14. Darker Than Blue: Curtis Mayfield

Air Date: 1995-03-21

Soul legend Curtis Mayfield talks to writer Caryl Phillips about his life, career and contribution to the Civil Rights Movement in America. Program includes archive footage and contributions from family, friends and colleagues.

15. Jean Renoir: From La Belle Epoque to WW1

Air Date: 1995-04-04

16. Jean Renoir: Hollywood & Beyond

Air Date: 1995-04-11

17. Perry & Croft: The Sitcoms

Air Date: 1995-04-18

A look at the work of television comedy writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry, featuring interviews with the men themselves, the many stars of the shows they created and other famous admirers.

18. Divas

Air Date: 1995-04-25

19. Ginger Rogers: A Tribute

Air Date: 1995-04-30

Hollywood star Ginger Rogers, who died at her California home on 25 April, began her career as a teenage vaudeville dancer and became the world's highest paid film actress. Above all, she is remembered for her dancing partnership with Fred Astaire. This film, screened as an Omnibus special on 30 April, shortly after her death, looks at how the legendary musicals were made, with anecdotes by Ginger herself, and clips from Astaire's last television interview.

20. Dave Stewart: Greetings from the Gutter

Air Date: 1995-05-02

1. Brian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These Times

Air Date: 1995-09-03

3. Listen, Paula...

Air Date: 1995-09-18

4. Enigma: The Making of a Hardback Hero

Air Date: 1995-09-25

Robert Harris's Fatherland was a publishing phenomenon, the most successful first novel by a British author in 20 years. Now he's writing his 2nd novel, Enigma, which looks like being the publishing event of the year. Can he do it? Is he a one-hit wonder or a hardback hero?

6. Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal Part 1

Air Date: 1995-10-09

7. Gore Vidal's Gore Vidal Part 2

Air Date: 1995-10-16

10. A Foundation Course in Art

Air Date: 1995-11-11

12. Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook

Air Date: 1995-12-19

13. Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood

Air Date: 1996-01-08

17. A Day on the Mountain

Air Date: 1996-02-05

19. Written on Water: A Film About Budapest

Air Date: 1996-04-22

21. Eve Arnold in Retrospect

Air Date: 1996-05-13

Documentary about a pioneering American photojournalist Eve Arnold.

22. Degas: The Old Man Mad About Art

Air Date: 1996-05-20

1. The Royal Court Diaries

Air Date: 1996-11-05

2. Dancing Through Darkness

Air Date: 1997-01-14

A moving look at the legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the final decade of his life, when he struggled to continue in his role as artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet even as he tried to keep his battle against AIDS a secret.

3. The Wanderer

Air Date: 1997-01-22

4. Sir Walter Scott: Wizard of the North

Air Date: 1997-02-10

5. Balthus the Painter

Air Date: 1997-03-02

Documentary about the famed Polish-French painter Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, known as Balthus.

6. Stars and their Mas

Air Date: 1997-03-09

Mother's Day special.

7. Milos Forman

Air Date: 1997-03-16

8. George Lucas - Flying Solo

Air Date: 1997-03-23

9. Episode 9

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1. Jack Rosenthal: Jack the Lad

Air Date: 1997-06-23

2. Anthony Green Ra - 57 Up

Air Date: 1997-06-30

3. Dame Henrietta's Dream

Air Date: 1997-07-07

Focuses on the Hampstead Garden Suburb set up by Dame Henrietta Barnett to rescue people from East End.

4. Michael Redgrave - My Father

Air Date: 1997-07-13

5. Whatever Happened to Clement & LaFrenais?

Air Date: 1997-07-20

6. East of Eastenders

Air Date: 1997-07-27

7. Mayibuye I Afrika: Let Africa Come Home

Air Date: 1997-08-03

8. If: A Film About Rudyard Kipling

Air Date: 1997-08-10

9. Brit Art at the Royal Academy

Air Date: 1997-09-14

10. Reeves & Mortimer: The Film

Air Date: 1997-09-21

11. Sir George Solti: The Making of a Maestro

Air Date: 1997-09-29

12. Antony Sher

Air Date: 1997-10-05

13. Oscar

Air Date: 1997-10-12

14. Salvador Dali: The Fame and the Shame1

Air Date: 1997-10-20

15. Salvador Dali: The Fame and the Shame1

Air Date: 1997-10-21

16. Citizen Kay

Air Date: 1997-10-26

17. Lewis Carroll: Curiouser and Curiouser

Air Date: 1998-01-04

Celebrating the centenary of Lewis Carroll.

18. Pierre Bonnard: A Love Exposed

Air Date: 1998-02-10

19. Jim Sheridan

Air Date: 1998-02-22

20. André Previn

Air Date: 1998-03-01

21. The Pied Piper of Harlem

Air Date: 1998-03-08

22. Gilbert and Sullivan: Instant Merriment

Air Date: 1998-03-15

A look at the Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Berkeley California, which was conceived by Halifax entrepreneur Ian Smith, who took considerable financial risks on the venture.

23. Nick Hornby: Man of the Match

Air Date: 1998-04-21

24. Jeffrey Archer: The Self Made Man

Air Date: 1998-05-13

25. Stars and Their Pas

Air Date: 1998-06-21

1. The Art of Diana

Air Date: 1998-08-30

2. Alan McGee: The Man Who Discovered Oasis

Air Date: 1998-09-14

3. Zizi je t'aime

Air Date: 1998-09-21

4. Cat People

Air Date: 1998-09-28

5. Darcey Bussell

Air Date: 1998-10-05

6. Billy Fury: Halfway to Paradise

Air Date: 1998-10-12

7. The Whirl of Vanity Fair

Air Date: 1998-11-25

8. Julie Andrews

Air Date: 1998-12-15

9. Starring - Animals

Air Date: 1998-12-20

10. Bring Me Sunshine: The Heart and Soul of Eric Morecambe

Air Date: 1998-12-23

11. Mad About Monet

Air Date: 1999-01-28

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Rating

7.2/10

Release Date

1967-10-13

Episodes

717 (36 seasons)

Status

Canceled

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Production Companies

BBC

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