Omnibus
Season 31
199326 episodes
Episode 1
Wild Swans
Sep 28, 1993
Episode 2
Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
Oct 5, 1993
Episode 3
Nina Simone -The Legend
Oct 12, 1993
Episode 4
Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part Two
Oct 12, 1993
Episode 5
Sweet Home Chicago
Oct 19, 199346m
When southern blues musicians moved north in the years after the war Chicago was an obvious destination, offering day jobs in Industry and night work in the clubs. Of the record labels reflecting this migration the most successful was Chess, and the fascinating story of Chicago blues is therefore also a procession through the tiny Chess studios, from Muddy Waters to the Roiling Stones, who took their name from one of Waters's songs and helped spread the music to Europe. Mick Jagger talks of his debt to Chicago blues, and the great survivors like Buddy Guy tell their own tale, interspersed with priceless archive footage of artists like Chuck Berry , Howlin' Wolf and Little Walter.
Episode 6
Houdini
Oct 26, 1993
Episode 7
The Magic Lantern
Nov 2, 1993
Episode 8
The Russian Striptease
Nov 9, 1993
Episode 9
Everything You Wanted to Know About Conductors But Were Afraid to Ask
Nov 23, 1993
Episode 10
The Boy Next Door
Nov 30, 1993
A portrait of Boy George. UK telly. Early 90s. Crying Game US release era.
Episode 11
Who Killed Tchaikovsky
Dec 7, 1993
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.
Episode 12
Sebastião Salgado: Looking Back at You
Dec 14, 199351m
A documentary that visits Brazil, India and Paris to explore the work of photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who had been working for seven years on a huge project recording the lives of manual workers throughout the world.
Episode 13
Sunset Boulevard
Dec 21, 1993
A look behind the scenes of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic movie 'Sunset Boulevard'
Episode 14
Freeze, But Is It Art?
Feb 22, 1994
Episode 15
The Piero Trail 1
Feb 23, 1994
Episode 17
Mister Abbott's Broadway
Mar 1, 1994
Episode 18
The Piero Trail 2
Mar 2, 1994
Episode 19
Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy
Mar 8, 1994
Profile of the novelist Vikram Seth, including footage from a family reunion in Delhi.
Episode 20
Hildegard
Mar 29, 1994
Episode 21
Bill T Jones
Apr 5, 1994
Episode 22
Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades
Apr 12, 1994
Episode 23
Joan Littlewood's Lovely War
Apr 19, 1994
Episode 24
Sir John Betjeman
Apr 26, 1994
Episode 25
Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo
May 3, 1994
Episode 26
Duke Ellington 2
May 10, 1994
Episode 27
Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King
May 24, 1994