Omnibus

Season 31

1993 · 26 episodes · 1h 37m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Wild Swans

   28 Sept 1993

2. 2

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

   5 Oct 1993

3. 3

   3. Nina Simone -The Legend

   12 Oct 1993

4. 4

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

   12 Oct 1993

5. 5

   5. Sweet Home Chicago

   19 Oct 1993 · 46 min

   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.

6. 6

   6. Houdini

   26 Oct 1993

7. 7

   7. The Magic Lantern

   2 Nov 1993

8. 8

   8. The Russian Striptease

   9 Nov 1993

9. 9

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

   23 Nov 1993

10. 10

    10. The Boy Next Door

    30 Nov 1993

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

11. 11

    11. Who Killed Tchaikovsky

    7 Dec 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.

12. 12

    12. Sebastião Salgado: Looking Back at You

    14 Dec 1993 · 51 min

    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.

13. 13

    13. Sunset Boulevard

    21 Dec 1993

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

14. 14

    14. Freeze, But Is It Art?

    22 Feb 1994

15. 15

    15. The Piero Trail 1

    23 Feb 1994

16. 17

    17. Mister Abbott's Broadway

    1 Mar 1994

17. 18

    18. The Piero Trail 2

    2 Mar 1994

18. 19

    19. Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy

    8 Mar 1994

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

19. 20

    20. Hildegard

    29 Mar 1994

20. 21

    21. Bill T Jones

    5 Apr 1994

21. 22

    22. Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades

    12 Apr 1994

22. 23

    23. Joan Littlewood's Lovely War

    19 Apr 1994

23. 24

    24. Sir John Betjeman

    26 Apr 1994

24. 25

    25. Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo

    3 May 1994

25. 26

    26. Duke Ellington 2

    10 May 1994

26. 27

    27. Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King

    24 May 1994