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Season 31

27 episodes · 1993

  1. 1

    Wild Swans

    Sep 28, 199343 min

  2. 2

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

    Oct 5, 199343 min

  3. 3

    Nina Simone -The Legend

    Oct 12, 199343 min★ 7.8

  4. 4

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

    Oct 12, 199343 min

  5. 5

    Sweet Home Chicago

    Oct 19, 199346 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

    Houdini

    Oct 26, 199343 min

  7. 7

    The Magic Lantern

    Nov 2, 199343 min

  8. 8

    The Russian Striptease

    Nov 9, 199343 min

  9. 9

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

    Nov 23, 1993

  10. 10

    The Boy Next Door

    Nov 30, 199343 min

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

  11. 11

    Who Killed Tchaikovsky

    Dec 7, 199343 min

    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

    Sebastião Salgado: Looking Back at You

    Dec 14, 199351 min★ 4.8

    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

    Sunset Boulevard

    Dec 21, 199343 min

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

  14. 14

    Freeze, But Is It Art?

    Feb 22, 199443 min

  15. 15

    The Piero Trail 1

    Feb 23, 199443 min

  16. 16

    The Piero Trail 1

    43 min

  17. 17

    Mister Abbott's Broadway

    Mar 1, 199443 min

  18. 18

    The Piero Trail 2

    Mar 2, 199443 min

  19. 19

    Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy

    Mar 8, 199459 min

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

  20. 20

    Hildegard

    Mar 29, 199443 min

  21. 21

    Bill T Jones

    Apr 5, 199443 min

  22. 22

    Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades

    Apr 12, 199443 min

  23. 23

    Joan Littlewood's Lovely War

    Apr 19, 199443 min

  24. 24

    Sir John Betjeman

    Apr 26, 199443 min

  25. 25

    Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo

    May 3, 199443 min

  26. 26

    Duke Ellington 2

    May 10, 199443 min

  27. 27

    Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King

    May 24, 199443 min