Episodes
Wild Swans
September 28, 1993
Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
October 5, 1993
Nina Simone -The Legend
October 12, 1993
Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part Two
October 12, 1993
Sweet Home Chicago
October 19, 1993
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.
Houdini
October 26, 1993
The Magic Lantern
November 2, 1993
The Russian Striptease
November 9, 1993
Everything You Wanted to Know About Conductors But Were Afraid to Ask
November 23, 1993
The Boy Next Door
November 30, 1993
A portrait of Boy George. UK telly. Early 90s. Crying Game US release era.
Who Killed Tchaikovsky
December 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.
Sebastião Salgado: Looking Back at You
December 14, 1993
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.
Sunset Boulevard
December 21, 1993
A look behind the scenes of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic movie 'Sunset Boulevard'
Freeze, But Is It Art?
February 22, 1994
The Piero Trail 1
February 23, 1994
Mister Abbott's Broadway
March 1, 1994
The Piero Trail 2
March 2, 1994
Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy
March 8, 1994
Profile of the novelist Vikram Seth, including footage from a family reunion in Delhi.
Hildegard
March 29, 1994
Bill T Jones
April 5, 1994
Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades
April 12, 1994
Joan Littlewood's Lovely War
April 19, 1994
Sir John Betjeman
April 26, 1994
Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo
May 3, 1994
Duke Ellington 2
May 10, 1994
Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King
May 24, 1994
