Season 31

1. Wild Swans

1993-09-28

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

1993-10-05

3. Nina Simone -The Legend

1993-10-12

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

1993-10-12

5. Sweet Home Chicago

1993-10-19 · 46m

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. Houdini

1993-10-26

7. The Magic Lantern

1993-11-02

8. The Russian Striptease

1993-11-09

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

1993-11-23

10. The Boy Next Door

1993-11-30

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

11. Who Killed Tchaikovsky

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. Sebastião Salgado: Looking Back at You

1993-12-14 · 51m

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. Sunset Boulevard

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?

1994-02-22

15. The Piero Trail 1

1994-02-23

17. Mister Abbott's Broadway

1994-03-01

18. The Piero Trail 2

1994-03-02

19. Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy

1994-03-08

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

20. Hildegard

1994-03-29

21. Bill T Jones

1994-04-05

22. Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades

1994-04-12

23. Joan Littlewood's Lovely War

1994-04-19

24. Sir John Betjeman

1994-04-26

25. Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo

1994-05-03

26. Duke Ellington 2

1994-05-10

27. Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King

1994-05-24