UK, 13 October 1967-2003
36 series, 823 episodes
black and white, colour, 4:3, 16:9
mono, stereo, English
A British arts documentary strand which has featured a number of episodes with genre interest and very occasionally some drama. It replaced the BBC's arts programme Monitor (1958-1965) and was in turn replaced by Imagine… (2003).
Episodes
Genre episodes are in bold and are linked to further information. Other episodes are listed for reference.
Series One
Everybody's Expo (13 October 1967)
Suliotis Sings (20 October 1967)
Beethoven: Eroica (3 November 1967)
Tyger, Tyger (10 November 1967)
Benjamin Britten and his Festival (22 November 1967)
East of Bedlam (24 November 1967)
Jacqueline (8 December 1967)
The World of Coppard (15 December 1967)
Dante's Inferno (22 December 1967)
Series Two
Diaghilev: The Years Abroad (2 January 1968)
Diaghilev: The Years in Exile (9 January 1968)
Edith Evans: A Birthday Tribute (16 January 1968)
Top Brass (23 January 1968)
Abelard and Heloise (30 January 1968)
The Exile (6 February 1968)
Tommy (26 March 1968)
God's Tunes (2 April 1968)
China and the Barbarians (23 April 1968)
Whistle and I'll Come to You (7 May 1968)
My Name Is Benvenuto Cellini (21 May 1968)
The Charm of Dynamite! (28 May 1968)
Corporal Jan (18 June 1968)
The Ken Russell Festival: Part 1 (25 June 1968)
The Ken Russell Festival: Part 2 (2 July 1968)
Song of Summer (15 September 1968)
J.B. Priestley (22 September 1968)
Olympia 1936 (29 October 1968)
Blow the Wind Southerly (6 October 1968)
All My Loving (3 November 1968)
Rossini: The Long Farewell (10 November 1968)
The Hunted Man (17 November 1968)
Paul Gauguin: Quest for Silence (24 November 1968)
Rubinstein Speaks (1 December 1968)
Hadrian VII (8 December 1968)
Tallulah Bankhead (15 December 1968)
Make a Joyful Noise (22 December 1968)
Eric Porter (29 December 1968)
Series Three
Cream (5 January 1969)
The Man Who Dances (12 January 1969)
Woman from the Shadows (19 January 1969)
Makers of the Queen's Music (26 January 1969)
From Today, Painting Is Dead (2 February 1969)
Myrna Loy (16 February 1969)
Malcolm Arnold (2 March 1969)
Shostakovich (6 March 1969)
A Couple of Brians (23 March 1969)
Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go (30 March 1969)
The Vital Juices Are Russian (13 April 1969)
1969 Oscar Awards (20 April 1969)
The More We Are Together (4 May 1969)
Lawrence Durrell's Paris (11 May 1969)
Margot Fonteyn: Birthday of a Ballerina (18 May 1969)
Acting Styles in the 20th Century (25 May 1969)
What If It's Just Green Cheese? (20 July 1969)
Omnibus at the Proms (3 August 1969)
Omnibus at the Proms: Sir Adrian Boult (17 August 1969)
Sir Henry Wood (7 September 1969)
J.B. Priestley (14 September 1969)
George Robey (28 September 1969)
Beautiful Beautiful (5 October 1969)
Sir Malcolm Sargent (12 October 1969)
What the Hell Ever Happens in Marlborough? (19 October 1969)
The Dream Divided (26 October 1969)
A Born Foreigner (2 November 1969)
Richter (9 November 1969)
The Confessions of Marian Evans (23 November 1969)
Noël Coward: Playwright (7 December 1969)
Where Are You Going to My Pretty Maid? (14 December 1969)
Tommy Steele and Things (21 December 1969)
The Unashamed Accompanist Gerald Moore (28 December 1969)
Series Four
Ian Fleming: Creator of the James Bond Myth (4 January 1970)
A Night's Darkness, a Day's Sail (18 January 1970)
Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) (25 January 1970)
Rope Ladder to the Moon (1 February 1970)
John Clare: ‘I Am…' (8 February 1970)
Dance of the Seven Veils (15 February 1970)
Who'll Buy a Bubble? (22 February 1970)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1 March 1970)
On the Waltz: 1: The Waltz Musical (15 March 1970)
The Wandsworth Sound (5 April 1970)
1970 Oscar Awards (12 April 1970)
Kenneth More (18 April 1970)
To Leningrad with Love (26 April 1970)
The Hollywood Image Part 1: The Silent Era (3 May 1970)
The Hollywood Image Part 2: The Talkies (10 May 1970)
The Hollywood Image Part 3: The Post War Years (17 May 1970)
A Vow Fulfilled? (31 May 1970)
The Other Edward Heath (28 June 1970)
Satchmo at 70 (5 July 1970)
Omnibus at the Proms (6 September 1970)
Ustinov's Expo (13 September 1970)
Heart of Britain (20 September 1970)
Art Therapy: Shapes in a Wilderness (27 September 1970)
Everything in the Garden: 1 (11 October 1970)
Everything in the Garden: 2 (18 October 1970)
It'll Be All Live on the Night: The Regional Theatre And It's Audience (1 November 1970)
The Trout (8 November 1970)
Robert Shaw: The Actor as Novelist (15 November 1970)
A Requiem for Modigliani (22 November 1970)
Rambert Remembers (29 November 1970)
Eisenstein (Part One) (6 December 1970)
Eisenstein (Part Two) (13 December 1970)
I Regret Nothing (27 December 1970)
Series Five
The Mysterious Mr Eliot: Aspects of T.S.Eliot (3 January 1971)
The Road to the Left: George Orwell (10 January 1971)
Chicago Blues (24 January 1971)
Cosmopolis (14 February 1971)
In Prison: a World of Its Own (14 March 1971)
The Making of ‘Husbands' (28 March 1971)
Brendan Behan (4 April 1971)
Henri Cartier-Bresson (18 April 1971)
In Search of Lost Time: Marcel Proust (1871-1922) (2 May 1971)
The Passionate Hunter (23 May 1971)
Ingrid Bergman Remembers (30 May 1971)
Three Looms Waiting (13 June 1971)
To Be a Witness: James Mossman (20 June 1971)
Tchaikovsky Competition (27 June 1971)
Bream at Stratford (4 July 1971)
Solzhenitsyn (11 July 1971)
Hail and Farewell: George Moore (18 July 1971)
Russell's Progress (25 July 1971)
Omnibus at the Proms (29 August 1971)
Happy Birthday Dear Albert (12 September 1971)
Glenda Jackson: a Private Face in a Public Place (19 September 1971)
The Young Platform (26 September 1971)
David Lean (3 October 1971)
There Was an Old Person Called Lear (10 October 1971)
Paul Klee: Heart of Creation (17 October 1971)
Rap Her Te Bank (24 October 1971)
Mind You I Live Here (31 October 1971)
Fifty Years on (7 November 1971)
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra (14 November 1971)
Vive La Culture (28 November 1971)
Will the Real Mr Hogarth…? (12 December 1971)
Humphrey Bogart (27 December 1971)
Season Six
Paradise Restored (2 January 1972)
A Modern Turn of Mind (30 January 1972)
Sir John Barbirolli: Glorious John (6 February 1972)
Bruno Walter: The Face of Music (13 February 1972)
Rise Above It: Tyrone Guthrie (20 February 1972)
Man at the Met (27 February 1972)
The Fall of Venice (19 March 1972)
Actor, I Said (9 April 1972)
The Great American Dream Machine (16 April 1972)
Le Corbusier (23 April 1972)
Leningrad Reborn (30 April 1972)
Whatever Turns You on (7 May 1972)
All Things to All People (14 May 1972)
Born Black, Born British (11 June 1972)
Fiesta on the Clyde (25 June 1972)
A Dignified Comic Set-To (2 July 1972)
The Man Behind the Mask: Marcel Marceau (23 July 1972)
The Leeds International Piano Competition (17 September 1972)
The Last Samurai (24 September 1972)
The Wit and World of George Bernard Shaw (1 October 1972)
Vincent the Dutchman (15 October 1972)
Who Needs a Conductor? (22 October 1972)
The Performers: Goya (29 October 1972)
Artists in Wartime (12 November 1972)
The Great Orchestras: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (19 November 1972)
Kelly Country (26 November 1972)
Max Beerbohm Remembers (10 December 1972)
Judy: Impressions of Garland (24 December 1972)
Season Seven
Omnibus File: Modern Music (7 January 1973)
The Savage Image (14 January 1973)
Why Culture? (21 January 1973)
John Williams at Ronnie Scott's (28 January 1973)
Andy Warhol: but the People Are Beautiful (4 February 1973)
Morecambe and Wise: Fools Rush in (18 February 1973)
The Name Grierson: The Word Documentary (25 February 1973)
Master of the Cello (11 March 1973)
It Must Be Something in the Water (18 March 1973)
Sir Noel Coward (8 April 1973)
A Window in the War (15 April 1973)
The Making of a Musical (29 April 1973)
That's My Little Masterpiece (6 May 1973)
The Passing of the Year (13 May 1973)
Omnibus File: British Jazz (3 June 1973)
Leonardo: to Know How to See (8 July 1973)
Omnibus at the Proms: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (29 July 1973)
Omnibus at the Proms (5 August 1973)
Omnibus at the Proms: Rachmaninov Centenary Concert (12 August 1973)
George Orwell: The Road to the Left (17 August 1973)
Omnibus at the Proms: Elgar (26 August 1973)
Omnibus at the Proms (2 September 1973)
A Question of Feeling (9 September 1973)
Andre Previn: The Other LSO (16 September 1973)
The Sydney Opera House: The Building That Nearly Was (23 September 1973)
Helpmann (30 September 1973)
The British Hero (7 October 1973)
George Stubbs: Make the Knife Go with the Pencil (21 October 1973)
Hollywood on Trial (4 November 1973)
The Runaway (18 November 1973)
François Truffaut: Film Maker (2 December 1973)
Bejart plus Boulez equals Ballet (9 December 1973)
It's Fantastic, It's Futuristic, It's Fatalistic, It's Science Fiction (16 December 1973)
Impressions of A Christmas Carol (23 December 1973)
Gershwin's Porgy (24 December 1973)
Season Eight
Nureyev (27 January 1974)
The Great Orchestras: The London Symphony Orchestra (3 February 1974)
Acting a Part? (10 February 1974)
The Art of the Potter (17 February 1974)
Don't Take It for Granted (24 February 1974)
Claire Bloom (3 March 1974)
Kafka's Castle (17 March 1974)
John Boorman (24 March 1974)
Andre Previn Asks, What Price a Symphony? (31 March 1974)
The Invasion of Space (14 April 1974)
Wish You Were Here (15 April 1974)
Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scott's (4 April 1974)
Ella Fitzgerald's Other Show (4 May 1974)
The Great Glass Hive (5 May 1974)
Alan Price: Between Today and Yesterday (26 May 1974)
W.B. Yeats and the Coming Times (2 June 1974)
Dame Ninette De Valois (16 June 1974)
Ernest Brown: Pioneer Photographer (7 July 1974)
Words by Johnny Mercer (14 July 1974)
Ginger Baker in Africa (15 July 1974)
Imaginary Zoo (28 July 1974)
Omnibus at the Proms: BBC Symphony Orchestra – Debussy (4 August 1974)
Omnibus at the Proms: London Symphony Orchestra – Orff (11 August 1974)
Omnibus at the Proms: BBC Symphony Orchestra – Wagner/Chopin (18 August 1974)
Omnibus at the Proms: The Halle Orchestra – Strauss (25 August 1974)
Omnibus at the Proms (1 September 1974)
Omnibus at the Proms: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (8 September 1974)
Tommy Steele: My Life, My Song (8 October 1974)
The Goldwyn Touch (20 October 1974)
Joseph Conrad (27 October 1974)
Music from the Flames (10 November 1974)
The O De Cologne Show (17 November 1974)
The Jean Rhys Woman (24 November 1974)
Oscar Peterson and Andre Previn (1 December 1974)
Find Me (8 December 1974)
The Need for Nightmare (15 December 1974)
Cuckoo: A Celebration of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (22 December 1974)
A Circus for a School (29 December 1974)
Season Nine
Cathedral (5 January 1975)
Cracked Actor: David Bowie (26 January 1975)
Changes: Auguste Rodin (9 February 1975)
21 Not Out (16 February 1975)
Alphabets, Wild Things, Peter and a Golden Canary (23 February 1975)
Charles Chaplin: The Tramp and the Philosopher (2 March 1975)
The Friendly Invasion: 1850-1918 (9 March 1975)
Fidelio Finke, Where Are You Now? (16 March 1975)
African Sanctus (30 March 1975)
Nijinsky: God of the Dance (6 April 1975)
The Grierson Award (13 April 1975)
The Great Orchestras: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (27 April 1975)
Claes Oldenburg (4 May 1975)
Lyrics and Music by Irving Berlin (11 May 1975)
David Hockney in Paris (18 May 1975)
Pinchas Zukerman: Here to Make Music (1 June 1975)
A Step in the Jungle: Ronald Searle (15 June 1975)
Exton, Stoppard and Co at the Eleventh Hour (21 September 1975)
The Great Orchestras: The Boston Symphony Orchestra (28 September 1975)
Big Ware: Traditional Country Potter (5 October 1975)
Anatomies: Images in the Work of John Donne (12 October 1975)
Torrents of the Mind (19 October 1975)
Thomas Mann: The Fight against Death (26 October 1975)
Shafts of Sunlight (9 November 1975)
The Friendly Invasion 2: From Jazz to Swing (23 November 1975)
The Friendly Invasion 3: The Road to Rock ‘N' Roll (30 November 1975)
Living Together (7 December 1975)
Celebrating Jane Austen (18 December 1975)
Come and Dance (21 December 1975)
Season Ten
8 January 1976
The Golden Age of Spanish Painting (15 January 1976)
The Waltz (22 January 1976)
29 January 1976
All Clouds Are Clocks (5 February 1976)
A Matter of Life and Death (12 February 1976)
Constable Exhibition (19 February 1976)
26 February 1976
A Kind of Innocence (4 March 1976)
Placido Domingo (11 March 1976)
Portraits – Face to Face (18 March 1976)
The Honourable Out of Step (25 March 1976)
1 April 1976
The Spirit of the Land (8 April 1976)
Monsieur Hulot's Work (13 May 1976)
Toccata at the Plaza (20 May 1976)
Far Away (27 May 1976)
John Constable (3 June 1976)
The Sound of Islam (10 June 1976)
17 June 1976
Gene Kelly (24 June 1976)
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1 July 1976)
Beyond a Boundary (8 July 1976)
All the Superlatives (21 October 1976)
Omnibus USA: Dave Brubeck (28 October 1976)
My Homeland (4 November 1976)
Art – To a Degree (11 November 1976)
Culture – Who Needs It? (18 November 1976)
Omnibus USA: Have a Nice Day (25 November 1976)
Signs of Vigorous Life (2 December 1976)
Benjamin Britten (5 December 1976)
Two Lives in Music (9 December 1976)
Omnibus USA: New York, New York (16 December 1976)
The Story of Pantomime (23 December 1976)
Pleasure at Her Majesty's (29 December 1976)
Season Eleven
Whose Colour Is White? Whose Colour Is Black? (1977)
The Song of Mandalay (3 January 1977)
A White Wall in Alentejo (13 January 1977)
Omnibus USA: Doc, Charlie and the Painters (20 January 1977)
The Posterman (27 January 1977)
Paintings by El Greco (3 February 1977)
Paintings by Titian (10 February 1977)
Paintings by Velazquez (17 February 1977)
L.A.: My Home Town (24 February 1977)
Nostalgia (3 March 1977)
Omnibus USA: New York Real, New York Abstract (10 March 1977)
Orpheus and His Flute (17 March 1977)
Walton No.1 (23 March 1977)
Stan Tracey: Original (31 March 1977)
Omnibus USA: Documentary America (7 April 1977)
Seeds of a New Life (14 April 1977)
Half a Smile from Stoke (21 April 1977)
The Human Face (28 April 1977)
Walk to the Moon (5 May 1977)
Omnibus (12 May 1977)
Omnibus Italia: Florence – After the Flood (26 May 1977)
Omnibus Italia: The Madonna and the Volcano (2 June 1977)
Omnibus Italia: A Line through the Labyrinth (10 June 1977)
Chicago Blues (16 June 1977)
Victims and Survivors (23 June 1977)
Conductor's Eye View (30 June 1977)
Unita/Bach at Tilford (7 July 1977)
Arabian Fantasy (12 July 1977)
The Santa Fe Opera (14 July 1977)
Music of a Thousand Autumns (13 October 1977)
The Nat Gonella Story (20 October 1977)
Big Band Jazz (27 October 1977)
Pure Radio (3 November 1977)
A Day in the Garden (10 November 1977)
10F-The Story of a Piano (17 November 1977)
Poetry (24 November 1977)
Oscar Peterson and Andre Previn (1 December 1977)
For Love or Money (8 December 1977)
Series Twelve
Jeanne Moreau (12 January 1978)
Gustave Courbet: Engine of Revolution (12 January 1978)
Voices of Children (26 January 1978)
Everyone a Special Kind of Artist (2 February 1978)
Marevna and Marika (9 February 1978)
The Song of the White Horse (16 February 1978)
Warsaw Autumn (23 February 1978)
The Art Show of Ed Kienholz (2 August 1978)
The People's Park (9 August 1978)
Leos Janacek (16 August 1978)
The Pilgrimage of Ti-Jean (30 August 1978)
The Record Machine (12 October 1978)
Living Room (19 October 1978)
The Savage: Paul Gauguin and the Construction of Paradise (26 October 1978)
Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision (2 November 1978)
628-E8 (16 November 1978)
It's Stolen Your Face (23 November 1978)
After the Dream (30 November 1978)
Getting Away with Murder (7 December 1978)
She Must Be Joking! (21 December 1978)
Season Thirteen
Lillian Hellman (8 February 1979)
Rene Magritte (15 February 1979)
Words Fail Me (22 February 1979)
Brian Clarke: The Story So Far (15 March 1979)
Natalia Makarova (29 March 1979)
Drawn and Quartered (10 May 1979)
Kiss Me, Petruchio (17 May 1979)
Lotte Lenya (24 May 1979)
The Brothers Grimm (31 May 1979)
Dread, Beat an' Blood (7 June 1979)
The Long Walk of Fred Young (14 June 1979)
Pig Earth (21 June 1979)
Gold on Ice (26 June 1979)
Women in Captivity (28 June 1979)
Schalcken the Painter (23 December 1979)
Series Fourteen
The First Freedom (1980)
Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man (15 January 1980)
Johnny Be Good (29 January 1980)
Blue Moon (5 February 1980)
Tuning in (26 February 1980)
Parting Shots from Animals (4 March 1980)
Graham Sutherland: The Artist on Film (11 March 1980)
Hollywood's Wild Angel (18 March 1980)
Home Movies (25 March 1980)
Windhover (1 April 1980)
Bugs and Daffy and Chuck and Porky (8 April 1980)
Coming Alive (22 April 1980)
We Think the World of You (15 May 1980)
Quinn Running (8 May 1980)
Series Fifteen
Judy Chicago's Dinner Party (13 January 1981)
But the Client Loved It… (20 January 1981)
When the Dancing Had to Stop (27 January 1981)
The Story of G… (10 February 1981)
Dallas the Big Store (24 February 1981)
Stevie Wonder: Innervisions (17 March 1981)
Norman Foster: Watch This Space (24 March 1981)
An Actor's Life for Me (31 March 1981)
Parrots, Bees, Ducks and Finches (7 April 1981)
We Ask the Questions (21 April 1981)
Landseer: a Victorian Comedy (2 June 1981)
Series Sixteen
10 January 1982
17 January 1982
24 January 1982
7 February 1982
14 February 1982
21 February 1982
28 February 1982
7 March 1982
14 March 1982
21 March 1982
28 March 1982
4 April 1982
18 April 1982
2 May 1982
9 May 1982
16 May 1982
10 October 1982
17 October 1982
24 October 1982
31 October 1982
14 November 1982
21 November 1982
28 November 1982
5 December 1982
12 December 1982
Series Seventeen
Peter Pan RSC (16 January 1983)
Cecile Ousset (23 January 1983)
Jonathan Miller – Magic Flute/Steven Berkoff (30 January 1983)
Raymond Briggs and the Bomb/Sutton Place (6 February 1983)
Richard Long (27 February 1983)
Patrick Heron (13 March 1983)
Celibidache and Faure's Requiem (3 April 1983)
Franco Zeffirelli (16 October 1983)
Dimitris Sgouros/Eileen Agar (20 November 1983)
Martin Bloch (11 December 1983)
Dolin, Friends and Memories (27 December 1983)
Series Eighteen
Haydn's Lost Mass, Mr Broadway (6 June 1984)
A Londoner in New York (8 July 1984)
The Quest for Reginald Goodall (16 September 1984)
Wells and His Women (23 September 1984)
The Bristol Showboat Saga (30 September 1984)
The Face of Christ (7 October 1984)
Tuscany Revisited (14 October 1984)
Images Sacred and Profane (17 October 1984)
Pennington's Chekhov (21 October 1984)
Lord Gowrie/Dance Umbrella (28 October 1984)
New Art (4 November 1984)
The Classiest Juke-Box in the World (11 November 1984)
The Killing Fields (18 November 1984)
Series Nineteen
Hancock: from East Cheam to Earl's Court (26 April 1985)
Malcolm Morley: The Outsider (3 May 1985)
Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story (10 May 1985)
The Battle for Mansion House Square (17 May 1985)
The Cotton Club Comes to the Ritz (24 May 1985)
Klemperer (31 May 1985)
Studs Terkel's Chicago (7 June 1985)
A South Bank Saga (14 June 1985)
The Treble (21 June 1985)
The Salesman Goes to China (12 July 1985)
Quickly Up the Thames (19 July 1985)
Luck and Flaw's Illustrated Guide to Caricature (26 July 1985)
Omnibus at the Proms (2 August 1985)
Omnibus at the Proms: Chamber Orchestra of Europe (9 August 1985)
Omnibus at the Proms: London Mozart Players (16 August 1985)
Omnibus at the Proms: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (23 August 1985)
Omnibus at the Proms: BBC Symphony Orchestra (30 August 1985)
Omnibus at the Proms: London Sinfonietta (6 September 1985)
Omnibus at the Proms: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (13 September 1985)
Series Twenty
Huw Wheldon: by His Friends (11 April 1986)
Lawrence and Arabia (18 April 1986)
Comic Relief (25 April 1986)
Made in Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios (2 May 1986)
Video Jukebox (9 May 1986)
Alice Walker and the Color Purple (16 May 1986)
The Last Moguls (23 May 1986)
Omnibus at the Proms (8 August 1986)
Omnibus at the Proms (15 August 1986)
Jessye Norman (12 September 1986)
Last Night of the Proms: BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra (13 September 1986)
Meetings with Ambler (19 September 1986)
Hitchcock Part One: It's Only a Movie (26 September 1986)
Hitchcock Part Two: Sex, Murder and Mayhem (3 October 1986)
Courtney Pine and the New Jazz (10 October 1986)
The Mission (17 October 1986)
The Most Beautiful Lies (24 October 1986)
Ray Charles (31 October 1986)
Cannon in Flowers (7 November 1986)
Rodin 1840-1917 (14 November 1986)
Series Twenty-One
George Grosz: Enemy of the State (8 May 1987)
Real Dreams (15 May 1987)
James Stirling (22 May 1987)
Michelangelo Revealed (29 May 1987)
Isaac in America: a Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer (5 June 1987)
Aretha Franklin: Queen of Soul (12 June 1987)
Big Bang in the Book World (19 June 1987)
George Gershwin Remembered (10 July 1987)
The Hackney Way (17 July 1987)
Eudora Welty: a Writer's Beginnings (24 July 1987)
Getting to Dylan (18 September 1987)
Towards Antara (25 September 1987)
The Omnibus Edition (2 October 1987)
The Arts and Glasnost: Cinema (9 October 1987)
The Arts and Glasnost: Artists (16 October 1987)
The Arts and Glasnost: Writers (23 October 1987)
Arthur Miller (30 October 1987)
Series Twenty-Two
Irving Berlin: The Voices of the City (6 May 1988)
A Poisoned Chalice? (13 May 1988)
Lucian Freud (20 May 1988)
Memories of a Musical Dog (27 May 1988)
The Cinema of Satyajit Ray (3 June 1988)
My Homeland (10 June 1988)
The Bull in Winter: The Last Years of Pablo Picasso (17 June 1988)
From Bitter Earth: Artists of the Holocaust (8 July 1988)
Songs from the Life of Leonard Cohen (15 July 1988)
Whale Nation (22 July 1988)
Omnibus at the Proms 88: Lyons Opera Orchestra (12 August 1988)
Omnibus at the Proms 88: BBC Symphony Orchestra (19 August 1988)
Korea: a House Divided (22 September 1988)
Sir Fred: A Celebration (30 September 1988)
Gwen: A Juliet Remembered (7 October 1988)
Eisenstein: The Little Boy from Riga (14 October 1988)
Harold Pinter (21 October 1988)
HRH the Prince of Wales: a Vision of Britain (28 October 1988)
Caryl Churchill (4 November 1988)
Paul Simon (11 November 1988)
Series Twenty-Three
Laurence Olivier 1907-1989: a Tribute (14 July 1989)
Jessye Norman Sings Carmen (21 July 1989)
Omnibus at the Proms: Mahler's Symphony no.4 in G Major (28 July 1989)
Omnibus at the Proms: an Evening with Maria Ewing (4 August 1989)
Omnibus at the Proms: Prokofiev and Schnittke (11 August 1989)
Omnibus at the Proms: Beethoven's Choral Symphony (18 August 1989)
Makarova Returns (24 August 1989)
Omnibus at the Proms: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra of Sweden (25 August 1989)
Omnibus at the Proms: Rozhdestvensky Conducts Cinderella (1 September 1989)
A Second Chance (8 September 1989)
Rape: That's Entertainment? (15 September 1989)
Raymond Carver: Dreams Are What You Wake Up from (22 September 1989)
Butterfly (29 September 1989)
Art in the Ring (6 October 1989)
Art in the Third Reich: The Orchestration of Power (13 October 1989)
Art in the Third Reich: The Propaganda Machine (20 October 1989)
Ronnie Scott and All That Jazz (27 October 1989)
The Art of Survival: Tim Rollins and Kos (3 November 1989)
Leningrad Legend: The Kirov Ballet (10 November 1989)
Pipe Dreams (24 November 1989)
My Most Difficult Book: The Story of Lolita (1 December 1989)
Series Twenty-Four
Sex, Politics and Alan Ayckbourn (13 February 1990)
Sunday in the Park with Stephen (20 March 1990)
The Story of the Novelist Who Would Be President (27 March 1990)
Van Gogh (20 July 1990)
Omnibus at the Proms: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (27 July 1990)
Omnibus at the Proms: Brahm's First Symphony,The Old School Tie (24 August 1990)
Omnibus at the Proms: Sibelius Violin Concerto, James Macmillan's the Confessions of Isobel Gowdie (31 August 1990)
Malkovich (7 September 1990)
Plunder: The Looting of the Kanakaria Mosaics (14 September 1990)
Last Night of the Proms: 2 (15 September 1990)
King of the Blues (21 September 1990)
Jorge Amado and His Tent of Miracles (28 September 1990)
Life of Python (5 October 1990)
Building for a New Age: a Romanian Story (12 October 1990)
Antoni Tapies (26 October 1990)
Garrison Keillor: The Wide Open Page (2 November 1990)
The Return of the Green Man (16 November 1990)
Tales of Ordinary Murder: Rian Malan in South Africa (30 November 1990)
Madonna: Behind the American Dream (7 December 1990)
Series Twenty-Five
Inside the Russia House (19 February 1991)
Sidney Lumet (26 February 1991)
Tom Jones: The Voice Made Flesh (29 March 1991)
La Stupenda (11 July 1991)
Last Night of the Proms (26 July 1991)
Omnibus at the Proms: Sheherazade (2 August 1991)
Omnibus at the Proms: Pictures at an Exhibition (30 August 1991)
Peter Greenaway: Anatomy of a Film Maker (13 September 1991)
Song of the Birds: A Portrait of Pablo Casals (20 September 1991)
Don DeLillo: The Word, the Image and the Gun (27 September 1991)
Bladerunners with Torvill and Dean (4 October 1991)
Malcolm Arnold at 70 (11 October 1991)
Martha Gellhorn (18 October 1991)
Against Pornography: The Feminism of Andrea Dworkin (25 October 1991)
Irek Mukhamedov (1 November 1991)
Eric Hebborn: Portrait of a Master Forger (8 November 1991)
Ulster Says Ho Ho (15 November 1991)
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box (29 November 1991)
Living Shakespeare: a Year with the RSC (6 December 1991)
The Prince of Paisley Park (13 December 1991)
Benny Hill: Clown Imperial (20 December 1991)
Series Twenty-Six
Signs of the City (21 January 1992)
Angela Carter's Curious Room (15 September 1992)
Disney: The Fairy Tale Years (22 September 1992)
The Piero Trail (29 September 1992)
The Lost Paradise (6 October 1992)
Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott (13 October 1992)
Who's This Nobody from Quebec? (20 October 1992)
Avigdor Arikha (27 October 1992)
Gunter Grass: Fiction at the Frontier (3 November 1992)
Leonora Carrington and the House of Fear (10 November 1992)
Horst: 60 Years and Still in Vogue (17 November 1992)
John Ford 1 (1 December 1992)
John Ford 2 (8 December 1992)
King's College Choir (15 December 1992)
Series Twenty-Seven
The Russian Striptease (9 January 1993)
Writing with Light: Vittorio Storaro (2 March 1993)
Wild Swans (28 September 1993)
Stevie Wonder: Innervisions (1 October 1993)
Korda “I Don't Grow on Trees” Part 1 (5 October 1993)
Nina Simone: The Legend (9 October 1993)
Korda “I Don't Grow on Trees” Part 2 (12 October 1993)
Sweet Home Chicago (19 October 1993)
Magic Lantern (2 November 1993)
Real Dreams: Into the Dark with Federico Fellini (7 November 1993)
The Portrait Now (16 November 1993)
Everything You Wanted to Know about Conductors but Were Afraid to Ask (23 November 1993)
The Boy Next Door (30 November 1993)
Who Killed Tchaikovsky? (7 December 1993)
Looking Back at You (14 December 1993)
Sunset Boulevard (21 December 1993)
Houdini (26 October 1993)
Series Twenty-Eight
Freeze, but Is It Art? (22 February 1994)
Mister Abbott's Broadway (1 March 1994)
A Suitable Boy: Vikram Seth (8 March 1994)
Hildegard (29 March 1994)
Bill T. Jones (5 April 1994)
Gielgud: Scenes from Nine Decades (12
