Season 31 (1993)
EPISODES
1. Wild Swans
2. Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
3. Nina Simone -The Legend
4. Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part Two
5. Sweet Home Chicago
6. Houdini
7. The Magic Lantern
8. The Russian Striptease
9. Everything You Wanted to Know About Conductors But Were Afraid to Ask
10. The Boy Next Door
A portrait of Boy George. UK telly. Early 90s. Crying Game US release era.
11. Who Killed Tchaikovsky
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
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
A look behind the scenes of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic movie 'Sunset Boulevard'
14. Freeze, But Is It Art?
15. The Piero Trail 1
17. Mister Abbott's Broadway
18. The Piero Trail 2
19. Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy
Profile of the novelist Vikram Seth, including footage from a family reunion in Delhi.
20. Hildegard
21. Bill T Jones
22. Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades
23. Joan Littlewood's Lovely War
24. Sir John Betjeman
25. Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo
26. Duke Ellington 2
27. Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King
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