Wild Swans

S31 E01 • Tuesday, Sep 28, 1993 • Sep 28

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

S31 E02 • Tuesday, Oct 5, 1993 • Oct 5

Nina Simone -The Legend

S31 E03 • Tuesday, Oct 12, 1993 • Oct 12

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

S31 E04 • Tuesday, Oct 12, 1993 • Oct 12

Sweet Home Chicago

S31 E05 • Tuesday, Oct 19, 1993 • Oct 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.

Houdini

S31 E06 • Tuesday, Oct 26, 1993 • Oct 26

The Magic Lantern

S31 E07 • Tuesday, Nov 2, 1993 • Nov 2

The Russian Striptease

S31 E08 • Tuesday, Nov 9, 1993 • Nov 9

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

S31 E09 • Tuesday, Nov 23, 1993 • Nov 23

The Boy Next Door

S31 E10 • Tuesday, Nov 30, 1993 • Nov 30

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

Who Killed Tchaikovsky

S31 E11 • Tuesday, Dec 7, 1993 • Dec 7

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

S31 E12 • Tuesday, Dec 14, 1993 • Dec 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.

Sunset Boulevard

S31 E13 • Tuesday, Dec 21, 1993 • Dec 21

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

Freeze, But Is It Art?

S31 E14 • Tuesday, Feb 22, 1994 • Feb 22

The Piero Trail 1

S31 E15 • Wednesday, Feb 23, 1994 • Feb 23

Mister Abbott's Broadway

S31 E17 • Tuesday, Mar 1, 1994 • Mar 1

The Piero Trail 2

S31 E18 • Wednesday, Mar 2, 1994 • Mar 2

Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy

S31 E19 • Tuesday, Mar 8, 1994 • Mar 8

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

Hildegard

S31 E20 • Tuesday, Mar 29, 1994 • Mar 29

Bill T Jones

S31 E21 • Tuesday, Apr 5, 1994 • Apr 5

Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades

S31 E22 • Tuesday, Apr 12, 1994 • Apr 12

Joan Littlewood's Lovely War

S31 E23 • Tuesday, Apr 19, 1994 • Apr 19

Sir John Betjeman

S31 E24 • Tuesday, Apr 26, 1994 • Apr 26

Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo

S31 E25 • Tuesday, May 3, 1994 • May 3

Duke Ellington 2

S31 E26 • Tuesday, May 10, 1994 • May 10

Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King

S31 E27 • Tuesday, May 24, 1994 • May 24