Omnibus
Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.
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Season 31
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Wild Swans
Sep 28, 1993 · 43m -
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Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
Oct 5, 1993 -
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Nina Simone -The Legend
Oct 12, 1993 -
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Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part Two
Oct 12, 1993 -
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Sweet Home Chicago
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.
Oct 19, 1993 -
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Houdini
Oct 26, 1993 -
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The Magic Lantern
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The Russian Striptease
Nov 9, 1993 -
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Conductors But Were Afraid to Ask
Nov 23, 1993 -
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The Boy Next Door
A portrait of Boy George. UK telly. Early 90s. Crying Game US release era.
Nov 30, 1993 -
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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.
Dec 7, 1993 -
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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.
Dec 14, 1993 -
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Sunset Boulevard
A look behind the scenes of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic movie 'Sunset Boulevard'
Dec 21, 1993 -
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Freeze, But Is It Art?
Feb 22, 1994 -
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The Piero Trail 1
Feb 23, 1994 -
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Mister Abbott's Broadway
Mar 1, 1994 -
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The Piero Trail 2
Mar 2, 1994 -
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Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy
Profile of the novelist Vikram Seth, including footage from a family reunion in Delhi.
Mar 8, 1994 -
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Hildegard
Mar 29, 1994 -
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Bill T Jones
Apr 5, 1994 -
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Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades
Apr 12, 1994 -
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Joan Littlewood's Lovely War
Apr 19, 1994 -
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Sir John Betjeman
Apr 26, 1994 -
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Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo
May 3, 1994 -
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Duke Ellington 2
May 10, 1994 -
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Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King
May 24, 1994