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Season 1 · Episode 1

Theatre

0.0October 1, 1975

Premiere. Ronald Eyre reviews what's going on in the theatre, Kenneth Tynan talks to Laurence Olivier about Lilian Baylis and The Old Vic, and a film about David Hockney's sets for The Rake's Progress.

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Episode 1Theatre
Episode 2Art and Design
Episode 3Theatre
Episode 4Art and Design
Episode 5Theatre
Episode 6Art and Design
Episode 7Theatre
Episode 8Art and Design
Episode 9Theatre
Episode 10Art and Design
Episode 11Theatre
Episode 12Art and Design
Episode 13Theatre
Episode 14Art and Design
Episode 15Theatre
Episode 16Art and Design
Episode 17Theatre
Episode 18Art and Design
Episode 19Theatre
Episode 20Art and Design
Episode 21Theatre
Episode 22Art and Design
Episode 23Theatre
Episode 24Art and Design
Episode 25Theatre: Happy Birthday Royal Court
Episode 26Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake?
Episode 27Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 1
Episode 28Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 2
Episode 29Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 3
Episode 30Theatre: A Dream Come True
Episode 31Robert Altman
Episode 32Art and Design: After Samuel Palmer
Episode 33Frank Westmore
Episode 34Theatre
Episode 35Cinema: Eric Rohmer
Episode 36Art and Design: The Illustrators: The Work of Mick Brownfield and Allan Manha
Episode 37Cinema: Don Siegel
Episode 38Theatre: The Cultural Common Market
Episode 39Cinema
Episode 40Art and Design: Sculpture for the Blind/Linda Benedict-Jones/James Boswell
Episode 41Cinema
Episode 42Theatre: Brecht in Newcastle
Episode 43Cinema: Christmas Special
Episode 44Cinema
Episode 45Art and Design: Sam Smith: Genuine England/Arena Review
Episode 46Cinema
Episode 47Theatre: Spokesong/At Home with Mole
Episode 48Cinema
Episode 49Art and Design: Ralph Steadman
Episode 50Cinema
Episode 51Theatre: The Cultural Common Market: Peter Stein and the Schaubuhne
Episode 52Cinema
Episode 53Art and Design: What Is a Hologram?/Kit Williams - Ring Around the Moon
Episode 54Cinema
Episode 55Theatre: A Night Out
Episode 56Cinema
Episode 57Art and Design: Family Pieces/Both Sides of the Line/The Divine and the Fantastic
Episode 58Cinema
Episode 59Theatre: The Prospect Before Us
Episode 60Cinema
Episode 61Art and Design: The Continuous Diary/Dine's Drawings
Episode 62Cinema
Episode 63Cinema
Episode 64Cinema
Episode 65Theatre: Playwrights of the 70's
Episode 66Edinburgh Festival
Episode 67Cinema
Episode 68Cinema
Episode 69Art and Design
Episode 70Cinema
Episode 71Theatre
Episode 72Cinema: Greece
Episode 73Art and Design: Richard Seifert
Episode 74Cinema
Episode 75Theatre: Hands Off the Classics
Episode 76Cinema: 21st London Film Festival
Episode 77Art and Design: The Family/Wrapping up the Reichstag
Episode 78Cinema: 21st London Film Festival - Part 2
Episode 79Theatre: Leonard Rossiter
Episode 80Cinema: The Deep
Episode 81Cinema: The Force is with us?
Episode 82Art and Design: 'The Journey' or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist
Episode 83Cinema: The Force is with us? - Part 2/Howard Hawks
Episode 84Theatre: ' But please, this is a farce! ' The story of The Cherry Orchard
Episode 85Cinema: Joseph Conrad
Episode 86Art and Design: Carrington
Episode 87Cinema: Claude Renoir
Episode 88Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ...
Episode 89Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Episode 90Art and Design: Carl Andre
Episode 91Cinema: Dancing Years
Episode 92Theatre: Taking Our Time
Episode 93Art and Design: Way Out West
Episode 94Theatre: Children of the Gods
Episode 95Television: When Is A Play Not A Play?
Episode 96Art and Design: George Melly
Episode 97Theatre: Arnold Wesker
Episode 98Rock: Tubes on Tour
Episode 99Episode 99
Episode 100Vanessa Redgrave
Episode 101Arena: Cinema
Episode 102Arena: Cinema
Episode 103Arena: Cinema
Episode 104Arena: The Museum of Drawers
Episode 105On Photography
Episode 106Arena: Cinema
Episode 107Arena: Cinema
Episode 108Who is Poly Styrene?
Episode 109Athol Fugard: A Lesson from Aloes
Episode 110Arena: Cinema
Episode 111Maler's Requiem - Words and Images
Episode 112Piaf AND What Did You Do in 'The Warp' Daddy?
Episode 113Arena: Cinema
Episode 114Other Writers Will Tell You Different and The Moving Picture Mime Show
Episode 115Arena: Cinema
Episode 116Ubu
Episode 117My Way
Episode 118Arena: Cinema
Episode 119La Dame aux Gladiolas
Episode 120'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ': Alabama 40 Years On
Episode 121Arena: Cinema
Episode 122Tell Us the Truth
Episode 123The King and I AND Journey to the Surface of the Earth
Episode 124Their Lips are Sealed
Episode 125Steel Pulse
Episode 126Ring Around the Moon
Episode 127Pictures of the Mind
Episode 128Six Days in September
Episode 129Building for Change
Episode 130Athol Fugard A Lesson from Aloes
Episode 131Lene Lovich Sleeping Beauty
Episode 132Mentioned in Dispatches
Episode 133Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs Pupko's Beard
Episode 134Peggy Taub, the Learned Goat and Other People ...
Episode 135Bring Me Back a Song
Episode 136' I talk about me - I am Africa'
Episode 137Rudies Come Back or The Rise and Rise of 2-Tone
Episode 138Working At It
Episode 139Victoria Wood and Andrea Dunbar
Episode 140Climb Every Mountain or Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
Episode 141Double Vision
Episode 142Dedicated Followers of Fashion
Episode 143Luck and Flaw
Episode 144In Their Own Image AND Facing Up to Myself
Episode 145Making 'The Shining'
Episode 146Dire Straits
Episode 147Chelsea Hotel
Episode 148Hazell Meets His Makers
Episode 149Getting Away from Sidney
Episode 150Private Worlds
Episode 151Today Carshalton Beaches ... Tomorrow Croydon
Episode 152Edward Hopper
Episode 153Stages
Episode 154The Smallest Theatre
Episode 155Huston's Hobby
Episode 156A Walk with Amos Oz
Episode 157God's Fifth Columnist
Episode 158Did You Miss Me ...?
Episode 159The Return of Lupino Lane
Episode 160The Comic Strip Hero
Episode 161Arena on Clair
Episode 162Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Episode 163If the Music Had to Stop
Episode 164Curtains? The Future of the National Youth Theatre
Episode 165The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda
Episode 166'I Thought I Was Taller' A Short History of Mel Brooks
Episode 167Have You Seen the Mona Lisa...?
Episode 168Let Them Know We're Here
Episode 169A Pretty British Affair
Episode 170The Art of Radio Times AND The Eye of the 'Eye'
Episode 171A Tall Story: How Salman Rushdie Pickled All India
Episode 172Brixton to Barbados
Episode 173Private Life of the Ford Cortina
Episode 174What Makes Rabbit Run?
Episode 175Here They Kill People for It
Episode 176True to Life?
Episode 177Desert Island Discs
Episode 178Listen to Britain AND Housing Problems
Episode 179The Orson Welles Story: Part One
Episode 180The Orson Welles Story: Part Two
Episode 181Mike Leigh Making Plays
Episode 182A Genius Like Us
Episode 183A Play for Bridport
Episode 184Upon Westminster Bridge
Episode 185Three Steps to Heaven
Episode 186Angus McBean
Episode 187Happy Days (Samuel Beckett Season)
Episode 188Eh Joe (Samuel Beckett Season)
Episode 189Rockaby (Samuel Beckett Season)
Episode 190Not I (Samuel Beckett Season)
Episode 191Quad (Samuel Beckett Season)
Episode 192Krapp's Last Tape (Samuel Beckett Season)
Episode 193Guernica: The Long Exile
Episode 194Classically Cuban: Alicia Alonso and the Cuban National Ballet
Episode 195Hair
Episode 196Boulez Now
Episode 197Jazz Juke Box
Episode 198Burroughs
Episode 199The Catherine Wheel
Episode 200Kurt Vonnegut
Episode 201It's All True
Episode 202Luis Bunuel
Episode 203Bette Davis - The Benevolent Volcano
Episode 204Anthony Powell - An Invitation to the Dance
Episode 205The Ghost Writer
Episode 206Jazz Juke-Box II
Episode 207Roman Vishniac
Episode 208Classic British Documentaries
Episode 209The GPO Story
Episode 210The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert
Episode 211George Orwell 1: Such Such Were the Joys
Episode 212George Orwell 2: The Road to Wigan Pier
Episode 213George Orwell 3: Homage to Catalonia
Episode 214George Orwell 4: The Lion and the Unicorn
Episode 215George Orwell 4: Nineteen Eighty-four
Episode 216Say Amen Someone
Episode 217Four Rooms
Episode 218The Theatre of Dario Fo
Episode 219Sunset People
Episode 220The Caravaggio Conspiracy
Episode 221Between Dreaming and Waking
Episode 222Ken Russell 's Elgar
Episode 223Jerry Lee Lewis
Episode 224True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
Episode 225My Dinner with Louis
Episode 226Milan Kundera- Laughter and Forgetting
Episode 227A Tribute to Joseph Losey
Episode 228Beat This! A Hip Hop History
Episode 229The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience
Episode 230Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day
Episode 231Eubie Blake
Episode 232Francis Bacon
Episode 233We Don't Like Your House Either!
Episode 234Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense: The Music of Fela Kuti
Episode 235After the Rehearsal
Episode 236What's Cuba Playing At?
Episode 237Music of the other Americas
Episode 238Pavarotti at Madison Square Garden
Episode 239My Son the Novelist
Episode 240Painting for Pleasure ... and Profit: Five Artists of the 80s
Episode 241Marcel Carne
Episode 242From an Immigrant's Notebook: Karen Blixen in Africa
Episode 243How Glorious is the Garden?
Episode 244Old Kent Road
Episode 245Ligmalion
Episode 246Them and Uz: A film about Tony Harrison
Episode 247Marc Chagall
Episode 248Watch Me Move...
Episode 249Hugh Masekela: The African Ambassador
Episode 250The Theatre of Robert Wilson
Episode 251Blues Night: Introduction
Episode 252Blues Night: Sonny Boy Williamson Sings
Episode 253Blues Night: B.B. King Speaks
Episode 254Blues Night: Chicago Blues
Episode 255Blues Night: Blind John Davis
Episode 256Blues Night: Blues Medley
Episode 257Blues Night: Big Bill Blues
Episode 258Buddy Holly
Episode 259Saint Genet
Episode 260The Accordion Strikes Back
Episode 261The Cinema of Francesco Rosi
Episode 262The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Episode 263The Apollo Story: part 1
Episode 264The Apollo Story: part 2
Episode 265Tosca's Kiss
Episode 266The New Babylon
Episode 267Tango Mio
Episode 268Cinderella
Episode 269The Journey Man
Episode 270Go-Go in Washington DC
Episode 271Marguerite Yourcenar
Episode 272Louise Brooks
Episode 273Kurosawa
Episode 274Two Painters Amazed
Episode 275Home Front
Episode 276Caribbean Nights: Caribbean Journey
Episode 277Caribbean Nights: Medley
Episode 278Caribbean Nights: Poetry
Episode 279Caribbean Nights: Ska
Episode 280Caribbean Nights: The Latin Caribbean
Episode 281Caribbean Nights: Maytime on the Mosquito Coast
Episode 282Caribbean Nights: Calypso and Carnival
Episode 283Caribbean Nights: Whicker's Caribbean World
Episode 284Caribbean Nights: Latin Sound
Episode 285Caribbean Nights: God's Chillun
Episode 286Caribbean Nights Bob Marley
Episode 287Caribbean Nights: C.L.R. James's First Cricket XI
Episode 288Caribbean Nights: Danzon
Episode 289Caribbean Nights: Rasta and the Ball
Episode 290Caribbean Nights: Arturo Sandoval
Episode 291Caribbean Nights: Kapo
Episode 292Henry Moore
Episode 293Salvador Dali
Episode 294The Life and Times of Don Luis Bunuel
Episode 295The Spirit of Lorca
Episode 296Cambodian Witness
Episode 297Scarfe on Scarfe
Episode 298Night Moves
Episode 299Dylan
Episode 300Stand by Your Dream: Tammy Wynette
Episode 301Night and Day
Episode 302Dennis Potter
Episode 303Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas
Episode 304The Confessions of Robert Crumb
Episode 305Ruth, Roses and Revolver
Episode 306A Brother with Perfect Timing
Episode 307Tarkovsky's Cinema
Episode 308Putting Ourselves in the Picture
Episode 309How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
Episode 310Bayan Ko Pilipinas
Episode 311Talk is Cheap
Episode 312The Waugh Trilogy: Bright Young Thing
Episode 313The Waugh Trilogy: Mayfair and the Jungle
Episode 314The Waugh Trilogy: An Englishman's Home
Episode 315German Festival: Joseph Beuys
Episode 316ScreenPlay: Cariani and the Courtesans
Episode 317Revolutionary with a Paintbox
Episode 318Invisible Ink
Episode 319Of Cats and Mice
Episode 320Woody Guthrie
Episode 321The Dandy-Beano Story
Episode 322Broadway - The Great White Way
Episode 323Ryszard Kapuscinski: Your Man Who is There
Episode 324The Emperor
Episode 325My Name Is Celia Cruz
Episode 326All on a Mardi Gras Day Part One
Episode 327All on a Mardi Gras Day: Part Two
Episode 328Kerouac
Episode 329An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco 1
Episode 330An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco 2
Episode 331Robert Mapplethorpe
Episode 332The English Thoroughbred
Episode 333Byrne About Byrne
Episode 334Rhythms of the World: Randy Travis at the Albert Hall
Episode 335Ten Green Bottles
Episode 336Clint Eastwood: The Man with No Name.
Episode 337Moving Across the World on Horses
Episode 338History Boys on the Rampage
Episode 339The Unforgettable Nat King Cole
Episode 340Tales from Barcelona
Episode 341Blackpool
Episode 342The Tip of the Iceberg
Episode 343Laurens van der Post and Albert Sample
Episode 344New York - The Secret African City
Episode 345Eugene Ionesco : the Joke's on Us
Episode 346John Cassavetes
Episode 347Power in the Blood
Episode 348The Old Brass Plate Rattle Test - the Englishman and his Jukebox
Episode 349Juke Box Jury
Episode 350Berthold Lubetkin
Episode 351Heavy Metal
Episode 352The Other Graham Greene
Episode 353Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 1: A Traveller's Tale
Episode 354Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 2: How High the Moon
Episode 355Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 3: My Dinner with Dizzy
Episode 356Animal Night: Smashing Pigs
Episode 357Animal Night: Sacred Elephant
Episode 358Animal Night: Great Wildlife Presenters Through the Ages
Episode 359Animal Night: John Daniel the First
Episode 360Animal Night: A Day in the Life of Sam the Dog
Episode 361Animal Night: Animals on Trial
Episode 362Animal Night: The Animal Night Debate
Episode 36325 x 5: the Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones
Episode 364Numbers
Episode 365Oblomov
Episode 366Jerry Lee Lewis
Episode 367Roberto Rossellini
Episode 368Next Time Dear God Please Choose Someone Else
Episode 369Salif Keita
Episode 370Fred Zinnemann: A Director's Life
Episode 371Spike and Company - Do It a Cappella
Episode 372Peggy and Her Playwrights
Episode 373The English Rose
Episode 374Paris Is Burning
Episode 375Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Episode 376Havana
Episode 377The Princess
Episode 378The Ten Commandments of Krzysztof Kieslowski
Episode 379Le Paris Black
Episode 380Kino Perestroika
Episode 381The Daily Worker Story
Episode 382Oooh Er, Missus! - The Frankie Howerd Story
Episode 383Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
Episode 384The Fever
Episode 385Food Night: Introduction
Episode 386Food Night: Modern Food
Episode 387Food Night: Great Moments in Food History
Episode 388Food Night: The Story of Food in 27 Minutes and 43 Seconds
Episode 389Food Night: Good Manners
Episode 390Food Night: What's Kosher?
Episode 391Food Night: The Last Supper
Episode 392Food Night: The Complete History of the Potato
Episode 393Food Night: I Just Happen to Have One Here I Made Earlier
Episode 394Food Night: Movable Feast - the Politics of Disgust
Episode 395Food Night: Eating for One
Episode 396Food Night: Fasting and Abstinence
Episode 397Food Night: Debate
Episode 398Lifepulse - a Natural Thriller
Episode 399Miller Meets Mandela
Episode 400Derek Jarman - a Portrait
Episode 401Anselm Kiefer : Operation Sealion
Episode 402The Strange Story of Joe Meek
Episode 403The Other Roci
Episode 404Caroline 199 - A Pirate's Tale
Episode 405Staring at the Ceiling
Episode 406Three Irish Writers
Episode 407One Irish Rover
Episode 408The Importance of Being Oscar
Episode 409The Other
Episode 410Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon
Episode 411Elmore Leonard 's Criminal Records
Episode 412The Human Face
Episode 413Texas Saturday Night
Episode 414The Grass Arena
Episode 415Billy, How Did You Do It? 1
Episode 416Billy, How Did You Do It? 2
Episode 417Billy, How Did You Do It? 3
Episode 418Masters of the Canvas
Episode 419Oliver Stone
Episode 420Fatwa
Episode 421Six Degrees of Separation: a New York Tale
Episode 422The Incredible Case of Comrade
Episode 423Croatia - the Artists' War
Episode 424Otto Dix : a Tale of Two Germanies
Episode 425Chi-Chi the Panda
Episode 426Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up
Episode 427Last Supper - Frank on Frank
Episode 428A Spanish Odyssey - a Portrait of Javier Mariscal
Episode 429An Argentinian Journey: 1: The Gaucho and the Pampas
Episode 430An Argentinian Journey: 2: Zamba, Chacarera and Chamame
Episode 431An Argentinian Journey: 3: Pacha Mama - Sacred Land
Episode 432Sportswriter: the Fight, the Match and the Race
Episode 433Linda McCartney, behind the Lens
Episode 434The Graham Green Trilogy: England Made Me (1904-39)
Episode 435The Graham Greene Trilogy: The Dangerous Edge (1940-60)
Episode 436The Graham Greene Trilogy: A World of My Own (1961-91)
Episode 437On the Road with Boggs
Episode 438The Grateful and the Dead
Episode 439A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie
Episode 440Larry Kramer
Episode 441Edward Said: the Idea of Empire
Episode 442The Last Soviet Citizen
Episode 443Derek Walcott
Episode 444Zhang Yimou
Episode 445Philip Roth
Episode 446Only the Names Have Been Changed
Episode 447Weegee
Episode 448Duchamp's Fountain
Episode 449Edgar Reitz: Return to Heimat
Episode 450Tales Of Rock And Roll: Peggy Sue
Episode 451Not a Bad Girl
Episode 452Heartbreak Hotel
Episode 453Walk on the Wild Side
Episode 454Highway 61 Revisited
Episode 455Arena: Radio Night: Introduction
Episode 456Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio: First: the Infant.
Episode 457Radio Night: TV Talk, Radio Rabbit What does the voice reveal?
Episode 458Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 2: The Schoolboy.
Episode 459Radio Night: Heard But Not Seen
Episode 460Radio Night: Back to Square One
Episode 461Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 3: The Lover.
Episode 462Radio Night: Sunday Dinner
Episode 463Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 4: The Soldier.
Episode 464Radio Night: Pirates
Episode 465Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 5: The Judge.
Episode 466Radio Night: TV Theft, Radio Rip-Off
Episode 467Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 6: The Old Man.
Episode 468Radio Night: The Spot FX Man
Episode 469Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 7: Senility.
Episode 470Radio Night: It's Life, Jim
Episode 471Radio Night: The Time Signal
Episode 472Radio Night: The Two Voyages of Donald Crowhurst
Episode 473Radio Night: The Shipping Forecast
Episode 474The Next Voice You Hear
Episode 475In Search of Oz
Episode 476Who Is Vladimir Pozner?
Episode 477The Dark Side of Black
Episode 478The Ring - a South London Tale
Episode 479Glitterbug
Episode 480Theatre without Actors
Episode 481Kalashnikov
Episode 482Trouble Man - the Last Years of Marvin Gaye
Episode 483Relics Introduction
Episode 484Relics: Einstein's Brain
Episode 485Relics: Curse of the Firebeetle
Episode 486Relics: The Grave Case of Charlie Chaplin
Episode 487Philip K Dick - a Day In the Afterlife
Episode 488Voices from the Island
Episode 489Cindy Sherman - Nobody's Here but Me
Episode 490Bahia of all the Saints
Episode 491Sandra Bernhard - Confession of a Pretty Lady
Episode 492Louise Bourgeois
Episode 493The Peter Sellers Story 1
Episode 494The Peter Sellers Story: 2: Jack to Jacques
Episode 495The Peter Sellers Story: 3: I Am Not a Funny Man
Episode 496Punk and the Pistols
Episode 497The Burger and the King
Episode 498Stories My Country Told Me
Episode 499Tony Bennett's New York
Episode 500Caesar's Writers
Episode 501There's No Such Thing as a Small Head of State
Episode 502Dear Antonioni
Episode 503Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Underground
Episode 504Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Football is the Faith
Episode 505Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: The Price of Glory
Episode 506The Banana
Episode 507Cigars - out of the Humidor
Episode 508The Noel Coward Trilogy: The Boy Actor
Episode 509The Noel Coward Trilogy: Captain Coward
Episode 510The Noel Coward Trilogy: Sail Away
Episode 511Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century
Episode 512The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow
Episode 513The Brian Epstein Story: Tomorrow Never Knows
Episode 514Cuba Night: the 40-Year Face-off
Episode 515Cuba Night: Eisenhower, Kennedy and Khrushchev: How It All Began
Episode 516Cuba Night: A Diamond in the Rough
Episode 517Cuba Night: LBJ, Nixon and Brezhnev: the Middle Years
Episode 518Cuba Night: The Simpsons: The Trouble with Trillions
Episode 519Cuba Night: Reagan and Gorbachev: Castro, Cuba and the Fall of Communism
Episode 520Cuba Night: Who Owns Che? The Importance of Not Being Ernesto
Episode 521Cuba Night: The Clinton Years: Cuba Today and Tomorrow
Episode 522Salman Rushdie and the Ground beneath His Feet
Episode 523Looking for the Iron Curtain
Episode 524Casanova
Episode 525Blondes - Jayne Mansfield
Episode 526Blondes - Diana Dors
Episode 527Blondes - Anita Ekberg
Episode 528The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Episode 529The Veil
Episode 530Wisconsin Death Trip
Episode 531Clint Eastwood: Out of the West
Episode 532Clint Eastwood: American Film-maker
Episode 533James Ellroy's Feast of Death
Episode 534And the Winner Is ...
Episode 535Budd Schulberg - a Contender
Episode 536The Source
Episode 537Salgado - the Spectre of Hope
Episode 538Stalin - the Red God
Episode 539According to Beryl
Episode 540Night of Entertainers: Sykes and a Day
Episode 541Night of Entertainers: Drake's Progress
Episode 542Night of Entertainers: The 1812 Overture in E Flat Major Opus 49
Episode 543Night of Entertainers: Max Bygraves - I Wanna Tell You a Story
Episode 544The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part 1
Episode 545The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part 2
Episode 546Estonia Dreams of Eurovision
Episode 547Kurosawa: Part One
Episode 548Kurosawa: Part Two
Episode 549The Peter Sellers Story: As He Filmed It
Episode 550Harold Pinter: 1: The Room
Episode 551Harold Pinter: 2: Celebration
Episode 552One for the Road
Episode 553Politics and Pinter
Episode 554The Room
Episode 555Radio Ha! Meet the Dead Ringers
Episode 556Radio Ha! It's Time for Just a Minute
Episode 557I Am from Nowhere
Episode 558The Real Jane Austen
Episode 559The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough: Part One
Episode 560The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough: Part Two
Episode 561Imagine Imagine
Episode 562Dylan Thomas - from Grave to Cradle
Episode 563Buffalo Bill's Wild West: How the Myth Was Made
Episode 564Alec Guinness, a Secret Man
Episode 565Pavarotti - the Last Tenor
Episode 566Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Episode 567Shadowing the Third Man
Episode 568Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
Episode 569Painting the Clouds - a Portrait of Dennis Potter
Episode 570Dennis Potter: It's In the Songs! It's In the Songs!
Episode 571Potter on Television
Episode 572Hank Williams - Honky Tonk Blues
Episode 573Calling Hedy Lamarr
Episode 574Francis Bacon's Arena
Episode 575Arena at 30
Episode 576Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 1
Episode 577Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 2
Episode 578Dylan in the Madhouse
Episode 579The Princess and Panorama
Episode 580Routemasters! The Double Decker Bus Conductors
Episode 581Galton and Simpson
Episode 582Pete Doherty
Episode 583Saints
Episode 584The Archers
Episode 585The Underground
Episode 586Bob Marley - Exodus 77
Episode 587Encountering Bergman
Episode 588Bergman and Faro Island
Episode 589Bergman and the Cinema
Episode 590Flames of Passion: the Other Side of British Cinema
Episode 591The Original Archers
Episode 592Tribute Bands - into the Limelight
Episode 593Tribute Bands - Live at the Limelight
Episode 594Dylan's Folk - the Pure, the Bad and the Holy
Episode 595The Other Side of the Mirror - Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival
Episode 596Dylan in the Madhouse
Episode 597Ken Dodd's Happiness
Episode 598The Strange Luck of V.S. Naipaul
Episode 599Cab Driver
Episode 600The Hunt for Moby-Dick
Episode 601Whale Night: The Whale in the Museum
Episode 602Whale Night: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales: Episode 1: Baleen
Episode 603Whale Night: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales: Episode 2: Toothed
Episode 604Whale Night: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales: Episode 3: Arctic
Episode 605The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector
Episode 606Paul Scofield
Episode 607Tony Bennett: the Music Never Ends
Episode 608Cool
Episode 609TS Eliot
Episode 610Harold Pinter Night: The Birthday Party
Episode 611Brian Eno - Another Green World
Episode 612Harold Pinter - A Celebration
Episode 613Johnny Mercer - The Dream's on Me
Episode 614Dave Brubeck - In His Own Sweet Way
Episode 615Rolf Harris Paints His Dream
Episode 616Produced by George Martin
Episode 617George Harrison: Living in the Material World: Part 1
Episode 618George Harrison: Living in the Material World: Part 2
Episode 619Dickens on Film
Episode 620Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes
Episode 621Sonny Rollins '74: Rescued!
Episode 622The Dreams of William Golding
Episode 623Jonathan Miller
Episode 624Amy Winehouse - The Day She Came to Dingle
Episode 625The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour: Episode 1: Magical Mystery Tour Revisited
Episode 626The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour: Episode 2: 'The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour
Episode 627Screen Goddesses
Episode 628Sister Wendy and the Art of the Gospel
Episode 629aka Norman Parkinson
Episode 630Arena: The National Theatre: Part One - The Dream
Episode 631Arena: The National Theatre: Part Two - War and Peace
Episode 632Whatever Happened to Spitting Image?
Episode 633The National Theatre: Learning Zone
Episode 634The 50 Year Argument - The New York Review of Books
Episode 635Nicolas Roeg - It's About Time
Episode 636Night and Day
Episode 637Loretta Lynn - Still a Mountain Girl
Episode 638All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film
Episode 6391966 - 50 Years Ago Today
Episode 640The Roundhouse - The People's Palace
Episode 641Alone with Chrissie Hynde
Episode 642American Epic: Episode 1: The Big Bang
Episode 643American Epic: Episode 2: Blood and Soil
Episode 644Kirsty Young: 75 Years of Desert Island Discs
Episode 645American Epic: Episode 3: Out of the Many, the One
Episode 646American Epic: Episode 4: The Sessions
Episode 647Stanley and his Daughters
Episode 648Bob Dylan – Trouble No More
Episode 649Nothing Like a Dame
Episode 650Make Me Up!
Episode 651Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything
Episode 652That Summer
Episode 653Cindy Sherman #untitled
Episode 654Kusama: Infinity
Episode 655Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
Episode 656Bergman: A Year in the Life
Episode 657The $50 Million Art Swindle
Episode 658A British Guide to the End of the World
Episode 659Everything Is Connected - George Eliot's Life
Episode 660Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens
Episode 661Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall
Episode 662The Changin’ Times of Ike White
Episode 663I Am Not Your Negro
Episode 664Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
Episode 665Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat
Episode 666My Father and Me
Episode 667Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes
Episode 668African Apocalypse
Episode 669Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture
Episode 670Painted with My Hair
Episode 671B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From?
Episode 672The Vasulka Effect
Episode 673The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Episode 674River
Episode 675James Joyce’s Ulysses
Episode 676T.S. Eliot: Into the Waste Land
Episode 677Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters
Episode 678Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll
Episode 679The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld
Episode 680The Stones and Brian Jones
Episode 681All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Episode 682Coco Chanel Unbuttoned
Episode 683Being Kae Tempest
Episode 684Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy
Episode 685Mad About the Boy: The Noel Coward Story
Episode 686Maria Callas: The Final Act
Episode 687Alan Bennett 90 Years On
Episode 688Loaded: Lads, Mags and Mayhem
Episode 689From Roger Moore with Love
Episode 690Steven McRae: Dancing Back to the Light
Episode 691My Brain: After the Rupture
Episode 692McCartney: The Hunt for the Lost Bass