Omnibus - Season 31
1 - Wild Swans
Air Date: September 28, 1993
2 - Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One
Air Date: October 5, 1993
3 - Nina Simone -The Legend
Air Date: October 12, 1993
4 - Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part Two
Air Date: October 12, 1993
5 - Sweet Home Chicago
Air Date: October 19, 1993
6 - Houdini
Air Date: October 26, 1993
7 - The Magic Lantern
Air Date: November 2, 1993
8 - The Russian Striptease
Air Date: November 9, 1993
9 - Everything You Wanted to Know About Conductors But Were Afraid to Ask
Air Date: November 23, 1993
10 - The Boy Next Door
Air Date: November 30, 1993
A portrait of Boy George. UK telly. Early 90s. Crying Game US release era.
11 - Who Killed Tchaikovsky
Air Date: December 7, 1993
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
Air Date: December 14, 1993
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
Air Date: December 21, 1993
A look behind the scenes of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic movie 'Sunset Boulevard'
14 - Freeze, But Is It Art?
Air Date: February 22, 1994
15 - The Piero Trail 1
Air Date: February 23, 1994
17 - Mister Abbott's Broadway
Air Date: March 1, 1994
18 - The Piero Trail 2
Air Date: March 2, 1994
19 - Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy
Air Date: March 8, 1994
Profile of the novelist Vikram Seth, including footage from a family reunion in Delhi.
20 - Hildegard
Air Date: March 29, 1994
21 - Bill T Jones
Air Date: April 5, 1994
22 - Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades
Air Date: April 12, 1994
23 - Joan Littlewood's Lovely War
Air Date: April 19, 1994
24 - Sir John Betjeman
Air Date: April 26, 1994
25 - Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo
Air Date: May 3, 1994
26 - Duke Ellington 2
Air Date: May 10, 1994
27 - Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King
Air Date: May 24, 1994