Season 31

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Episodes

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Episode 11993-09-28

Wild Swans

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Episode 21993-10-05

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

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Episode 31993-10-12

Nina Simone -The Legend

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Episode 41993-10-12

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

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Episode 546 min1993-10-19

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.

Episode 61993-10-26

Houdini

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Episode 71993-11-02

The Magic Lantern

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Episode 81993-11-09

The Russian Striptease

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Episode 91993-11-23

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

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Episode 101993-11-30

The Boy Next Door

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

Episode 111993-12-07

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.

Episode 1251 min1993-12-14

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.

Episode 131993-12-21