Season 31

28 sept 1993

5 oct 1993

12 oct 1993

12 oct 1993

19 oct 1993 · 46 min

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.

26 oct 1993

2 nov 1993

9 nov 1993

23 nov 1993

30 nov 1993

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

7 dic 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.

14 dic 1993 · 51 min

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.

21 dic 1993

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

22 feb 1994

23 feb 1994

1 mar 1994

2 mar 1994

8 mar 1994

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

29 mar 1994

5 abr 1994

12 abr 1994

19 abr 1994

26 abr 1994

3 may 1994

10 may 1994

24 may 1994