Melvyn Bragg Movies

Dennis Potter a television dramatist talks about his work, politics and his fears for both.

This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at...

An irreverent survey of British Music.

Television documentary about British film director Terence Davies and his film "The Long Day Closes."

In this documentary Roy Lichtenstein is interviewed and discusses his life and art work, what influenced him, where his ideas came from, how his art...

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.

Television documentary about British film director Ken Loach.

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

An LWT South Bank Show, presented by Melvyn Bragg, exploring the phenomenon of countertenor singing. With its unique, soaring beauty, the high male...

John Cleese is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 1986 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). Cleese speaks of his comedy background, writing for...

An intimate portrait of David Hockney, featuring interviews with the artist - one of Britain's most beloved painters - in London and Normandy, and...

Francis Bacon revolutionised figurative painting in the 20th century. The English painter unmasked his subjects in a provocative and ruthless manner....

Interviews with and performance footage of conductor Sir John Barbirolli

Documentary about Italian film director Ermanno Olmi, with emphasis on "The Tree of Wooden Clogs".

The world is coming to an end, and the last survivors board a space-ship ready to leave the doomed planet Earth in search of a new world.

Filmed in his London studio, David Hockney sits down with Melvyn Bragg to discuss his remarkable life and career, illustrated by a wide range of his...

A profile of the Iranian film industry

Melvyn Bragg travels from Oklahoma to California to examine the enduring legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck.

Interview with director/choreographer Bob Fosse, first shown on British television.

In a programme broadcast 70 years to the day after the outbreak of WWII, people who were alive at the time speak of their memories.