No. of Episodes:

24

Starring :

Melvyn Bragg

Alec Guinness

Season 8

07/10/1984

Episodes

Alan Bennett

McCartney's Broad Street

The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

Norman Nicholson

Joseph Heller

Mstislav Rostropovich

Max Wall

Alan Bleasdale

Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence

Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex

Marc Chagall

David Lean: a Life in Film

Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony

Little Richard

George Malcolm on Scarlatti

Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company

Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg

David Mamet

Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith

The Cotton Club (night club)

Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)

Francis Bacon

George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century