Melvyn Bragg Filmes

Profile of fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood.

Interviews with and performance footage of conductor Sir John Barbirolli

Biography of Marlene Dietrich using interviews, film clips and rare footage of the actress, including her own home movies.

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.

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...

Television documentary about British film director Ken Loach.

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...

1981 episode of London Weekend Television's The South Bank Show examines the film and features interviews with novelist John Fowles, screenwriter...

To mark his fiftieth birthday in 1988, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his work. Melvyn Bragg joined David Hockney for an...

Alan Bennett's personal overview of art, filmed in the atmospheric location of a Leeds art gallery.

The celebrated British artist discusses his life and work with Melvyn Bragg in his Normandy studio, revealing his influences, inspirations and plans...

A documentary on the band

A profile of the Iranian film industry

London Weekend Television. Hosted by Melvyn Bragg. First screened in the UK on 31st March 1985.

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

Melvyn Bragg presents this 1977 documentary about Doctor Who from BBC2's 'The Lively Arts' strand, featuring extensive behind-the-scenes coverage of...

Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of "Sweeney Todd", this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process...

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

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

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...