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📺 Series

Arena

📅 1975 ⭐ 6.9 🕐 90 min GB GB

Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.

Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 687 episodes
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Theatre 1975-10-01
E2
Art and Design 1975-10-08
E3
Theatre 1975-10-15
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Art and Design 1975-10-22
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Theatre 1975-10-29
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Art and Design 1975-11-05
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Theatre 1975-11-12
E8
Art and Design 1975-11-19
E9
Theatre 1975-11-26
E10
Art and Design 1975-12-03
E11
Theatre 1975-12-10
E12
Art and Design 1975-12-17
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Theatre 1976-01-07
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Art and Design 1976-01-14
E15
Theatre 1976-01-21
E16
Art and Design 1976-01-28
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Theatre 1976-02-04
E18
Art and Design 1976-02-11
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Theatre 1976-02-18
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Art and Design 1976-02-25
E21
Theatre 1976-03-03
E22
Art and Design 1976-03-10
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Theatre 1976-03-17
E24
Art and Design 1976-03-24
E25
Theatre: Happy Birthday Royal Court 1976-03-31
E26
Art and Design: Art for Money's Sake? 1976-04-07
E27
Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 1 1976-08-25
E28
Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 2 1976-09-01
E29
Edinburgh International Festival 1976: Part 3 1976-09-08
E30
Theatre: A Dream Come True 1976-09-15
E31
Robert Altman 1976-09-22
E32
Art and Design: After Samuel Palmer 1976-09-29
E33
Frank Westmore 1976-10-06
E34
Theatre 1976-10-13
E35
Cinema: Eric Rohmer 1976-10-20
E36
Art and Design: The Illustrators: The Work of Mick Brownfield and Allan Manha 1976-10-27
E37
Cinema: Don Siegel 1976-11-03
E38
Theatre: The Cultural Common Market 1976-11-10
E39
Cinema 1976-11-17
E40
Art and Design: Sculpture for the Blind/Linda Benedict-Jones/James Boswell 1976-11-24
E41
Cinema 1976-12-01
E42
Theatre: Brecht in Newcastle 1976-12-08
E43
Cinema: Christmas Special 1976-12-15
E44
Cinema 1977-01-05
E45
Art and Design: Sam Smith: Genuine England/Arena Review 1977-01-12
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Cinema 1977-01-19
E47
Theatre: Spokesong/At Home with Mole 1977-01-26
E48
Cinema 1977-02-02
E49
Art and Design: Ralph Steadman 1977-02-09
E50
Cinema 1977-02-16
E51
Theatre: The Cultural Common Market: Peter Stein and the Schaubuhne 1977-02-23
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Cinema 1977-03-02
E53
Art and Design: What Is a Hologram?/Kit Williams - Ring Around the Moon 1977-03-09
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Cinema 1977-03-16
E55
Theatre: A Night Out 1977-03-23
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Cinema 1977-03-30
E57
Art and Design: Family Pieces/Both Sides of the Line/The Divine and the Fantastic 1977-04-06
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Cinema 1977-04-13
E59
Theatre: The Prospect Before Us 1977-04-20
E60
Cinema 1977-04-27
E61
Art and Design: The Continuous Diary/Dine's Drawings 1977-05-04
E62
Cinema 1977-05-11
E63
Cinema 1977-05-25
E64
Cinema 1977-06-08
E65
Theatre: Playwrights of the 70's 1977-06-15
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Edinburgh Festival 1977-09-07
E67
Cinema 1977-09-14
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Cinema 1977-09-21
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Art and Design 1977-09-28
E70
Cinema 1977-10-05
E71
Theatre 1977-10-12
E72
Cinema: Greece 1977-10-19
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Art and Design: Richard Seifert 1977-10-26
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Cinema 1977-11-02
E75
Theatre: Hands Off the Classics 1977-11-09
E76
Cinema: 21st London Film Festival 1977-11-16
E77
Art and Design: The Family/Wrapping up the Reichstag 1977-11-23
E78
Cinema: 21st London Film Festival - Part 2 1977-11-30
E79
Theatre: Leonard Rossiter 1977-12-07
E80
Cinema: The Deep 1977-12-14
E81
Cinema: The Force is with us? 1978-01-11
E82
Art and Design: 'The Journey' or The Memoirs of a Self-Confessed Surrealist 1978-01-18
E83
Cinema: The Force is with us? - Part 2/Howard Hawks 1978-01-25
E84
Theatre: ' But please, this is a farce! ' The story of The Cherry Orchard 1978-02-01
E85
Cinema: Joseph Conrad 1978-02-08
E86
Art and Design: Carrington 1978-02-15
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Cinema: Claude Renoir 1978-02-22
E88
Theatre: Hey Kids! Let's Do the Show Right Here ... 1978-03-01
E89
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1978-03-08
E90
Art and Design: Carl Andre 1978-03-15
E91
Cinema: Dancing Years 1978-03-22
E92
Theatre: Taking Our Time 1978-03-29
E93
Art and Design: Way Out West 1978-04-05
E94
Theatre: Children of the Gods 1978-04-12
E95
Television: When Is A Play Not A Play? 1978-04-17
E96
Art and Design: George Melly 1978-05-03
E97
Theatre: Arnold Wesker 1978-05-10
E98
Rock: Tubes on Tour 1978-05-24
E99
Episode 99 1978-10-11
E100
Vanessa Redgrave 1978-10-18
E101
Arena: Cinema 1978-10-25
E102
Arena: Cinema 1978-11-22
E103
Arena: Cinema 1978-12-06
E104
Arena: The Museum of Drawers 1979-01-08
E105
On Photography 1979-01-15
E106
Arena: Cinema 1979-01-17
E107
Arena: Cinema 1979-01-21
E108
Who is Poly Styrene? 1979-01-22
E109
Athol Fugard: A Lesson from Aloes 1979-01-29
E110
Arena: Cinema 1979-01-31
E111
Maler's Requiem - Words and Images 1979-02-05
E112
Piaf AND What Did You Do in 'The Warp' Daddy? 1979-02-12
E113
Arena: Cinema 1979-02-14
E114
Other Writers Will Tell You Different and The Moving Picture Mime Show 1979-02-26
E115
Arena: Cinema 1979-02-28
E116
Ubu 1979-03-05
E117
My Way 1979-03-12
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Arena: Cinema 1979-03-14
E119
La Dame aux Gladiolas 1979-03-19
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'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ': Alabama 40 Years On 1979-03-26
E121
Arena: Cinema 1979-03-28
E122
Tell Us the Truth 1979-04-02
E123
The King and I AND Journey to the Surface of the Earth 1979-04-09
E124
Their Lips are Sealed 1979-04-15
E125
Steel Pulse 1979-05-21
E126
Ring Around the Moon 1979-06-11
E127
Pictures of the Mind 1979-06-14
E128
Six Days in September 1979-09-29
E129
Building for Change 1979-01-16
E130
Athol Fugard A Lesson from Aloes 1980-01-17
E131
Lene Lovich Sleeping Beauty 1980-01-23
E132
Mentioned in Dispatches 1980-01-30
E133
Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs Pupko's Beard 1980-02-06
E134
Peggy Taub, the Learned Goat and Other People ... 1980-02-13
E135
Bring Me Back a Song 1980-02-27
E136
' I talk about me - I am Africa' 1980-03-05
E137
Rudies Come Back or The Rise and Rise of 2-Tone 1980-03-12
E138
Working At It 1980-03-19
E139
Victoria Wood and Andrea Dunbar 1980-03-26
E140
Climb Every Mountain or Nothing Succeeds Like Failure 1980-04-02
E141
Double Vision 1980-04-09
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Dedicated Followers of Fashion 1980-04-16
E143
Luck and Flaw 1980-05-21
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In Their Own Image AND Facing Up to Myself 1980-05-28
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Making 'The Shining' 1980-10-04
E146
Dire Straits 1980-12-22
E147
Chelsea Hotel 1981-01-03
E148
Hazell Meets His Makers 1981-01-10
E149
Getting Away from Sidney 1981-01-17
E150
Private Worlds 1981-01-24
E151
Today Carshalton Beaches ... Tomorrow Croydon 1981-01-31
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Edward Hopper
E153
Stages 1981-02-28
E154
The Smallest Theatre 1981-03-07
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Huston's Hobby 1981-03-14
E156
A Walk with Amos Oz 1981-03-21
E157
God's Fifth Columnist 1981-03-28
E158
Did You Miss Me ...? 1981-04-04
E159
The Return of Lupino Lane 1981-04-15
E160
The Comic Strip Hero 1981-04-18
E161
Arena on Clair 1981-05-02
E162
Somewhere Over the Rainbow 1981-05-09
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If the Music Had to Stop 1981-05-16
E164
Curtains? The Future of the National Youth Theatre 1981-08-16
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The Cinema of Andrzej Wajda 1981-09-06
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'I Thought I Was Taller' A Short History of Mel Brooks 1981-10-02
E167
Have You Seen the Mona Lisa...? 1981-11-03
E168
Let Them Know We're Here 1981-11-10
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A Pretty British Affair 1981-11-17
E170
The Art of Radio Times AND The Eye of the 'Eye' 1981-11-24
E171
A Tall Story: How Salman Rushdie Pickled All India 1981-12-08
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Brixton to Barbados 1981-12-15
E173
Private Life of the Ford Cortina 1982-01-19
E174
What Makes Rabbit Run? 1982-01-26
E175
Here They Kill People for It 1982-02-02
E176
True to Life? 1982-02-09
E177
Desert Island Discs 1982-02-23
E178
Listen to Britain AND Housing Problems 1982-03-09
E179
The Orson Welles Story: Part One 1982-05-18
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The Orson Welles Story: Part Two 1982-05-21
E181
Mike Leigh Making Plays 1982-09-04
E182
A Genius Like Us 1982-11-09
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A Play for Bridport 1982-11-16
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Upon Westminster Bridge 1982-11-23
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Three Steps to Heaven 1982-11-30
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Angus McBean 1982-12-08
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Happy Days (Samuel Beckett Season) 1982-12-11
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Eh Joe (Samuel Beckett Season) 1982-12-13
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Rockaby (Samuel Beckett Season) 1982-12-14
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Not I (Samuel Beckett Season) 1982-12-15
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Quad (Samuel Beckett Season) 1982-12-16
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Krapp's Last Tape (Samuel Beckett Season) 1982-12-17
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Guernica: The Long Exile 1982-12-28
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Classically Cuban: Alicia Alonso and the Cuban National Ballet 1983-01-18
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Hair 1983-02-01
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Boulez Now 1983-02-08
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Jazz Juke Box 1983-02-15
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Burroughs 1983-02-22
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The Catherine Wheel 1983-03-01
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Kurt Vonnegut 1983-03-08
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It's All True 1983-05-09
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Luis Bunuel 1983-08-19
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Bette Davis - The Benevolent Volcano 1983-11-02
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Anthony Powell - An Invitation to the Dance 1983-11-09
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The Ghost Writer 1983-11-12
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Jazz Juke-Box II 1983-11-23
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Roman Vishniac 1983-11-30
E208
Classic British Documentaries 1983-12-07
E209
The GPO Story 1983-12-14
E210
The Everly Brothers Reunion Concert 1983-12-23
E211
George Orwell 1: Such Such Were the Joys 1983-12-29
E212
George Orwell 2: The Road to Wigan Pier 1983-12-30
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George Orwell 3: Homage to Catalonia 1984-01-02
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George Orwell 4: The Lion and the Unicorn 1984-01-03
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George Orwell 4: Nineteen Eighty-four 1984-01-04
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Say Amen Someone 1984-02-04
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Four Rooms 1984-02-21
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The Theatre of Dario Fo 1984-02-28
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Sunset People 1984-03-03
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The Caravaggio Conspiracy 1984-03-06
E221
Between Dreaming and Waking 1984-03-13
E222
Ken Russell 's Elgar 1984-03-20
E223
Jerry Lee Lewis 1984-03-27
E224
True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist 1984-04-03
E225
My Dinner with Louis 1984-05-06
E226
Milan Kundera- Laughter and Forgetting 1984-05-19
E227
A Tribute to Joseph Losey 1984-07-07
E228
Beat This! A Hip Hop History 1984-07-12
E229
The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience 1984-11-02
E230
Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day 1984-11-09
E231
Eubie Blake 1984-11-10
E232
Francis Bacon 1984-11-16
E233
We Don't Like Your House Either! 1984-11-23
E234
Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense: The Music of Fela Kuti 1984-11-30
E235
After the Rehearsal 1984-12-07
E236
What's Cuba Playing At? 1984-12-21
E237
Music of the other Americas 1984-12-22
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Pavarotti at Madison Square Garden 1984-12-26
E239
My Son the Novelist 1985-02-18
E240
Painting for Pleasure ... and Profit: Five Artists of the 80s 1985-02-25
E241
Marcel Carne 1985-02-27
E242
From an Immigrant's Notebook: Karen Blixen in Africa 1985-03-11
E243
How Glorious is the Garden? 1985-03-18
E244
Old Kent Road 1985-03-25
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Ligmalion 1985-04-08
E246
Them and Uz: A film about Tony Harrison 1985-04-15
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Marc Chagall 1985-04-22
E248
Watch Me Move... 1985-04-29
E249
Hugh Masekela: The African Ambassador 1985-05-06
E250
The Theatre of Robert Wilson 1985-07-25
E251
Blues Night: Introduction 1985-07-27
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Blues Night: Sonny Boy Williamson Sings 1985-07-27
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Blues Night: B.B. King Speaks 1985-07-27
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Blues Night: Chicago Blues 1985-07-27
E255
Blues Night: Blind John Davis 1985-07-28
E256
Blues Night: Blues Medley 1985-07-28
E257
Blues Night: Big Bill Blues 1985-07-28
E258
Buddy Holly 1985-09-12
E259
Saint Genet 1985-11-12
E260
The Accordion Strikes Back 1985-11-19
E261
The Cinema of Francesco Rosi 1985-11-26
E262
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima 1985-12-03
E263
The Apollo Story: part 1 1985-12-10
E264
The Apollo Story: part 2 1985-12-17
E265
Tosca's Kiss 1986-01-08
E266
The New Babylon 1986-01-11
E267
Tango Mio 1986-01-18
E268
Cinderella 1986-01-21
E269
The Journey Man 1986-01-28
E270
Go-Go in Washington DC 1986-02-04
E271
Marguerite Yourcenar 1986-02-11
E272
Louise Brooks 1986-02-18
E273
Kurosawa 1986-03-04
E274
Two Painters Amazed 1986-03-11
E275
Home Front 1986-03-25
E276
Caribbean Nights: Caribbean Journey 1986-06-14
E277
Caribbean Nights: Medley 1986-06-14
E278
Caribbean Nights: Poetry 1986-06-14
E279
Caribbean Nights: Ska 1986-06-14
E280
Caribbean Nights: The Latin Caribbean 1986-06-14
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Caribbean Nights: Maytime on the Mosquito Coast 1986-06-14
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Caribbean Nights: Calypso and Carnival 1986-06-15
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Caribbean Nights: Whicker's Caribbean World 1986-06-15
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Caribbean Nights: Latin Sound 1986-06-15
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Caribbean Nights: God's Chillun 1986-06-15
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Caribbean Nights Bob Marley 1986-06-15
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Caribbean Nights: C.L.R. James's First Cricket XI 1986-06-16
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Caribbean Nights: Danzon 1986-06-16
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Caribbean Nights: Rasta and the Ball 1986-06-17
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Caribbean Nights: Arturo Sandoval 1986-06-18
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Caribbean Nights: Kapo 1986-06-19
E292
Henry Moore 1986-09-07
E293
Salvador Dali 1986-11-21
E294
The Life and Times of Don Luis Bunuel 1986-11-22
E295
The Spirit of Lorca 1986-11-28
E296
Cambodian Witness 1986-12-05
E297
Scarfe on Scarfe 1986-12-12
E298
Night Moves 1986-12-19
E299
Dylan 1987-01-02
E300
Stand by Your Dream: Tammy Wynette 1987-01-16
E301
Night and Day 1987-01-23
E302
Dennis Potter 1987-01-30
E303
Martin Chambi and the Heirs of the Incas 1987-02-06
E304
The Confessions of Robert Crumb 1987-02-13
E305
Ruth, Roses and Revolver 1987-02-20
E306
A Brother with Perfect Timing 1987-02-27
E307
Tarkovsky's Cinema 1987-03-13
E308
Putting Ourselves in the Picture 1987-03-20
E309
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? 1987-03-27
E310
Bayan Ko Pilipinas 1987-04-03
E311
Talk is Cheap 1987-04-10
E312
The Waugh Trilogy: Bright Young Thing 1987-04-18
E313
The Waugh Trilogy: Mayfair and the Jungle 1987-04-19
E314
The Waugh Trilogy: An Englishman's Home 1987-04-20
E315
German Festival: Joseph Beuys 1987-06-06
E316
ScreenPlay: Cariani and the Courtesans 1987-08-05
E317
Revolutionary with a Paintbox 1987-11-20
E318
Invisible Ink 1987-12-04
E319
Of Cats and Mice 1987-12-18
E320
Woody Guthrie 1988-01-08
E321
The Dandy-Beano Story 1988-01-15
E322
Broadway - The Great White Way 1988-01-22
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Ryszard Kapuscinski: Your Man Who is There 1988-01-29
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The Emperor 1988-02-05
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My Name Is Celia Cruz 1988-02-12
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All on a Mardi Gras Day Part One 1988-02-16
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All on a Mardi Gras Day: Part Two 1988-02-16
E328
Kerouac 1988-02-26
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An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco 1 1988-03-04
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An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco 2 1988-03-05
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Robert Mapplethorpe 1988-03-18
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The English Thoroughbred 1988-03-25
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Byrne About Byrne 1988-04-01
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Rhythms of the World: Randy Travis at the Albert Hall 1988-10-02
E335
Ten Green Bottles 1988-11-25
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Clint Eastwood: The Man with No Name. 1988-12-02
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Moving Across the World on Horses 1988-12-09
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History Boys on the Rampage 1988-12-16
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The Unforgettable Nat King Cole 1988-12-23
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Tales from Barcelona 1989-01-06
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Blackpool 1989-01-13
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The Tip of the Iceberg 1989-01-27
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Laurens van der Post and Albert Sample 1989-02-03
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New York - The Secret African City 1989-02-10
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Eugene Ionesco : the Joke's on Us 1989-02-17
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John Cassavetes 1989-02-24
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Power in the Blood 1989-03-03
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The Old Brass Plate Rattle Test - the Englishman and his Jukebox 1989-03-17
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Juke Box Jury 1989-03-19
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Berthold Lubetkin 1989-03-31
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Heavy Metal 1989-04-07
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The Other Graham Greene 1989-04-21
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Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 1: A Traveller's Tale 1989-10-22
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Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 2: How High the Moon 1989-10-29
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Slim Gaillard's Civilisation 3: My Dinner with Dizzy 1989-11-05
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Animal Night: Smashing Pigs 1989-12-16
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Animal Night: Sacred Elephant 1989-12-16
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Animal Night: Great Wildlife Presenters Through the Ages 1989-12-16
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Animal Night: John Daniel the First 1989-12-16
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Animal Night: A Day in the Life of Sam the Dog 1989-12-16
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Animal Night: Animals on Trial 1989-12-16
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Animal Night: The Animal Night Debate 1989-12-16
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25 x 5: the Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones 1989-12-27
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Numbers 1990-01-19
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Oblomov 1990-01-26
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Jerry Lee Lewis 1990-02-02
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Roberto Rossellini 1990-02-09
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Next Time Dear God Please Choose Someone Else 1990-02-23
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Salif Keita 1990-03-02
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Fred Zinnemann: A Director's Life 1990-03-09
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Spike and Company - Do It a Cappella 1990-03-16
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Peggy and Her Playwrights 1990-03-23
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The English Rose 1990-03-30
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Paris Is Burning 1990-04-06
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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam 1990-04-13
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Havana 1990-04-15
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The Princess 1990-04-20
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The Ten Commandments of Krzysztof Kieslowski 1990-05-04
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Le Paris Black 1990-05-11
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Kino Perestroika 1990-05-18
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The Daily Worker Story 1990-05-25
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Oooh Er, Missus! - The Frankie Howerd Story 1990-06-01
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Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait 1990-09-20
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The Fever 1990-09-29
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Food Night: Introduction 1990-12-15
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Food Night: Modern Food 1990-12-15
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Food Night: Great Moments in Food History 1990-12-15
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Food Night: The Story of Food in 27 Minutes and 43 Seconds 1990-12-15
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Food Night: Good Manners 1990-12-15
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Food Night: What's Kosher? 1990-12-15
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Food Night: The Last Supper 1990-12-15
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Food Night: The Complete History of the Potato 1990-12-15
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Food Night: I Just Happen to Have One Here I Made Earlier 1990-12-15
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Food Night: Movable Feast - the Politics of Disgust 1990-12-15
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Food Night: Eating for One 1990-12-15
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Food Night: Fasting and Abstinence 1990-12-15
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Food Night: Debate 1990-12-15
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Lifepulse - a Natural Thriller 1990-12-28
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Miller Meets Mandela 1991-01-18
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Derek Jarman - a Portrait 1991-01-25
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Anselm Kiefer : Operation Sealion 1991-02-01
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The Strange Story of Joe Meek 1991-02-08
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The Other Roci 1991-02-22
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Caroline 199 - A Pirate's Tale 1991-03-01
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Staring at the Ceiling 1991-03-08
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Three Irish Writers 1991-03-15
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One Irish Rover 1991-03-16
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The Importance of Being Oscar 1991-03-17
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The Other 1991-03-22
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Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon 1991-04-05
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Elmore Leonard 's Criminal Records 1991-04-12
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The Human Face 1991-04-19
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Texas Saturday Night 1991-04-24
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The Grass Arena 1992-01-19
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Billy, How Did You Do It? 1 1992-01-23
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Billy, How Did You Do It? 2 1992-01-24
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Billy, How Did You Do It? 3 1992-01-25
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Masters of the Canvas 1992-01-31
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Oliver Stone 1992-02-07
E420
Fatwa 1992-02-14
E421
Six Degrees of Separation: a New York Tale 1992-02-21
E422
The Incredible Case of Comrade 1992-02-28
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Croatia - the Artists' War 1992-03-06
E424
Otto Dix : a Tale of Two Germanies 1992-03-13
E425
Chi-Chi the Panda 1992-03-20
E426
Armistead Maupin Is a Man I Dreamt Up 1992-03-27
E427
Last Supper - Frank on Frank 1992-04-03
E428
A Spanish Odyssey - a Portrait of Javier Mariscal 1992-04-10
E429
An Argentinian Journey: 1: The Gaucho and the Pampas 1992-04-17
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An Argentinian Journey: 2: Zamba, Chacarera and Chamame 1992-04-18
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An Argentinian Journey: 3: Pacha Mama - Sacred Land 1992-04-19
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Sportswriter: the Fight, the Match and the Race 1992-07-18
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Linda McCartney, behind the Lens 1992-12-26
E434
The Graham Green Trilogy: England Made Me (1904-39) 1993-01-08
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The Graham Greene Trilogy: The Dangerous Edge (1940-60) 1993-01-09
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The Graham Greene Trilogy: A World of My Own (1961-91) 1993-01-10
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On the Road with Boggs 1993-01-15
E438
The Grateful and the Dead 1993-01-22
E439
A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie 1993-01-29
E440
Larry Kramer 1993-01-05
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Edward Said: the Idea of Empire 1993-02-12
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The Last Soviet Citizen 1993-02-19
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Derek Walcott 1993-02-20
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Zhang Yimou 1993-03-12
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Philip Roth 1993-03-19
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Only the Names Have Been Changed 1993-03-26
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Weegee 1993-04-02
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Duchamp's Fountain 1993-04-02
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Edgar Reitz: Return to Heimat 1993-04-12
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Tales Of Rock And Roll: Peggy Sue 1993-04-17
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Not a Bad Girl 1993-04-18
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Heartbreak Hotel 1993-04-24
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Walk on the Wild Side 1993-05-01
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Highway 61 Revisited 1993-05-08
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Arena: Radio Night: Introduction 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio: First: the Infant. 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: TV Talk, Radio Rabbit What does the voice reveal? 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 2: The Schoolboy. 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: Heard But Not Seen 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: Back to Square One 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 3: The Lover. 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: Sunday Dinner 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 4: The Soldier. 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: Pirates 1993-12-31
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Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 5: The Judge. 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: TV Theft, Radio Rip-Off 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 6: The Old Man. 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: The Spot FX Man 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: The Seven Ages of Radio 7: Senility. 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: It's Life, Jim 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: The Time Signal 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: The Two Voyages of Donald Crowhurst 1993-12-18
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Radio Night: The Shipping Forecast 1993-12-19
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The Next Voice You Hear 1993-12-19
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In Search of Oz 1994-01-29
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Who Is Vladimir Pozner? 1994-02-05
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The Dark Side of Black 1994-02-12
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The Ring - a South London Tale 1994-02-26
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Glitterbug 1994-03-05
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Theatre without Actors 1994-03-12
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Kalashnikov 1994-03-19
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Trouble Man - the Last Years of Marvin Gaye 1994-03-26
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Relics Introduction 1994-03-31
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Relics: Einstein's Brain 1994-04-01
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Relics: Curse of the Firebeetle 1994-04-02
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Relics: The Grave Case of Charlie Chaplin 1994-04-03
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Philip K Dick - a Day In the Afterlife 1994-04-09
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Voices from the Island 1994-04-23
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Cindy Sherman - Nobody's Here but Me 1994-04-24
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Bahia of all the Saints 1994-05-07
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Sandra Bernhard - Confession of a Pretty Lady 1994-05-20
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Louise Bourgeois 1994-08-06
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The Peter Sellers Story 1 1995-02-11
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The Peter Sellers Story: 2: Jack to Jacques 1995-02-18
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The Peter Sellers Story: 3: I Am Not a Funny Man 1995-02-25
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Punk and the Pistols 1995-08-20
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The Burger and the King 1996-01-01
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Stories My Country Told Me 1996-07-14
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Tony Bennett's New York 1996-12-22
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Caesar's Writers 1996-12-24
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There's No Such Thing as a Small Head of State 1997-01-02
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Dear Antonioni 1997-01-18
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Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Underground 1997-03-28
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Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: Football is the Faith 1997-03-29
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Busby, Stein and Shankly - the Football Men: The Price of Glory 1997-03-30
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The Banana 1997-12-24
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Cigars - out of the Humidor 1997-12-25
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The Noel Coward Trilogy: The Boy Actor 1998-04-11
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The Noel Coward Trilogy: Captain Coward 1998-04-12
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The Noel Coward Trilogy: Sail Away 1998-04-13
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Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century 1998-05-15
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The Brian Epstein Story: The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow 1998-05-25
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The Brian Epstein Story: Tomorrow Never Knows 1998-12-26
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Cuba Night: the 40-Year Face-off 1999-01-02
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Cuba Night: Eisenhower, Kennedy and Khrushchev: How It All Began 1999-01-02
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Cuba Night: A Diamond in the Rough 1999-01-02
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Cuba Night: LBJ, Nixon and Brezhnev: the Middle Years 1999-01-02
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Cuba Night: The Simpsons: The Trouble with Trillions 1999-01-02
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Cuba Night: Reagan and Gorbachev: Castro, Cuba and the Fall of Communism 1999-01-02
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Cuba Night: Who Owns Che? The Importance of Not Being Ernesto 1999-01-02
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Cuba Night: The Clinton Years: Cuba Today and Tomorrow 1999-01-02
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Salman Rushdie and the Ground beneath His Feet 1999-04-22
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Looking for the Iron Curtain 1999-11-07
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Casanova 1999-12-20
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Blondes - Jayne Mansfield 1999-12-24
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Blondes - Diana Dors 1999-12-26
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Blondes - Anita Ekberg 1999-12-27
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The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money 2000-01-02
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The Veil 2000-05-20
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Wisconsin Death Trip 2000-07-02
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Clint Eastwood: Out of the West 2000-12-24
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Clint Eastwood: American Film-maker 2000-12-25
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James Ellroy's Feast of Death 2001-05-06
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And the Winner Is ... 2001-05-13
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Budd Schulberg - a Contender 2001-05-19
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The Source 2001-05-28
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Salgado - the Spectre of Hope 2001-05-30
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Stalin - the Red God 2001-05-31
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According to Beryl 2001-10-06
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Night of Entertainers: Sykes and a Day 2001-12-26
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Night of Entertainers: Drake's Progress 2001-12-25
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Night of Entertainers: The 1812 Overture in E Flat Major Opus 49 2001-12-25
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Night of Entertainers: Max Bygraves - I Wanna Tell You a Story 2001-12-25
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The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part 1 2001-12-26
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The Private Dirk Bogarde: Part 2 2001-12-26
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Estonia Dreams of Eurovision 2002-05-18
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Kurosawa: Part One 2002-06-15
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Kurosawa: Part Two 2002-06-22
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The Peter Sellers Story: As He Filmed It 2002-08-24
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Harold Pinter: 1: The Room 2002-10-26
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Harold Pinter: 2: Celebration 2002-10-26
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One for the Road 2002-10-26
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Politics and Pinter 2002-10-30
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The Room 2002-11-05
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Radio Ha! Meet the Dead Ringers 2002-12-26
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Radio Ha! It's Time for Just a Minute 2002-12-26
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I Am from Nowhere 2003-01-14
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The Real Jane Austen 2003-06-12
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The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough: Part One 2003-08-24
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The Many Lives of Richard Attenborough: Part Two 2003-08-25
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Imagine Imagine 2003-09-20
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Dylan Thomas - from Grave to Cradle 2003-11-22
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West: How the Myth Was Made 2003-12-19
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Alec Guinness, a Secret Man 2003-12-29
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Pavarotti - the Last Tenor 2004-05-29
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Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus 2004-07-09
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Shadowing the Third Man 2004-10-02
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Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? 2004-12-09
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Painting the Clouds - a Portrait of Dennis Potter 2004-12-25
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Dennis Potter: It's In the Songs! It's In the Songs! 2005-01-02
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Potter on Television 2005-01-09
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Hank Williams - Honky Tonk Blues 2005-02-05
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Calling Hedy Lamarr 2005-02-12
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Francis Bacon's Arena 2005-03-19
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Arena at 30 2005-09-03
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Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 1 2005-09-26
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Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: Part 2 2005-09-27
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Dylan in the Madhouse 2005-09-28
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The Princess and Panorama 2005-11-08
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Routemasters! The Double Decker Bus Conductors 2005-12-10
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Galton and Simpson 2005-12-25
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Pete Doherty 2006-11-12
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Saints 2006-12-17
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The Archers 2007-01-01
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The Underground 2007-03-18
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Bob Marley - Exodus 77 2007-06-03
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Encountering Bergman 2007-07-13
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Bergman and Faro Island 2007-07-13
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Bergman and the Cinema 2007-07-14
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Flames of Passion: the Other Side of British Cinema 2007-09-02
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The Original Archers 2007-10-04
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Tribute Bands - into the Limelight 2007-10-06
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Tribute Bands - Live at the Limelight 2007-10-06
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Dylan's Folk - the Pure, the Bad and the Holy 2007-10-14
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The Other Side of the Mirror - Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival 2007-10-14
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Dylan in the Madhouse 2007-10-14
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Ken Dodd's Happiness 2007-12-24
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The Strange Luck of V.S. Naipaul 2008-04-10
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Cab Driver 2008-07-26
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The Hunt for Moby-Dick 2008-09-20
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Whale Night: The Whale in the Museum 2008-09-21
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Whale Night: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales: Episode 1: Baleen 2008-09-21
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Whale Night: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales: Episode 2: Toothed 2008-09-21
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Whale Night: Philip Hoare's Guide to Whales: Episode 3: Arctic 2008-09-21
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The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector 2008-10-25
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Paul Scofield 2008-12-24
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Tony Bennett: the Music Never Ends 2009-02-14
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Cool 2009-04-03
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TS Eliot 2009-06-06
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Harold Pinter Night: The Birthday Party 2009-07-26
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Brian Eno - Another Green World 2010-01-22
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Harold Pinter - A Celebration 2010-01-24
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Johnny Mercer - The Dream's on Me 2010-04-04
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Dave Brubeck - In His Own Sweet Way 2010-12-03
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Rolf Harris Paints His Dream 2010-12-29
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Produced by George Martin 2011-04-25
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World: Part 1 2011-11-12
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World: Part 2 2011-11-13
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Dickens on Film 2012-01-10
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Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes 2012-02-17
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Sonny Rollins '74: Rescued! 2012-02-17
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The Dreams of William Golding 2012-03-17
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Jonathan Miller 2012-03-31
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Amy Winehouse - The Day She Came to Dingle 2012-07-23
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The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour: Episode 1: Magical Mystery Tour Revisited 2012-10-06
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The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour: Episode 2: 'The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour 2012-10-06
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Screen Goddesses 2012-12-22
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Sister Wendy and the Art of the Gospel 2012-12-25
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aka Norman Parkinson 2013-04-21
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Arena: The National Theatre: Part One - The Dream 2013-10-24
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Arena: The National Theatre: Part Two - War and Peace 2013-10-31
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Whatever Happened to Spitting Image? 2014-03-20
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The National Theatre: Learning Zone 2014-04-02
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The 50 Year Argument - The New York Review of Books 2014-06-29
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Nicolas Roeg - It's About Time 2015-06-26
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Night and Day 2015-11-22
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Loretta Lynn - Still a Mountain Girl 2016-03-18
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All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film 2016-04-24
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1966 - 50 Years Ago Today 2016-07-24
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The Roundhouse - The People's Palace 2016-10-23
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Alone with Chrissie Hynde 2017-02-10
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American Epic: Episode 1: The Big Bang 2017-05-21
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American Epic: Episode 2: Blood and Soil 2017-05-28
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Kirsty Young: 75 Years of Desert Island Discs 2017-05-29
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American Epic: Episode 3: Out of the Many, the One 2017-06-04
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American Epic: Episode 4: The Sessions 2017-06-09
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Stanley and his Daughters 2018-02-04
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Bob Dylan – Trouble No More 2018-03-30
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Nothing Like a Dame 2018-06-02
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Make Me Up! 2018-11-04
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Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything 2019-04-06
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That Summer 2019-07-07
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Cindy Sherman #untitled 2019-07-28
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Kusama: Infinity 2019-09-01
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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin 2019-09-21
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Bergman: A Year in the Life 2019-09-22
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The $50 Million Art Swindle 2019-09-23
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A British Guide to the End of the World 2019-11-04
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Everything Is Connected - George Eliot's Life 2019-11-10
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Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens 2019-12-30
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Hilary Mantel: Return to Wolf Hall 2020-03-07
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The Changin’ Times of Ike White 2020-05-18
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I Am Not Your Negro 2020-06-20
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Keith Haring: Street Art Boy 2020-07-04
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Fela Kuti: Father of Afrobeat 2020-11-21
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My Father and Me 2021-03-21
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Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes 2021-05-16
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African Apocalypse 2021-05-22
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Dark Matter: A History of the Afrofuture 2021-05-29
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Painted with My Hair 2021-10-31
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B. Catling: Where Does It All Come From? 2021-11-21
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The Vasulka Effect 2021-11-28
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The Most Beautiful Boy in the World 2022-02-13
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River 2022-07-25
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James Joyce’s Ulysses 2022-09-07
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T.S. Eliot: Into the Waste Land 2022-10-22
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Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters 2022-11-27
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Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock 'n' Roll 2023-04-22
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The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld 2023-04-26
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The Stones and Brian Jones 2023-05-15
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2023-06-04
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Coco Chanel Unbuttoned 2023-09-15
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Being Kae Tempest 2023-11-29
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Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy 2023-12-25
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Mad About the Boy: The Noel Coward Story 2023-12-26
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Maria Callas: The Final Act 2024-12-29
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Alan Bennett 90 Years On 2024-12-13
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