Melvyn Bragg Movies

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

Television documentary on playwright, actor, composer, and film maker Noel Coward.

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...

The story of Walt Disney and the company he built.

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.

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.

David Hockney is unquestionably one of the most passionate and versatile experimental artists on the contemporary scene. In the late 1970s the...

A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.

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

Documentary about the making of the film first presented on the British television series "The South Bank Show".

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.

An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.

A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of legendary screen and stage actor/director Laurence Olivier.

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

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

A documentary on the band

A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by...

A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."

Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.

Melvyn Bragg explores the dramatic story of William Tyndale and his mission to translate the Bible into English, which made him a threat to the...