A weekly arts-based documentary series covering a diverse variety of subjects, everything from Roman orgies and the Elgin Marbles through The Yardbirds and Ike Turner to Aleister Crowley and Mother Teresa.
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Ep 11990-10-03
Episode 1
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Ep 21990-10-10
For Love or Money 1
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Ep 31990-10-17
Doing the Dishes
A celebration of the satellite dish, looking at their history and considering the prospects for …
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Ep 41990-10-24
Sexual Intercourse Began in 1963
Trial of the book and the acquittal of Penguin Books ushered in the freedom of …
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Ep 51990-10-31
The Thing Is... Prisons
Paul Morley looks at prisons, historic and new, and at the "interior design" practiced by …
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Ep 61990-11-07
Episode 6
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Ep 71990-11-14
Tunnel Visions: 1
The mutual mistrust between the French and the English goes back centuries. A British television …
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Ep 81990-11-18
Tunnel Visions: 2
A French television team looks behind the stereotypes and asks what the public role of …
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Ep 91990-11-21
Tracks of My Tears
Inspired by the footballer, Paul Gascoigne, this documentary with music from Smokey Robinson and Sydney …
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Ep 101990-12-05
J'accuse: The Rolling Stones
Rock critic Sean O'Hagan argues that the Rolling Stones are a burnt-out collection of middle-aged …
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Ep 111990-12-12
Episode 11
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Ep 121990-12-19
The Thing Is... Christmas Decorations
Paul Morley looks at Christmas decorations. Why do we want them? What do they mean …
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Ep 131991-01-14
Sleeping Beauty Rediscovered
Looking at the Royal Ballet's film started in the 1960s and left unfinished.
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Ep 141991-01-15
J'accuse: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Looks at the hype behind the Mozart bicentennial celebrations.
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Ep 151991-03-05
Black Athena
Examines the ideas of Martin Bernal set out in book Black Athena (1987) in which …
