Movies: Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg presents this 1977 documentary about Doctor Who from BBC2's 'The Lively Arts' strand, featuring extensive behind-the-scenes coverage of the making of The Talons of Weng-Chiang and looking back at the history of the programme and its psyc...

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

Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of "Sweeney Todd", this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process with the musical's director, composer and actors....

A documentary first presented on the South Bank Show in 1980 about the career of film director Roman Polanski....

A documentary on the band...

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 That Was the Week That Was, At Last the 1948 Show and The Frost Report, all which led to Monty Python's...

An intimate portrait of David Hockney, featuring interviews with the artist - one of Britain's most beloved painters - in London and Normandy, and exclusive new footage of a master at work....

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

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

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

Documentary about the Swedish film director, produced for the UK television program "The South Bank."...

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 LWT South Bank Show, presented by Melvyn Bragg, exploring the phenomenon of countertenor singing. With its unique, soaring beauty, the high male voice is today enjoying a huge resurgence in popularity. Heirs to the celebrated castrati of the sixt...

Documentary about British film director Michael Powell...

Profile of fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood....

Francis Bacon revolutionised figurative painting in the 20th century. The English painter unmasked his subjects in a provocative and ruthless manner. Deformed bodies, grimacing faces and the materiality of colour make us aware of brutality and sexual...

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director....

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini....

Interview with the British author, William Golding....