Omnibus Season 31 Episodes

Episode 1

Wild Swans

43 mins

Episode 2

Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One

43 mins

Episode 3

Nina Simone -The Legend

43 mins

Nina Simone -The Legend.

Episode 4

Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part Two

43 mins

Episode 5

Sweet Home Chicago

43 mins

Episode 6

Houdini

43 mins

Episode 7

The Magic Lantern

43 mins

Episode 8

The Russian Striptease

43 mins

Episode 10

Everything You Wanted to Know About Conductors But Were Afraid to Ask

43 mins

Episode 11

The Boy Next Door

43 mins

A portrait of Boy George. UK telly. Early 90s. Crying Game US release era.

Episode 12

Who Killed Tchaikovsky

50 mins

A hundred years ago Tchaikovsky died suddenly In St Petersburg, within days of conducting the work many consider to be his greatest, the Pathétique Symphony. How did the great composer meet his death? Officially, he died of cholera, but a Russian emigre living in America has produced evidence to show that he was forced to commit suicide. Anthony Holden conducts an investigation into the mystery, and the film follows clues in New York, St Petersburg and Moscow, clues within the music and the known facts of Tchaikovsky's life, in search of the facts behind the composer's untimely death.

Episode 13

Looking Back at You

43 mins

Episode 14

Sunset Boulevard

43 mins

A look behind the scenes of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic movie 'Sunset Boulevard'

Episode 15

Freeze, But Is It Art?

43 mins

Episode 16

The Piero Trail 1

43 mins

Episode 17

Mister Abbott's Broadway

43 mins

Liza Minnelli refers to him most respectfully as Mr Abbott. Others call him the master stager of musicals and the apprentice's sorcerer. Since turning to musicals in the mid-1930s, George Abbott has produced a stream of famous Broadway shows - including A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, On the Town, The Pajama Game and Pal Joey. And he has championed a succession of unknown writers and directors who have since become famous themselves - Leonard Bernstein, Sammy Cahn , Stephen Sondheim , Bob Fosse and Hal Prince all got an early break with him. Now aged 106, the legendary Mr Abbott is about to revive his hit Damn Yankees on Broadway. Omnibus talks to him and his many co-stars about his glittering career.

Episode 18

The Piero Trail 2

43 mins

Episode 19

Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy

59 mins

Profile of the novelist Vikram Seth, including footage from a family reunion in Delhi.

Episode 20

Hildegard

43 mins

Episode 21

Bill T Jones

43 mins

Episode 22

Gielgud: Scenes from 9 Decades

43 mins

Episode 23

Joan Littlewood's Lovely War

43 mins

Episode 24

Sir John Betjeman

43 mins

Episode 25

Duke Ellington 1: Reminiscing in Tempo

43 mins

Episode 26

Duke Ellington 2

43 mins

Episode 27

Robert Stephens: Every Inch a King

43 mins