Omnibus

Seasons

1967

7.2

Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Everybody's Expo

S1 • E2

Suliotis Sings

S1 • E3

Beethoven/Eroica

S1 • E4

Tyger Tyger

S1 • E5

Benjamin Britten and His Festival

A look back at Victorian and Edwardian melodramas from the past, by writer and actor John M. East.

S1 • E6

East of Bedlam

A documentary recording Jacqueline du Pré playing the Elgar Cello Concerto with the New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by her husband Daniel Barenboim.

S1 • E7

Jacqueline

S1 • E8

The World of Coppard

The story of the influential 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his troubled and somewhat morbid relationship with his wife and his art.

S1 • E9

Dante's Inferno

S1 • E10

Diaghilev: The Years Abroad (1)

S1 • E11

Diaghilev: The Years in Exile (2)

S1 • E12

Edith Evans: A Birthday Tribute

S1 • E13

Top Brass

S1 • E14

Abelard and Heloise

S1 • E15

The Exile

S1 • E16

Tommy

S1 • E17

God's Tunes

Classic BBC adaptation of an equally classic ghost story about a skeptical professor on vacation in Norfolk who finds a cursed whistle. Unlike most other episodes of this documentary series about music, this one is live action folk horror.

S1 • E18

China and the Barbarians

S1 • E19

Whistle and I'll Come to You

A profile of one of the cinema's greatest revolutionaries and orators, the Frenchman Abel Gance, who made his first film in 1909 and whose techniques in the 1920s helped to create a cinema that was unique, grandiose and unashamedly romantic.