Melvyn Bragg Movies

An intimate portrait of David Hockney, featuring interviews with the artist - one of Britain's most beloved painters - in London and Normandy, and...

Television documentary about British film director Ken Loach.

Documentary about Italian film director Ermanno Olmi, with emphasis on "The Tree of Wooden Clogs".

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...

Alan Bennett's personal overview of art, filmed in the atmospheric location of a Leeds art gallery.

Documentary about British film director Michael Powell

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...

Television documentary about British film director Terence Davies and his film "The Long Day Closes."

Terry Gilliam is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 1991 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). Gilliam speaks of his history with the British...

Interviews with and performance footage of conductor Sir John Barbirolli

This documentary, shot entirely on location in Havana, includes many band members' insights into this revival, and features performance footage of an...

To mark his fiftieth birthday in 1988, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his work. Melvyn Bragg joined David Hockney for an...

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

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...

A documentary on the band

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

Profile of fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood.

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.

A profile of the Iranian film industry

Gerald Fox’s film documents Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov’s odyssey to create two permanent video...