Melvyn Bragg Movies

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

Television documentary on playwright, actor, composer, and film maker Noel Coward.

A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."

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...

1981 episode of London Weekend Television's The South Bank Show examines the film and features interviews with novelist John Fowles, screenwriter...

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

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 documentary on the band

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

Profile of fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood.

Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of "Sweeney Todd", this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process...

Interview with the British author, William Golding.

An LWT South Bank Show, presented by Melvyn Bragg, exploring the phenomenon of countertenor singing. With its unique, soaring beauty, the high male...

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

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

Melvyn Bragg sets out to unravel the many questions surrounding one of the Bible's most enigmatic and controversial figures: Mary Magdalene.

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...

Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.

Eric Idle is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 2006 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). The surviving members of Monty Python discuss the huge...