March 19, 1981 • 1h 30m
Programme which looks at the life and work of French film director Rene Clair and his work in France and Hollywood. With Leslie Ca...Read more
January 3, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary about the Chelsea Hotel in New York, a legendary haven for the some of the greatest artistic talent of the 20th centur...Read more
November 24, 1981 • 1h 30m
Since 1923 the Radio Times has been a leader in design & illustration & Eric Fraser one of its regular contributors talks about hi...Read more
January 24, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary on two very individual English Artists. Sam Smith, who carves wooden toys and models evocative of the Edwardian era, a...Read more
January 31, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary whcih looks at the role of Radio One D.J. John Peel and his producer John Walters have had in the encouragement of roc...Read more
February 21, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary on Edward Hopper, american painter, whose work is the subject of an exhibition in London at the moment.
February 28, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary on the staging of The Ik in a quarry near Adelaide in australia by Peter Brook's travelling theatre company. Tribal Ab...Read more
March 7, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary looking at Britain's smallest theatre, run in Scotland by Barrie and Marrianne Hesketh for the last seventeen years, i...Read more
March 14, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary profile of film director John Huston.
March 21, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary profile of leading Israeli writer, Amos Oz in which he talks about t he thirty year history of the Israeli state whils...Read more
March 28, 1981 • 1h 30m
Film Portrait of William Gerhardie who died in 1977, whose book Bod's Fifth Colu mn was published in 1981. Michael Holroyd discuss...Read more
April 4, 1981 • 1h 30m
Profile of pop singer Gary Glitter, who "retired" in 1976 and who was soon hopelessly in debt, but whose career has shown recent signs of revival.
April 15, 1981 • 1h 30m
Programme which looks at some of the films of silent film comedian Lupino Lane, whose work was mostly destroyed when his studio we...Read more
May 9, 1981 • 1h 30m
Profile of american painter Robert Natkin, who talks about the early influences on his life.
May 16, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary which examines the effects of the cuts in education spending on Britain's Youth Orchestras, looking in particular at t...Read more
August 16, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary looking at the future of the National Youth Theatre, looking at its history and the financial threats to its future ex...Read more
September 6, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary in which Polish film director Wajda is interviewed in Warsaw and Cra cow shortly after receiving the Palm D'Or award a...Read more
October 2, 1981 • 1h 5m
Portrait of comedy film writer, director and sometime actor, Mel Brooks filmed on location in Hollywood with Gene Wilder, Dom de L...Read more
November 3, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary about the image on the Mona Lisa and the various contexts in which the image can be seen throughout the world.
November 10, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary which looks at the development of an idea for a play by Hanif Kureishi through the group improvisation and ideas of th...Read more
November 17, 1981 • 50m
Documentary on British film-makers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger who talk about their career in partnership which produced...Read more
December 8, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary which features the view of Booker prize-winning author Salman Rushdie of India through the eyes of his hero from the n...Read more
December 15, 1981 • 1h 30m
Documentary in which Jamaican-born poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, now resident in Brixton, visits Carifesta, a festival of West Indian...Read more