Films & Television

FILMS & TELEVISION

Five decades of documentary filmmaking across food, theatre, art, history, science, Africa and the countryside.

FOOD, LANDSCAPE & RURAL TRADITIONS

A Taste of Britain — Eight pioneering films celebrating Britain’s regional foods and the people who produced them.
Back to the Roots — Richard Mabey explores the history of people and plants in England in a series of 6 half-hours.
Built in Britain — A journey through vernacular architecture in England and Wales in a series of 6 half-hours.
The Lost Paradise — A film portrait of the landscape artist Roberto Burle Marx. VIEW

Africa Express — Five current affairs films from Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi.
African Footsteps — Celebrity journeys through Madagascar, Mozambique and Lesotho.

The South Bank Show — Producer and director of films on Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, John Osborne, Michael Frayn, Norman Mailer, R. K. Narayan, Ingmar Bergman and Roman Polanski.
The Oresteia — Sir Peter Hall’s National Theatre production at Epidaurus.
Royal Shakespeare Company — Three Sisters and As You Like It with Sir Ian McKellen.
Alan Howard at the RSC — Henry V and Coriolanus.
Nicholas Nickleby — The celebrated RSC production from rehearsal to opening night.
Word of Mouth — Secrets in Shakespeare’s texts with John Barton and Trevor Nunn.
The Passion — Bill Bryden’s National Theatre production.
The Messiah — Starring Jim Broadbent and Patrick Barlow.
Mighty Moments from World History — Four comedy dramas with the National Theatre of Brent.
Letters Home — An experimental drama on Sylvia Plath.
The A to Z of C&W — With Hank Wangford.

Andrew Wyeth — Portrait of the American realist painter. VIEW
Raoul Dufy: Painter and Decorator — The French artist’s life and work.
Royal Coal — The first television film on the popular painter.
The Painting on the Wall — M. F. Husain and the women of Madhubani.
Philip Larkin — A personal profile with the poems read by Larkin.
Remains of Elmet — Ted Hughes and Fay Godwin.
Arvon Poetry Competition — Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, Charles Causley and Andrew Motion.
Looking Back at You, Salgado — Portrait of Sebastião Salgado. VIEW

The Inner Eye — Six documentaries on consciousness. With Sir Nicholas Humphrey.
The Secret Life of Machines — Written and presented by Tim Hunkin.
Fabric of an Age — A. J. P. Taylor on Manchester and the Industrial Revolution.
In Search of the Sunken City — The search for the Pharos Lighthouse in Alexandria.
The Deepest Hole in the World — A British caving expedition in the Pyrenees. VIEW