Omnibus

"The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story" (video release title) tells the full bizarre, tragic, but also celebratory story of Syd Barrett, the co-founder of Pink Floyd. With contributions from friends, managers, lovers and of course the members of Pink Floyd themselves. The film includes rare early television appearances of Pink Floyd and home movies too.

A UK broadcast of Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation (2000).

Recording Jamie Bell's progress from unknown schoolboy to award-winning star of "Billy Elliot".

A documentary on the life and career of actress Elizabeth Taylor, with clips from her films and interviews with friends and co-workers.

A profile from 2000 of writer F Scott Fitzgerald on the 75th anniversary of the publication of his most enduring achievement, The Great Gatsby.

Omnibus about British artist Anthony Gormley best known for The Angel of the North, a huge sculpture outside Newcastle. This profile follows Gormley at work in his studio and installing a sculpture in Norway. Interviews include Jake Chapman, Anish Kapoor and Gormley's mother.

Celebrating the centenary of Lewis Carroll.

Focuses on the Hampstead Garden Suburb set up by Dame Henrietta Barnett to rescue people from East End.

Mother's Day special.

Documentary about the famed Polish-French painter Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, known as Balthus.

A moving look at the legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev through the final decade of his life, when he struggled to continue in his role as artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet even as he tried to keep his battle against AIDS a secret.

Robert Harris's Fatherland was a publishing phenomenon, the most successful first novel by a British author in 20 years. Now he's writing his 2nd novel, Enigma, which looks like being the publishing event of the year. Can he do it? Is he a one-hit wonder or a hardback hero?

Soul legend Curtis Mayfield talks to writer Caryl Phillips about his life, career and contribution to the Civil Rights Movement in America. Program includes archive footage and contributions from family, friends and colleagues.

Documentary about abstract expressionist artist Willem de Kooning. This explores his late work and the allegations that they have been kept off the market to inflate their value.

Part 2 covers last 14 years of his life and work, including his return to America, touring the South Pacific, and settling in Samoa. Also a newly discovered 1940's interview with step-daughter Belle Strong.

First part of a two part doc on Robert Louis Stevenson, tracing his life from his childhood in Edinburgh through teenage travels with his father to his time as a wild student in Edinburgh.

A look back at the band's 30 year career.

Profile of the novelist Vikram Seth, including footage from a family reunion in Delhi.

A look behind the scenes of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic movie 'Sunset Boulevard'

A documentary that visits Brazil, India and Paris to explore the work of photojournalist Sebastião Salgado, who had been working for seven years on a huge project recording the lives of manual workers throughout the world.

A hundred years ago Tchaikovsky died suddenly In St Petersburg, within days of conducting the work many consider to be his greatest, the Pathétique Symphony. How did the great composer meet his death? Officially, he died of cholera, but a Russian emigre living in America has produced evidence to show that he was forced to commit suicide. Anthony Holden conducts an investigation into the mystery, and the film follows clues in New York, St Petersburg and Moscow, clues within the music and the known facts of Tchaikovsky's life, in search of the facts behind the composer's untimely death.

A portrait of Boy George. UK telly. Early 90s. Crying Game US release era.

When southern blues musicians moved north in the years after the war Chicago was an obvious destination, offering day jobs in Industry and night work in the clubs. Of the record labels reflecting this migration the most successful was Chess, and the fascinating story of Chicago blues is therefore also a procession through the tiny Chess studios, from Muddy Waters to the Roiling Stones, who took their name from one of Waters's songs and helped spread the music to Europe. Mick Jagger talks of his debt to Chicago blues, and the great survivors like Buddy Guy tell their own tale, interspersed with priceless archive footage of artists like Chuck Berry , Howlin' Wolf and Little Walter.

Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin's expose on the pornography industry.

About the American novelist Don Delillo who is obsessed by violent images and what they can do to the soul of a 20th century culture like his, is dazzlingly, nay blindingly, assembled.

BBC documentary directed by Iann Potts. Follows BB King's home-coming playing a concert in his home town of Indianola, to Parchman Prison bull ring where he gives a concert to inmates.

How Vladimir Nabokov wrote his most famous novel, and why it is one of the greatest novels ever written.

Paul Simon is interviewed by Mark Steyn a couple of years after he released his Graceland album. In response to Steyn's thoughtful questions, Simon reflects on his music, his songwriting and his influences.

Anna Ford speak to Harold Pinter about how life experience had politicized his work.

A study of the life and work of the Russian film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein.

A celebration of a century of recording history as seen through the eyes of Nipper the 'His Master's Voice' dog for ever seen listening to a gramophone horn in the world famous trademark. In the programme there are extracts from nearly 100 recordings.

Todays theme is Getting to Dylan.

Dramatized documentary about the life of the painter George Grosz.