Melvyn Bragg interviews Peter O'Toole about the first volume of his autobiography. In it we learn of his love of acting, the race track and his strange boyhood obsession with Adolf Hitler and how this led to his involvement in the 1976 movie "Rogue Male".
Documentary about the life and death and the career of actor and singer/song writer George Formby. This episode of the south bank show covers the rise of George Formby career with insights of his family including his father and includes Interviews with George Formby's brother and sister, Ted and Elba.
A profile of the celebrated American photographer Annie Leibovitz, following her at work in New York, Los Angeles and Paris and profiling two decades of popular culture and the cult of the celebrity through her camera lens.
The composer recounts personal loves and sorrows, ecstatic music-making, frustrated dealings with producers, ravages of war, endless revolutions, and as his own death nears, the threat of an invading army at the gates of Paris.
Profile of Dudley Moore. Contributions from Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Blake Edwards, Bo Derek, Sir Georg Solti and others. Revisits Sydney Russell Comprehensive and St Thomas's Church Dagenham. Performs at Magdalen College, Oxford.
