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Omnibus

Omnibus

1967 - 1999

Everybody's Expo

13th October 1967
Episode 1
The first edition of a regular weekly programme about the creative world of art and artists. Introduced by Henry Livings. Tonight: Everybody's Expo - An account of a world event.

Suliotis Sings

20th October 1967
Episode 2
The British debut of a new world opera star—at the age of twenty-four.

Beethoven Symphony No. 3, in E flat (Eroica)

3rd November 1967
Episode 3
The first of three performances of Beethoven symphonies conducted by Colin Davis. BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Trevor Williams Part of a public concert in the Royal Festival Hall, London.

Tyger, Tyger

10th November 1967
Episode 4
An enquiry into the power of a familiar poem. Introduced by Henry Livings. "Tyger tyger burning bright In the forests of the night What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry" Why does this poem by William Blake 1757-1827 stick in the mind, and seize the imagination of so many different people?

Benjamin Britten and His Festival

22nd November 1967
Episode 5
No overview available.

East of Bedlam

8th December 1967
Episode 6
No overview available.

Jacqueline

15th December 1967
Episode 7
No overview available.

The World of Coppard

15th December 1967
Episode 8
No overview available.

Dante's Inferno

22nd December 1967
Episode 9
No overview available.

Diaghilev: The Years Abroad (1)

28th December 1967
Episode 10
No overview available.

Diaghilev: The Years in Exile (2)

9th January 1968
Episode 11
No overview available.

Edith Evans: A Birthday Tribute

16th January 1968
Episode 12
No overview available.

Top Brass

23rd January 1968
Episode 13
No overview available.

Abelard and Heloise

30th January 1968
Episode 14
No overview available.

The Exile

6th February 1968
Episode 15
No overview available.

Tommy

26th March 1968
Episode 16
No overview available.

God's Tunes

2nd April 1968
Episode 17
No overview available.

China and the Barbarians

23rd April 1968
Episode 18
No overview available.

Whistle and I'll Come to You

7th May 1968
Episode 19
No overview available.

My Name Is Benvenuto Cellini

21st May 1968
Episode 20
No overview available.

The Charm of Dynamite!

28th May 1968
Episode 21
No overview available.

Corporal Jan

18th June 1968
Episode 22
No overview available.

The Ken Russell Festival (1)

25th June 1968
Episode 23
No overview available.

The Ken Russell Festival (2)

2nd July 1968
Episode 24
No overview available.
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Documentary

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.

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