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Omnibus

Season 1981 1981

  • 1981-01-13T00:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 50m
  • 50m (1 episode)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • 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. The series was replaced by Imagine hosted by Alan Yentob.

1 episode

Season Premiere

1981-01-13T00:00:00Z

1981x01 Judy Chicago's Dinner Party

Season Premiere

1981x01 Judy Chicago's Dinner Party

  • 1981-01-13T00:00:00Z50m

Four hundred women, led by artist Judy Chicago , spent five years creating a huge banquet table, with beautiful ceramics, embroidery and painting. Each place-setting represents one of the most influential women in history and mythology, and the whole banquet is a frank and joyful celebration of female accomplishment and sexuality.
It became the most talked-about art event of the year, yet this Sunday in New York it will be closed up, packed into crates, and stored away. Though it broke box-office records in Boston and San Francisco, with daily queues round the block, no other gallery has offered it a home.
Tonight's film follows, month by month, the art, craft and argument that went into this astonishing work.

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