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Omnibus

Season 1987 1987

  • 1987-05-07T23:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 50m
  • 2h 30m (3 episodes)
  • 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.

3 episodes

Season Premiere

1987-05-07T23:00:00Z

1987x01 George Grosz: Enemy of the State

Season Premiere

1987x01 George Grosz: Enemy of the State

  • 1987-05-07T23:00:00Z50m

As part of the BBC's German Festival, Omnibus launches its new series with a dramatised biography of the great German painter and Political caricaturist George Grosz. Starring and It is Grosz's picture of Berlin, the decadent cabarets, overfed industrialists and the miserable poor, which still dominates our image of that city between the Wars. In his life he combined the manners of a bourgeois with the radical politics of the Weimar Republic. Grosz catalogued the moral collapse of Germany and the rise of Nazism to such effect that he was outlawed and forced into exile in the United States.

1987-09-18T23:00:00Z

1987x02 Getting to Dylan

1987x02 Getting to Dylan

  • 1987-09-18T23:00:00Z50m

In 1987, Christopher Sykes interviewed Bob Dylan while the musician was filming Hearts of Fire. Their meeting revealed a side of Dylan that is rarely seen - direct, playful and fully engaged in the conversation.

1987-10-30T00:00:00Z

1987x07 Arthur Miller

1987x07 Arthur Miller

  • 1987-10-30T00:00:00Z50m
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