Melvyn Bragg

Through concert performances and interviews, this film offers us an "inside look" at this famous rock group... (imdb)

Ken Russell's autobiographical film

The dramatic story of William Tyndale and his mission to translate the Bible into English.

He argues that while many think our modern world is founded on secular ideals, it is the King James Version which had a greater legacy. The King James Bible not only influenced the English language and its literature more than any other book, it was also the seedbed of western democracy, the activator of radical shifts in society such as the abolition of the slave trade, the debating dynamite for brutal civil wars in Britain and America and a critical spark in the genesis of modern science. (bbc.co.uk)

Melvyn Bragg takes a restored 1967 Bedford mobile cinema around the country, showing excerpts from historical documentary films that record British life. It includes interviews with people who lived through the times and, in some cases, are featured in the films. (imdb)

Melvyn Bragg examines the lives, work and legacy of two men whose ideas have had tremendous consequences both in their own time and down the centuries: John Ball and Thomas Paine. (bbc.co.uk)

Lord Bragg presents a personal examination of the British obsession with class, seeing it through his own eyes as a working class boy turned member of the gentry, and reflecting on its evolution & relevance in the nation as a whole. (imdb)