Movies

A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.

Jonathan Miller set his well-known production of The Mikado, staged for the English National Opera, in a British seaside resort of the 1920s. The...

A TV version of the stage show originally performed at the Edinburgh Fringe (August 1960) and in London (Fortune Theatre, May 1961) and Broadway...

Veteran radio, theatre, television and film actor Christopher Plummer has played a thousand parts, but beneath that elegant stage presence lies the...

Pioneer photographer, forefather of cinema, showman, murderer - Eadweard Muybridge was a Victorian enigma. He was born and died in Kingston upon...

An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love...

A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during...

Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers...

The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal...

Live from La Scala Sunday 03 February 1991

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...

Jonathan Miller visits the Regent's Park Zoo and gives his personal opinions on the animals and their enclosures.

A summer evening in Edinburgh, 1776. The ailing philosopher David Hume has an unexpected visitor.

In a programme first broadcast in 1969, some of the four million people evacuated as children from British cities during the Second World War look...

Paul Goodwin conducts a specially assembled "Passion Band" performing on period instruments, who are joined by two young choirs and a cast of...

A chance to see director Jonathan Miller at work on his acclaimed staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous comic opera.

Jonathan Miller's acclaimed documentary on Clive Wearing - the man with the ten-minute memory.

Two impressions of New York - a city of dreams or nightmares. The Outsider: Jonathan Miller 'If you enter New York in the first place in a show...