About this season
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.
Episodes (16)
1. Korea - A House Divided
Aired 23 September 1988
2. Sir Fred- a Celilbration
Aired 30 September 1988
3. Gwen: A Juliet Remembered
Aired 7 October 1988
4. Eisenstein: Little Boy from Riga
Aired 14 October 1988
A study of the life and work of the Russian film director and theorist Sergei Eisenstein.
5. Harold Pinter
Aired 21 October 1988
Anna Ford speak to Harold Pinter about how life experience had politicized his work.
6. Charles: A Vision of Britain
Aired 28 October 1988
7. Caryl Churchill
Aired 4 November 1988
8. Paul Simon
Aired 11 November 1988
Paul Simon is interviewed by Mark Steyn a couple of years after he released his Graceland album. In response to Steyn's thoughtful questions, Simon reflects on his music, his songwriting and his influences.