Barrie Gavin Movies

A portrait of Eric Lyons and Span, under the scrutiny of Ian Nairn, as well as the residents of their estates.

The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two...

The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to satirize traditional opera and operetta and to...

An interview with film director Roman Polanski, recorded for BBC TV in 1967.

Documentary on 84-year old Marevna; painter, friend of Picasso and one-time mistress of Diego Rivera; and her daughter by Rivera, Marika; former...

A film based on Beyond a Boundary, the classic book by C. L. R. James,

Humphrey Burton introduces two Omnibus USA reports on the arts in New York... that is the arts in the streets, away from the museums and the concert...

Portrait of the composer, Peter Maxwell Davies, set in the context of the islands of Orkney. George Mackay Brown is featured reading his own verse...

1968 interview with Lord Harewood.

One public housing flat in Moscow stood out above all others: the home of George Costakis, the foremost collector of early 20th century Russian...

A. L. Lloyd

Benjamin Britten's opera as performed by the English National Opera, with Philip Langridge in the title role.

"Grainger is music's natural man... a noble savage of music." That quote describes Percy Grainger, the Australian-born composer and pianist. Grainger...

In 1906 the young Bela Bartok set out to discover the forgotten music of his people. He found a vast treasure of folk music all over Eastern Europe,...

Film of Morton Feldman's short opera (libretto by Samuel Beckett).

Documentary film on Arnold Schoenberg

Friend, instructor and student of Picasso, a welder at Renault, a painter and goldsmith – Julio González was all of these. The...

Com: BBC for documentary 'Sound on Film'.Derived from music and dance filmed in Transylvania.