Omnibus - Season 30 Episode 9 : Gunter Grass: Fiction at the Frontier
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.
First Air Date : Oct 13, 1967
Last Air Date : Jan 28, 1999
Runtime : 60 min.
Genre : Documentary
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Quality :
- Eps. 1 : Barcelona with Robert Hughes1992-07-16
- Eps. 2 : Angela Carter's Curious Room1992-09-15
- Eps. 3 : Disney: The Fairy-Tale Years1992-09-22
- Eps. 4 : The Piero Trail1992-09-29
- Eps. 6 : Eye of the Storm: Ridley Scott1992-10-13
- Eps. 7 : Who's This Nobody from Quebec?1992-10-20
- Eps. 8 : Avigdor Arikha1992-10-27
- Eps. 12 : John Ford: Part One1992-12-01
- Eps. 13 : John Ford 21992-12-08
- Eps. 14 : The King's College Choir1992-12-15
- Eps. 15 : Rudolf Nureyev1993-01-12