Without Walls

Episode 01

Episode 1

Oct 3, 1990

No description available.

Episode 02

For Love or Money 1

Oct 10, 1990

No description available.

Episode 03

Doing the Dishes

Oct 17, 1990

A celebration of the satellite dish, looking at their history and considering the prospects for designer dishes.

Episode 04

Sexual Intercourse Began in 1963

Oct 24, 1990

Trial of the book and the acquittal of Penguin Books ushered in the freedom of the Sixties. With dramatic reconstructions this programme recreates the atmosphere of the time and tells the story of Lawrence's lifelong battle with the censors.

Episode 05

The Thing Is... Prisons

Oct 31, 1990

Paul Morley looks at prisons, historic and new, and at the "interior design" practiced by prisoners within their cells.

Episode 06

Episode 6

Nov 7, 1990

No description available.

Episode 07

Tunnel Visions: 1

Nov 14, 1990

The mutual mistrust between the French and the English goes back centuries. A British television team looks at the way the French are adjusting to a world in which many of their ideals - revolution, patriotism and national culture - seem to be increasingly irrelevant.

Episode 08

Tunnel Visions: 2

Nov 18, 1990

A French television team looks behind the stereotypes and asks what the public role of British intellectuals is at a time when the channel tunnel is forcing the two societies together.

Episode 09

Tracks of My Tears

Nov 21, 1990

Inspired by the footballer, Paul Gascoigne, this documentary with music from Smokey Robinson and Sydney Devine, looks at men in tears - in art, pop, music, sport, the cinema and politics.

Episode 10

J'accuse: The Rolling Stones

Dec 5, 1990

Rock critic Sean O'Hagan argues that the Rolling Stones are a burnt-out collection of middle-aged men who have failed to mature or find a late style. He also suggests that they have become the opposite of much of what they once stood for.

Episode 11

Episode 11

Dec 12, 1990

No description available.

Episode 12

The Thing Is... Christmas Decorations

Dec 19, 1990

Paul Morley looks at Christmas decorations. Why do we want them? What do they mean to us and what do they say about us? How do the stores entice us to buy them? Do they offer a taste of a traditional Christmas or plastic nostalgia for a non-existent Golden Age?

Episode 13

Sleeping Beauty Rediscovered

Jan 14, 1991

Looking at the Royal Ballet's film started in the 1960s and left unfinished.

Episode 14

J'accuse: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Jan 15, 1991

Looks at the hype behind the Mozart bicentennial celebrations.

Episode 15

Black Athena

Mar 5, 1991

Examines the ideas of Martin Bernal set out in book Black Athena (1987) in which he argues that the Wests view of Greek civilization has been distorted to promote the Aryan model to the detriment of black African and Semitic cultures.

Episode 16

Lost Lawrence

Mar 12, 1991

No description available.

Episode 17

Salvage of a Soho Photographer

Mar 26, 1991

No description available.