Series
Without Walls
DramaDocumentary
A weekly arts-based documentary series covering a diverse variety of subjects, everything from Roman orgies and the Elgin Marbles through The Yardbirds and Ike Turner to Aleister Crowley and Mother Teresa.
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Seasons & episodes
S1 · 17 epS2 · 14 epS3 · 13 epS4 · 14 epS5 · 19 epS6 · 22 ep
- 1Episode 13 Oct 1990
- 2For Love or Money 110 Oct 1990
- 3Doing the Dishes17 Oct 1990A celebration of the satellite dish, looking at their history and considering the prospects for designer dishes.
- 4Sexual Intercourse Began in 196324 Oct 1990Trial 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.
- 5The Thing Is... Prisons31 Oct 1990Paul Morley looks at prisons, historic and new, and at the "interior design" practiced by prisoners within their cells.
- 6Episode 67 Nov 1990
- 7Tunnel Visions: 114 Nov 1990The 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.
- 8Tunnel Visions: 218 Nov 1990A 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.
- 9Tracks of My Tears21 Nov 1990Inspired 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.
- 10J'accuse: The Rolling Stones5 Dec 1990Rock 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.
- 11Episode 1112 Dec 1990
- 12The Thing Is... Christmas Decorations19 Dec 1990Paul 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?
- 13Sleeping Beauty Rediscovered14 Jan 1991Looking at the Royal Ballet's film started in the 1960s and left unfinished.
- 14J'accuse: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart15 Jan 1991Looks at the hype behind the Mozart bicentennial celebrations.
- 15Black Athena5 Mar 1991Examines 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.
- 16Lost Lawrence12 Mar 1991
- 17Salvage of a Soho Photographer26 Mar 1991
Details
- First aired
- 3 Oct 1990
- Last aired
- 28 May 1996
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- Channel 4
- Episodes
- 99
- Votes
- 2 on TMDB
