Without Walls

Season 1

17 episodes ยท premiered Oct 3, 1990

Where to watch Without Walls

  1. E1 Episode 1

    Oct 3, 1990

  2. E2 For Love or Money 1

    Oct 10, 1990

  3. E3 Doing the Dishes

    Oct 17, 1990

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

  4. E4 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.

  5. E5 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.

  6. E6 Episode 6

    Nov 7, 1990

  7. E7 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.

  8. E8 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.

  9. E9 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.

  10. E10 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.

  11. E11 Episode 11

    Dec 12, 1990

  12. E12 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?

  13. E13 Sleeping Beauty Rediscovered

    Jan 14, 1991

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

  14. E14 J'accuse: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Jan 15, 1991

    Looks at the hype behind the Mozart bicentennial celebrations.

  15. E15 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.

  16. E16 Lost Lawrence

    Mar 12, 1991

  17. E17 Salvage of a Soho Photographer

    Mar 26, 1991