5: I Know You | Billy and Us

1: Stupid but Saveable | Billy and Us

Billy Connolly opens up on his ideas about childhood and discusses some of his early, groundbreaking stand-up material.

2: Shipyards and Leotards | Billy and Us

In this episode, Billy shares his ideas on masculinity, talking frankly about how his time in the shipyards shaped him both as a man...

3: Dirty Bits | Billy and Us

In this episode, Billy reflects on his groundbreaking stand-up routines on sex, and how the awkward embarassments of love and romance are such g...

4: He's at It Again, God | Billy and Us

This episode takes a look at Billy Connolly's relationship with organised religion. Featuring classic routines which established him ...

6: The Dark Side | Billy and Us

Billy Connolly opens up about his life-long love affair with sending up the dark side of life. Featuring groundbreaking routines about death,...

DV8 Physical Theatre | EX-S

Interview with Lloyd Newson, choreographer of DV8 Physical Theatre, and Nigel Charnock, performer with DV8. They discuss and demonstrate unconven...

Acting Around Words

Frantic Assembly and Cardboard Citizens are among the theatre companies revealing how actors and directors transform performances with movement, gesture,...

DV8 Physical Theatre's: Strange Fish

A reworking of the stage production by choreographer Lloyd Newson and filmmaker David Hinton. In a style that challenges-and perhaps sho...

Performing Arts | Bitesize Secondary

In this programme, the performing arts are explored through behind the scene looks at Phantom of the Opera, Strictly Come Dancing, and a...

1: Give My Regards to Broadway | Broadway: The American Musical

History of the Broadway musical, presented by Julie Andrews. Includes the story of the Ziegfeld Follies, Irvi...

2: Syncopated City | Broadway: The American Musical

This program explores the Roaring Twenties, featuring the Marx Brothers, Al Jolson, the Gershwins, and Rodgers & Hart. Ho...

3: I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' | Broadway: The American Musical

Following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Broadway musical regained popularity as audiences sought escapism in...

4: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' | Broadway: The American Musical

Hits of the 1940s and 1950s, including Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, and The...

5: Tradition | Broadway: The American Musical

Includes how rock 'n' roll, the Vietnam War, and the civil rights movement revolutionized the musical, as well as how Times Squ...

6: Putting It Together | Broadway: The American Musical

How Les Misérables and Miss Saigon traveled the world, the success of Disney's The Lion King, the 2003 hit Wicked, an...

Akram Khan | What Do Artists Do All Day?

As experimental dancer Akram Khan visits Seville for a collaboration with flamenco dancer Israel Galvan, this film offers a glimpse ...

Enter Achilles | 2 Dance

''Enter Achilles'', choreographed by Lloyd Newson. A Boys' Own adventure that turns into a nightmare, as a group of men in a pub explore the thin li...

LIFT: The London International Festival of Theatre

Preview of the 5th London International Festival of Theatre, which presents international plays, musicals, dance, workshop...

Performing Arts 1 | The Learning Zone

This programme explores ways of working, how to get into performing arts and how to get: a range of opportunities, jobs and roles, gett...

The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Russian Theatre | Assignment

Tatiana Frolova's an unlikely theatre director - a working class woman from a remote Far Eastern town. But for ...