As part of the BBC's German Festival, Omnibus launches its new series with a dramatised biography of the great German painter and Political caricaturist George Grosz. Starring and It is Grosz's picture of Berlin, the decadent cabarets, overfed industrialists and the miserable poor, which still dominates our image of that city between the Wars. In his life he combined the manners of a bourgeois with the radical politics of the Weimar Republic. Grosz catalogued the moral collapse of Germany and the rise of Nazism to such effect that he was outlawed and forced into exile in the United States.

In 1987, Christopher Sykes interviewed Bob Dylan while the musician was filming Hearts of Fire. Their meeting revealed a side of Dylan that is rarely seen - direct, playful and fully engaged in the conversation.

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