A selection of programmes featuring influential blues musicians, including B.B. King, Muddy Waters and Sonny Boy Williamson.
Bonnie Raitt and her band perform songs including Love Has No Pride and Nick of Time.
With Son House, The Kinks, BB King, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton and John Lee Hooker.
How the early blues musicians used the latest media to bring their music to the public.
How blues conquered the world and the music moved from black to white audiences.
Rare footage of the harmonica blues player Sonny Boy Williamson. (1985)
John Walters talks to B.B. King about his extraordinary life. (1985)
Studs Terkel and pianist Blind John Davis meet in Chicago to discuss the blues. (1985)
Blues medley featuring Fred McDowell, Lead Belly and Billie Holiday. (1985)
Big Bill Broonzy sings and plays the blues in a Belgian nightclub. (1985)
Alexis Korner delves into the world of American Blues music. (1979)
Alexis Korner delves further into the soulful world of traditional Blues music. (1979)
Alexis Korner discovers that Blues music expresses a deep symbolic message. (1979)
Alexis Korner looks at contemporary Chicago Blues music. (1979)
