• Air date: 25 Sep '88 24 episodes
      The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show that was produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.
  • List of Episodes (24)
    • 1. The Art of Walt Disney

      25 Sep '88
    • 2. Bernard Shaw

      02 Oct '88
    • 3. Under Milk Wood

      09 Oct '88
    • 4. Toulouse-Lautrec

      16 Oct '88
    • 5. David Puttnam

      23 Oct '88
    • 6. David Hockney

      30 Oct '88
    • 7. Two Women in Three Dimensions (Wendy Taylor, Nicola Hicks)

      13 Nov '88
    • 8. Bristol WWII bombing raids reenactment

      20 Nov '88
    • 9. Raymond Chandler

      27 Nov '88
    • 10. Neil Jordan

      04 Dec '88
    • 11. John Houseman

      11 Dec '88
    • 12. David Bailey

      18 Dec '88
    • 13. Derek Walcott

      15 Jan '89
    • 14. Patrick Leigh Fermor

      22 Jan '89
    • 15. National Training Orchestra

      29 Jan '89
    • 16. Christopher Hampton

      05 Feb '89
    • 17. Istvan Szabo

      12 Feb '89
    • 18. Robert Redford

      19 Feb '89
    • 19. Tony Palmer on the concerto

      26 Feb '89
    • 20. Ben Elton

      05 Mar '89
    • 21. John Burnett

      10 Mar '89
      A special 3 minute parody episode made for Comic Relief. Melvin interviews painter John Burnett.
    • 22. Put Blood in the Music (New York avant garde music)

      12 Mar '89
    • 23. John Ogdon

      19 Mar '89
    • 24. Sir William Golding

      24 Mar '89