• Air date: 12 Feb '06 8 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 (8)
    • 1. Armando Iannucci

      12 Feb '06
    • 2. Manga Mania

      19 Feb '06
      The iconic Dusty Springfield remains the 'white lady of soul' and in this compelling South Bank Show, her moving and dramatic story is told in its entirety for the first time. An array of intimate friends, lovers and show business talents go on record to describe the intense highs and lows of Dusty's swinging life, before her untimely death in 1999. Born Mary O'Brien in London as war began in 1939, in the 60's as Dusty Springfield, she came to represent renewed British optimism and modernity,
    • 3. John Rutter

      12 Mar '06
    • 4. PD James

      26 Mar '06
    • 5. Dusty Springfield

      09 Apr '06
    • 6. Seu Jorge

      04 Jun '06
    • 7. Romeo and Juliet

      11 Jun '06
    • 12. Steve Reich

      10 Dec '06