• Air date: 06 Oct '85 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. Sir Alec Guinness

      06 Oct '85
    • 2. Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor

      13 Oct '85
    • 3. Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year

      20 Oct '85
    • 4. Theatre of Comedy workshop

      27 Oct '85
    • 5. Pete Townshend: After the Fire

      03 Nov '85
    • 6. Sir Stephen Spender

      10 Nov '85
    • 7. Marguerite Duras

      17 Nov '85
    • 8. Karole Armitage

      24 Nov '85
    • 9. Peter Shaffer

      01 Dec '85
    • 10. John Cleese

      12 Jan '86
      Cleese was silently scripting A Fish Called Wanda at the time this interview was filmed. It is not mentioned in this program. What is mentioned is Cleese's spectrum of work from sketch comedy to industrial training films to therapeutical books. Video clips include sequences from Cleese's classics: At Last the 1948 Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and Fawlty Towers.
    • 11. Vladimir Ashkenazy

      19 Jan '86
    • 12. Paul Schrader

      26 Jan '86
    • 13. Purcell's Dido and Aenaes

      02 Feb '86
    • 14. Patrick Heron

      09 Feb '86
    • 15. Blue Note Records

      16 Feb '86
    • 16. Michala Petri

      23 Feb '86
    • 17. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

      02 Mar '86
    • 18. Absolute Beginners (film)

      09 Mar '86
    • 19. Arthur Boyd

      23 Mar '86
    • 20. Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical

      06 Apr '86
    • 21. British Soap Operas

      13 Apr '86
    • 22. Hull Truck Theatre Company

      20 Apr '86
    • 23. Velvet Underground

      27 Apr '86
    • 24. Al Jolson

      04 May '86