The South Bank Show

The South Bank Show Cast

Series Description

The South Bank Show was a 60 minute British documentary series on ITV whose aim was to bring high art of the 20th and 21st century to a wide audience. Most episodes featured a celebrity guest who was either involved in the episode's subject matter or had an interest in the art being discussed. Pop culture art such as musical performers and movies were often the topic of the evening.

South Bank Show Cast

Melvyn Bragg .... Host

Episodes List With Original Air Dates

Season 1

  1. Paul McCartney / Surrealist exhibition (1/14/1978)
  2. Paganini Superstar (1/21/1978)
  3. Roy Minton (1/28/1978)
  4. David Hockney (2/4/1978)
  5. Dennis Potter (2/11/1978)
  6. John Peel/Jane Glover (2/18/1978)
  7. Arabian Days (Edna O'Brien)/ Quentin Crisp (2/25/1978)
  8. Jacques Loussier (3/4/1978)
  9. Ken Dodd (3/11/1978)
  10. Georges Simenon (3/18/1978)
  11. Horowitz at the White House (3/25/1978)
  12. Carl Perkins / Morgan horses (4/1/1978)
  13. Carry On with Paul Morissey (Carry On ... films)(4/8/1978)
  14. Search for Shaw (4/15/1978)
  15. Harold Pinter (4/22/1978)
  16. Satyajit Ray / John Williams / Ralph McTell (4/30/1978)
  17. Portrait of a Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan (5/6/1978)
  18. Freddie Young (5/13/1978)
  19. Frank Auerbach (5/20/1978)
  20. Mayerling Ballet (6/17/1978)
  21. John Osborne on Wardle's book on Devine/Pearl (Radio Play)(7/1/1978)
  22. Ingmar Bergman at 60 (7/8/1978)
  23. Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures - Part 1 (7/15/1978)
  24. Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures - Part 2 (7/22/1978)
Season 2
  1. Tom Stoppard (11/26/1978)
  2. Grace Under Pressure (Anthony Burgess on Hemingway)(12/3/1978)
  3. Woody Allen (12/10/1978)
  4. Anatomy of an Opera: Jonathan Miller's Figaro (12/17/1978)
  5. Rhythm of Resistance (South African music)(1/14/1979)
  6. Harmony of the Spheres (Neil Ardley)(1/21/1979)
  7. Circus Clowns/Schubert recital by Richter (1/28/1979)
  8. Royal Shakespeare Company on tour (2/4/1979)
  9. Brimstone & Treacle (Dennis Potter)/ John McLaughlin, a Musical Journey (2/11/1979)
  10. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Edward Gorey / Gunter Grass (2/18/1979)
  11. Michael Cimino / Alan Bennett, Stephen Frears (2/25/1979)
  12. Gordon Williams, Alan Sharp, Eddie Boyd (3/4/1979)
  13. Derek Boshier / Ingrid Bergman, Ingmar Bergman (3/11/1979)
  14. Neil Simon (3/18/1979)
  15. Beryl Cook / Cloud Nine rehearsals (3/25/1979)
  16. Graham Sutherland (4/1/1979)
  17. Darryl Way / Howard Brenton (4/22/1979)
  18. The Europeans (film)/ Joseph Heller (4/29/1979)
  19. Asian Arts festival (5/6/1979)
  20. Billy Connolly (5/13/1979)
  21. Jessye Norman (5/20/1979)
  22. Rough Trade (record label)/ Allen Jones (5/27/1979)
  23. Scum (film)/ Keith Jarrett (6/17/1979)
  24. Michael Tippett (90 min.)(6/24/1979)
Season 3
  1. Francis Ford Coppola (12/2/1979)
  2. Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass - Part 1 (12/9/1979)
  3. Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass - Part 2 (12/16/1979)
  4. Talking Heads (12/23/1979)
  5. Love and the Ice-Cream Vendor (2/17/1980)
  6. Fay Weldon / Richard Hogart on Northern Ireland in drama (2/24/1980)
  7. Merce Cunningham (3/2/1980)
  8. Elegies for the Deaths of Three Spanish Poets (3/9/1980)
  9. A Time There was ... (Benjamin Britten)(4/6/1980)
  10. The Greene Adaptations (Graham Greene films)(4/13/1980)
  11. Salsa (Puerto Rican music)(4/27/1980)
  12. The Worlds of Edward Bond (5/4/1980)
  13. Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli / Kinglsey Amis (5/11/1980)
  14. new British rock films / The Tin Drum (film)(5/18/1980)
  15. Roman Polanski (5/25/1980)
  16. Tom Wolfe (6/1/1980)
  17. Andrew Wyeth (6/8/1980)
  18. Angus Wilson (6/29/1980)
  19. Jane Austen (film)(7/6/1980)
Season 4
  1. Arthur Miller (11/9/1980)
  2. William Golding (11/16/1980)
  3. Akira Kurosawa (11/23/1980)
  4. Stravinsky's The Firebird (11/30/1980)
  5. No Need to Lie (12/7/1980)
  6. The Passion (National Theatre's updating of medieval plays)(12/14/1980)
  7. Toni Morrison (1/18/1981)
  8. The Trespasser (film)(1/25/1981)
  9. Don Juan in Hell (2/8/1981)
  10. poetry workshop (2/15/1981)
  11. Martin Scorsese (2/22/1981)
  12. Elizabeth Taylor / John Hubbard (3/1/1981)
  13. Bob Fosse (3/8/1981)
  14. Robert Redford / Martin Amis (3/15/1981)
  15. Verity Bargate / Howard Hodgkin (3/29/1981)
  16. At the Haunted End of the Day: the Life of Sir William Walton (4/19/1981)
  17. Gore Vidal (4/26/1981)
  18. The Roots of the Tree (Ermanno Olmi)(5/3/1981)
  19. Colin Welland (5/10/1981)
  20. Christopher Logue / Phillip King (5/17/1981)
  21. Lulu's Last Act (Berg opera)(5/24/1981)
  22. Dame Ninette De Valois / David Hockney on Picasso (5/31/1981)
  23. Clive James / Craig Raine (6/7/1981)
  24. Soviet Art (6/14/1981)
  25. Rhythm and Blues (The Blues Band, Dr. Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, Paul Jones)(6/21/1981)
  26. Music for a City: Venice (6/28/1981)
Season 5
  1. The French Lieutenant's Woman (11/1/1981)
  2. Elvis Costello (11/8/1981)
  3. Old Glory: the Journey and the Book (11/15/1981)
  4. Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan (11/22/1981)
  5. Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield (11/29/1981)
  6. A Talent to Vex: John Osborne (12/6/1981)
  7. Mama Lu Parks (1/17/1982)
  8. Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day (1/24/1982)
  9. Milos Forman (1/31/1982)
  10. Germaine Greer (2/7/1982)
  11. Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH (2/14/1982)
  12. Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller (2/21/1982)
  13. Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson (2/28/1982)
  14. Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)(3/7/1982)
  15. Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash (3/14/1982)
  16. Peter Maxwell-Davies (3/21/1982)
  17. Saul Bellow (3/28/1982)
  18. Indian wallpainting (4/4/1982)
  19. Stravinski - Part 1 (4/9/1982)
  20. Stravinski - Part 2 (4/10/1982)
  21. Julian Lloyd-Webber (4/18/1982)
  22. Miles Davis / Robert Nye (4/25/1982)
  23. Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs)(5/2/1982)
  24. Joseph Papp / James Galway (5/9/1982)
  25. Werner Herzog (5/16/1982)
  26. Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver)(5/23/1982)
  27. Phillip Larkin (5/30/1982)
Season 6
  1. Laurence Olivier, a Life - Part 1 (10/17/1982)
  2. Laurence Olivier, a Life - Part 2 (10/24/1982)
  3. Peter Gabriel (10/31/1982)
  4. Bruce Chatwin (11/7/1982)
  5. Patricia Highsmith (11/14/1982)
  6. Steven Spielberg (11/21/1982)
  7. Gospel at Colonus (11/28/1982)
  8. Simone De Beauvoir (1/9/1983)
  9. Barry Flannigan / Seamus Heaney (1/23/1983)
  10. David Hare (1/30/1983)
  11. Agnes De Mille (2/6/1983)
  12. Handel's Semele (by the Royal Opera House)(2/13/1983)
  13. Sam Fuller (2/20/1983)
  14. Local Hero (film)(2/27/1983)
  15. R.K. Narayan (3/13/1983)
  16. Ivo Pogorelich (3/20/1983)
  17. John Le Carre (3/27/1983)
  18. Choirs and Places Where They Sing (4/3/1983)
  19. William Trevor (4/24/1983)
  20. Gene Hackman (5/1/1983)
  21. Keith Waterhouse (5/8/1983)
  22. Robert Lowell / Benjamin Britten's Quartettino (5/15/1983)
  23. Cowboy Art (5/22/1983)
  24. Jiri Kylian (5/29/1983)
  25. Producing Don Giovanni (6/5/1983)
  26. Ken Russell's View of The Planets (6/12/1983)
Season 7
  1. Piper's Way (10/16/1983)
  2. Yuri Lyubimov (10/23/1983)
  3. Peter Brook (10/30/1983)
  4. Jack Lemmon (11/6/1983)
  5. David Hockney (11/13/1983)
  6. Lillian Gish/Glen Baxter (11/27/1983)
  7. Alberto Moravia (12/4/1983)
  8. Ian Hamilton Finlay/Lord Gowrie (12/11/1983)
  9. Barry Tuckwell: Master of the Horn (2/19/1984)
  10. Trevor Griffiths (2/26/1984)
  11. Weather Report (3/11/1984)
  12. Claudio Arrau (3/18/1984)
  13. Kathy Acker (4/1/1984)
  14. Ralph Vaughan Williams (4/8/1984)
  15. Sir Ernst Gombrich (4/15/1984)
  16. Michael Frayn (4/29/1984)
  17. Ed McBain (5/6/1984)
  18. David Bintley: New Ballet at Sadler's Wells (5/13/1984)
  19. Stephen Sondheim (5/20/1984)
  20. Elisabeth Vellacott / DeCocoa, Hot Chocolate (5/27/1984)
  21. adaptation of Ivy Compton Burnett's Elders and Betters (6/3/1984)
  22. Kipling (one-man play with Alec McGowen)(6/10/1984)
  23. Anthony Caro (6/24/1984)
Season 8
  1. Alan Bennett (10/7/1984)
  2. McCartney's Broad Street (10/14/1984)
  3. The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)(10/21/1984)
  4. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (10/28/1984)
  5. Norman Nicholson (11/4/1984)
  6. Joseph Heller (11/11/1984)
  7. Mstislav Rostropovich (11/18/1984)
  8. Max Wall (11/25/1984)
  9. Malcolm McLaren (12/2/1984)
  10. Alan Bleasdale (1/13/1985)
  11. Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence (1/20/1985)
  12. Electronic Music (1/27/1985)
  13. Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex (2/3/1985)
  14. Marc Chagall (2/10/1985)
  15. David Lean: a Life in Film (2/17/1985)
  16. Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony (2/24/1985)
  17. Little Richard (3/3/1985)
  18. George Malcolm on Scarlatti (3/10/1985)
  19. Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company (3/17/1985)
  20. David Mamet (3/24/1985)
  21. Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg (3/31/1985)
  22. Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith (4/5/1985)
  23. The Cotton Club (night club)(5/26/1985)
  24. Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)(6/2/1985)
  25. Francis Bacon (6/9/1985)
  26. George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century (6/16/1985)
Season 9
  1. Sir Alec Guinness (10/6/1985)
  2. Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor (10/13/1985)
  3. Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year (10/20/1985)
  4. Theatre of Comedy workshop (10/27/1985)
  5. Pete Townshend: After the Fire (11/3/1985)
  6. Sir Stephen Spender (11/10/1985)
  7. Marguerite Duras (11/17/1985)
  8. Karole Armitage (11/24/1985)
  9. Peter Shaffer (12/1/1985)
  10. John Cleese (1/12/1986)
  11. Vladimir Ashkenazy (1/19/1986)
  12. Paul Schrader (1/26/1986)
  13. Purcell's Dido and Aenaes (2/2/1986)
  14. Patrick Heron (2/9/1986)
  15. Blue Note Records (2/16/1986)
  16. Michala Petri (2/23/1986)
  17. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (3/2/1986)
  18. Absolute Beginners (film)(3/9/1986)
  19. Arthur Boyd (3/23/1986)
  20. Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical (4/6/1986)
  21. British Soap Operas (4/13/1986)
  22. Hull Truck Theatre Company (4/20/1986)
  23. Velvet Underground (4/27/1986)
  24. Al Jolson (5/4/1986)
Season 10
  1. John Mortimer (10/5/1986)
  2. Itzhak Perlman (10/12/1986)
  3. Roald Dahl: Fe-Fi-Fo-fum (10/19/1986)
  4. Michael Powell (10/26/1986)
  5. Truman Capote (11/2/1986)
  6. Fay Godwin (11/9/1986)
  7. The Andrew Lloyd-Webber Story (11/15/1986)
  8. Agatha Christie, How Did She Do It? (11/23/1986)
  9. The Dream is Over (Christopher Bruce ballet on John Lennon)(11/30/1986)
  10. Arts Review '86 (12/14/1986)
  11. Anthony Hopkins / David Hare (1/11/1987)
  12. Philip Glass (1/18/1987)
  13. Alvin Ailey Dance Theater (1/25/1987)
  14. Anthony Green: RA, a Love Story (2/1/1987)
  15. birth of Frankenstein and Dracula (2/8/1987)
  16. Thomas Allen (2/15/1987)
  17. The Wooster Group (2/22/1987)
  18. The London Underground in art (3/1/1987)
  19. V.S. Naipaul (3/8/1987)
  20. Barbara Dickson (3/15/1987)
  21. Penguin Cafe Orchestra (3/22/1987)
  22. Turner at the Tate (3/29/1987)
  23. George V. Higgins (4/5/1987)
  24. Peter York lecture (4/12/1987)
  25. The Aida File: The Making of the Opera - Part 1 (4/18/1987)
  26. The Aida File: Aida Performance - Part 2 (4/19/1987)
Season 11
  1. Maria Callas (10/4/1987)
  2. Toni Morrison (10/11/1987)
  3. The Smiths (10/18/1987)
  4. Andy Warhol (10/25/1987)
  5. Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega (11/1/1987)
  6. Sir Terence Conran (11/8/1987)
  7. Gore Vidal (11/15/1987)
  8. African music / Russian theatre (11/22/1987)
  9. Sir George Solti (11/29/1987)
  10. Eric Clapton (12/6/1987)
  11. Arts Review '87 (12/20/1987)
  12. The Last Emperor (1988 film)(1/17/1988)
  13. Australian Aboriginies (1/24/1988)
  14. Boogie Woogie Music (1/31/1988)
  15. The Golden Age of Television (2/14/1988)
  16. George Barker (2/21/1988)
  17. Jackson Pollack (2/28/1988)
  18. Lenny Henry (3/6/1988)
  19. Peter Dickinson (3/13/1988)
  20. A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China (3/20/1988)
  21. Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans (3/27/1988)
  22. Ken Russell's ABC of British Music (4/2/1988)
  23. Paul Bowles (4/10/1988)
  24. Doris Lessing (4/17/1988)
  25. Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production (4/24/1988)
Season 12
  1. The Art of Walt Disney (9/25/1988)
  2. Bernard Shaw (10/2/1988)
  3. Under Milk Wood (10/9/1988)
  4. Toulouse-Lautrec (10/16/1988)
  5. David Puttnam (10/23/1988)
  6. David Hockney (10/30/1988)
  7. Two Women in Three Dimensions (Wendy Taylor, Nicola Hicks)(11/13/1988)
  8. Bristol WWII bombing raids reenactment (11/20/1988)
  9. Raymond Chandler (11/27/1988)
  10. Neil Jordan (12/4/1988)
  11. John Houseman (12/11/1988)
  12. David Bailey (12/18/1988)
  13. Derek Walcott (1/15/1989)
  14. Patrick Leigh Fermor (1/22/1989)
  15. National Training Orchestra (1/29/1989)
  16. Christopher Hampton (2/5/1989)
  17. Istvan Szabo (2/12/1989)
  18. Robert Redford (2/19/1989)
  19. Tony Palmer on the concerto (2/26/1989)
  20. Ben Elton (3/5/1989)
  21. John Burnett (3/10/1989)
  22. Put Blood in the Music (New York avant garde music)(3/12/1989)
  23. John Ogdon (3/19/1989)
  24. Sir William Golding (3/24/1989)
Season 13
  1. Martin Amis (9/17/1989)
  2. Dustin Hoffman, Sir Peter Hall (9/24/1989)
  3. Jimi Hendrix (10/1/1989)
  4. Tom Keneally in Eritrea (10/8/1989)
  5. Ken Russell (10/15/1989)
  6. Steven Berkoff (10/22/1989)
  7. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (10/29/1989)
  8. Fitzrovia (11/12/1989)
  9. Dame Edna Everage (11/19/1989)
  10. Evelyn Glennie (11/26/1989)
  11. Peter Brook (12/3/1989)
  12. Arts Review '89 (12/29/1989)
  13. Boris Pasternak (1/7/1990)
  14. Sir David Lean, Robert Bolt (1/21/1990)
  15. Christopher Hogwood (1/28/1990)
  16. Chinua Achebe (2/4/1990)
  17. Hans Werner Henze (2/11/1990)
  18. Jock Tamson's Bairns (Gerry Mulgrew, Liz Lochhead)(2/18/1990)
  19. Yuri Bashmet (3/4/1990)
  20. DV8 Physical Theatre (3/11/1990)
  21. Mark Morris: the Hidden Soul of Harmony (3/25/1990)
  22. Carl Davis, Temba (4/1/1990)
  23. Vivienne Westwood (4/8/1990)
  24. Hindemith (4/15/1990)
  25. Robert Altman (4/22/1990)
Season 14
  1. George Michael (9/2/1990)
  2. Peter Ackroyd on Dickens (9/9/1990)
  3. Spike Lee (9/23/1990)
  4. Salman Rushdie (9/30/1990)
  5. Roy Lichtenstein (10/7/1990)
  6. Ken Russell on Anton Bruckner (10/14/1990)
  7. Clear Cool Crystal Streams (Irish rock music)(10/21/1990)
  8. John Updike (10/28/1990)
  9. East German writers (11/4/1990)
  10. Alan Parker (11/25/1990)
  11. Cameron Mackintosh (12/2/1990)
  12. Spitting Image (12/9/1990)
  13. The Talis Scholars (12/30/1990)
  14. Stan Laurel (1/6/1991)
  15. August Wilson (1/13/1991)
  16. Oscar Marzaroli (1/20/1991)
  17. Anne-Sophie Mutter (1/27/1991)
  18. Bonfire of the Vanities (1991 film)(2/3/1991)
  19. Willard White (2/10/1991)
  20. The Five Blind Boys of Alabama / R.S. Thomas (2/17/1991)
  21. Steve Martin (2/24/1991)
  22. Rudolph Nureyev (3/3/1991)
  23. Kiri Te Kanawa (3/29/1991)
Season 15
  1. Private Eye (9/15/1991)
  2. David Lodge (9/29/1991)
  3. Terry Gilliam (10/6/1991)
  4. Neil Simon (10/13/1991)
  5. Heinrich Schiff (10/20/1991)
  6. Seamus Heaney (10/27/1991)
  7. John Osborne (11/3/1991)
  8. Dame Britain (Vera Lynn)(11/10/1991)
  9. Arthur Miller (11/17/1991)
  10. Jose Carreras, a Life Story (11/24/1991)
  11. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (12/22/1991)
  12. Arts Review '91 (12/29/1991)
  13. Douglas Adams (1/5/1992)
  14. Lenny Henry Hunts the Funk (1/12/1992)
  15. Hakan Hardenberger (1/19/1992)
  16. Cecilia Bartoli (11/28/1999)
  17. Les Murray (2/2/1992)
  18. Colin Thubron (2/9/1992)
  19. Pet Shop Boys (2/16/1992)
  20. Paula Rego (2/23/1992)
  21. Noel Coward (3/1/1992)
  22. Anthony Hopkins (3/29/1992)
  23. Terence Davis (4/5/1992)
  24. Making Naked Lunch (4/12/1992)
  25. The Making of Seargeant Pepper (6/14/1992)
Season 16
  1. Billy Connolly (10/4/1992)
  2. Alice Walker (10/11/1992)
  3. Peter O'Toole (10/18/1992)
  4. Two Royal Ballet Dancers (Darcey Bussell, Viviana Durante)(10/25/1992)
  5. Robert Zemeckis (11/1/1992)
  6. George Formby (11/8/1992)
  7. Sir Richard Attenborough (11/15/1992)
  8. The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax (12/6/1992)
  9. The World of Jeff Koons (12/13/1992)
  10. Jimi Hendrix (12/20/1992)
  11. Dracula (1/24/1993)
  12. Monserrat Caballe (1/31/1993)
  13. Annie Leibowitz (2/7/1993)
  14. Guggenheim Museum (2/14/1993)
  15. Dmitri and Sasha Sitkovetsky (2/21/1993)
  16. Jean Genet (2/28/1993)
  17. I, Berlioz (3/7/1993)
  18. Richard Price (3/14/1993)
  19. John Banville (3/21/1993)
  20. Henryk Gorecki's 3rd symphony (4/4/1993)
  21. Dudley Moore (6/13/1993)
  22. Frink, 1930-1993 (Dame Elisabeth Frink)(6/20/1993)
  23. Benny Goodman, the King of Swing (7/4/1993)
  24. Paul Simon (8/15/1993)
  25. Norman Wisdom (8/22/1993)
Season 17
  1. Sydney Pollack (9/12/1993)
  2. Willy Russell (9/19/1993)
  3. Ken Loach (10/3/1993)
  4. Margaret Atwood (10/10/1993)
  5. John Lee Hooker (10/17/1993)
  6. Stevie Wonder (10/24/1993)
  7. Sylvie Guillem (10/31/1993)
  8. Tim Rice (11/7/1993)
  9. Lynda La Plante (11/14/1993)
  10. John Williams (11/21/1993)
  11. John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy - Part 1 (11/28/1993)
  12. John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy - Part 2 (12/5/1993)
  13. Cliff Richard (12/24/1993)
  14. Woody Allen (1/16/1994)
  15. Bheki Mseleku (1/23/1994)
  16. Darker Than Me (2/6/1994)
  17. Jean-Claude Carriere (2/13/1994)
  18. Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool (2/20/1994)
  19. Looking for the Perfect Beat: Rap (2/27/1994)
  20. Larry Adler Plays Gershwin (3/6/1994)
  21. Kiri's 50th Birthday Concert (3/13/1994)
  22. Clive Barker (4/10/1994)
  23. Dawn French (4/17/1994)
  24. Christian Boltanski (5/15/1994)
  25. Eric Newby (5/22/1994)
  26. John Steinbeck (5/29/1994)
Season 18
  1. Kenneth Williams (9/18/1994)
  2. Marilyn Horne (9/25/1994)
  3. New Generation Poets (10/2/1994)
  4. Vanessa Redgrave (10/9/1994)
  5. David Mamet (10/16/1994)
  6. The Shearing Touch (George Shearing)(10/23/1994)
  7. Alan Ayckbourn (10/30/1994)
  8. Frankenstein (11/6/1994)
  9. Thora Hird (11/13/1994)
  10. The Glory of Gershwin (11/20/1994)
  11. P.J. O'Rourke (11/27/1994)
  12. Lionel Bart (12/11/1994)
  13. Carl Orff (1/29/1995)
  14. Classic Widows (2/5/1995)
  15. Jonathan Miller (2/12/1995)
  16. Flags of the Fante Coast (2/19/1995)
  17. Catherine Bailey, the Lady is a Tramp / Roger Ballen (2/26/1995)
  18. Edward Albee (3/5/1995)
  19. Jodie Foster (3/12/1995)
  20. Martin Amis (3/19/1995)
  21. Country Music (4/2/1995)
  22. Miriam Makeba (4/9/1995)
  23. Nora Ephron (6/25/1995)
Season 19
  1. Clint Eastwwod (9/10/1995)
  2. Ackroyd's Blake (9/17/1995)
  3. Tom Sharpe (9/24/1995)
  4. kd lang (10/1/1995)
  5. Pavarotti at 60 (10/8/1995)
  6. Jimmy Nail (10/15/1995)
  7. Dame Judi Dench (10/29/1995)
  8. Coronation Street (11/5/1995)
  9. Dame Barbara Cartland (11/12/1995)
  10. Jonathan Raban: Badlands / Wynton Marsalis (11/19/1995)
  11. Elaine Page Special (4/7/1996)
  12. Sting (4/14/1996)
  13. Albert Finney (4/28/1996)
  14. Marlene Dietrich (5/5/1996)
  15. John Eliot Gardiner (5/12/1996)
  16. Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence (5/19/1996)
  17. Claes Oldenburg (5/26/1996)
  18. Baaba Maal (6/2/1996)
  19. Maxine Peake / Wynton Marsalis in New Orleans (7/21/1996)
  20. Alan Ayckbourn Workshop (7/28/1996)
Season 20
  1. Victoria Wood (9/15/1996)
  2. Sir John Mills (9/22/1996)
  3. Michael Crawford (9/29/1996)
  4. Norman Mailer on Picasso (10/6/1996)
  5. Chanson (10/13/1996)
  6. Michael Collins (10/27/1996)
  7. Bryn Terfel (11/3/1996)
  8. Howard Hodgkin (11/10/1996)
  9. Jimmy McGovern (11/17/1996)
  10. Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid (1/5/1997)
  11. Maggi Hambling (1/12/1997)
  12. John Galliano (1/19/1997)
  13. The US and Us - Part 1 (1/26/1997)
  14. The US and Us - Part 2 (2/2/1997)
  15. Gilbert and George - Part 1 (2/9/1997)
  16. Gilbert and George - Part 2 (2/16/1997)
  17. Valery Gergiev (2/23/1997)
  18. Paganini (5/4/1997)
  19. David Helfgott (6/22/1997)
  20. Paul Auster (7/6/1997)
  21. Young Directors (Preya Lal, Alexander Kelly, Franca Cereghini, Chris Dooks)(7/20/1997)
Season 21
  1. Scarfe on Hercules (10/5/1997)
  2. Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance (10/26/1997)
  3. Kay Mellor (11/2/1997)
  4. Bjork (11/9/1997)
  5. Iain Banks (11/16/1997)
  6. Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures (11/23/1997)
  7. Steven Bochco (11/30/1997)
  8. Simon Raven (12/14/1997)
  9. Franco Zeffirelli (12/21/1997)
  10. Saul Zaentz (1/11/1998)
  11. Gillian Wearing / Gary Hume (1/18/1998)
  12. Marks and Gran (2/1/1998)
  13. Hail Bop: a Portrait of John Adams (2/8/1998)
  14. Nigel Kennedy (2/15/1998)
  15. Gary Oldman (3/15/1998)
  16. Body Art (4/5/1998)
  17. John Tavener (4/12/1998)
  18. The Bee Gees (6/7/1998)
  19. Will Self (7/5/1998)
  20. Afro-Cuban Allstars (7/19/1998)
  21. This is Not an Exit: the Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis (8/23/1998)
  22. Wayne Sleep (8/30/1998)
Season 22
  1. Ossie Clarke - Part 1 (11/8/1998)
  2. Ossie Clarke - Part 2 (11/15/1998)
  3. Lesley Garrett (11/22/1998)
  4. Harold Pinter (11/29/1998)
  5. Maxine Peake/Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (12/6/1998)
  6. Walter Mosley (12/13/1998)
  7. Petula Clark (12/20/1998)
  8. Warren Beatty (12/30/1998)
  9. John Tomlinson (1/10/1999)
  10. Javier du Frutos (1/31/1999)
  11. UB40 (2/7/1999)
  12. Anish Kapoor (2/21/1999)
  13. New South African Artists (2/28/1999)
  14. Lucy Gannon (3/14/1999)
  15. Tony Harrison (3/28/1999)
  16. Dolly Parton (4/9/1999)
Season 23
  1. Paul Merton (9/26/1999)
  2. Frank McCourt (10/3/1999)
  3. Howard Jacobson (10/10/1999)
  4. Jose Cura (10/17/1999)
  5. James Galway (10/24/1999)
  6. The Lion King (stage play based on the film)(10/31/1999)
  7. Joan Collins (11/14/1999)
  8. Blur (11/21/1999)
  9. Yoko Ono (12/5/1999)
  10. Cher (12/11/1999)
  11. Countertenors (12/19/1999)
  12. Bing Crosby (12/26/1999)
  13. Shakespeare (1/23/2000)
  14. Millennium Dome (2/7/2000)
  15. Sam Mendes (2/14/2000)
  16. Michael Douglas (2/21/2000)
  17. Chuck Close (3/5/2000)
  18. Emir Kusturica (3/12/2000)
  19. Amis on Amis (6/18/2000)
  20. (composing classical music)- Part 1 (6/25/2000)
  21. Simon Holt's Sunrise, Yellow Noise - Part 2 (7/2/2000)
Season 24
  1. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton (10/1/2000)
  2. Santana (10/8/2000)
  3. Joyce [Carol Oates] on Marilyn [Monroe] (10/15/2000)
  4. Carmen (10/22/2000)
  5. Mark Morris Dance Group (10/29/2000)
  6. George MacDonald Fraser (11/12/2000)
  7. Courtney Pine (11/19/2000)
  8. Ron Howard (11/26/2000)
  9. Dame Gillian Weir (12/3/2000)
  10. [Marlene] Dumas and [Jemima] Stehli (12/10/2000)
  11. Mark Quinn (12/17/2000)
  12. Tom Jones (12/24/2000)
  13. Ken Russell (2/11/2001)
  14. Shirin Neshat (2/18/2001)
  15. Russell Watson (2/25/2001)
  16. Amos Oz (3/4/2001)
  17. Greta Garbo (3/11/2001)
  18. Elvis Costello with Annie Sofie von Otter (3/18/2001)
  19. Bill Bryson (3/25/2001)
  20. Ian Rankin (7/1/2001)
  21. Ian Bostridge (7/8/2001)
  22. Edmund White (7/22/2001)
  23. Steve Coogan (8/5/2001)
  24. Ravi Shankar (8/12/2001)
  25. Tracey Emin (8/19/2001)
Season 25
  1. High and Low Culture in the Age of Television (10/7/2001)
  2. (highlights)(10/14/2001)
  3. Rachel Whiteread (10/28/2001)
  4. Norman Foster (11/11/2001)
  5. Dr. John (11/18/2001)
  6. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (12/16/2001)
  7. Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Renee Fleming (2/3/2002)
  8. The Sopranos (2/10/2002)
  9. Leif Ove Andsnes (2/24/2002)
  10. Why the Novel Matters (3/17/2002)
  11. Meera Syal (3/24/2002)
  12. Johnnie Ray (3/31/2002)
  13. Mario Vargas Llosa (4/21/2002)
  14. Fay Weldon (5/5/2002)
  15. R.E.M. (5/9/2002)
  16. Neil LaBute (6/23/2002)
  17. Cinema of Fire (Iranian cinema)(6/30/2002)
  18. Moby (7/7/2002)
  19. Bernie Taupin (8/4/2002)
Season 26
  1. Mike Leigh (10/13/2002)
  2. Akram Khan (10/20/2002)
  3. Graham Vick: Beethoven in the Big Top (10/27/2002)
  4. Craig David (11/10/2002)
  5. Andrew Davies (11/17/2002)
  6. Joan Rivers (11/24/2002)
  7. Willie Nelson (1/12/2003)
  8. James MacMillan (1/5/2003)
  9. Irek Mukhamedov (1/19/2003)
  10. Gerhard Richter (2/2/2003)
  11. Hanif Kureishi (2/9/2003)
  12. How to Get Rich: Felix Dennis (2/16/2003)
  13. Philip Pullman (3/9/2003)
  14. Caryl Phillips (4/13/2003)
  15. Conor McPherson (5/18/2003)
  16. Herbie Hancock (6/29/2003)
  17. Caetano Veloso (7/6/2003)
  18. Ang Lee (7/13/2003)
  19. The Real George Orwell (7/27/2003)
  20. Juan Diego Florez (8/3/2003)
  21. Nick Cave (8/10/2003)
  22. Albert Camus (8/31/2003)
  23. Robert Harris Takes on Rome (9/7/2003)
  24. Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Full Picture (9/19/2003)
  25. Ewan McGregor (9/21/2003)
Season 27
  1. Germaine Greer (10/19/2003)
  2. Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (12/7/2003)
  3. TV Stories - Part 1 (2/1/2004)
  4. TV Stories - Part 2 (2/8/2004)
  5. Jamie Cullum (2/22/2004)
  6. The Wilson Twins (3/7/2004)
  7. John Lennon's Jukebox (3/14/2004)
  8. Jack Vettriano (3/21/2004)
  9. The Dance Theatre of Harlem (4/4/2004)
  10. Jeanette Winterson (5/2/2004)
  11. Johnny Hallyday (5/9/2004)
  12. Othello (5/16/2004)
  13. Ian McKellen (6/29/2004)
Season 28
  1. Street Music Stories (8/22/2004)
  2. Ronnie Wood (9/5/2004)
  3. Willie Nelson (9/19/2004)
  4. Malcolm Arnold - Part 1 (9/26/2004)
  5. Malcolm Arnold - Part 2 (10/3/2004)
  6. Robert Frank (10/17/2004)
  7. Michael Frayn (11/14/2004)
  8. The Darkness (11/21/2004)
  9. Iggy Pop (12/5/2004)
  10. Ruth Rendell (12/12/2004)
  11. Howard Goodall (12/19/2004)
  12. Pete 'n' Dud, The Lost Shows (1/1/2005)
  13. Ian McEwan (2/20/2005)
  14. Going Sane (3/6/2005)
  15. Khaled and Rachid (3/13/2005)
  16. Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg (3/27/2005)
  17. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation (4/3/2005)
  18. John Boorman (4/10/2005)
  19. Red Priest (4/24/2005)
  20. National Theatre's production of Henry IV (5/1/2005)
  21. The Secret Art of War (5/8/2005)
  22. Paul Abbott (5/15/2005)
Season 29
  1. Margot Fonteyn - Part 1 (8/7/2005)
  2. Margot Fonteyn - Part 2 (8/14/2005)
  3. Sophie Calle (8/21/2005)
  4. Karl Jenkins (9/11/2005)
  5. Eric Sykes (9/18/2005)
  6. Maxim Vengerov (10/2/2005)
  7. Alan Bennett (10/9/2005)
  8. Pablo Trapero, Lucrecia Martel, Daniel Burman (10/16/2005)
  9. The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy (film)(10/23/2005)
  10. Peter Hall - Part 1 (10/30/2005)
  11. Peter Hall - Part 2 (11/6/2005)
  12. Little Britain: A South Bank Show Special (12/25/2005)
Season 30
  1. Armando Iannucci (2/12/2006)
  2. Manga Mania (2/19/2006)
  3. John Rutter (3/12/2006)
  4. PD James (3/26/2006)
  5. Dusty Springfield (4/9/2006)
  6. Seu Jorge (6/4/2006)
  7. Romeo and Juliet (6/11/2006)
Season 31
  1. Bill Bryson (9/10/2006)
  2. JG Ballard (9/17/2006)
  3. Robbie Coltrane (9/24/2006)
  4. Episode 4 (10/1/2006)
  5. Spamalot (10/15/2006)
  6. Claire Tomalin on Thomas Hardy (10/22/2006)
  7. Sue Townsend (10/29/2006)
  8. Lorenzo Da Ponte (11/5/2006)
  9. Peter Blake (11/19/2006)
  10. Nick Park and Aardman Animations (11/26/2006)
  11. Steve Reich (12/10/2006)
  12. Grayson Perry (12/17/2006)
  13. Damien Hirst - Addicted To Art (1/1/2007)
  14. Mark Wallinger (3/4/2007)
  15. Victoria Wood: A South Bank Show Special (3/11/2007)
  16. Isabel Allende (4/22/2007)
  17. Shane Meadows (4/29/2007)
  18. Jarvis Cocker: Running The World (6/10/2007)
  19. Martin Sheen On Playing It Real (6/17/2007)
  20. Marianne Faithfull: A Life In Song (6/24/2007)
  21. Zaha Hadid (7/1/2007)
  22. MacBeth (7/8/2007)
  23. Ian McMillan, Bard Of Barnsley (7/15/2007)
  24. Emma Kirkby, The Unsung Heroine (7/22/2007)
  25. June Whitfield (7/29/2007)
  26. Michael Sheen On Playing It Real (9/2/2007)
  27. Joan Dision (9/23/2007)
  28. Ken Follett (9/30/2007)
  29. The Mersey Sound (10/7/2007)
  30. The Last Laugh: John Bird and John Fortune (10/14/2007)
Season 32
  1. Annie Lennox (11/25/2007)
  2. Eric Clapton (12/2/2007)
  3. The Making Of Viva La Diva (12/9/2007)
  4. The Nutcracker Story (12/26/2007)
  5. Kevin Spacey At The Old Vic (1/6/2008)
  6. Lang Lang (2/10/2008)
  7. David McVicar (3/9/2008)
  8. Revolution 68 (3/16/2008)
Season 33
  1. Liza Minnelli (5/4/2008)
  2. The Damned United (5/11/2008)
  3. Gore Vidal (5/18/2008)
  4. Sarah Waters (6/8/2008)
  5. Tasmin Little (6/15/2008)
  6. Billy Joel (7/13/2008)
Season 34
  1. The Streets (9/21/2008)
  2. The One Ronnie (10/5/2008)
  3. The James Bond Phenomenon (Daniel Craig and Sean Connery) (10/22/2008)
  4. Cildo Meireles (10/26/2008)
  5. Sam Taylor-Wood (11/16/2008)
  6. The Mariinsky Theatre (12/7/2008)
Season 35
  1. The South Bank Show Awards (1/28/2009)
  2. Beyond the Footlights (2/1/2009)
  3. The Tempest (2/8/2009)
  4. Will Young (3/17/2009)
  5. Messiah (4/12/2009)
  6. William Goldman (4/26/2009)
  7. Out Of Nigeria (5/10/2009)
  8. Out Of Nigeria - Part 2 (5/17/2009)
  9. Peter Kosminsky (5/24/2009)
Season 36
  1. The Wagner Family (9/13/2009)
  2. Coldplay (9/20/2009)
  3. Andy Warhol (10/4/2009)
  4. Disney.Pixar (10/11/2009)
  5. Lee Hall (10/18/2009)
  6. Nick Hornby (10/25/2009)
  7. Elbow (11/15/2009)
  8. Carol Ann Duffy (12/6/2009)
  9. Wayne Mcgregor (12/13/2009)
  10. The Royal Shakespeare Company (12/28/2009)
  11. South Bank Show Awards 2009 (1/31/2010)
Season 37
  1. Andrew Lloyd Webber Revisited (3/28/2010)
  2. Billy Connolly Revisited (4/4/2010)
  3. Ian McEwan Revisited (4/11/2010)
  4. Ian McKellen Revisited (4/18/2010)
  5. Stephen Sondheim Revisited (4/25/2010)
  6. David Hockney Revisited (5/2/2010)
  7. Judi Dench Revisited (5/9/2010)
  8. Kiri Te Kanawa Revisited (5/16/2010)
  9. Victoria Wood Revisited (5/23/2010)
  10. The Final Cut (5/30/2010)

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