Season 5
episodes
1.The French Lieutenant's Woman
Nov 1, 198160m
2.Elvis Costello
Nov 8, 198160m
3.Old Glory: the Journey and the Book
Nov 15, 198160m
4.Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan
Nov 22, 198160m
5.Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield
Nov 29, 198160m
6.A Talent to Vex: John Osborne
Dec 6, 198160m
7.Mama Lu Parks
Jan 17, 198260m
8.Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day
Jan 24, 198260m
9.Milos Forman
Jan 31, 198260m
10.Germaine Greer
Feb 7, 198260m
11.Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH
Feb 14, 198260m
12.Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller
Feb 21, 198260m
13.Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson
Feb 28, 198260m
14.Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)
Mar 7, 198260m
15.Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash
Mar 14, 198260m
16.Peter Maxwell-Davies
Mar 21, 198260m
17.Saul Bellow
Mar 28, 198260m
18.Indian wallpainting
Apr 4, 198260m
19.Stravinski (1)
Apr 9, 198260m
20.Stravinski (2)
Apr 10, 198260m
21.Julian Lloyd-Webber
Apr 18, 198260m
22.Miles Davis / Robert Nye
Apr 25, 198260m
23.Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs)
May 2, 198260m
24.Joseph Papp / James Galway
May 9, 198260m
25.Werner Herzog
May 16, 198260m
26.Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver)
May 23, 198260m
27.Phillip Larkin
May 30, 198260m
In March 1981 Melvyn Bragg travelled to Hull to interview the poet, librarian and jazz critic Philip Larkin.