Season 8
episodes
1.Alan Bennett
Oct 7, 198460m
2.McCartney's Broad Street
Oct 14, 198460m
Behind the scenes look at the making of Paul McCartney's 1984 movie Give My Regards To Broad Street.
3.The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)
Oct 21, 198460m
4.Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Oct 28, 198460m
5.Norman Nicholson
Nov 4, 198460m
6.Joseph Heller
Nov 11, 198460m
7.Mstislav Rostropovich
Nov 18, 198460m
8.Max Wall
Nov 25, 198460m
10.Alan Bleasdale
Jan 13, 198560m
11.Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence
Jan 20, 198560m
13.Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex
Feb 3, 198560m
14.Marc Chagall
Feb 10, 198560m
15.David Lean: a Life in Film
Feb 17, 198560m
16.Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony
Feb 24, 198560m
17.Little Richard
Mar 3, 198560m
18.George Malcolm on Scarlatti
Mar 10, 198560m
19.Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company
Mar 17, 198560m
20.Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg
Mar 31, 198560m
21.David Mamet
Mar 24, 198560m
22.Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith
Apr 5, 198560m
23.The Cotton Club (night club)
May 26, 198560m
24.Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)
Jun 2, 198560m
25.Francis Bacon
Jun 9, 198560m
As part of The South Bank Show series, director David Hinton and interviewer Melvyn Bragg accompany Francis Bacon for a day during his second retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London, in 1985. The conversation reveals the artist’s influences, theories and obsessions.
26.George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century
Jun 16, 198560m