Season 9
episodes
1.Sir Alec Guinness
Oct 6, 198560m
2.Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
Oct 13, 198560m
3.Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year
Oct 20, 198560m
4.Theatre of Comedy workshop
Oct 27, 198560m
5.Pete Townshend: After the Fire
Nov 3, 198560m
6.Sir Stephen Spender
Nov 10, 198560m
7.Marguerite Duras
Nov 17, 198560m
8.Karole Armitage
Nov 24, 198560m
9.Peter Shaffer
Dec 1, 198560m
10.John Cleese
Jan 12, 198660m
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
Jan 19, 198660m
12.Paul Schrader
Jan 26, 198660m
13.Purcell's Dido and Aenaes
Feb 2, 198660m
14.Patrick Heron
Feb 9, 198660m
15.Blue Note Records
Feb 16, 198660m
16.Michala Petri
Feb 23, 198660m
17.Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Mar 2, 198660m
18.Absolute Beginners (film)
Mar 9, 198660m
19.Arthur Boyd
Mar 23, 198660m
20.Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical
Apr 6, 198660m
21.British Soap Operas
Apr 13, 198660m
22.Hull Truck Theatre Company
Apr 20, 198660m
23.Velvet Underground
Apr 27, 198660m
The South Bank Show’s Velvet Underground documentary contains interviews with Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Moe Tucker, Nico, Andy Warhol and lots of early Velvet performance footage.
24.Al Jolson
May 4, 198660m