The South Bank Show
Season 9
198524 episodes
Episode 1
Sir Alec Guinness
Oct 6, 19851h
Episode 2
Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
Oct 13, 19851h
Episode 3
Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year
Oct 20, 19851h
Episode 4
Theatre of Comedy workshop
Oct 27, 19851h
Episode 5
Pete Townshend: After the Fire
Nov 3, 19851h
Episode 6
Sir Stephen Spender
Nov 10, 19851h
Episode 7
Marguerite Duras
Nov 17, 19851h
Episode 8
Karole Armitage
Nov 24, 19851h
Episode 9
Peter Shaffer
Dec 1, 19851h
Episode 10
John Cleese
Jan 12, 19861h
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.
Episode 11
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Jan 19, 19861h
Episode 12
Paul Schrader
Jan 26, 19861h
Episode 13
Purcell's Dido and Aenaes
Feb 2, 19861h
Episode 14
Patrick Heron
Feb 9, 19861h
Episode 15
Blue Note Records
Feb 16, 19861h
Episode 16
Michala Petri
Feb 23, 19861h
Episode 17
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Mar 2, 19861h
Episode 18
Absolute Beginners (film)
Mar 9, 19861h
Episode 19
Arthur Boyd
Mar 23, 19861h
Episode 20
Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical
Apr 6, 19861h
Episode 21
British Soap Operas
Apr 13, 19861h
Episode 22
Hull Truck Theatre Company
Apr 20, 19861h
Episode 23
Velvet Underground
Apr 27, 19861h
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.
Episode 24
Al Jolson
May 4, 19861h