The South Bank Show

1. Paul McCartney/surrealist exhibition

Air Date: 1978-01-14

2. Paganini Superstar

Air Date: 1978-01-21

3. Roy Minton

Air Date: 1978-01-28

4. David Hockney

Air Date: 1978-02-04

5. Dennis Potter

Air Date: 1978-02-11

6. John Peel/Jane Glover

Air Date: 1978-02-18

7. Arabian Days (Edna O'Brien)/Quentin Crisp

Air Date: 1978-02-25

8. Jacques Loussier

Air Date: 1978-03-04

9. Ken Dodd

Air Date: 1978-03-11

10. Georges Simenon

Air Date: 1978-03-18

11. Horowitz at the White House

Air Date: 1978-03-25

12. Carl Perkins/Morgan horses

Air Date: 1978-04-01

13. Carry On with Paul Morissey (Carry On ... films)

Air Date: 1978-04-08

14. Search for Shaw

Air Date: 1978-04-15

15. Harold Pinter

Air Date: 1978-04-22

16. Satyajit Ray/John Williams/Ralph McTell

Air Date: 1978-04-30

17. Portrait of a Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan

Air Date: 1978-05-06

18. Freddie Young

Air Date: 1978-05-13

19. Frank Auerbach

Air Date: 1978-05-20

20. Mayerling Ballet

Air Date: 1978-06-17

21. John Osborne on Wardle's book on Devine/Pearl (radio play)

Air Date: 1978-07-01

22. Ingmar Bergman at 60

Air Date: 1978-07-08

23. Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (1)

Air Date: 1978-07-15

24. Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (2)

Air Date: 1978-07-22

1. Tom Stoppard

Air Date: 1978-11-26

2. Grace Under Pressure (Anthony Burgess on Hemingway)

Air Date: 1978-12-03

3. Woody Allen

Air Date: 1978-12-10

4. Anatomy of an Opera: Jonathan Miller's Figaro

Air Date: 1978-12-17

5. Rhythm of Resistance (South African music)

Air Date: 1979-01-14

6. Harmony of the Spheres (Neil Ardley)

Air Date: 1979-01-21

7. Circus Clowns/Schubert recital by Richter

Air Date: 1979-01-28

8. Royal Shakespeare Company on tour

Air Date: 1979-02-04

9. Brimstone & Treacle (Dennis Potter) / John McLaughlin, a Musical Journey

Air Date: 1979-02-11

10. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Edward Gorey / Gunter Grass

Air Date: 1979-02-18

11. Michael Cimino / Alan Bennett, Stephen Frears

Air Date: 1979-02-25

12. Gordon Williams, Alan Sharp, Eddie Boyd

Air Date: 1979-03-04

13. Derek Boshier / Ingrid Bergman, Ingmar Bergman

Air Date: 1979-03-11

14. Neil Simon

Air Date: 1979-03-18

15. Beryl Cook / Cloud Nine rehearsals

Air Date: 1979-03-25

16. Graham Sutherland

Air Date: 1979-04-01

17. Darryl Way / Howard Brenton

Air Date: 1979-04-22

18. The Europeans (film) / Joseph Heller

Air Date: 1979-04-29

19. Asian Arts festival

Air Date: 1979-05-06

20. Billy Connolly

Air Date: 1979-05-13

21. Jessye Norman

Air Date: 1979-05-20

22. Rough Trade (record label) / Allen Jones

Air Date: 1979-05-27

23. Scum (film) / Keith Jarrett

Air Date: 1979-06-17

24. Michael Tippett (90 min.)

Air Date: 1979-06-24

1. Francis Ford Coppola

Air Date: 1979-12-02

2. Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (1)

Air Date: 1979-12-09

3. Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (2)

Air Date: 1979-12-16

4. Talking Heads

Air Date: 1979-12-23

5. Love and the Ice-Cream Vendor

Air Date: 1980-02-17

6. Fay Weldon / Richard Hogart on Northern Ireland in drama

Air Date: 1980-02-24

7. Merce Cunningham

Air Date: 1980-03-02

8. Elegies for the Deaths of Three Spanish Poets

Air Date: 1980-03-09

9. A Time There was ... (Benjamin Britten)

Air Date: 1980-04-06

10. The Greene Adaptations (Graham Greene films)

Air Date: 1980-04-13

11. Salsa (Puerto Rican music)

Air Date: 1980-04-27

12. The Worlds of Edward Bond

Air Date: 1980-05-04

13. Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli / Kinglsey Amis

Air Date: 1980-05-11

14. new British rock films / The Tin Drum (film)

Air Date: 1980-05-18

15. Roman Polanski

Air Date: 1980-05-25

16. Tom Wolfe

Air Date: 1980-06-01

17. Andrew Wyeth

Air Date: 1980-06-08

18. Angus Wilson

Air Date: 1980-06-29

19. Jane Austen (film)

Air Date: 1980-07-06

1. Arthur Miller

Air Date: 1980-11-09

2. William Golding

Air Date: 1980-11-16

3. Akira Kurosawa

Air Date: 1980-11-23

4. Stravinsky's The Firebird

Air Date: 1980-11-30

5. No Need to Lie

Air Date: 1980-12-07

6. The Passion (National Theatre's updating of medieval plays)

Air Date: 1980-12-14

7. Toni Morrison

Air Date: 1981-01-18

8. The Trespasser (film)

Air Date: 1981-01-25

9. Don Juan in Hell

Air Date: 1981-02-08

10. poetry workshop

Air Date: 1981-02-15

11. Martin Scorsese

Air Date: 1981-02-22

12. Elizabeth Taylor / John Hubbard

Air Date: 1981-03-01

13. Bob Fosse

Air Date: 1981-03-08

14. Robert Redford / Martin Amis

Air Date: 1981-03-15

15. Verity Bargate / Howard Hodgkin

Air Date: 1981-03-29

16. At the Haunted End of the Day: the Life of Sir William Walton

Air Date: 1981-04-19

17. Gore Vidal

Air Date: 1981-04-26

18. The Roots of the Tree (Ermanno Olmi)

Air Date: 1981-05-03

19. Colin Welland

Air Date: 1981-05-10

20. Christopher Logue / Phillip King

Air Date: 1981-05-17

21. Lulu's Last Act (Berg opera)

Air Date: 1981-05-24

22. Dame Ninette De Valois / David Hockney on Picasso

Air Date: 1981-05-31

23. Clive James / Craig Raine

Air Date: 1981-06-07

24. Soviet Art

Air Date: 1981-06-14

25. Rhythm and Blues (The Blues Band, Dr. Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, Paul Jones)

Air Date: 1981-06-21

26. Music for a City: Venice

Air Date: 1981-06-28

1. The French Lieutenant's Woman

Air Date: 1981-11-01

2. Elvis Costello

Air Date: 1981-11-08

3. Old Glory: the Journey and the Book

Air Date: 1981-11-15

4. Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan

Air Date: 1981-11-22

5. Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield

Air Date: 1981-11-29

6. A Talent to Vex: John Osborne

Air Date: 1981-12-06

7. Mama Lu Parks

Air Date: 1982-01-17

8. Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day

Air Date: 1982-01-24

9. Milos Forman

Air Date: 1982-01-31

10. Germaine Greer

Air Date: 1982-02-07

11. Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH

Air Date: 1982-02-14

12. Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller

Air Date: 1982-02-21

13. Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson

Air Date: 1982-02-28

14. Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)

Air Date: 1982-03-07

15. Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash

Air Date: 1982-03-14

16. Peter Maxwell-Davies

Air Date: 1982-03-21

17. Saul Bellow

Air Date: 1982-03-28

18. Indian wallpainting

Air Date: 1982-04-04

19. Stravinski (1)

Air Date: 1982-04-09

20. Stravinski (2)

Air Date: 1982-04-10

21. Julian Lloyd-Webber

Air Date: 1982-04-18

22. Miles Davis / Robert Nye

Air Date: 1982-04-25

23. Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs)

Air Date: 1982-05-02

24. Joseph Papp / James Galway

Air Date: 1982-05-09

25. Werner Herzog

Air Date: 1982-05-16

26. Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver)

Air Date: 1982-05-23

27. Phillip Larkin

Air Date: 1982-05-30

In March 1981 Melvyn Bragg travelled to Hull to interview the poet, librarian and jazz critic Philip Larkin.

1. Laurence Olivier, a Life (1)

Air Date: 1982-10-17

2. Laurence Olivier, a Life (2)

Air Date: 1982-10-24

3. Peter Gabriel

Air Date: 1982-10-31

Cameras follow Peter Gabriel during the recording of his fourth solo album.

4. Bruce Chatwin

Air Date: 1982-11-07

5. Patricia Highsmith

Air Date: 1982-11-14

6. Steven Spielberg

Air Date: 1982-11-21

7. Gospel at Colonus

Air Date: 1982-11-28

8. Simone De Beauvoir

Air Date: 1983-01-09

9. Barry Flannigan / Seamus Heaney

Air Date: 1983-01-23

10. David Hare

Air Date: 1983-01-30

11. Agnes De Mille

Air Date: 1983-02-06

12. Handel's Semele (by the Royal Opera House)

Air Date: 1983-02-13

13. Sam Fuller

Air Date: 1983-02-20

14. Local Hero (film)

Air Date: 1983-02-27

15. R.K. Narayan

Air Date: 1983-03-13

16. Ivo Pogorelich

Air Date: 1983-03-20

17. John Le Carré

Air Date: 1983-03-27

18. Choirs and Places Where They Sing

Air Date: 1983-04-03

19. William Trevor

Air Date: 1983-04-24

20. Gene Hackman

Air Date: 1983-05-01

21. Keith Waterhouse

Air Date: 1983-05-08

22. Robert Lowell / Benjamin Britten's Quartettino

Air Date: 1983-05-15

23. Cowboy Art

Air Date: 1983-05-22

24. Jiri Kylian

Air Date: 1983-05-29

25. Producing Don Giovanni

Air Date: 1983-06-05

26. Ken Russell's View of The Planets

Air Date: 1983-06-12

1. Piper's Way

Air Date: 1983-10-16

2. Yuri Lyubimov

Air Date: 1983-10-23

4. Jack Lemmon

Air Date: 1983-11-06

5. Catherine Cookson

Air Date: 1983-11-20

6. Lillian Gish/Glen Baxter

Air Date: 1983-11-27

7. Alberto Moravia

Air Date: 1983-12-04

8. Ian Hamilton Finlay/Lord Gowrie

Air Date: 1983-12-11

9. Barry Tuckwell: Master of the Horn

Air Date: 1984-02-19

10. Trevor Griffiths

Air Date: 1984-02-26

11. Weather Report

Air Date: 1984-03-11

12. Claudio Arrau

Air Date: 1984-03-18

13. Kathy Acker

Air Date: 1984-04-01

14. Ralph Vaughan Williams

Air Date: 1984-04-08

15. Sir Ernst Gombrich

Air Date: 1984-04-15

16. Michael Frayn

Air Date: 1984-04-29

17. Ed McBain

Air Date: 1984-05-06

18. David Bintley: New Ballet at Sadler's Wells

Air Date: 1984-05-13

19. Stephen Sondheim

Air Date: 1984-05-20

20. Elisabeth Vellacott / DeCocoa, Hot Chocolate

Air Date: 1984-05-27

21. adaptation of Ivy Compton Burnett's Elders and Betters

Air Date: 1984-06-03

22. Kipling (one-man play with Alec McGowen)

Air Date: 1984-06-10

23. Anthony Caro

Air Date: 1984-06-24

1. Alan Bennett

Air Date: 1984-10-07

2. McCartney's Broad Street

Air Date: 1984-10-14

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)

Air Date: 1984-10-21

4. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

Air Date: 1984-10-28

5. Norman Nicholson

Air Date: 1984-11-04

6. Joseph Heller

Air Date: 1984-11-11

7. Mstislav Rostropovich

Air Date: 1984-11-18

8. Max Wall

Air Date: 1984-11-25

10. Alan Bleasdale

Air Date: 1985-01-13

11. Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence

Air Date: 1985-01-20

13. Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex

Air Date: 1985-02-03

14. Marc Chagall

Air Date: 1985-02-10

15. David Lean: a Life in Film

Air Date: 1985-02-17

16. Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony

Air Date: 1985-02-24

17. Little Richard

Air Date: 1985-03-03

18. George Malcolm on Scarlatti

Air Date: 1985-03-10

19. Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company

Air Date: 1985-03-17

20. Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg

Air Date: 1985-03-31

21. David Mamet

Air Date: 1985-03-24

22. Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith

Air Date: 1985-04-05

23. The Cotton Club (night club)

Air Date: 1985-05-26

24. Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)

Air Date: 1985-06-02

25. Francis Bacon

Air Date: 1985-06-09

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

Air Date: 1985-06-16

1. Sir Alec Guinness

Air Date: 1985-10-06

2. Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor

Air Date: 1985-10-13

3. Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year

Air Date: 1985-10-20

4. Theatre of Comedy workshop

Air Date: 1985-10-27

5. Pete Townshend: After the Fire

Air Date: 1985-11-03

6. Sir Stephen Spender

Air Date: 1985-11-10

7. Marguerite Duras

Air Date: 1985-11-17

8. Karole Armitage

Air Date: 1985-11-24

9. Peter Shaffer

Air Date: 1985-12-01

10. John Cleese

Air Date: 1986-01-12

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

Air Date: 1986-01-19

12. Paul Schrader

Air Date: 1986-01-26

13. Purcell's Dido and Aenaes

Air Date: 1986-02-02

14. Patrick Heron

Air Date: 1986-02-09

15. Blue Note Records

Air Date: 1986-02-16

16. Michala Petri

Air Date: 1986-02-23

17. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Air Date: 1986-03-02

18. Absolute Beginners (film)

Air Date: 1986-03-09

19. Arthur Boyd

Air Date: 1986-03-23

20. Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical

Air Date: 1986-04-06

21. British Soap Operas

Air Date: 1986-04-13

22. Hull Truck Theatre Company

Air Date: 1986-04-20

23. Velvet Underground

Air Date: 1986-04-27

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

Air Date: 1986-05-04

1. John Mortimer

Air Date: 1986-10-05

4. Michael Powell

Air Date: 1986-10-26

5. Truman Capote

Air Date: 1986-11-02

6. Fay Godwin

Air Date: 1986-11-09

7. The Andrew Lloyd-Webber Story

Air Date: 1986-11-15

8. Agatha Christie, How Did She Do It?

Air Date: 1986-11-23

9. The Dream is Over (Christopher Bruce ballet on John Lennon)

Air Date: 1986-11-30

10. Arts Review '86

Air Date: 1986-12-14

11. Anthony Hopkins / David Hare

Air Date: 1987-01-11

12. Philip Glass

Air Date: 1987-01-18

13. Alvin Ailey Dance Theater

Air Date: 1987-01-25

14. Anthony Green: RA, a Love Story

Air Date: 1987-02-01

15. birth of Frankenstein and Dracula

Air Date: 1987-02-08

16. Thomas Allen

Air Date: 1987-02-15

17. The Wooster Group

Air Date: 1987-02-22

18. The London Underground in art

Air Date: 1987-03-01

20. Barbara Dickson

Air Date: 1987-03-15

21. Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Air Date: 1987-03-22

22. Turner at the Tate

Air Date: 1987-03-29

23. George V. Higgins

Air Date: 1987-04-05

24. Peter York lecture

Air Date: 1987-04-12

25. The Aida File: The Making of the Opera (1)

Air Date: 1987-04-18

26. The Aida File: Aida Performance (2)

Air Date: 1987-04-19

1. Maria Callas

Air Date: 1987-10-04

2. Toni Morrison

Air Date: 1987-10-11

3. The Smiths

Air Date: 1987-10-18

This documentary on The Smiths was filmed just days before the band went their separate ways in 1987. Contains interviews of Morrissey, Marr, Joyce and Rourke, as well as Linder, Shaun Duggan, Jo O'Keefe, John Peel, Nick Kent, Sandie Shaw and Viv Nicholson.

4. Andy Warhol

Air Date: 1987-10-25

5. Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega

Air Date: 1987-11-01

6. Sir Terence Conran

Air Date: 1987-11-08

7. Gore Vidal

Air Date: 1987-11-15

8. African music / Russian theatre

Air Date: 1987-11-22

9. Sir George Solti

Air Date: 1987-11-29

10. Eric Clapton

Air Date: 1987-12-06

11. Arts Review '87

Air Date: 1987-12-20

12. The Last Emperor (1988 film)

Air Date: 1988-01-17

13. Australian Aboriginies

Air Date: 1988-01-24

14. Boogie Woogie Music

Air Date: 1988-01-31

15. The Golden Age of Television

Air Date: 1988-02-14

A lecture about television given at the British Film Institute.

16. George Barker

Air Date: 1988-02-21

17. Jackson Pollack

Air Date: 1988-02-28

18. Lenny Henry

Air Date: 1988-03-06

19. Peter Dickinson

Air Date: 1988-03-13

20. A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China

Air Date: 1988-03-20

21. Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans

Air Date: 1988-03-27

22. Ken Russell's ABC of British Music

Air Date: 1988-04-02

24. Doris Lessing

Air Date: 1988-04-17

25. Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production

Air Date: 1988-04-24

1. The Art of Walt Disney

Air Date: 1988-09-25

2. Bernard Shaw

Air Date: 1988-10-02

3. Under Milk Wood

Air Date: 1988-10-09

4. Toulouse-Lautrec

Air Date: 1988-10-16

5. David Puttnam

Air Date: 1988-10-23

6. David Hockney

Air Date: 1988-10-30

7. Two Women in Three Dimensions (Wendy Taylor, Nicola Hicks)

Air Date: 1988-11-13

8. Bristol WWII bombing raids reenactment

Air Date: 1988-11-20

9. Raymond Chandler

Air Date: 1988-11-27

10. Neil Jordan

Air Date: 1988-12-04

11. John Houseman

Air Date: 1988-12-11

12. David Bailey

Air Date: 1988-12-18

13. Derek Walcott

Air Date: 1989-01-15

14. Patrick Leigh Fermor

Air Date: 1989-01-22

15. National Training Orchestra

Air Date: 1989-01-29

16. Christopher Hampton

Air Date: 1989-02-05

17. Istvan Szabo

Air Date: 1989-02-12

18. Robert Redford

Air Date: 1989-02-19

19. Tony Palmer on the concerto

Air Date: 1989-02-26

20. Ben Elton

Air Date: 1989-03-05

21. John Burnett

Air Date: 1989-03-10

A special 3 minute parody episode made for Comic Relief. Melvin interviews painter John Burnett.

22. Put Blood in the Music (New York avant garde music)

Air Date: 1989-03-12

23. John Ogdon

Air Date: 1989-03-19

24. Sir William Golding

Air Date: 1989-03-24

1. Martin Amis

Air Date: 1989-09-17

2. Dustin Hoffman, Sir Peter Hall

Air Date: 1989-09-24

3. Jimi Hendrix

Air Date: 1989-10-01

4. Tom Keneally in Eritrea

Air Date: 1989-10-08

5. Ken Russell

Air Date: 1989-10-15

6. Steven Berkoff

Air Date: 1989-10-22

7. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Air Date: 1989-10-29

8. Fitzrovia

Air Date: 1989-11-12

9. Dame Edna Everage

Air Date: 1989-11-19

10. Evelyn Glennie

Air Date: 1989-11-26

11. Peter Brook

Air Date: 1989-12-03

12. Arts Review '89

Air Date: 1989-12-29

13. Boris Pasternak

Air Date: 1990-01-07

14. Sir David Lean, Robert Bolt

Air Date: 1990-01-21

15. Christopher Hogwood

Air Date: 1990-01-28

16. Chinua Achebe

Air Date: 1990-02-04

17. Hans Werner Henze

Air Date: 1990-02-11

18. Jock Tamson's Bairns (Gerry Mulgrew, Liz Lochhead)

Air Date: 1990-02-18

19. Yuri Bashmet

Air Date: 1990-03-04

20. DV8 Physical Theatre

Air Date: 1990-03-11

21. Mark Morris: the Hidden Soul of Harmony

Air Date: 1990-03-25

22. Carl Davis, Temba

Air Date: 1990-04-01

23. Vivienne Westwood

Air Date: 1990-04-08

24. Hindemith

Air Date: 1990-04-15

25. Robert Altman

Air Date: 1990-04-22

1. George Michael

Air Date: 1990-09-02

2. Peter Ackroyd on Dickens

Air Date: 1990-09-09

3. Spike Lee

Air Date: 1990-09-23

4. Salman Rushdie

Air Date: 1990-09-30

5. Roy Lichtenstein

Air Date: 1990-10-07

6. Ken Russell on Anton Bruckner

Air Date: 1990-10-14

7. Clear Cool Crystal Streams (Irish rock music)

Air Date: 1990-10-21

8. John Updike

Air Date: 1990-10-28

9. East German writers

Air Date: 1990-11-04

10. Alan Parker

Air Date: 1990-11-25

11. Cameron Mackintosh

Air Date: 1990-12-02

12. Spitting Image

Air Date: 1990-12-09

13. The Talis Scholars

Air Date: 1990-12-30

14. Stan Laurel

Air Date: 1991-01-06

15. August Wilson

Air Date: 1991-01-13

16. Oscar Marzaroli

Air Date: 1991-01-20

17. Anne-Sophie Mutter

Air Date: 1991-01-27

18. Bonfire of the Vanities (1991 film)

Air Date: 1991-02-03

19. Willard White

Air Date: 1991-02-10

20. The Five Blind Boys of Alabama / R.S. Thomas

Air Date: 1991-02-17

21. Steve Martin

Air Date: 1991-02-24

22. Rudolph Nureyev

Air Date: 1991-03-03

23. Kiri Te Kanawa

Air Date: 1991-03-29

1. Private Eye

Air Date: 1991-09-15

2. David Lodge

Air Date: 1991-09-29

3. Terry Gilliam

Air Date: 1991-10-06

4. Neil Simon

Air Date: 1991-10-13

5. Heinrich Schiff

Air Date: 1991-10-20

6. Seamus Heaney

Air Date: 1991-10-27

7. John Osborne

Air Date: 1991-11-03

8. Dame Britain (Vera Lynn)

Air Date: 1991-11-10

9. Arthur Miller

Air Date: 1991-11-17

10. Jose Carreras, a Life Story

Air Date: 1991-11-24

11. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

Air Date: 1991-12-22

12. Arts Review '91

Air Date: 1991-12-29

13. Douglas Adams

Air Date: 1992-01-05

Interviews with Douglas Adams Some parts of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency are filmed as link items, including the Electric Monk.

14. Lenny Henry Hunts the Funk

Air Date: 1992-01-12

15. Hakan Hardenberger

Air Date: 1992-01-19

16. Cecilia Bartoli

Air Date: 1999-11-28

17. Les Murray

Air Date: 1992-02-02

18. Colin Thubron

Air Date: 1992-02-09

19. Pet Shop Boys

Air Date: 1992-02-16

20. Paula Rego

Air Date: 1992-02-23

21. Noel Coward

Air Date: 1992-03-01

22. Anthony Hopkins

Air Date: 1992-03-29

23. Terence Davis

Air Date: 1992-04-05

24. Making Naked Lunch

Air Date: 1992-04-12

25. The Making of Sgt. Pepper

Air Date:

1. Billy Connolly

Air Date: 1992-10-04

2. Alice Walker

Air Date: 1992-10-11

3. Peter O'Toole

Air Date: 1992-10-18

4. Two Royal Ballet Dancers (Darcey Bussell, Viviana Durante)

Air Date: 1992-10-25

5. Robert Zemeckis

Air Date: 1992-11-01

6. George Formby

Air Date: 1992-11-08

7. Sir Richard Attenborough

Air Date: 1992-11-15

8. The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax

Air Date: 1992-12-06

9. The World of Jeff Koons

Air Date: 1992-12-13

10. Jimi Hendrix

Air Date: 1992-12-20

11. Dracula

Air Date: 1993-01-24

12. Monserrat Caballe

Air Date: 1993-01-31

13. Annie Leibowitz

Air Date: 1993-02-07

14. Guggenheim Museum

Air Date: 1993-02-14

15. Dmitri and Sasha Sitkovetsky

Air Date: 1993-02-21

16. Jean Genet

Air Date: 1993-02-28

17. I, Berlioz

Air Date: 1993-03-07

18. Richard Price

Air Date: 1993-03-14

19. John Banville

Air Date: 1993-03-21

20. Henryk Gorecki's 3rd symphony

Air Date: 1993-04-04

21. Dudley Moore

Air Date: 1993-06-13

Dudley talks candidly about his life and work alongside contributions from Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Blake Edwards, Bo Derek, Sir Georg Solti and others.

22. Frink, 1930-1993 (Dame Elisabeth Frink)

Air Date: 1993-06-20

23. Benny Goodman, the King of Swing

Air Date: 1993-07-04

24. Paul Simon

Air Date: 1993-08-15

25. Norman Wisdom

Air Date: 1993-08-22

1. Sydney Pollack

Air Date: 1993-09-12

2. Willy Russell

Air Date: 1993-09-19

3. Ken Loach

Air Date: 1993-10-03

British director Ken Loach first came to fame in the Sixties with plays such as UP THE JUNCTION and CATHY COME HOME and films including KES. To coincide with his latest film, RAINING STONES, Loach, unashamedly political in his outlook, talks to Melvyn Bragg.

4. Margaret Atwood

Air Date: 1993-10-10

5. John Lee Hooker

Air Date: 1993-10-17

6. Stevie Wonder

Air Date: 1993-10-24

7. Sylvie Guillem

Air Date: 1993-10-31

8. Tim Rice

Air Date: 1993-11-07

9. Lynda La Plante

Air Date: 1993-11-14

10. John Williams

Air Date: 1993-11-21

11. John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (1)

Air Date: 1993-11-28

12. John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (2)

Air Date: 1993-12-05

13. Cliff Richard

Air Date: 1993-12-24

14. Bheki Mseleku

Air Date: 1994-01-23

15. Darker Than Me

Air Date: 1994-02-06

16. Jean-Claude Carriere

Air Date: 1994-02-13

17. Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool

Air Date: 1994-02-20

18. Looking for the Perfect Beat: Rap

Air Date: 1994-02-27

19. Larry Adler Plays Gershwin

Air Date: 1994-03-06

20. Kiri's 50th Birthday Concert

Air Date: 1994-03-13

21. Clive Barker

Air Date: 1994-04-10

22. Dawn French

Air Date: 1994-04-17

23. Christian Boltanski

Air Date: 1994-05-15

24. Eric Newby

Air Date: 1994-05-22

25. John Steinbeck

Air Date: 1994-05-29

1. Kenneth Williams

Air Date: 1994-09-18

2. Marilyn Horne

Air Date: 1994-09-25

3. New Generation Poets

Air Date: 1994-10-02

4. Vanessa Redgrave

Air Date: 1994-10-09

5. David Mamet

Air Date: 1994-10-16

6. The Shearing Touch (George Shearing)

Air Date: 1994-10-23

7. Alan Ayckbourn

Air Date: 1994-10-30

8. Frankenstein

Air Date: 1994-11-06

9. Thora Hird

Air Date: 1994-11-13

10. The Glory of Gershwin

Air Date: 1994-11-20

11. P.J. O'Rourke

Air Date: 1994-11-27

12. Lionel Bart

Air Date: 1994-12-11

13. Carl Orff

Air Date: 1995-01-29

14. Classic Widows

Air Date: 1995-02-05

15. Jonathan Miller

Air Date: 1995-02-12

16. Flags of the Fante Coast

Air Date: 1995-02-19

17. Catherine Bailey, the Lady is a Tramp / Roger Ballen

Air Date: 1995-02-26

18. Edward Albee

Air Date: 1995-03-05

19. Jodie Foster

Air Date: 1995-03-12

20. Martin Amis

Air Date: 1995-03-19

21. Country Music

Air Date: 1995-04-02

22. Miriam Makeba

Air Date: 1995-04-09

1. Clint Eastwwod

Air Date: 1995-09-10

2. Ackroyd's Blake

Air Date: 1995-09-17

3. Tom Sharpe

Air Date: 1995-09-24

4. kd lang

Air Date: 1995-10-01

5. Pavarotti at 60

Air Date: 1995-10-08

6. Jimmy Nail

Air Date: 1995-10-15

7. Dame Judi Dench

Air Date: 1995-10-29

8. Coronation Street

Air Date: 1995-11-05

Documentary about the origins, the history and the making of CORONATION STREET, including interviews with cast and crew and footage from behind the scenes of the production.

9. Dame Barbara Cartland

Air Date: 1995-11-12

10. Jonathan Raban: Badlands / Wynton Marsalis

Air Date: 1995-11-19

11. Elaine Page Special

Air Date: 1996-04-07

12. Sting

Air Date: 1996-04-14

This report brings you back in 1996, when Sting records "Mercury falling". You will see Sting in his home of lake house, talking about the writting process, see him recording the varied tracks of the album and heard them as working versions... a superb moment...

13. Albert Finney

Air Date: 1996-04-28

14. Marlene Dietrich

Air Date: 1996-05-05

15. John Eliot Gardiner

Air Date: 1996-05-12

16. Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence

Air Date: 1996-05-19

17. Claes Oldenburg

Air Date: 1996-05-26

18. Baaba Maal

Air Date: 1996-06-02

19. Maxine Peake / Wynton Marsalis in New Orleans

Air Date: 1996-07-21

20. Alan Ayckbourn Workshop

Air Date: 1996-07-28

1. Victoria Wood

Air Date: 1996-09-15

2. Sir John Mills

Air Date: 1996-09-22

3. Michael Crawford

Air Date: 1996-09-29

4. Norman Mailer on Picasso

Air Date: 1996-10-06

5. Chanson

Air Date: 1996-10-13

6. Michael Collins

Air Date: 1996-10-27

7. Bryn Terfel

Air Date: 1996-11-03

8. Howard Hodgkin

Air Date: 1996-11-10

9. Jimmy McGovern

Air Date: 1996-11-17

10. Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid

Air Date: 1997-01-05

11. Maggi Hambling

Air Date: 1997-01-12

13. The US and Us (1)

Air Date: 1997-01-26

14. The US and Us (2)

Air Date: 1997-02-02

15. Gilbert and George (1)

Air Date: 1997-02-09

16. Gilbert and George (2)

Air Date: 1997-02-16

17. Valery Gergiev

Air Date: 1997-02-23

18. Paganini

Air Date: 1997-05-04

19. David Helfgott

Air Date: 1997-06-22

20. Paul Auster

Air Date: 1997-07-06

21. Young Directors (Preya Lal, Alexander Kelly, Franca Cereghini, Chris Dooks)

Air Date: 1997-07-20

1. Scarfe on Hercules

Air Date: 1997-10-05

2. Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance

Air Date: 1997-10-26

3. Kay Mellor

Air Date: 1997-11-02

4. Björk

Air Date: 1997-11-09

5. Iain Banks

Air Date: 1997-11-16

6. Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures

Air Date: 1997-11-23

7. Steven Bochco

Air Date: 1997-11-30

8. Simon Raven

Air Date: 1997-12-14

9. Franco Zeffirelli

Air Date: 1997-12-21

10. Saul Zaentz

Air Date: 1998-01-11

11. Gillian Wearing / Gary Hume

Air Date: 1998-01-18

12. Marks and Gran

Air Date: 1998-02-01

13. Hail Bop: a Portrait of John Adams

Air Date: 1998-02-08

14. Nigel Kennedy

Air Date: 1998-02-15

15. Gary Oldman

Air Date: 1998-03-15

16. Body Art

Air Date: 1998-04-05

17. John Tavener

Air Date: 1998-04-12

18. The Bee Gees

Air Date: 1998-06-07

19. Will Self

Air Date: 1998-07-05

20. Afro-Cuban Allstars

Air Date: 1998-07-19

21. This is Not an Exit: the Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis

Air Date: 1998-08-23

22. Wayne Sleep

Air Date: 1998-08-30

1. Ossie Clarke (1)

Air Date: 1998-11-08

2. Ossie Clarke (2)

Air Date: 1998-11-15

3. Lesley Garrett

Air Date: 1998-11-22

4. Harold Pinter

Air Date: 1998-11-29

5. Maxine Peake/Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Air Date: 1998-12-06

6. Walter Mosley

Air Date: 1998-12-13

7. Petula Clark

Air Date: 1998-12-20

8. Warren Beatty

Air Date: 1998-12-30

9. John Tomlinson

Air Date: 1999-01-10

10. Javier du Frutos

Air Date: 1999-01-31

11. UB40

Air Date: 1999-02-07

12. Anish Kapoor

Air Date: 1999-02-21

13. New South African Artists

Air Date: 1999-02-28

14. Lucy Gannon

Air Date: 1999-03-14

15. Tony Harrison

Air Date: 1999-03-28

16. Dolly Parton

Air Date: 1999-04-09

1. Paul Merton

Air Date: 1999-09-26

2. Frank McCourt

Air Date: 1999-10-03

3. Howard Jacobson

Air Date: 1999-10-10

4. Jose Cura

Air Date: 1999-10-17

5. James Galway

Air Date: 1999-10-24

6. The Lion King (stage play based on the film)

Air Date: 1999-10-31

7. Joan Collins

Air Date: 1999-11-14

8. Blur

Air Date: 1999-11-21

9. Yoko Ono

Air Date: 1999-12-05

10. Cher

Air Date: 1999-12-11

11. Countertenors

Air Date: 1999-12-19

12. Bing Crosby

Air Date: 1999-12-26

13. Shakespeare

Air Date: 2000-01-23

14. Millennium Dome

Air Date: 2000-02-07

15. Sam Mendes

Air Date: 2000-02-14

16. Michael Douglas

Air Date: 2000-02-21

17. Chuck Close

Air Date: 2000-03-05

18. Emir Kusturica

Air Date: 2000-03-12

19. Amis on Amis

Air Date: 2000-06-18

20. (composing classical music) (1)

Air Date: 2000-06-25

21. Simon Holt's Sunrise, Yellow Noise (2)

Air Date: 2000-07-02

1. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton

Air Date: 2000-10-01

2. Santana

Air Date: 2000-10-08

3. Joyce [Carol Oates] on Marilyn [Monroe]

Air Date: 2000-10-15

5. Mark Morris Dance Group

Air Date: 2000-10-29

6. George MacDonald Fraser

Air Date: 2000-11-12

7. Courtney Pine

Air Date: 2000-11-19

8. Ron Howard

Air Date: 2000-11-26

9. Dame Gillian Weir

Air Date: 2000-12-03

10. [Marlene] Dumas and [Jemima] Stehli

Air Date: 2000-12-10

11. Mark Quinn

Air Date: 2000-12-17

12. Tom Jones

Air Date: 2000-12-24

13. Ken Russell

Air Date: 2001-02-11

14. Shirin Neshat

Air Date: 2001-02-18

15. Russell Watson

Air Date: 2001-02-25

16. Amos Oz

Air Date: 2001-03-04

17. Greta Garbo

Air Date: 2001-03-11

18. Elvis Costello with Annie Sofie von Otter

Air Date: 2001-03-18

19. Bill Bryson

Air Date: 2001-03-25

In 2001, American author Bill Bryson headed home to Des Moines, Iowa, to reflect on his early life in the Midwest for The South Bank Show.

20. Ian Rankin

Air Date: 2001-07-01

21. Ian Bostridge

Air Date: 2001-07-08

22. Edmund White

Air Date: 2001-07-22

23. Steve Coogan

Air Date: 2001-08-05

24. Ravi Shankar

Air Date: 2001-08-12

25. Tracey Emin

Air Date: 2001-08-19

1. High and Low Culture in the Age of Television

Air Date: 2001-10-07

2. (highlights)

Air Date: 2001-10-14

3. Rachel Whiteread

Air Date: 2001-10-28

4. Norman Foster

Air Date: 2001-11-11

5. Dr. John

Air Date: 2001-11-18

6. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

Air Date: 2001-12-16

7. Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming

Air Date:

8. The Sopranos

Air Date: 2002-02-10

9. Leif Ove Andsnes

Air Date: 2002-02-24

10. Why the Novel Matters

Air Date: 2002-03-17

11. Meera Syal

Air Date: 2002-03-24

12. Johnnie Ray

Air Date: 2002-03-31

13. Mario Vargas Llosa

Air Date: 2002-04-21

14. Fay Weldon

Air Date: 2002-05-05

15. R.E.M.

Air Date: 2002-05-09

16. Neil LaBute

Air Date: 2002-06-23

17. Cinema of Fire (Iranian cinema)

Air Date: 2002-06-30

18. Moby

Air Date: 2002-07-07

19. Bernie Taupin

Air Date: 2002-08-04

1. Mike Leigh

Air Date: 2002-10-13

2. Akram Khan

Air Date: 2002-10-20

3. Graham Vick: Beethoven in the Big Top

Air Date: 2002-10-27

4. Craig David

Air Date: 2002-11-10

5. Andrew Davies

Air Date: 2002-11-17

6. Joan Rivers

Air Date: 2002-11-24

7. Willie Nelson

Air Date: 2003-01-12

8. James MacMillan

Air Date: 2003-01-05

9. Irek Mukhamedov

Air Date: 2003-01-19

10. Gerhard Richter

Air Date: 2003-02-02

11. Hanif Kureishi

Air Date: 2003-02-09

12. How to Get Rich: Felix Dennis

Air Date: 2003-02-16

13. Philip Pullman

Air Date: 2003-03-09

14. Caryl Phillips

Air Date: 2003-04-13

15. Conor McPherson

Air Date: 2003-05-18

16. Herbie Hancock

Air Date: 2003-06-29

17. Caetano Veloso

Air Date: 2003-07-06

18. Ang Lee

Air Date: 2003-07-13

19. The Real George Orwell

Air Date: 2003-07-27

20. Juan Diego Florez

Air Date: 2003-08-03

21. Nick Cave

Air Date: 2003-08-10

22. Albert Camus

Air Date: 2003-08-31

23. Robert Harris Takes on Rome

Air Date: 2003-09-07

24. Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Full Picture

Air Date: 2003-09-19

25. Ewan McGregor

Air Date: 2003-09-21

1. Germaine Greer

Air Date: 2003-10-19

2. Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

Air Date: 2003-12-07

3. TV Stories (1)

Air Date: 2004-02-01

4. TV Stories (2)

Air Date: 2004-02-08

5. Jamie Cullum

Air Date: 2004-02-22

6. The Wilson Twins

Air Date: 2004-03-07

7. John Lennon's Jukebox

Air Date: 2004-03-14

Original Air Date—14 March 2004 In the mid-1960s, John Lennon bought a portable jukebox and stocked it with 40 of his favorite 45-rpm records. This documentary showcases those songs and uses them to explore Lennon's musical tastes and influences. Featured are interviews with many of the artists whose songs were in Lennon's jukebox.

8. Jack Vettriano

Air Date: 2004-03-21

9. The Dance Theatre of Harlem

Air Date: 2004-04-04

10. Jeanette Winterson

Air Date: 2004-05-02

11. Johnny Hallyday

Air Date: 2004-05-09

12. Othello

Air Date: 2004-05-16

13. Ian McKellen

Air Date: 2004-06-29

1. Street Music Stories

Air Date: 2004-08-22

2. Ronnie Wood

Air Date: 2004-09-05

3. Willie Nelson

Air Date: 2004-09-19

4. Malcolm Arnold (1)

Air Date: 2004-09-26

5. Malcolm Arnold (2)

Air Date: 2004-10-03

6. Robert Frank

Air Date: 2004-10-17

7. Michael Frayn

Air Date: 2004-11-14

8. The Darkness

Air Date: 2004-11-21

9. Iggy Pop

Air Date: 2004-12-05

10. Ruth Rendell

Air Date: 2004-12-12

11. Howard Goodall

Air Date: 2004-12-19

12. Pete 'n' Dud, The Lost Shows

Air Date: 2005-01-01

13. Ian McEwan

Air Date: 2005-02-20

14. Going Sane

Air Date: 2005-03-06

15. Khaled and Rachid

Air Date: 2005-03-13

16. Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg

Air Date: 2005-03-27

17. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

Air Date: 2005-04-03

18. John Boorman

Air Date: 2005-04-10

19. Red Priest

Air Date: 2005-04-24

20. National Theatre's production of Henry IV

Air Date: 2005-05-01

21. The Secret Art of War

Air Date: 2005-05-08

22. Paul Abbott

Air Date: 2005-05-15

23. Eric Sykes

Air Date: 2005-09-18

Melvyn Bragg talks to Eric Sykes about his remarkable career, which started in the 1940s when he began writing for Frankie Howerd in the hit radio show Variety Band Box, and how he evolved from being a top comedy writer to one of Britain's best loved performers who continues to appear on stage, TV and cinema.

1. Margot Fonteyn (1)

Air Date: 2005-08-07

2. Margot Fonteyn (2)

Air Date: 2005-08-14

3. Sophie Calle

Air Date: 2005-08-21

4. Karl Jenkins

Air Date: 2005-09-11

5. Eric Sykes

Air Date: 2005-09-18

6. Maxim Vengerov

Air Date: 2005-10-02

7. Alan Bennett

Air Date: 2005-10-09

Alan Bennett rarely does television interviews. He claims that if you want to find out about him, “it’s all in the work”. But in this exclusive ‘South Bank Show’ one of Britain’s best loved playwrights and diarist agrees to talk candidly about his life, work and what inspires him. Filmed with specially shot monologues and pieces to camera.

8. Pablo Trapero, Lucrecia Martel, Daniel Burman

Air Date: 2005-10-16

9. The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy (film)

Air Date: 2005-10-23

10. Peter Hall (1)

Air Date: 2005-10-30

11. Peter Hall (2)

Air Date: 2005-11-06

12. Little Britain: A South Bank Show Special

Air Date: 2005-12-25

13. Armando Iannucci

Air Date:

1. Armando Iannucci

Air Date: 2006-02-12

2. Manga Mania

Air Date: 2006-02-19

The iconic Dusty Springfield remains the 'white lady of soul' and in this compelling South Bank Show, her moving and dramatic story is told in its entirety for the first time. An array of intimate friends, lovers and show business talents go on record to describe the intense highs and lows of Dusty's swinging life, before her untimely death in 1999. Born Mary O'Brien in London as war began in 1939, in the 60's as Dusty Springfield, she came to represent renewed British optimism and modernity, epitomising swinging London. A plain convent educated girl, Dusty's transformation of herself into a blonde glamour icon was a remarkable act of will. A lesbian with a great deal to lose and a great deal to hide, Dusty hid for many years behind the mask of the Girl Singer. The unique qualities of her voice attracted the creme de la creme of songwriters and producers; she had close relationships with Burt Bacharach, Carole King, and Gamble and Huff, the men who created the sound of Philadelphia Soul. Dusty made herself an expert on black American soul music after she fell in love with Motown. Her career waned in the seventies and she fled to America, where she floundered in variety shows. She moved to Los Angeles where she struggled with drink, drugs and self harming. She later returned to Britain to critical acclaim when she re-invented herself in partnership with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe better known as the Pet Shop Boys. Dusty's life is nothing if not dramatic, although this can never obscure her remarkable gifts as a musician and performer, which have continued to be rediscovered by new generations. A soul searching South Bank Show, on arguably Britain's greatest ever Pop Diva, Dusty Springfield.

3. John Rutter

Air Date: 2006-03-12

4. PD James

Air Date: 2006-03-26

5. Dusty Springfield

Air Date: 2006-04-09

6. Seu Jorge

Air Date: 2006-06-04

7. Romeo and Juliet

Air Date: 2006-06-11

9. George Michael: I'm Your Man

Air Date: 2006-11-17

Melvyn Bragg interviews George Michael regarding Michael's return to touring on the "25 Live" tour, as well as George Michael performs in the studio rehearsing songs for the tour.

10. Peter Blake

Air Date: 2006-11-19

11. Nick Park & Aardman Animations

Air Date: 2006-11-26

12. Steve Reich

Air Date: 2006-12-10

1. Bill Bryson

Air Date: 2006-09-10

Bill Bryson revisits the haunts of his childhood

2. JG Ballard

Air Date: 2006-09-17

3. Robbie Coltrane

Air Date: 2006-09-24

4. Episode 4

Air Date: 2006-10-01

5. Spamalot

Air Date: 2006-10-15

6. Claire Tomalin on Thomas Hardy

Air Date: 2006-10-22

7. Sue Townsend

Air Date: 2006-10-29

8. Lorenzo Da Ponte

Air Date: 2006-11-05

9. Peter Blake

Air Date: 2006-11-19

10. Nick Park and Aardman Animations

Air Date: 2006-11-26

11. Steve Reich

Air Date: 2006-12-10

12. Grayson Perry

Air Date: 2006-12-17

13. Damien Hirst - Addicted To Art

Air Date: 2007-01-01

14. Damien Hirst

Air Date: 2007-01-06

This episode of The South Bank Show provides a unique insight into Damien Hirst not as the enfant terrible of an art world but as an art collector and businessman. Known for creating one of the most famous icons of modern art, a 14ft tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde, which shocked the public, he also produces decorative spot and spin paintings. His prolific output and entrepreneurialism have made him one of the world's most expensive living artists, with an estimated fortune of £100 million. One of Hirst's motivations for his growing art collection is Toddington, a dilapidated Gothic Manor house in Gloucestershire, which he purchased in 2005 for £3 million and will one day house his entire collection. Here, he shows Melvyn Bragg around Toddington, outlining his plans for its future. They discuss his art collection, his artistic heroes and the relationship between money and art.

15. Victoria Wood: A South Bank Show Special

Air Date: 2007-03-11

16. Isabel Allende

Air Date: 2007-04-22

17. Shane Meadows

Air Date: 2007-04-29

18. Jarvis Cocker: Running The World

Air Date: 2007-06-10

19. Martin Sheen On Playing It Real

Air Date: 2007-06-17

20. Marianne Faithfull: A Life In Song

Air Date: 2007-06-24

21. Zaha Hadid

Air Date: 2007-07-01

22. MacBeth

Air Date: 2007-07-08

23. Ian McMillan, Bard Of Barnsley

Air Date: 2007-07-15

24. Emma Kirkby, The Unsung Heroine

Air Date: 2007-07-22

25. June Whitfield

Air Date: 2007-07-29

26. Michael Sheen On Playing It Real

Air Date: 2007-09-02

27. Joan Dision

Air Date: 2007-09-23

28. Ken Follett

Air Date: 2007-09-30

29. The Mersey Sound

Air Date: 2007-10-07

30. The Last Laugh: John Bird and John Fortune

Air Date: 2007-10-14

1. Annie Lennox

Air Date: 2007-11-25

2. Eric Clapton

Air Date: 2007-12-02

Eric Clapton last spoke to The South Bank Show exactly twenty years ago, near the end of a long spiral of addiction and alcoholism, just before going in to rehab. Now, 20 years later – and still one of the great guitarists of our time - we pick up the story again with the 62-year-old Clapton talking exclusively to Melvyn Bragg. They discuss conquering his demons, the drugs, the drink, the death of his son, his troubled family background, the intensity of his relationships with other great guitarists and with women, and his influences and his most moving songs. Clapton speaks openly about the music - the one constant in a life of emotional turmoil - and how he has finally found peace. It would be difficult to find a rock star that has experienced more ecstatic highs or despairing lows than Eric Clapton. As one of the greatest rock musicians this country has ever produced, his career has spanned over 40 years from being the fresh faced guitarist of the Yardbirds, to the spaced out solo artist of the 70s, to the reformed, prolific performer of today. Far more than a rock star Clapton is an icon and a living legend. His guitar playing has seen him hailed as ‘God’ and his tracks such as Layla, Sunshine Of Your Love, Wonderful Tonight and Tears In Heaven have become anthems for generations of music fans. The South Bank Show is illustrated with previously unseen performance footage and rare, revealing archive. This is Clapton at his most candid ever.

3. The Making Of Viva La Diva

Air Date: 2007-12-09

4. The Nutcracker Story

Air Date: 2007-12-26

5. Kevin Spacey

Air Date:

6. Tim Burton

Air Date:

7. David McVicar

Air Date: 2008-03-09

8. Revolution 68

Air Date: 2008-03-16

1. Liza Minnelli

Air Date: 2008-05-04

2. The Damned United

Air Date: 2008-05-11

3. Gore Vidal

Air Date: 2008-05-18

4. Sarah Waters

Air Date: 2008-06-08

5. Tasmin Little

Air Date: 2008-06-15

6. Billy Joel

Air Date: 2008-07-13

1. The Streets

Air Date: 2008-09-21

This show follows Mike Skinner, the man behind The Streets, as he records his fourth album in Prague, Everything is Borrowed. Skinner's one man band has successfully portrayed a picture of urban life for today's youth in the UK. He came to prominence in 2001 with his influential debut album Original Pirate Material, which was recorded in his bedroom. He still records this way, but in Prague he's filmed with a symphony orchestra, displaying a relaxed attitude to working with classical musicians. With contributions from Pete Doherty, and critics Chris Salmon and Alexis Petridis.

2. The One Ronnie

Air Date: 2008-10-05

3. Bond

Air Date: 2008-10-22

4. Cildo Meireles

Air Date: 2008-10-26

5. Sam Taylor-Wood

Air Date: 2008-11-16

6. The Mariinsky Theatre

Air Date: 2008-12-07

1. The South Bank Show Awards

Air Date: 2009-01-28

Arts documentary series presented by Melvyn Bragg. A look through the register of those students of the comedic arts who learnt their trade among the Footlights at Cambridge University. Stephen Fry, Griff Rhys Jones, John Fortune, Clive James and David Mitchell top the bill as pontificators on the influence of Fotlights on mainstream and alternative comedy. Plus a plethora of comic clips featuring alumini of the ultimate school of comedy.

2. Beyond the Footlights

Air Date: 2009-02-01

3. The Tempest

Air Date: 2009-02-08

4. Will Young

Air Date: 2009-03-17

5. Messiah

Air Date: 2009-04-12

6. William Goldman

Air Date: 2009-04-26

William Goldman's career began as a novelist, but he soon turned to screenplays, including those for iconic films such as `Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' and `All the President's Men'. But in the 1980s he fell out of favour and turned to writing his memoirs, which feature sometimes affectionate, sometimes damning looks at the film industry.

7. Out Of Nigeria

Air Date: 2009-05-10

8. Out Of Nigeria (2)

Air Date: 2009-05-17

9. Peter Kosminsky

Air Date: 2009-05-24

1. The Wagner Family

Air Date: 2009-09-13

2. Coldplay

Air Date: 2009-09-20

3. Andy Warhol

Air Date: 2009-10-04

4. Disney and Pixar

Air Date: 2009-10-11

5. Lee Hall

Air Date: 2009-10-18

6. Nick Hornby

Air Date: 2009-10-25

7. Elbow

Air Date: 2009-11-15

A look at the 18 year career of a band who, until their latest album The Seldom Seen Kid, were considered a well-kept secret. Now with a host of prizes and awards, Elbow are the music story of 2009. Melvyn Bragg interviews lead singer Guy Garvey, while keyboardist Craig Potter talks about the band's evolution musically and his other role as producer. Including exclusive footage of Elbow at their MEN arena gig in Manchester, and archive footage of the band when they were teenagers in Bury.

8. Carol Ann Duffy

Air Date: 2009-12-06

10. Royal Shakespeare Company

Air Date: 2009-12-28

The final South Bank Show goes behind the scenes of The Royal Shakespeare Company, as it embarks on an ambitious and exciting new programme of work inspired by Russia and the ex-Soviet Union.

11. South Bank Show Awards 2009

Air Date: 2010-01-31

Melvyn Bragg presents the final South Bank Show Awards in front of a star-studded audience at The Dorchester in London. These unique awards celebrate the best of British talent across the arts including classical music, comedy, dance, literature, film, pop, TV drama and theatre. The event includes a world exclusive premiere, the first public performance of the title song from Andrew Lloyd Webber's long anticipated new show Love Never Dies, sung by its star Sierra Boggess.

1. Andrew Lloyd Webber

Air Date: 2010-03-28

2. Billy Connolly Revisited

Air Date: 2010-04-04

3. Ian McEwan Revisited

Air Date: 2010-04-11

Melvyn Bragg interviews the novelist Ian McEwan, focusing on his latest novel 'Saturday', which follows the day in the life of a successful neurosurgeon Henry Perowne set against the background of protest against the Iraq War. In addition Bragg also looks at the author's life and previous work. McEwan's style has moved from macabre short stories to novels which test and explore their characters ruling ethos (particularly an interest in science). McEwan makes for a engaging and thoughtful interviewee who can often be fascinating, even for those not familiar with his work.

4. Ian McKellen

Air Date: 2010-04-18

Melvyn Bragg presents a new interview with acting legend Ian McKellen, who has been a subject of the show three times before, beginning in 1981. From the earnest young man discussing the craft of acting and his passion for the theatre to the established film star who attributed his newfound emotional freedom to having publicly come out, the programme comes up to date with McKellen's life and career.

5. Stephen Sondheim

Air Date: 2010-04-25

6. David Hockney

Air Date: 2010-05-02

7. Judi Dench

Air Date: 2010-05-09

Melvyn Bragg meets Judi Dench at the Rose Theatre in Kingston where she was recently performing in Midsummer Night’s Dream, re-uniting her with long time friend and collaborator, Sir Peter Hall, who is directing the production.

8. Kiri Te Kanawa Revisited

Air Date: 2010-05-16

9. Victoria Wood

Air Date: 2010-05-23

10. The Final Cut

Air Date: 2010-05-30

1. Nicholas Hytner

Air Date: 2012-05-28

The National Theatre's artistic director Nicholas Hytner gives Melvyn an exclusive look at his past successes and current projects.

2. Pat Barker

Air Date: 2012-06-04

Pat Barker talks to Melvyn and offers an insight into her fascination with World War I and the inspiration behind her books.

3. Trevor Nelson and Dizzee Rascal

Air Date: 2012-06-11

The series discovers how grime music evolved from its humble beginnings on an East London housing estate to become a global phenomenon.DJ Trevor Nelson and rapper Dizzee Rascal are featured on the show.

4. Carlos Acosta, Edward Watson and Tamara Rojo

Air Date: 2012-06-18

The series finds out how male dance and how the role of the male dancer has developed in classical ballet over the last one hundred years. Carlos Acosta, Edward Watson and Tamara Rojo are featured on the show.

1. Tim Minchin

Air Date: 2013-04-18

Melvyn Bragg talks to composer, songwriter and comedian Tim Minchin about his life and career, including his award-winning work on the West End adaptation of Roald Dahl's book Matilda. He talks about his love of satire and puns, as well as his fascination with linguistic taboos and decision to move to England. The programme also features clips of Minchin performing at the Royal Albert Hall.