Season 11

Season 11 (1987)


Episodes: 24

Star Cast: Melvyn Bragg ,



Episodes List

Ep.1 Maria Callas

Air Date: 1987-10-04

Ep.2 Toni Morrison

Air Date: 1987-10-11

Ep.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.

Ep.4 Andy Warhol

Air Date: 1987-10-25

Ep.5 Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega

Air Date: 1987-11-01

Ep.6 Sir Terence Conran

Air Date: 1987-11-08

Ep.7 Gore Vidal

Air Date: 1987-11-15

Ep.8 African music / Russian theatre

Air Date: 1987-11-22

Ep.9 Sir George Solti

Air Date: 1987-11-29

Ep.10 Eric Clapton

Air Date: 1987-12-06

Ep.11 Arts Review '87

Air Date: 1987-12-20

Ep.12 The Last Emperor (1988 film)

Air Date: 1988-01-17

Ep.13 Australian Aboriginies

Air Date: 1988-01-24

Ep.14 Boogie Woogie Music

Air Date: 1988-01-31

Ep.15 The Golden Age of Television

Air Date: 1988-02-14

A lecture about television given at the British Film Institute.

Ep.16 George Barker

Air Date: 1988-02-21

Ep.17 Jackson Pollack

Air Date: 1988-02-28

Ep.18 Lenny Henry

Air Date: 1988-03-06

Ep.19 Peter Dickinson

Air Date: 1988-03-13

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

Air Date: 1988-03-20

Ep.21 Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans

Air Date: 1988-03-27

Ep.22 Ken Russell's ABC of British Music

Air Date: 1988-04-02

Ep.24 Doris Lessing

Air Date: 1988-04-17

Ep.25 Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production

Air Date: 1988-04-24