Episodes List
Ep.1 Sir Alec Guinness
Air Date: 1985-10-06
Ep.2 Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
Air Date: 1985-10-13
Ep.3 Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year
Air Date: 1985-10-20
Ep.4 Theatre of Comedy workshop
Air Date: 1985-10-27
Ep.5 Pete Townshend: After the Fire
Air Date: 1985-11-03
Ep.6 Sir Stephen Spender
Air Date: 1985-11-10
Ep.7 Marguerite Duras
Air Date: 1985-11-17
Ep.8 Karole Armitage
Air Date: 1985-11-24
Ep.9 Peter Shaffer
Air Date: 1985-12-01
Ep.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.
Ep.11 Vladimir Ashkenazy
Air Date: 1986-01-19
Ep.12 Paul Schrader
Air Date: 1986-01-26
Ep.13 Purcell's Dido and Aenaes
Air Date: 1986-02-02
Ep.14 Patrick Heron
Air Date: 1986-02-09
Ep.15 Blue Note Records
Air Date: 1986-02-16
Ep.16 Michala Petri
Air Date: 1986-02-23
Ep.17 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Air Date: 1986-03-02
Ep.18 Absolute Beginners (film)
Air Date: 1986-03-09
Ep.19 Arthur Boyd
Air Date: 1986-03-23
Ep.20 Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical
Air Date: 1986-04-06
Ep.21 British Soap Operas
Air Date: 1986-04-13
Ep.22 Hull Truck Theatre Company
Air Date: 1986-04-20
Ep.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.
