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The South Bank Show
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The South Bank Show

Ended 1978 · Documentary, Talk · 48 seasons
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The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

Seasons & Episodes

► Season 48 4 episodes
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E01 The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2022 13 Jul 2022
E02 Helen Mirren 20 Jul 2022
E03 Frank Skinner 27 Jul 2022
E04 Carlos Acosta 03 Aug 2022
► Season 47 5 episodes
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E01 Arlo Parks & Samuel Bailey 24 Jun 2021
E02 The Pin, Marina Kemp & Nick Rowland 24 Jun 2021
E03 Noah Jupe, Mishka Rushdie Momen & Alex Woolf 01 Jul 2021
E04 Arielle Smith & Alberta Whittle 15 Jul 2021
E05 The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2021 22 Jul 2021
► Season 46 4 episodes
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E01 Gillian Anderson 22 Nov 2020
E02 Bernadine Evaristo 29 Nov 2020
E03 Benjamin Zephaniah 06 Dec 2020
E04 Simon Armitage 13 Dec 2020
► Season 45 4 episodes
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E01 Jed Mercurio 05 May 2019
E02 Jack Thorne 23 Jul 2019
E03 Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith 30 Jul 2019
E04 Heidi Thomas 06 Aug 2019
► Season 44 4 episodes
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E01 Tracey Ullman 13 Jul 2022
E02 Beverley Knight 20 Jul 2022
E03 Danielle de Niese 27 Jul 2022
E04 Sonia Friedman 03 Aug 2022
► Season 43 4 episodes
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E01 Amma Asante 19 Jul 2017
E02 Karl Ove Knausgaard 26 Jul 2017
E03 Sally Wainwright 02 Aug 2017
E04 Benjamin Clementine 09 Aug 2017
► Season 42 4 episodes
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E01 Sly and Robbie 22 Nov 2020
E02 Joyce DiDonato 29 Nov 2020
E03 Russell T Davies 06 Dec 2020
E04 Ballet Black 13 Dec 2020
► Season 41 4 episodes
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E01 George RR Martin 10 Jun 2015
E02 Paul Greengrass 17 Jun 2015
E03 Margaret Drabble 24 Jun 2015
E04 Laura Mvula 01 Jul 2015
► Season 40 6 episodes
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E01 John Lloyd 22 May 2014
E02 Kate Atkinson 29 May 2014
E03 Abi Morgan 05 Jun 2014
E04 An Anatomy of King Lear 28 Nov 2018
E05 Angel Blue 05 Dec 2018
E06 Daniel Radcliffe 12 Dec 2018
► Season 39 6 episodes
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E01 Tim Minchin 18 Apr 2013
E02 David Hare 25 Apr 2013
E03 Alison Balsom 02 May 2013
E04 Tamara Rojo 09 May 2013
E05 Alfie Boe 16 May 2013
E06 Britart: Painting Is Back 23 May 2013
► Season 38 6 episodes
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E01 Nicholas Hytner 28 May 2012
E02 Pat Barker 04 Jun 2012
E03 Trevor Nelson and Dizzee Rascal 11 Jun 2012
E04 Carlos Acosta, Edward Watson and Tamara Rojo 18 Jun 2012
E05 Benedict Cumberbach's 'Hamlet' 13 Jul 2016
E06 Jackie Kay 20 Jul 2016
► Season 37 10 episodes
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E01 Andrew Lloyd Webber Revisited 28 Mar 2010
E02 Billy Connolly Revisited 04 Apr 2010
E03 Ian McEwan Revisited 11 Apr 2010
E04 Ian McKellen Revisited 18 Apr 2010
E05 Stephen Sondheim Revisited 25 Apr 2010
E06 David Hockney Revisited 02 May 2010
E07 Judi Dench Revisited 09 May 2010
E08 Kiri Te Kanawa 16 May 2010
E09 Victoria Wood Revisited 23 May 2010
E10 The Final Cut 30 May 2010
► Season 36 10 episodes
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E01 John Lloyd 22 May 2014
E02 Coldplay 20 Sep 2009
E03 Alison Jackson On Andy Warhol 04 Oct 2009
E04 Disney and Pixar 11 Oct 2009
E05 Lee Hall 18 Oct 2009
E06 Daniel Radcliffe 26 Jun 2014
E07 Elbow 15 Nov 2009
E08 Carol Ann Duffy 06 Dec 2009
E10 Royal Shakespeare Company 28 Dec 2009
E11 South Bank Show Awards 2009 31 Jan 2010
► Season 35 9 episodes
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E01 Beyond the Footlights 01 Feb 2009
E02 Beyond the Footlights 01 Feb 2009
E03 The Tempest 08 Feb 2009
E04 Will Young 17 Mar 2009
E05 Messiah 12 Apr 2009
E06 William Goldman 26 Apr 2009
E07 Out Of Nigeria 10 May 2009
E08 Out Of Nigeria (2) 17 May 2009
E09 Peter Kosminsky 24 May 2009
► Season 34 6 episodes
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E01 The Streets 21 Sep 2008
E02 The One Ronnie 05 Oct 2008
E03 Bond 22 Oct 2008
E04 Cildo Meireles 26 Oct 2008
E05 Sam Taylor-Wood 16 Nov 2008
E06 The Mariinsky Theatre 07 Dec 2008
► Season 33 6 episodes
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E01 Liza Minnelli 04 May 2008
E02 The Damned United 11 May 2008
E03 Gore Vidal 18 May 2008
E04 Sarah Waters 08 Jun 2008
E05 Tasmin Little 15 Jun 2008
E06 Billy Joel 13 Jul 2008
► Season 32 8 episodes
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E01 Annie Lennox 25 Nov 2007
E02 Eric Clapton 02 Dec 2007
E03 The Making Of Viva La Diva 09 Dec 2007
E04 The Nutcracker Story 26 Dec 2007
E05 Kevin Spacey 06 Jan 2008
E06 Tim Burton
E07 David McVicar's Salome: A Work in Process 09 Mar 2008
E08 Revolution 68 16 Mar 2008
► Season 31 30 episodes
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E01 Bill Bryson 10 Sep 2006
E02 Joan Didion 23 Sep 2007
E03 Robbie Coltrane 24 Sep 2006
E04 Ken Follett 30 Sep 2007
E05 Spamalot 15 Oct 2006
E06 Claire Tomalin on Thomas Hardy 22 Oct 2006
E07 The Making of Viva la Diva 09 Dec 2007
E08 Lorenzo Da Ponte 05 Nov 2006
E09 Peter Blake 19 Nov 2006
E10 Nick Park and Aardman Animations 26 Nov 2006
E11 Steve Reich 10 Dec 2006
E12 Grayson Perry 17 Dec 2006
E13 Damien Hirst - Addicted To Art 01 Jan 2007
E14 Liza Minnelli 04 May 2008
E15 Victoria Wood: A South Bank Show Special 11 Mar 2007
E16 Gore Vidal 18 May 2008
E17 Shane Meadows 29 Apr 2007
E18 Jarvis Cocker: Running The World 10 Jun 2007
E19 Martin Sheen On Playing It Real 17 Jun 2007
E20 Marianne Faithfull: A Life In Song 24 Jun 2007
E21 Zaha Hadid 01 Jul 2007
E22 Macbeth 08 Jul 2007
E23 Ian McMillan, Bard Of Barnsley 15 Jul 2007
E24 Emma Kirkby, The Unsung Heroine 22 Jul 2007
E25 June Whitfield 29 Jul 2007
E26 Michael Sheen On Playing It Real 02 Sep 2007
E27 Joan Dision 23 Sep 2007
E28 Ken Follett 30 Sep 2007
E29 The Mersey Sound 07 Oct 2007
E30 The Last Laugh: John Bird and John Fortune 14 Oct 2007
► Season 30 11 episodes
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E01 Bill Bryson 10 Sep 2006
E02 Dusty Springfield 09 Apr 2006
E03 John Rutter 12 Mar 2006
E04 Irvine Welsh 01 Oct 2006
E05 Monty Python's Spamalot 15 Oct 2006
E06 Seu Jorge 04 Jun 2006
E07 Romeo and Juliet 11 Jun 2006
E09 George Michael - I'm Your Man 17 Nov 2006
E10 Peter Blake 19 Nov 2006
E11 Nick Park & Aardman Animations 26 Nov 2006
E12 Steve Reich 10 Dec 2006
► Season 29 13 episodes
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E01 Margot Fonteyn (1) 07 Aug 2005
E02 Margot Fonteyn (2) 14 Aug 2005
E03 Sophie Calle 21 Aug 2005
E04 Karl Jenkins 11 Sep 2005
E05 Eric Sykes 18 Sep 2005
E06 Maxim Vengerov 02 Oct 2005
E07 Alan Bennett 09 Oct 2005
E08 Pablo Trapero, Lucrecia Martel, Daniel Burman 16 Oct 2005
E09 The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy 23 Oct 2005
E10 Peter Hall 30 Oct 2005
E11 Peter Hall (2) 06 Nov 2005
E12 Little Britain 25 Dec 2005
E13 Armando Iannucci 12 Feb 2006
► Season 28 23 episodes
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E01 Street Music Stories 22 Aug 2004
E02 Ronnie Wood 05 Sep 2004
E03 Willie Nelson 19 Sep 2004
E04 Malcolm Arnold (1) 26 Sep 2004
E05 Malcolm Arnold (2) 03 Oct 2004
E06 Robert Frank 17 Oct 2004
E07 Michael Frayn 14 Nov 2004
E08 The Darkness 21 Nov 2004
E09 Iggy Pop 05 Dec 2004
E10 Ruth Rendell 12 Dec 2004
E11 Howard Goodall 19 Dec 2004
E12 Pete 'n' Dud, The Lost Shows 01 Jan 2005
E13 Ian McEwan 20 Feb 2005
E14 Going Sane 06 Mar 2005
E15 Khaled and Rachid 13 Mar 2005
E16 Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg 27 Mar 2005
E17 The Garden of Cosmic Speculation 03 Apr 2005
E18 John Boorman 10 Apr 2005
E19 Red Priest 24 Apr 2005
E20 National Theatre's production of Henry IV 01 May 2005
E21 The Secret Art of War 08 May 2005
E22 Paul Abbott 15 May 2005
E23 Eric Sykes 18 Sep 2005
► Season 27 13 episodes
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E01 Germaine Greer 19 Oct 2003
E02 Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra 07 Dec 2003
E03 TV Stories (1) 01 Feb 2004
E04 TV Stories (2) 08 Feb 2004
E05 Jamie Cullum 22 Feb 2004
E06 The Wilson Twins 07 Mar 2004
E07 John Lennon's Jukebox 14 Mar 2004
E08 Jack Vettriano 21 Mar 2004
E09 The Dance Theatre of Harlem 04 Apr 2004
E10 Jeanette Winterson 02 May 2004
E11 Johnny Hallyday 09 May 2004
E12 Othello 16 May 2004
E13 Ian McKellen 29 Jun 2004
► Season 26 25 episodes
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E01 Mike Leigh 13 Oct 2002
E02 Akram Khan 20 Oct 2002
E03 Graham Vick: Beethoven in the Big Top 27 Oct 2002
E04 Craig David 10 Nov 2002
E05 Andrew Davies 17 Nov 2002
E06 Joan Rivers 24 Nov 2002
E07 Willie Nelson 12 Jan 2003
E08 James MacMillan 05 Jan 2003
E09 Irek Mukhamedov 19 Jan 2003
E10 Gerhard Richter 02 Feb 2003
E11 Hanif Kureishi 09 Feb 2003
E12 How to Get Rich: Felix Dennis 16 Feb 2003
E13 Philip Pullman 09 Mar 2003
E14 Caryl Phillips 13 Apr 2003
E15 Conor McPherson 18 May 2003
E16 Herbie Hancock 29 Jun 2003
E17 Caetano Veloso 06 Jul 2003
E18 Ang Lee 13 Jul 2003
E19 The Real George Orwell 27 Jul 2003
E20 Juan Diego Florez 03 Aug 2003
E21 Nick Cave 10 Aug 2003
E22 Albert Camus 31 Aug 2003
E23 Robert Harris Takes on Rome 07 Sep 2003
E24 Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Full Picture 19 Sep 2003
E25 Ewan McGregor 21 Sep 2003
► Season 25 19 episodes
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E01 High and Low Culture in the Age of Television 07 Oct 2001
E02 (highlights) 14 Oct 2001
E03 Rachel Whiteread 28 Oct 2001
E04 Norman Foster 11 Nov 2001
E05 Dr. John 18 Nov 2001
E06 Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings 16 Dec 2001
E07 Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
E08 The Sopranos 10 Feb 2002
E09 Leif Ove Andsnes 24 Feb 2002
E10 Why the Novel Matters 17 Mar 2002
E11 Meera Syal 24 Mar 2002
E12 Johnnie Ray 31 Mar 2002
E13 Mario Vargas Llosa 21 Apr 2002
E14 Fay Weldon 05 May 2002
E15 R.E.M. 09 May 2002
E16 Neil LaBute 23 Jun 2002
E17 Cinema of Fire (Iranian cinema) 30 Jun 2002
E18 Moby 07 Jul 2002
E19 Bernie Taupin 04 Aug 2002
► Season 24 24 episodes
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E01 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton 01 Oct 2000
E02 Santana 08 Oct 2000
E03 Joyce [Carol Oates] on Marilyn [Monroe] 15 Oct 2000
E05 Mark Morris Dance Group 29 Oct 2000
E06 George MacDonald Fraser 12 Nov 2000
E07 Courtney Pine 19 Nov 2000
E08 Ron Howard 26 Nov 2000
E09 Dame Gillian Weir 03 Dec 2000
E10 [Marlene] Dumas and [Jemima] Stehli 10 Dec 2000
E11 Mark Quinn 17 Dec 2000
E12 Tom Jones 24 Dec 2000
E13 Ken Russell 11 Feb 2001
E14 Shirin Neshat 18 Feb 2001
E15 Russell Watson 25 Feb 2001
E16 Amos Oz 04 Mar 2001
E17 Greta Garbo 11 Mar 2001
E18 Elvis Costello with Annie Sofie von Otter 18 Mar 2001
E19 Bill Bryson 25 Mar 2001
E20 Ian Rankin 01 Jul 2001
E21 Ian Bostridge 08 Jul 2001
E22 Edmund White 22 Jul 2001
E23 Steve Coogan 05 Aug 2001
E24 Ravi Shankar 12 Aug 2001
E25 Tracey Emin 19 Aug 2001
► Season 23 21 episodes
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E01 Paul Merton 26 Sep 1999
E02 Frank McCourt 03 Oct 1999
E03 Howard Jacobson 10 Oct 1999
E04 Jose Cura 17 Oct 1999
E05 James Galway 24 Oct 1999
E06 The Lion King (stage play based on the film) 31 Oct 1999
E07 Joan Collins 14 Nov 1999
E08 Blur 21 Nov 1999
E09 Yoko Ono 05 Dec 1999
E10 Cher 11 Dec 1999
E11 Countertenors 19 Dec 1999
E12 Bing Crosby 26 Dec 1999
E13 Shakespeare 23 Jan 2000
E14 Millennium Dome 07 Feb 2000
E15 Sam Mendes 14 Feb 2000
E16 Michael Douglas 21 Feb 2000
E17 Chuck Close 05 Mar 2000
E18 Emir Kusturica 12 Mar 2000
E19 Amis on Amis 18 Jun 2000
E20 (composing classical music) (1) 25 Jun 2000
E21 Simon Holt's Sunrise, Yellow Noise (2) 02 Jul 2000
► Season 22 16 episodes
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E01 Ossie Clarke (1) 08 Nov 1998
E02 Ossie Clarke (2) 15 Nov 1998
E03 Lesley Garrett 22 Nov 1998
E04 Harold Pinter 29 Nov 1998
E05 Maxine Peake/Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 06 Dec 1998
E06 Walter Mosley 13 Dec 1998
E07 Petula Clark 20 Dec 1998
E08 Warren Beatty 30 Dec 1998
E09 John Tomlinson 10 Jan 1999
E10 Javier du Frutos 31 Jan 1999
E11 UB40 07 Feb 1999
E12 Anish Kapoor 21 Feb 1999
E13 New South African Artists 28 Feb 1999
E14 Lucy Gannon 14 Mar 1999
E15 Tony Harrison 28 Mar 1999
E16 Dolly Parton 09 Apr 1999
► Season 21 22 episodes
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E01 Scarfe on Hercules 05 Oct 1997
E02 Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance 26 Oct 1997
E03 Kay Mellor 02 Nov 1997
E04 Björk 09 Nov 1997
E05 Iain Banks 16 Nov 1997
E06 Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures 23 Nov 1997
E07 Steven Bochco 30 Nov 1997
E08 Simon Raven 14 Dec 1997
E09 Franco Zeffirelli 21 Dec 1997
E10 Saul Zaentz 11 Jan 1998
E11 Gillian Wearing / Gary Hume 18 Jan 1998
E12 Marks and Gran 01 Feb 1998
E13 Hail Bop: a Portrait of John Adams 08 Feb 1998
E14 Nigel Kennedy 15 Feb 1998
E15 Gary Oldman 15 Mar 1998
E16 Body Art 05 Apr 1998
E17 John Tavener 12 Apr 1998
E18 The Bee Gees 07 Jun 1998
E19 Will Self 05 Jul 1998
E20 Afro-Cuban Allstars 19 Jul 1998
E21 This is Not an Exit: the Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis 23 Aug 1998
E22 Wayne Sleep 30 Aug 1998
► Season 20 20 episodes
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E01 Victoria Wood 15 Sep 1996
E02 Sir John Mills 22 Sep 1996
E03 Michael Crawford 29 Sep 1996
E04 Norman Mailer on Picasso 06 Oct 1996
E05 Chanson 13 Oct 1996
E06 Michael Collins 27 Oct 1996
E07 Bryn Terfel 03 Nov 1996
E08 Howard Hodgkin 10 Nov 1996
E09 Jimmy McGovern 17 Nov 1996
E10 Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid 05 Jan 1997
E11 Maggi Hambling 12 Jan 1997
E13 The US and Us (1) 26 Jan 1997
E14 The US and Us (2) 02 Feb 1997
E15 Gilbert and George (1) 09 Feb 1997
E16 Gilbert and George (2) 16 Feb 1997
E17 Valery Gergiev 23 Feb 1997
E18 Paganini 04 May 1997
E19 David Helfgott 22 Jun 1997
E20 Paul Auster 06 Jul 1997
E21 Young Directors (Preya Lal, Alexander Kelly, Franca Cereghini, Chris Dooks) 20 Jul 1997
► Season 19 20 episodes
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E01 Clint Eastwood 10 Sep 1995
E02 Ackroyd's Blake 17 Sep 1995
E03 Tom Sharpe 24 Sep 1995
E04 kd lang 01 Oct 1995
E05 Pavarotti at 60 08 Oct 1995
E06 Jimmy Nail 15 Oct 1995
E07 Dame Judi Dench 29 Oct 1995
E08 Coronation Street 05 Nov 1995
E09 Dame Barbara Cartland 12 Nov 1995
E10 Jonathan Raban: Badlands / Wynton Marsalis 19 Nov 1995
E11 Elaine Page Special 07 Apr 1996
E12 Sting 14 Apr 1996
E13 Albert Finney 28 Apr 1996
E14 Marlene Dietrich 05 May 1996
E15 John Eliot Gardiner 12 May 1996
E16 Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence 19 May 1996
E17 Claes Oldenburg 26 May 1996
E18 Baaba Maal 02 Jun 1996
E19 Maxine Peake / Wynton Marsalis in New Orleans 21 Jul 1996
E20 Alan Ayckbourn Workshop 28 Jul 1996
► Season 18 22 episodes
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E01 Kenneth Williams 18 Sep 1994
E02 Marilyn Horne 25 Sep 1994
E03 New Generation Poets 02 Oct 1994
E04 Vanessa Redgrave 09 Oct 1994
E05 David Mamet 16 Oct 1994
E06 The Shearing Touch (George Shearing) 23 Oct 1994
E07 Alan Ayckbourn 30 Oct 1994
E08 Frankenstein 06 Nov 1994
E09 Thora Hird 13 Nov 1994
E10 The Glory of Gershwin 20 Nov 1994
E11 P.J. O'Rourke 27 Nov 1994
E12 Lionel Bart 11 Dec 1994
E13 Carl Orff 29 Jan 1995
E14 Classic Widows 05 Feb 1995
E15 Jonathan Miller 12 Feb 1995
E16 Flags of the Fante Coast 19 Feb 1995
E17 Catherine Bailey, the Lady is a Tramp / Roger Ballen 26 Feb 1995
E18 Edward Albee 05 Mar 1995
E19 Jodie Foster 12 Mar 1995
E20 Martin Amis 19 Mar 1995
E21 Country Music 02 Apr 1995
E22 Miriam Makeba 09 Apr 1995
► Season 17 25 episodes
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E01 Sydney Pollack 12 Sep 1993
E02 Willy Russell 19 Sep 1993
E03 Ken Loach 24 Jan 1993
E04 Margaret Atwood 10 Oct 1993
E05 John Lee Hooker 17 Oct 1993
E06 Stevie Wonder 24 Oct 1993
E07 Sylvie Guillem 31 Oct 1993
E08 Tim Rice 07 Nov 1993
E09 Lynda La Plante 14 Nov 1993
E10 John Williams 21 Nov 1993
E11 John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (1) 28 Nov 1993
E12 John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (2) 05 Dec 1993
E13 Woody Allen 24 Dec 1993
E14 Bheki Mseleku 23 Jan 1994
E15 Darker Than Me 06 Feb 1994
E16 Jean-Claude Carriere 13 Feb 1994
E17 Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool 20 Feb 1994
E18 Looking for the Perfect Beat: Rap 27 Feb 1994
E19 Larry Adler Plays Gershwin 06 Mar 1994
E20 Kiri's 50th Birthday Concert 13 Mar 1994
E21 Clive Barker 10 Apr 1994
E22 Dawn French on Big Women 17 Apr 1994
E23 Christian Boltanski 15 May 1994
E24 Eric Newby 22 May 1994
E25 John Steinbeck 29 May 1994
► Season 16 25 episodes
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E01 Billy Connolly 04 Oct 1992
E02 Alice Walker 11 Oct 1992
E03 Peter O'Toole: Loitering with Intent 18 Oct 1992
E04 Two Royal Ballet Dancers (Darcey Bussell, Viviana Durante) 25 Oct 1992
E05 Robert Zemeckis 01 Nov 1992
E06 George Formby 08 Nov 1992
E07 Sir Richard Attenborough 15 Nov 1992
E08 The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax 06 Dec 1992
E09 The World of Jeff Koons 13 Dec 1992
E10 Jimi Hendrix 20 Dec 1992
E11 Dracula 24 Jan 1993
E12 Monserrat Caballe 31 Jan 1993
E13 Annie Leibowitz 07 Feb 1993
E14 Guggenheim Museum 14 Feb 1993
E15 Dmitri and Sasha Sitkovetsky 21 Feb 1993
E16 Jean Genet 28 Feb 1993
E17 I, Berlioz 07 Mar 1993
E18 Richard Price 14 Mar 1993
E19 John Banville 21 Mar 1993
E20 Henryk Gorecki's 3rd symphony 04 Apr 1993
E21 Dudley Moore 13 Jun 1993
E22 Frink, 1930-1993 (Dame Elisabeth Frink) 20 Jun 1993
E23 Benny Goodman, the King of Swing 27 Jun 1993
E24 Paul Simon 15 Aug 1993
E25 Norman Wisdom 22 Aug 1993
► Season 15 25 episodes
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E01 Private Eye 15 Sep 1991
E02 David Lodge 29 Sep 1991
E03 Terry Gilliam 06 Oct 1991
E04 Neil Simon 13 Oct 1991
E05 Heinrich Schiff 20 Oct 1991
E06 Seamus Heaney 27 Oct 1991
E07 John Osborne 03 Nov 1991
E08 Dame Britain (Vera Lynn) 10 Nov 1991
E09 Arthur Miller 17 Nov 1991
E10 Jose Carreras, a Life Story 24 Nov 1991
E11 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 22 Dec 1991
E12 Arts Review '91 29 Dec 1991
E13 Douglas Adams 05 Jan 1992
E14 Lenny Henry Hunts the Funk 12 Jan 1992
E15 Hakan Hardenberger 19 Jan 1992
E16 Cecilia Bartoli 28 Nov 1999
E17 Les Murray 02 Feb 1992
E18 Colin Thubron 09 Feb 1992
E19 Pet Shop Boys 16 Feb 1992
E20 Paula Rego 23 Feb 1992
E21 Noel Coward 01 Mar 1992
E22 Anthony Hopkins 29 Mar 1992
E23 Terence Davis 05 Apr 1992
E24 Making Naked Lunch 12 Apr 1992
E25 The Making of Sgt. Pepper 14 Jun 1992
► Season 14 23 episodes
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E01 George Michael 02 Sep 1990
E02 Peter Ackroyd on Dickens 09 Sep 1990
E03 Spike Lee 23 Sep 1990
E04 Salman Rushdie 30 Sep 1990
E05 Roy Lichtenstein 07 Oct 1990
E06 Ken Russell - The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner 14 Oct 1990
E07 Clear Cool Crystal Streams (Irish rock music) 21 Oct 1990
E08 John Updike 28 Oct 1990
E09 East German writers 04 Nov 1990
E10 Alan Parker 25 Nov 1990
E11 Cameron Mackintosh 02 Dec 1990
E12 Spitting Image 09 Dec 1990
E13 The Talis Scholars 30 Dec 1990
E14 Stan Laurel - The Last Laugh 06 Jan 1991
E15 August Wilson 13 Jan 1991
E16 Oscar Marzaroli 20 Jan 1991
E17 Anne-Sophie Mutter 27 Jan 1991
E18 Bonfire of the Vanities (1991 film) 03 Feb 1991
E19 Willard White 10 Feb 1991
E20 The Five Blind Boys of Alabama / R.S. Thomas 17 Feb 1991
E21 Steve Martin 24 Feb 1991
E22 Rudolph Nureyev 03 Mar 1991
E23 Kiri Te Kanawa 29 Mar 1991
► Season 13 25 episodes
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E01 Martin Amis 17 Sep 1989
E02 Dustin Hoffman, Sir Peter Hall 24 Sep 1989
E03 Jimi Hendrix 01 Oct 1989
E04 Tom Keneally in Eritrea 08 Oct 1989
E05 Ken Russell - A British Picture 15 Oct 1989
E06 Steven Berkoff 22 Oct 1989
E07 Gabriel Garcia Marquez 29 Oct 1989
E08 Fitzrovia 12 Nov 1989
E09 Dame Edna Everage 19 Nov 1989
E10 Evelyn Glennie 26 Nov 1989
E11 Peter Brook 03 Dec 1989
E12 Arts Review '89 29 Dec 1989
E13 Boris Pasternak 07 Jan 1990
E14 Sir David Lean, Robert Bolt 21 Jan 1990
E15 Christopher Hogwood 28 Jan 1990
E16 Chinua Achebe 04 Feb 1990
E17 Hans Werner Henze 11 Feb 1990
E18 Jock Tamson's Bairns (Gerry Mulgrew, Liz Lochhead) 18 Feb 1990
E19 Yuri Bashmet 04 Mar 1990
E20 DV8 Physical Theatre 11 Mar 1990
E21 Mark Morris: the Hidden Soul of Harmony 25 Mar 1990
E22 Carl Davis, Temba 01 Apr 1990
E23 Vivienne Westwood 08 Apr 1990
E24 Hindemith 15 Apr 1990
E25 Robert Altman 22 Apr 1990
► Season 12 24 episodes
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E01 The Art of Walt Disney 25 Sep 1988
E02 Bernard Shaw 02 Oct 1988
E03 Under Milk Wood 09 Oct 1988
E04 Toulouse-Lautrec 16 Oct 1988
E05 David Puttnam 23 Oct 1988
E06 David Hockney at the Tate 30 Oct 1988
E07 Two Women in Three Dimensions (Wendy Taylor, Nicola Hicks) 13 Nov 1988
E08 Bristol WWII bombing raids reenactment 20 Nov 1988
E09 Raymond Chandler 27 Nov 1988
E10 Neil Jordan 04 Dec 1988
E11 John Houseman 11 Dec 1988
E12 David Bailey 18 Dec 1988
E13 Derek Walcott 15 Jan 1989
E14 Patrick Leigh Fermor 22 Jan 1989
E15 National Training Orchestra 29 Jan 1989
E16 Christopher Hampton 05 Feb 1989
E17 Istvan Szabo 12 Feb 1989
E18 Robert Redford 19 Feb 1989
E19 Tony Palmer on the concerto 26 Feb 1989
E20 Ben Elton 05 Mar 1989
E21 John Burnett 10 Mar 1989
E22 Put Blood in the Music (New York avant garde music) 12 Mar 1989
E23 John Ogdon 19 Mar 1989
E24 Sir William Golding 24 Mar 1989
► Season 11 24 episodes
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E01 Maria Callas 04 Oct 1987
E02 Toni Morrison 11 Oct 1987
E03 The Smiths 18 Oct 1987
E04 Andy Warhol 25 Oct 1987
E05 Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega 01 Nov 1987
E06 Sir Terence Conran 08 Nov 1987
E07 Gore Vidal 15 Nov 1987
E08 African music / Russian theatre 22 Nov 1987
E09 Sir George Solti 29 Nov 1987
E10 Eric Clapton 06 Dec 1987
E11 Arts Review '87 20 Dec 1987
E12 The Last Emperor (1988 film) 17 Jan 1988
E13 Australian Aboriginies 24 Jan 1988
E14 Boogie Woogie Music 31 Jan 1988
E15 The Golden Age of Television 14 Feb 1988
E16 George Barker 21 Feb 1988
E17 Jackson Pollack 28 Feb 1988
E18 Lenny Henry 06 Mar 1988
E19 Peter Dickinson 13 Mar 1988
E20 A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China 20 Mar 1988
E21 Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans 27 Mar 1988
E22 Ken Russell's ABC of British Music 02 Apr 1988
E24 Doris Lessing 17 Apr 1988
E25 Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production 24 Apr 1988
► Season 10 23 episodes
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E01 John Mortimer 05 Oct 1986
E04 Michael Powell 26 Oct 1986
E05 Truman Capote 02 Nov 1986
E06 Fay Godwin 09 Nov 1986
E07 The Andrew Lloyd-Webber Story 15 Nov 1986
E08 Agatha Christie, How Did She Do It? 23 Nov 1986
E09 The Dream is Over (Christopher Bruce ballet on John Lennon) 30 Nov 1986
E10 Arts Review '86 14 Dec 1986
E11 Anthony Hopkins / David Hare 11 Jan 1987
E12 Philip Glass 18 Jan 1987
E13 Alvin Ailey Dance Theater 25 Jan 1987
E14 Anthony Green: RA, a Love Story 01 Feb 1987
E15 birth of Frankenstein and Dracula 08 Feb 1987
E16 Thomas Allen 15 Feb 1987
E17 The Wooster Group 22 Feb 1987
E18 The London Underground in art 01 Mar 1987
E20 Barbara Dickson 15 Mar 1987
E21 Penguin Cafe Orchestra 22 Mar 1987
E22 Turner at the Tate 29 Mar 1987
E23 George V. Higgins 05 Apr 1987
E24 Peter York lecture 12 Apr 1987
E25 The Aida File: The Making of the Opera (1) 18 Apr 1987
E26 The Aida File: Aida Performance (2) 19 Apr 1987
► Season 9 24 episodes
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E01 Sir Alec Guinness 06 Oct 1985
E02 Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor 13 Oct 1985
E03 Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year 20 Oct 1985
E04 Theatre of Comedy workshop 27 Oct 1985
E05 Pete Townsend: After the Fire 03 Nov 1985
E06 Sir Stephen Spender 10 Nov 1985
E07 Marguerite Duras 17 Nov 1985
E08 Karole Armitage 24 Nov 1985
E09 Peter Shaffer 01 Dec 1985
E10 John Cleese 12 Jan 1986
E11 Vladimir Ashkenazy 19 Jan 1986
E12 Paul Schrader 26 Jan 1986
E13 Purcell's Dido and Aenaes 02 Feb 1986
E14 Patrick Heron 09 Feb 1986
E15 Blue Note Records 16 Feb 1986
E16 Michala Petri 23 Feb 1986
E17 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf 02 Mar 1986
E18 Absolute Beginners (film) 09 Mar 1986
E19 Arthur Boyd 23 Mar 1986
E20 Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical 06 Apr 1986
E21 British Soap Operas 13 Apr 1986
E22 Hull Truck Theatre Company 20 Apr 1986
E23 Velvet Underground 27 Apr 1986
E24 Al Jolson 04 May 1986
► Season 8 24 episodes
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E01 Alan Bennett 07 Oct 1984
E02 McCartney's Broad Street 14 Oct 1984
E03 The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company) 21 Oct 1984
E04 Paolo and Vittorio Taviani 28 Oct 1984
E05 Norman Nicholson 04 Nov 1984
E06 Joseph Heller 11 Nov 1984
E07 Mstislav Rostropovich 18 Nov 1984
E08 Max Wall 25 Nov 1984
E10 Alan Bleasdale 13 Jan 1985
E11 Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence 20 Jan 1985
E13 Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex 03 Feb 1985
E14 Marc Chagall 10 Feb 1985
E15 David Lean: a Life in Film 17 Feb 1985
E16 Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony 24 Feb 1985
E17 Little Richard 03 Mar 1985
E18 George Malcolm on Scarlatti 10 Mar 1985
E19 Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company 17 Mar 1985
E20 Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg 31 Mar 1985
E21 David Mamet 24 Mar 1985
E22 Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith 05 Apr 1985
E23 The Cotton Club (night club) 26 May 1985
E24 Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young) 02 Jun 1985
E25 Francis Bacon 09 Jun 1985
E26 George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century 16 Jun 1985
► Season 7 22 episodes
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E01 Piper's Way 16 Oct 1983
E02 Yuri Lyubimov 23 Oct 1983
E04 Jack Lemmon 06 Nov 1983
E05 Catherine Cookson 20 Nov 1983
E06 Lillian Gish/Glen Baxter 27 Nov 1983
E07 Alberto Moravia 04 Dec 1983
E08 Ian Hamilton Finlay/Lord Gowrie 11 Dec 1983
E09 Barry Tuckwell: Master of the Horn 19 Feb 1984
E10 Trevor Griffiths 26 Feb 1984
E11 Weather Report 11 Mar 1984
E12 Claudio Arrau 18 Mar 1984
E13 Kathy Acker 01 Apr 1984
E14 Ralph Vaughan Williams 08 Apr 1984
E15 Sir Ernst Gombrich 15 Apr 1984
E16 Michael Frayn 29 Apr 1984
E17 Ed McBain 06 May 1984
E18 David Bintley: New Ballet at Sadler's Wells 13 May 1984
E19 Stephen Sondheim 20 May 1984
E20 Elisabeth Vellacott / DeCocoa, Hot Chocolate 27 May 1984
E21 Once, at a Border (Aspects of Stravinsky) 26 May 1984
E22 adaptation of Ivy Compton Burnett's Elders and Betters 03 Jun 1984
E23 Kipling (one-man play with Alec McGowen) 24 Jun 1984
► Season 6 26 episodes
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E01 Laurence Olivier, a Life (1) 17 Oct 1982
E02 Laurence Olivier, a Life (2) 24 Oct 1982
E03 Peter Gabriel 31 Oct 1982
E04 Bruce Chatwin 07 Nov 1982
E05 Patricia Highsmith 14 Nov 1982
E06 Steven Spielberg 21 Nov 1982
E07 Gospel at Colonus 28 Nov 1982
E08 Simone De Beauvoir 09 Jan 1983
E09 Barry Flannigan / Seamus Heaney 23 Jan 1983
E10 David Hare 30 Jan 1983
E11 Agnes De Mille 06 Feb 1983
E12 Handel's Semele (by the Royal Opera House) 13 Feb 1983
E13 Sam Fuller 20 Feb 1983
E14 Local Hero (film) 27 Feb 1983
E15 R.K. Narayan 13 Mar 1983
E16 Ivo Pogorelich 20 Mar 1983
E17 John Le Carré 27 Mar 1983
E18 Choirs and Places Where They Sing 03 Apr 1983
E19 William Trevor 24 Apr 1983
E20 Gene Hackman 01 May 1983
E21 Keith Waterhouse 08 May 1983
E22 Robert Lowell / Benjamin Britten's Quartettino 15 May 1983
E23 Cowboy Art 22 May 1983
E24 Jiri Kylian 29 May 1983
E25 Producing Don Giovanni 05 Jun 1983
E26 Ken Russell's View of The Planets 12 Jun 1983
► Season 5 27 episodes
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E01 The French Lieutenant's Woman 01 Nov 1981
E02 Elvis Costello 08 Nov 1981
E03 Old Glory: the Journey and the Book 15 Nov 1981
E04 Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan 22 Nov 1981
E05 Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield 29 Nov 1981
E06 A Talent to Vex: John Osborne 06 Dec 1981
E07 Mama Lu Parks 17 Jan 1982
E08 Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day 24 Jan 1982
E09 Milos Forman 31 Jan 1982
E10 Germaine Greer 07 Feb 1982
E11 Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH 14 Feb 1982
E12 Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller 21 Feb 1982
E13 Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson 28 Feb 1982
E14 Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre) 07 Mar 1982
E15 Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash 14 Mar 1982
E16 Peter Maxwell-Davies 21 Mar 1982
E17 Saul Bellow 28 Mar 1982
E18 Indian wallpainting 04 Apr 1982
E19 Stravinski (1) 09 Apr 1982
E20 Stravinski (2) 10 Apr 1982
E21 Julian Lloyd-Webber 18 Apr 1982
E22 Miles Davis / Robert Nye 25 Apr 1982
E23 Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs) 02 May 1982
E24 Joseph Papp / James Galway 09 May 1982
E25 Werner Herzog 16 May 1982
E26 Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver) 23 May 1982
E27 Phillip Larkin 30 May 1982
► Season 4 26 episodes
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E01 Arthur Miller 09 Nov 1980
E02 William Golding 16 Nov 1980
E03 Akira Kurosawa 23 Nov 1980
E04 Stravinsky's The Firebird 30 Nov 1980
E05 No Need to Lie 07 Dec 1980
E06 The Passion (National Theatre's updating of medieval plays) 14 Dec 1980
E07 Toni Morrison 18 Jan 1981
E08 The Trespasser (film) 25 Jan 1981
E09 Don Juan in Hell 08 Feb 1981
E10 poetry workshop 15 Feb 1981
E11 Martin Scorsese 22 Feb 1981
E12 Elizabeth Taylor / John Hubbard 01 Mar 1981
E13 Bob Fosse 08 Mar 1981
E14 Robert Redford / Martin Amis 15 Mar 1981
E15 Verity Bargate / Howard Hodgkin 29 Mar 1981
E16 At the Haunted End of the Day: the Life of Sir William Walton 19 Apr 1981
E17 Gore Vidal 26 Apr 1981
E18 The Roots of the Tree (Ermanno Olmi) 03 May 1981
E19 Colin Welland 10 May 1981
E20 Christopher Logue / Phillip King 17 May 1981
E21 Lulu's Last Act (Berg opera) 24 May 1981
E22 Dame Ninette De Valois / David Hockney on Picasso 31 May 1981
E23 Clive James / Craig Raine 07 Jun 1981
E24 Soviet Art 14 Jun 1981
E25 Rhythm and Blues (The Blues Band, Dr. Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, Paul Jones) 21 Jun 1981
E26 Music for a City: Venice 28 Jun 1981
► Season 1 24 episodes
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E01 Paul McCartney/surrealist exhibition 14 Jan 1978
E02 Paganini Superstar 21 Jan 1978
E03 Roy Minton 28 Jan 1978
E04 David Hockney 04 Feb 1978
E05 Dennis Potter: Man of Television 11 Feb 1978
E06 John Peel/Jane Glover 18 Feb 1978
E07 Arabian Days (Edna O'Brien)/Quentin Crisp 25 Feb 1978
E08 Jacques Loussier 04 Mar 1978
E09 Ken Dodd 11 Mar 1978
E10 Georges Simenon 18 Mar 1978
E11 Horowitz at the White House 25 Mar 1978
E12 Carl Perkins/Morgan horses 01 Apr 1978
E13 Carry On with Paul Morissey (Carry On ... films) 08 Apr 1978
E14 Search for Shaw 15 Apr 1978
E15 Harold Pinter 22 Apr 1978
E16 Satyajit Ray/John Williams/Ralph McTell 30 Apr 1978
E17 Portrait of a Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan 06 May 1978
E18 Freddie Young 13 May 1978
E19 Frank Auerbach 20 May 1978
E20 Mayerling Ballet 17 Jun 1978
E21 Hal Prince 23 Jun 1978
E22 John Osborne on Wardle's book on Devine/Pearl (radio play) 01 Jul 1978
E23 Ingmar Bergman at 60 08 Jul 1978
E24 Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (1) 15 Jul 1978