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The South Bank Show

Countries: UK,
Release Date: January 14, 1978
Year: 1978
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Long-running arts series.

Melvyn Bragg    

The South Bank Show Seasons/Episodes

► Season 1 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Paul McCartney
Episode 2 Paganini Superstar
Episode 3 Roy Minton - 1978-01-28
Episode 4 David Hockney
Episode 5 Dennis Potter: Man of Television
Episode 6 Come (Contemporary) Dancing
Episode 9 Ken Dodd - 1978-03-11
Episode 12 Carl Perkins/Morgan Horses
Episode 15 Harold Pinter
Episode 16 Satyajit Ray
Episode 18 Freddie Young - 1978-05-13
Episode 20 Mayerling Ballet - 1978-06-17
Episode 21
Episode 22 Ingmar Bergman at 60

► Season 2 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Tom Stoppard
Episode 3 Interview with Woody Allen
Episode 6 Harmony of the Spheres
Episode 9 John McLaughlin: A Musical Journey
Episode 11 Michael Cimino/Alan Bennett, Stephen Frears
Episode 14 Neil Simon
Episode 15 Beryl Cook and Joint Stock Theatre Group
Episode 16 Graham Sutherland
Episode 17 Howard Brenton and Darryl Way
Episode 18 Lee Remick and Joseph Heller: The Europeans
Episode 19 Asian Arts Festival
Episode 20 Billy Connolly
Episode 21 Jessye Norman
Episode 22 Rough Trade/The Allen Jones Woman
Episode 23 Keith Jarrett/Scum
Episode 24 Sir Michael Tippett

► Season 3 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Francis Ford Coppola - 1979-12-02
Episode 2 Royal Shakespeare Company Masterclass: Part 1
Episode 3 Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (2) - 1979-12-16
Episode 4 Talking Heads/School Choirs Competition
Episode 7 Merce Cunningham
Episode 12 The Worlds of Edward Bond

► Season 4 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Arthur Miller
Episode 3 Akira Kurosawa
Episode 7 Toni Morrison
Episode 11 Martin Scorsese
Episode 12 Elizabeth Taylor/John Hubbard

► Season 5 - Click for episodes

Episode 2 Elvis Costello
Episode 6 A Talent to Vex: John Osborne
Episode 15 Guys and Dolls
Episode 21 Julian Lloyd Webber
Episode 25 Werner Herzog

► Season 6 - Click for episodes

Episode 3 Peter Gabriel - 1982-10-31
Episode 5 Patricia Highsmith: A Gift for Murder
Episode 6 Steven Spielberg
Episode 10 David Hare
Episode 14 Local Hero
Episode 17 John Le Carre
Episode 20 Gene Hackman
Episode 21 Keith Waterhouse

► Season 7 - Click for episodes

Episode 4 Jack Lemmon
Episode 5 Catherine Cookson
Episode 11 Weather Report - 1984-03-11
Episode 14 Vaughn Williams: A Symphonic Portrait
Episode 15 Sir Ernst Gombrich

► Season 8 - Click for episodes

Episode 2 Give My Regards to Broad Street
Episode 5 David Lean: A Life in Film
Episode 6 Joseph Heller
Episode 9 Malcolm McLaren - 1984-12-02
Episode 25 Francis Bacon - 1985-06-09

► Season 9 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Sir Alec Guinness - 1985-10-06
Episode 2 Peter Ackroyd
Episode 3 Ian McKellen: Diary of a Year
Episode 5 Pete Townshend: After the Fire
Episode 10 John Cleese
Episode 13 Purcell's Dido and Aenaes
Episode 23 Velvet Underground - 1986-04-27
Episode 24 Al Jolson - 1986-05-04

► Season 10 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 John Mortimer
Episode 4 Michael Powell
Episode 5 Truman Capote
Episode 11 Anthony Hopkins/David Hare
Episode 18 The Art of the London Underground
Episode 20 Barbara Dickson

► Season 11 - Click for episodes

Episode 3 The Smiths
Episode 9 Sir George Solti
Episode 10 Eric Clapton
Episode 17 Jackson Pollock - 1988-02-28
Episode 18 Lenny Henry
Episode 21 Nicaragua: Poets as Politicians
Episode 25 Sir Peter Hall's Last National Theatre Production

► Season 12 - Click for episodes

Episode 0 Hamlet - 1989-02-04
Episode 1 The Art of Walt Disney - 1988-09-25
Episode 3 Under Milk Wood
Episode 13 Derek Walcott
Episode 20 Ben Elton
Episode 23 John Ogdon

► Season 13 - Click for episodes

Episode 2 Dustin Hoffman/Sir Peter Hall
Episode 3 Jimi Hendrix
Episode 4 Tom Keneally's Journey in Eritrea
Episode 6 Steven Berkoff
Episode 9 Dame Edna Everage - 1989-11-19
Episode 10 Evelyn Glennie
Episode 11 Peter Brook
Episode 12 Arts Review '89
Episode 13 Hogwood: Haydn
Episode 14 Pasternak
Episode 15 David Lean and Robert Bolt
Episode 22 Carl Davis/Temba
Episode 23 Vivienne Westwood
Episode 24 Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
Episode 25 Robert Altman

► Season 14 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 George Michael
Episode 5 Roy Lichtenstein - 1990-10-07
Episode 10 Alan Parker - 1990-11-25
Episode 21 Steve Martin
Episode 23 Kiri Te Kanawa

► Season 15 - Click for episodes

Episode 3 Terry Gilliam
Episode 6 Seamus Heaney - 1991-10-27
Episode 7 John Osborne
Episode 10 Jose Carreras: A Life Story
Episode 13 Douglas Adams
Episode 14 Lenny Henry Hunts the Funk
Episode 15 Cecilia Bartoli: A Portrait
Episode 18 Colin Thubron - 1992-02-09
Episode 19 Pet Shop Boys - 1992-02-16
Episode 21 Noel Coward
Episode 25 The Making of Sgt. Pepper

► Season 16 - Click for episodes

Episode 1
Episode 2 Alice Walker
Episode 5 Robert Zemeckis - 1992-11-01
Episode 6 George Formby
Episode 7 Sir Richard Attenborough
Episode 11 Dracula - 1993-01-24
Episode 12 Monserrat Caballe
Episode 17 I, Berlioz
Episode 25 Norman Wisdom - 1993-08-22

► Season 17 - Click for episodes

Episode 2 Willy Russell
Episode 3 Ken Loach
Episode 7 Sylvie Guillem
Episode 9 Lynda La Plante
Episode 11 John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy: Part 1
Episode 12 John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy: Part 2
Episode 15 Darker Than Me
Episode 18 Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool - 1994-02-20
Episode 22 Dawn French on Big Women

► Season 18 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Kenneth Williams
Episode 9 Dame Thora Hird
Episode 18 Edward Albee

► Season 19 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Clint Eastwood - 1995-09-10
Episode 6 Jimmy Nail
Episode 8 Coronation Street
Episode 11 The Faces of Elaine Paige
Episode 12 Sting
Episode 13 Albert Finney

► Season 20 - Click for episodes

Episode 2 Sir John Mills
Episode 6 Michael Collins
Episode 8 Jimmy McGovern
Episode 9 Peter Allen: The Boy from Oz
Episode 19 David Helfgott

► Season 21 - Click for episodes

Episode 3 Kay Mellor
Episode 4 Bjork - 1997-11-09
Episode 10 Saul Zaentz: A Tribute
Episode 15 Gary Oldman - 1998-03-15
Episode 19 Will Self - 1998-07-05

► Season 22 - Click for episodes

Episode 7 Petula Clark
Episode 12 Anish Kapoor
Episode 16

► Season 23 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Paul Merton
Episode 8 Blur - 1999-11-21
Episode 10 Yoko Ono
Episode 11 Cher

► Season 24 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 The Beautiful Game
Episode 2 Santana - 2000-10-08
Episode 7 Courtney Pine
Episode 12 Tom Jones
Episode 17 Greta Garbo
Episode 19 Bill Bryson
Episode 20 Ian Rankin
Episode 22 Edmund White
Episode 23 Steve Coogan
Episode 24 Ravi Shankar
Episode 25 Tracey Emin

► Season 25 - Click for episodes

Episode 6 The Lord of the Rings
Episode 8 The Sopranos
Episode 11 Meera Syal
Episode 15 R.E.M
Episode 17 Cinema of Fire: Iranian Cinema

► Season 26 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Mike Leigh
Episode 6 Joan Rivers
Episode 8 James MacMillan
Episode 10 Gerhard Richter - 2003-02-02
Episode 19 The Real George Orwell
Episode 25 Ewan McGregor

► Season 27 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Germaine Greer - 2003-10-19
Episode 2
Episode 3 Television Drama: Part 1
Episode 4 Television Drama: Part 2
Episode 5 Jamie Cullum
Episode 6 The Wilson Twins
Episode 7 John Lennon's Jukebox
Episode 8 Jack Vettriano
Episode 9 The Dance Theatre of Harlem - 2004-04-04
Episode 10 Jeanette Winterson
Episode 11 Johnny Hallyday
Episode 12 Othello
Episode 13 Sir Ian McKellen

► Season 28 - Click for episodes

Episode 2 Ronnie Wood
Episode 4 Malcolm Arnold: Toward the Unknown Region: Part 1
Episode 5 Malcolm Arnold: Toward the Unknown Region: Part 2
Episode 7 Michael Frayn
Episode 8 The Darkness
Episode 9 Iggy Pop
Episode 10 Ruth Rendell
Episode 11 Howard Goodall
Episode 12 Pete 'n' Dud: The Lost Shows
Episode 13 Ian McEwan - 2005-02-20
Episode 18 John Boorman
Episode 22 Paul Abbott

► Season 29 - Click for episodes

Episode 1
Episode 2 Margot Fonteyn (2) - 2005-08-14
Episode 3
Episode 4 Karl Jenkins - 2005-09-11
Episode 5 Eric Sykes
Episode 6 Maxim Vengerov
Episode 7 Alan Bennett
Episode 8
Episode 9 Michael Winterbottom
Episode 10 Peter Hall- 50 Years in Theatre: Part 1
Episode 11 Peter Hall- 50 Years in Theatre: Part 2
Episode 12 Little Britain
Episode 13
Episode 14 Manga Mania
Episode 15 Jacqueline Wilson
Episode 16 John Rutter
Episode 17 PD James
Episode 18 Dusty Springfield

► Season 30 - Click for episodes

Episode 4 Irvine Welsh
Episode 5 Monty Python's Spamalot
Episode 6 Clare Tomalin on Thomas Hardy
Episode 7 Sue Townsend
Episode 9 George Michael: I'm Your Man
Episode 10 Peter Blake
Episode 11 Nick Park & Aardman Animations
Episode 12 Steve Reich
Episode 13 Damien Hirst - Addicted To Art - 2007-01-07
Episode 14 W.H. Auden
Episode 15 Victoria Wood
Episode 16 Humphrey Lyttelton
Episode 17 Isabel Allende
Episode 19 Jarvis Cocker: Running the World
Episode 24 Ian McMillan: The Bard of Barnsley
Episode 25 Emma Kirkby: The Unsung Heroine
Episode 26 June Whitfield

► Season 31 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Joan Didion
Episode 2 The Last Laugh: John Bird and John Fortune
Episode 3 The Mersey Sound
Episode 4 Lang Lang
Episode 5 Annie Lennox
Episode 6 Annie Lennox - 2007-11-25
Episode 7
Episode 8 Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic
Episode 9 The Nutcracker Story - 2007-12-26
Episode 10
Episode 11
Episode 12 David McVicar - 2008-03-09
Episode 20 Marianne Faithfull: A Life In Song - 2007-06-24

► Season 32 - Click for episodes

Episode 4 The Nutcracker Story

► Season 33 - Click for episodes

Episode 4 Gore Vidal - 2008-05-18

► Season 34 - Click for episodes

Episode 1 Tim Minchin - 2013-04-18
Episode 3 Bond - 2008-10-22

► Season 36 - Click for episodes

Episode 2 Coldplay - 2009-09-20
Episode 7 Elbow - 2009-11-15

► Season 37 - Click for episodes

Episode 2 Billy Connolly: Revisited - 2010-04-04

► Season 38 - Click for episodes

Episode 5 Alfie Boe - 2013-05-16