Paul McCartney/surrealist exhibition
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1978 (60 min)
Season 1
Paganini Superstar
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1978 (60 min)
Roy Minton
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1978 (60 min)
David Hockney
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1978 (60 min)
Dennis Potter
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1978 (60 min)
John Peel/Jane Glover
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1978 (60 min)
Arabian Days (Edna O'Brien)/Quentin Crisp
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1978 (60 min)
Jacques Loussier
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1978 (60 min)
Ken Dodd
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1978 (60 min)
Georges Simenon
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1978 (60 min)
Horowitz at the White House
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1978 (60 min)
Carl Perkins/Morgan horses
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1978 (60 min)
Carry On with Paul Morissey (Carry On ... films)
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1978 (60 min)
Search for Shaw
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1978 (60 min)
Harold Pinter
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Apr 22, 1978 (60 min)
Satyajit Ray/John Williams/Ralph McTell
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Apr 30, 1978 (60 min)
Portrait of a Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: May 6, 1978 (60 min)
Freddie Young
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: May 13, 1978 (60 min)
Frank Auerbach
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: May 20, 1978 (60 min)
Mayerling Ballet
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Jun 17, 1978 (60 min)
John Osborne on Wardle's book on Devine/Pearl (radio play)
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Jul 1, 1978 (60 min)
Ingmar Bergman at 60
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Jul 8, 1978 (60 min)
Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (1)
Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Jul 15, 1978 (60 min)
Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (2)
Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Jul 22, 1978 (60 min)
Season 2
Tom Stoppard
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1978 (60 min)
Grace Under Pressure (Anthony Burgess on Hemingway)
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1978 (60 min)
Woody Allen
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1978 (60 min)
Anatomy of an Opera: Jonathan Miller's Figaro
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1978 (60 min)
Rhythm of Resistance (South African music)
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1979 (60 min)
Harmony of the Spheres (Neil Ardley)
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1979 (60 min)
Circus Clowns/Schubert recital by Richter
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1979 (60 min)
Royal Shakespeare Company on tour
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1979 (60 min)
Brimstone & Treacle (Dennis Potter) / John McLaughlin, a Musical Journey
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1979 (60 min)
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Edward Gorey / Gunter Grass
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1979 (60 min)
Michael Cimino / Alan Bennett, Stephen Frears
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1979 (60 min)
Gordon Williams, Alan Sharp, Eddie Boyd
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1979 (60 min)
Derek Boshier / Ingrid Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1979 (60 min)
Neil Simon
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1979 (60 min)
Beryl Cook / Cloud Nine rehearsals
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1979 (60 min)
Graham Sutherland
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1979 (60 min)
Darryl Way / Howard Brenton
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Apr 22, 1979 (60 min)
The Europeans (film) / Joseph Heller
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1979 (60 min)
Asian Arts festival
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: May 6, 1979 (60 min)
Billy Connolly
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: May 13, 1979 (60 min)
Jessye Norman
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: May 20, 1979 (60 min)
Rough Trade (record label) / Allen Jones
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: May 27, 1979 (60 min)
Scum (film) / Keith Jarrett
Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: Jun 17, 1979 (60 min)
Michael Tippett (90 min.)
Episode: 2x24 | Airdate: Jun 24, 1979 (60 min)
Season 3
Francis Ford Coppola
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1979 (60 min)
Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (1)
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1979 (60 min)
Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (2)
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1979 (60 min)
Talking Heads
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Dec 23, 1979 (60 min)
Love and the Ice-Cream Vendor
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1980 (60 min)
Fay Weldon / Richard Hogart on Northern Ireland in drama
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1980 (60 min)
Merce Cunningham
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1980 (60 min)
Elegies for the Deaths of Three Spanish Poets
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Mar 9, 1980 (60 min)
A Time There was ... (Benjamin Britten)
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Apr 6, 1980 (60 min)
The Greene Adaptations (Graham Greene films)
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Apr 13, 1980 (60 min)
Salsa (Puerto Rican music)
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Apr 27, 1980 (60 min)
The Worlds of Edward Bond
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: May 4, 1980 (60 min)
Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli / Kinglsey Amis
Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: May 11, 1980 (60 min)
new British rock films / The Tin Drum (film)
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: May 18, 1980 (60 min)
Roman Polanski
Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: May 25, 1980 (60 min)
Tom Wolfe
Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Jun 1, 1980 (60 min)
Andrew Wyeth
Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Jun 8, 1980 (60 min)
Angus Wilson
Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Jun 29, 1980 (60 min)
Jane Austen (film)
Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Jul 6, 1980 (60 min)
Season 4
Arthur Miller
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1980 (60 min)
William Golding
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1980 (60 min)
Akira Kurosawa
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Nov 23, 1980 (60 min)
Stravinsky's The Firebird
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1980 (60 min)
No Need to Lie
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1980 (60 min)
The Passion (National Theatre's updating of medieval plays)
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1980 (60 min)
Toni Morrison
Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Jan 18, 1981 (60 min)
The Trespasser (film)
Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Jan 25, 1981 (60 min)
Don Juan in Hell
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Feb 8, 1981 (60 min)
poetry workshop
Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Feb 15, 1981 (60 min)
Martin Scorsese
Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Feb 22, 1981 (60 min)
Elizabeth Taylor / John Hubbard
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Mar 1, 1981 (60 min)
Bob Fosse
Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1981 (60 min)
Robert Redford / Martin Amis
Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Mar 15, 1981 (60 min)
Verity Bargate / Howard Hodgkin
Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1981 (60 min)
At the Haunted End of the Day: the Life of Sir William Walton
Episode: 4x16 | Airdate: Apr 19, 1981 (60 min)
Gore Vidal
Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Apr 26, 1981 (60 min)
The Roots of the Tree (Ermanno Olmi)
Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: May 3, 1981 (60 min)
Colin Welland
Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: May 10, 1981 (60 min)
Christopher Logue / Phillip King
Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: May 17, 1981 (60 min)
Lulu's Last Act (Berg Opera)
Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: May 24, 1981 (60 min)
Dame Ninette De Valois / David Hockney on Picasso
Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: May 31, 1981 (60 min)
Clive James / Craig Raine
Episode: 4x23 | Airdate: Jun 7, 1981 (60 min)
Soviet Art
Episode: 4x24 | Airdate: Jun 14, 1981 (60 min)
Rhythm and Blues (The Blues Band, Dr. Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, Paul Jones)
Episode: 4x25 | Airdate: Jun 21, 1981 (60 min)
Music for a City: Venice
Episode: 4x26 | Airdate: Jun 28, 1981 (60 min)
Season 5
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1981 (60 min)
Elvis Costello
Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1981 (60 min)
Old Glory: the Journey and the Book
Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1981 (60 min)
Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan
Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1981 (60 min)
Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield
Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1981 (60 min)
A Talent to Vex: John Osborne
Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1981 (60 min)
Mama Lu Parks
Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1982 (60 min)
Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day
Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1982 (60 min)
Milos Forman
Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1982 (60 min)
Germaine Greer
Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1982 (60 min)
Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH
Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1982 (60 min)
Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller
Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1982 (60 min)
Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson
Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Feb 28, 1982 (60 min)
Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)
Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1982 (60 min)
Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash
Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1982 (60 min)
Peter Maxwell-Davies
Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1982 (60 min)
Saul Bellow
Episode: 5x17 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1982 (60 min)
Indian wallpainting
Episode: 5x18 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1982 (60 min)
Stravinski (1)
Episode: 5x19 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1982 (60 min)
Stravinski (2)
Episode: 5x20 | Airdate: Apr 10, 1982 (60 min)
Julian Lloyd-Webber
Episode: 5x21 | Airdate: Apr 18, 1982 (60 min)
Miles Davis / Robert Nye
Episode: 5x22 | Airdate: Apr 25, 1982 (60 min)
Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs)
Episode: 5x23 | Airdate: May 2, 1982 (60 min)
Joseph Papp / James Galway
Episode: 5x24 | Airdate: May 9, 1982 (60 min)
Werner Herzog
Episode: 5x25 | Airdate: May 16, 1982 (60 min)
Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver)
Episode: 5x26 | Airdate: May 23, 1982 (60 min)
Phillip Larkin
Episode: 5x27 | Airdate: May 30, 1982 (60 min)
Season 6
Laurence Olivier, a Life (1)
Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1982 (60 min)
Laurence Olivier, a Life (2)
Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1982 (60 min)
Peter Gabriel
Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1982 (60 min)
Bruce Chatwin
Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1982 (60 min)
Patricia Highsmith
Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1982 (60 min)
Steven Spielberg
Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1982 (60 min)
Gospel at Colonus
Episode: 6x07 | Airdate: Nov 28, 1982 (60 min)
Simone De Beauvoir
Episode: 6x08 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1983 (60 min)
Barry Flannigan / Seamus Heaney
Episode: 6x09 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1983 (60 min)
David Hare
Episode: 6x10 | Airdate: Jan 30, 1983 (60 min)
Agnes De Mille
Episode: 6x11 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1983 (60 min)
Handel's Semele (by the Royal Opera House)
Episode: 6x12 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1983 (60 min)
Sam Fuller
Episode: 6x13 | Airdate: Feb 20, 1983 (60 min)
Local Hero (film)
Episode: 6x14 | Airdate: Feb 27, 1983 (60 min)
R.K. Narayan
Episode: 6x15 | Airdate: Mar 13, 1983 (60 min)
Ivo Pogorelich
Episode: 6x16 | Airdate: Mar 20, 1983 (60 min)
John Le Carré
Episode: 6x17 | Airdate: Mar 27, 1983 (60 min)
Choirs and Places Where They Sing
Episode: 6x18 | Airdate: Apr 3, 1983 (60 min)
William Trevor
Episode: 6x19 | Airdate: Apr 24, 1983 (60 min)
Gene Hackman
Episode: 6x20 | Airdate: May 1, 1983 (60 min)
Keith Waterhouse
Episode: 6x21 | Airdate: May 8, 1983 (60 min)
Robert Lowell / Benjamin Britten's Quartettino
Episode: 6x22 | Airdate: May 15, 1983 (60 min)
Cowboy Art
Episode: 6x23 | Airdate: May 22, 1983 (60 min)
Jiri Kylian
Episode: 6x24 | Airdate: May 29, 1983 (60 min)
Producing Don Giovanni
Episode: 6x25 | Airdate: Jun 5, 1983 (60 min)
Ken Russell's View of The Planets
Episode: 6x26 | Airdate: Jun 12, 1983 (60 min)
Season 7
Piper's Way
Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1983 (60 min)
Yuri Lyubimov
Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1983 (60 min)
Peter Brook
Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1983 (60 min)
Jack Lemmon
Episode: 7x04 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1983 (60 min)
Catherine Cookson
Episode: 7x05 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1983 (60 min)
Lillian Gish/Glen Baxter
Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1983 (60 min)
Alberto Moravia
Episode: 7x07 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1983 (60 min)
Ian Hamilton Finlay/Lord Gowrie
Episode: 7x08 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1983 (60 min)
Barry Tuckwell: Master of the Horn
Episode: 7x09 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1984 (60 min)
Trevor Griffiths
Episode: 7x10 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1984 (60 min)
Weather Report
Episode: 7x11 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1984 (60 min)
Claudio Arrau
Episode: 7x12 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1984 (60 min)
Kathy Acker
Episode: 7x13 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1984 (60 min)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Episode: 7x14 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1984 (60 min)
Sir Ernst Gombrich
Episode: 7x15 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1984 (60 min)
Michael Frayn
Episode: 7x16 | Airdate: Apr 29, 1984 (60 min)
Ed McBain
Episode: 7x17 | Airdate: May 6, 1984 (60 min)
David Bintley: New Ballet at Sadler's Wells
Episode: 7x18 | Airdate: May 13, 1984 (60 min)
Stephen Sondheim
Episode: 7x19 | Airdate: May 20, 1984 (60 min)
Elisabeth Vellacott / DeCocoa, Hot Chocolate
Episode: 7x20 | Airdate: May 27, 1984 (60 min)
Adaptation of Ivy Compton Burnett's Elders and Betters
Episode: 7x21 | Airdate: Jun 3, 1984 (60 min)
Kipling (One-man play with Alec McGowen)
Episode: 7x22 | Airdate: Jun 10, 1984 (60 min)
Anthony Caro
Episode: 7x23 | Airdate: Jun 24, 1984 (60 min)
Season 8
Alan Bennett
Episode: 8x01 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1984 (60 min)
McCartney's Broad Street
Episode: 8x02 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1984 (60 min)
The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)
Episode: 8x03 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1984 (60 min)
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Episode: 8x04 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1984 (60 min)
Norman Nicholson
Episode: 8x05 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1984 (60 min)
Joseph Heller
Episode: 8x06 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1984 (60 min)
Mstislav Rostropovich
Episode: 8x07 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1984 (60 min)
Max Wall
Episode: 8x08 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1984 (60 min)
Malcolm McLaren
Episode: 8x09 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1984 (60 min)
Alan Bleasdale
Episode: 8x10 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1985 (60 min)
Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence
Episode: 8x11 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1985 (60 min)
Electronic Music
Episode: 8x12 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1985 (60 min)
Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex
Episode: 8x13 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1985 (60 min)
Marc Chagall
Episode: 8x14 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1985 (60 min)
David Lean: a Life in Film
Episode: 8x15 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1985 (60 min)
Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony
Episode: 8x16 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1985 (60 min)
Little Richard
Episode: 8x17 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1985 (60 min)
George Malcolm on Scarlatti
Episode: 8x18 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1985 (60 min)
Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company
Episode: 8x19 | Airdate: Mar 17, 1985 (60 min)
David Mamet
Episode: 8x20 | Airdate: Mar 24, 1985 (60 min)
Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg
Episode: 8x21 | Airdate: Mar 31, 1985 (60 min)
Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith
Episode: 8x22 | Airdate: Apr 5, 1985 (60 min)
The Cotton Club (night club)
Episode: 8x23 | Airdate: May 26, 1985 (60 min)
Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)
Episode: 8x24 | Airdate: Jun 2, 1985 (60 min)
Francis Bacon
Episode: 8x25 | Airdate: Jun 9, 1985 (60 min)
George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century
Episode: 8x26 | Airdate: Jun 16, 1985 (60 min)
Season 9
Sir Alec Guinness
Episode: 9x01 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1985 (60 min)
Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
Episode: 9x02 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1985 (60 min)
Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year
Episode: 9x03 | Airdate: Oct 20, 1985 (60 min)
Theatre of Comedy workshop
Episode: 9x04 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1985 (60 min)
Pete Townshend: After the Fire
Episode: 9x05 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1985 (60 min)
Sir Stephen Spender
Episode: 9x06 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1985 (60 min)
Marguerite Duras
Episode: 9x07 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1985 (60 min)
Karole Armitage
Episode: 9x08 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1985 (60 min)
Peter Shaffer
Episode: 9x09 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1985 (60 min)
John Cleese
Episode: 9x10 | Airdate: Jan 12, 1986 (60 min)
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Episode: 9x11 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1986 (60 min)
Paul Schrader
Episode: 9x12 | Airdate: Jan 26, 1986 (60 min)
Purcell's Dido and Aenaes
Episode: 9x13 | Airdate: Feb 2, 1986 (60 min)
Patrick Heron
Episode: 9x14 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1986 (60 min)
Blue Note Records
Episode: 9x15 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1986 (60 min)
Michala Petri
Episode: 9x16 | Airdate: Feb 23, 1986 (60 min)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Episode: 9x17 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1986 (60 min)
Absolute Beginners (film)
Episode: 9x18 | Airdate: Mar 9, 1986 (60 min)
Arthur Boyd
Episode: 9x19 | Airdate: Mar 23, 1986 (60 min)
Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical
Episode: 9x20 | Airdate: Apr 6, 1986 (60 min)
British Soap Operas
Episode: 9x21 | Airdate: Apr 13, 1986 (60 min)
Hull Truck Theatre Company
Episode: 9x22 | Airdate: Apr 20, 1986 (60 min)
Velvet Underground
Episode: 9x23 | Airdate: Apr 27, 1986 (60 min)
Al Jolson
Episode: 9x24 | Airdate: May 4, 1986 (60 min)
Season 10
John Mortimer
Episode: 10x01 | Airdate: Oct 5, 1986 (60 min)
Itzhak Perlman
Episode: 10x02 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1986 (60 min)
Roald Dahl: Fe-Fi-Fo-fum
Episode: 10x03 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1986 (60 min)
Michael Powell
Episode: 10x04 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1986 (60 min)
Truman Capote
Episode: 10x05 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1986 (60 min)
Fay Godwin
Episode: 10x06 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1986 (60 min)
The Andrew Lloyd-Webber Story
Episode: 10x07 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1986 (60 min)
Agatha Christie, How Did She Do It?
Episode: 10x08 | Airdate: Nov 23, 1986 (60 min)
The Dream is Over (Christopher Bruce ballet on John Lennon)
Episode: 10x09 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1986 (60 min)
Arts Review '86
Episode: 10x10 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1986 (60 min)
Anthony Hopkins / David Hare
Episode: 10x11 | Airdate: Jan 11, 1987 (60 min)
Philip Glass
Episode: 10x12 | Airdate: Jan 18, 1987 (60 min)
Alvin Ailey Dance Theater
Episode: 10x13 | Airdate: Jan 25, 1987 (60 min)
Anthony Green: RA, a Love Story
Episode: 10x14 | Airdate: Feb 1, 1987 (60 min)
Birth of Frankenstein and Dracula
Episode: 10x15 | Airdate: Feb 8, 1987 (60 min)
Thomas Allen
Episode: 10x16 | Airdate: Feb 15, 1987 (60 min)
The Wooster Group
Episode: 10x17 | Airdate: Feb 22, 1987 (60 min)
The London Underground in art
Episode: 10x18 | Airdate: Mar 1, 1987 (60 min)
V.S. Naipaul
Episode: 10x19 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1987 (60 min)
Barbara Dickson
Episode: 10x20 | Airdate: Mar 15, 1987 (60 min)
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Episode: 10x21 | Airdate: Mar 22, 1987 (60 min)
Turner at the Tate
Episode: 10x22 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1987 (60 min)
George V. Higgins
Episode: 10x23 | Airdate: Apr 5, 1987 (60 min)
Peter York lecture
Episode: 10x24 | Airdate: Apr 12, 1987 (60 min)
The Aida File: The Making of the Opera (1)
Episode: 10x25 | Airdate: Apr 18, 1987 (60 min)
The Aida File: Aida Performance (2)
Episode: 10x26 | Airdate: Apr 19, 1987 (60 min)
Season 11
Maria Callas
Episode: 11x01 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1987 (60 min)
Toni Morrison
Episode: 11x02 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1987 (60 min)
The Smiths
Episode: 11x03 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1987 (60 min)
Andy Warhol
Episode: 11x04 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1987 (60 min)
Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega
Episode: 11x05 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1987 (60 min)
Sir Terence Conran
Episode: 11x06 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1987 (60 min)
Gore Vidal
Episode: 11x07 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1987 (60 min)
African music / Russian theatre
Episode: 11x08 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1987 (60 min)
Sir George Solti
Episode: 11x09 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1987 (60 min)
Eric Clapton
Episode: 11x10 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1987 (60 min)
Arts Review '87
Episode: 11x11 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1987 (60 min)
The Last Emperor (1988 film)
Episode: 11x12 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1988 (60 min)
Australian Aboriginies
Episode: 11x13 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1988 (60 min)
Boogie Woogie Music
Episode: 11x14 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1988 (60 min)
The Golden Age of Television
Episode: 11x15 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1988 (60 min)
George Barker
Episode: 11x16 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1988 (60 min)
Jackson Pollack
Episode: 11x17 | Airdate: Feb 28, 1988 (60 min)
Lenny Henry
Episode: 11x18 | Airdate: Mar 6, 1988 (60 min)
Peter Dickinson
Episode: 11x19 | Airdate: Mar 13, 1988 (60 min)
A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China
Episode: 11x20 | Airdate: Mar 20, 1988 (60 min)
Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans
Episode: 11x21 | Airdate: Mar 27, 1988 (60 min)
Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
Episode: 11x22 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1988 (60 min)
Paul Bowles
Episode: 11x23 | Airdate: Apr 10, 1988 (60 min)
Doris Lessing
Episode: 11x24 | Airdate: Apr 17, 1988 (60 min)
Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production
Episode: 11x25 | Airdate: Apr 24, 1988 (60 min)
Season 12
The Art of Walt Disney
Episode: 12x01 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1988 (60 min)
Bernard Shaw
Episode: 12x02 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1988 (60 min)
Under Milk Wood
Episode: 12x03 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1988 (60 min)
Toulouse-Lautrec
Episode: 12x04 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1988 (60 min)
David Puttnam
Episode: 12x05 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1988 (60 min)
David Hockney
Episode: 12x06 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1988 (60 min)
Two Women in Three Dimensions (Wendy Taylor, Nicola Hicks)
Episode: 12x07 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1988 (60 min)
Bristol WWII Bombing Raids Reenactment
Episode: 12x08 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1988 (60 min)
Raymond Chandler
Episode: 12x09 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1988 (60 min)
Neil Jordan
Episode: 12x10 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1988 (60 min)
John Houseman
Episode: 12x11 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1988 (60 min)
David Bailey
Episode: 12x12 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1988 (60 min)
Derek Walcott
Episode: 12x13 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1989 (60 min)
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Episode: 12x14 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1989 (60 min)
National Training Orchestra
Episode: 12x15 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1989 (60 min)
Christopher Hampton
Episode: 12x16 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1989 (60 min)
Istvan Szabo
Episode: 12x17 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1989 (60 min)
Robert Redford
Episode: 12x18 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1989 (60 min)
Tony Palmer on the Concerto
Episode: 12x19 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1989 (60 min)
Ben Elton
Episode: 12x20 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1989 (60 min)
John Burnett
Episode: 12x21 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1989 (60 min)
Put Blood in the Music (New York avant garde music)
Episode: 12x22 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1989 (60 min)
John Ogdon
Episode: 12x23 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1989 (60 min)
Sir William Golding
Episode: 12x24 | Airdate: Mar 24, 1989 (60 min)
Season 13
Martin Amis
Episode: 13x01 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1989 (60 min)
Dustin Hoffman, Sir Peter Hall
Episode: 13x02 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1989 (60 min)
Jimi Hendrix
Episode: 13x03 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1989 (60 min)
Tom Keneally in Eritrea
Episode: 13x04 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1989 (60 min)
Ken Russell
Episode: 13x05 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1989 (60 min)
Steven Berkoff
Episode: 13x06 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1989 (60 min)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Episode: 13x07 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1989 (60 min)
Fitzrovia
Episode: 13x08 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1989 (60 min)
Dame Edna Everage
Episode: 13x09 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1989 (60 min)
Evelyn Glennie
Episode: 13x10 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1989 (60 min)
Peter Brook
Episode: 13x11 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1989 (60 min)
Arts Review '89
Episode: 13x12 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1989 (60 min)
Boris Pasternak
Episode: 13x13 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1990 (60 min)
Sir David Lean, Robert Bolt
Episode: 13x14 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1990 (60 min)
Christopher Hogwood
Episode: 13x15 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1990 (60 min)
Chinua Achebe
Episode: 13x16 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1990 (60 min)
Hans Werner Henze
Episode: 13x17 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1990 (60 min)
Jock Tamson's Bairns (Gerry Mulgrew, Liz Lochhead)
Episode: 13x18 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1990 (60 min)
Yuri Bashmet
Episode: 13x19 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1990 (60 min)
DV8 Physical Theatre
Episode: 13x20 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1990 (60 min)
Mark Morris: the Hidden Soul of Harmony
Episode: 13x21 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1990 (60 min)
Carl Davis, Temba
Episode: 13x22 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1990 (60 min)
Vivienne Westwood
Episode: 13x23 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1990 (60 min)
Hindemith
Episode: 13x24 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1990 (60 min)
Robert Altman
Episode: 13x25 | Airdate: Apr 22, 1990 (60 min)
Season 14
George Michael
Episode: 14x01 | Airdate: Sep 2, 1990 (60 min)
Peter Ackroyd on Dickens
Episode: 14x02 | Airdate: Sep 9, 1990 (60 min)
Spike Lee
Episode: 14x03 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1990 (60 min)
Salman Rushdie
Episode: 14x04 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1990 (60 min)
Roy Lichtenstein
Episode: 14x05 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1990 (60 min)
Ken Russell on Anton Bruckner
Episode: 14x06 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1990 (60 min)
Clear Cool Crystal Streams (Irish rock music)
Episode: 14x07 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1990 (60 min)
John Updike
Episode: 14x08 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1990 (60 min)
East German Writers
Episode: 14x09 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1990 (60 min)
Alan Parker
Episode: 14x10 | Airdate: Nov 25, 1990 (60 min)
Cameron Mackintosh
Episode: 14x11 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1990 (60 min)
Spitting Image
Episode: 14x12 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1990 (60 min)
The Talis Scholars
Episode: 14x13 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1990 (60 min)
Stan Laurel
Episode: 14x14 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1991 (60 min)
August Wilson
Episode: 14x15 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1991 (60 min)
Oscar Marzaroli
Episode: 14x16 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1991 (60 min)
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Episode: 14x17 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1991 (60 min)
Bonfire of the Vanities (1991 film)
Episode: 14x18 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1991 (60 min)
Willard White
Episode: 14x19 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1991 (60 min)
The Five Blind Boys of Alabama / R.S. Thomas
Episode: 14x20 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1991 (60 min)
Steve Martin
Episode: 14x21 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1991 (60 min)
Rudolph Nureyev
Episode: 14x22 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1991 (60 min)
Kiri Te Kanawa
Episode: 14x23 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1991 (60 min)
Season 15
Private Eye
Episode: 15x01 | Airdate: Sep 15, 1991 (60 min)
David Lodge
Episode: 15x02 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1991 (60 min)
Terry Gilliam
Episode: 15x03 | Airdate: Oct 6, 1991 (60 min)
Neil Simon
Episode: 15x04 | Airdate: Oct 13, 1991 (60 min)
Heinrich Schiff
Episode: 15x05 | Airdate: Oct 20, 1991 (60 min)
Seamus Heaney
Episode: 15x06 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1991 (60 min)
John Osborne
Episode: 15x07 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1991 (60 min)
Dame Britain (Vera Lynn)
Episode: 15x08 | Airdate: Nov 10, 1991 (60 min)
Arthur Miller
Episode: 15x09 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1991 (60 min)
Jose Carreras, a Life Story
Episode: 15x10 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1991 (60 min)
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Episode: 15x11 | Airdate: Dec 22, 1991 (60 min)
Arts Review '91
Episode: 15x12 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1991 (60 min)
Douglas Adams
Episode: 15x13 | Airdate: Jan 5, 1992 (60 min)
Lenny Henry Hunts the Funk
Episode: 15x14 | Airdate: Jan 12, 1992 (60 min)
Hakan Hardenberger
Episode: 15x15 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1992 (60 min)
Cecilia Bartoli
Episode: 15x16 | Airdate: Jan 26, 1992 (60 min)
Les Murray
Episode: 15x17 | Airdate: Feb 2, 1992 (60 min)
Colin Thubron
Episode: 15x18 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1992 (60 min)
Pet Shop Boys
Episode: 15x19 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1992 (60 min)
Paula Rego
Episode: 15x20 | Airdate: Feb 23, 1992 (60 min)
Noel Coward
Episode: 15x21 | Airdate: Mar 1, 1992 (60 min)
Anthony Hopkins
Episode: 15x22 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1992 (60 min)
Terence Davis
Episode: 15x23 | Airdate: Apr 5, 1992 (60 min)
Making Naked Lunch
Episode: 15x24 | Airdate: Apr 12, 1992 (60 min)
The Making of Sgt. Pepper
Episode: 15x25 | Airdate: Jun 14, 1992 (60 min)
Season 16
Billy Connolly
Episode: 16x01 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1992 (60 min)
Alice Walker
Episode: 16x02 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1992 (60 min)
Peter O'Toole
Episode: 16x03 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1992 (60 min)
Two Royal Ballet Dancers (Darcey Bussell, Viviana Durante)
Episode: 16x04 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1992 (60 min)
Robert Zemeckis
Episode: 16x05 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1992 (60 min)
George Formby
Episode: 16x06 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1992 (60 min)
Sir Richard Attenborough
Episode: 16x07 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1992 (60 min)
The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax
Episode: 16x08 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1992 (60 min)
The World of Jeff Koons
Episode: 16x09 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1992 (60 min)
Jimi Hendrix
Episode: 16x10 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1992 (60 min)
Dracula
Episode: 16x11 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1993 (60 min)
Monserrat Caballe
Episode: 16x12 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1993 (60 min)
Annie Leibowitz
Episode: 16x13 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1993 (60 min)
Guggenheim Museum
Episode: 16x14 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1993 (60 min)
Dmitri and Sasha Sitkovetsky
Episode: 16x15 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1993 (60 min)
Jean Genet
Episode: 16x16 | Airdate: Feb 28, 1993 (60 min)
I, Berlioz
Episode: 16x17 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1993 (60 min)
Richard Price
Episode: 16x18 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1993 (60 min)
John Banville
Episode: 16x19 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1993 (60 min)
Henryk Gorecki's 3rd Symphony
Episode: 16x20 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1993 (60 min)
Dudley Moore
Episode: 16x21 | Airdate: Jun 13, 1993 (60 min)
Frink, 1930-1993 (Dame Elisabeth Frink)
Episode: 16x22 | Airdate: Jun 20, 1993 (60 min)
Benny Goodman, the King of Swing
Episode: 16x23 | Airdate: Jul 4, 1993 (60 min)
Paul Simon
Episode: 16x24 | Airdate: Aug 15, 1993 (60 min)
Norman Wisdom
Episode: 16x25 | Airdate: Aug 22, 1993 (60 min)
Season 17
Sydney Pollack
Episode: 17x01 | Airdate: Sep 12, 1993 (60 min)
Willy Russell
Episode: 17x02 | Airdate: Sep 19, 1993 (60 min)
Ken Loach
Episode: 17x03 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1993 (60 min)
Margaret Atwood
Episode: 17x04 | Airdate: Oct 10, 1993 (60 min)
John Lee Hooker
Episode: 17x05 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1993 (60 min)
Stevie Wonder
Episode: 17x06 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1993 (60 min)
Sylvie Guillem
Episode: 17x07 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1993 (60 min)
Tim Rice
Episode: 17x08 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1993 (60 min)
Lynda La Plante
Episode: 17x09 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1993 (60 min)
John Williams
Episode: 17x10 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1993 (60 min)
John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (1)
Episode: 17x11 | Airdate: Nov 28, 1993 (60 min)
John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (2)
Episode: 17x12 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1993 (60 min)
Cliff Richard
Episode: 17x13 | Airdate: Dec 24, 1993 (60 min)
Woody Allen
Episode: 17x14 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1994 (60 min)
Bheki Mseleku
Episode: 17x15 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1994 (60 min)
Darker Than Me
Episode: 17x16 | Airdate: Feb 6, 1994 (60 min)
Jean-Claude Carriere
Episode: 17x17 | Airdate: Feb 13, 1994 (60 min)
Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool
Episode: 17x18 | Airdate: Feb 20, 1994 (60 min)
Looking for the Perfect Beat: Rap
Episode: 17x19 | Airdate: Feb 27, 1994 (60 min)
Larry Adler Plays Gershwin
Episode: 17x20 | Airdate: Mar 6, 1994 (60 min)
Kiri's 50th Birthday Concert
Episode: 17x21 | Airdate: Mar 13, 1994 (60 min)
Clive Barker
Episode: 17x22 | Airdate: Apr 10, 1994 (60 min)
Dawn French
Episode: 17x23 | Airdate: Apr 17, 1994 (60 min)
Christian Boltanski
Episode: 17x24 | Airdate: May 15, 1994 (60 min)
Eric Newby
Episode: 17x25 | Airdate: May 22, 1994 (60 min)
John Steinbeck
Episode: 17x26 | Airdate: May 29, 1994 (60 min)
Season 18
Kenneth Williams
Episode: 18x01 | Airdate: Sep 18, 1994 (60 min)
Marilyn Horne
Episode: 18x02 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1994 (60 min)
New Generation Poets
Episode: 18x03 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1994 (60 min)
Vanessa Redgrave
Episode: 18x04 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1994 (60 min)
David Mamet
Episode: 18x05 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1994 (60 min)
The Shearing Touch (George Shearing)
Episode: 18x06 | Airdate: Oct 23, 1994 (60 min)
Alan Ayckbourn
Episode: 18x07 | Airdate: Oct 30, 1994 (60 min)
Frankenstein
Episode: 18x08 | Airdate: Nov 6, 1994 (60 min)
Thora Hird
Episode: 18x09 | Airdate: Nov 13, 1994 (60 min)
The Glory of Gershwin
Episode: 18x10 | Airdate: Nov 20, 1994 (60 min)
P.J. O'Rourke
Episode: 18x11 | Airdate: Nov 27, 1994 (60 min)
Carl Orff
Episode: 18x12 | Airdate: Jan 29, 1995 (60 min)
Classic Widows
Episode: 18x13 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1995 (60 min)
Jonathan Miller
Episode: 18x14 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1995 (60 min)
Flags of the Fante Coast
Episode: 18x15 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1995 (60 min)
Catherine Bailey, the Lady is a Tramp / Roger Ballen
Episode: 18x16 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1995 (60 min)
Edward Albee
Episode: 18x17 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1995 (60 min)
Jodie Foster
Episode: 18x18 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1995 (60 min)
Martin Amis
Episode: 18x19 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1995 (60 min)
Country Music
Episode: 18x20 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1995 (60 min)
Miriam Makeba
Episode: 18x21 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1995 (60 min)
Nora Ephron
Episode: 18x22 | Airdate: Jun 25, 1995 (60 min)
Specials
40th Anniversary Special
Episode: 2018 Special | Airdate: Jan 14, 2018 (120 min)
Using a mix of clips from the past four decades, new interviews and comments from Melvyn Bragg, this special edition celebrates 40 years of The South Bank Show.
The episode list was truncated because of the large number of episodes. Visit the seasons page to see individual seasons' episode guides.