Melvyn Bragg
Director
The South Bank Show (1978)
Season 9
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.
Released Jan. 14, 1978
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Documentary, Talk, Talk Show
Keywords: imdb.informal, imdb.interview, imdb.discussion, imdb.four-word-title, imdb.cardinal-direction-in-title, tmdb.arts-and-culture, tmdb.talk-show, tmdb.popular-culture
Production Companies: LWT
Network: Sky Arts
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S9E1 - Sir Alec Guinness
Oct. 6, 1985, midnight
S9E2 - Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
Oct. 13, 1985, midnight
S9E3 - Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year
Oct. 20, 1985, midnight
S9E4 - Theatre of Comedy workshop
Oct. 27, 1985, midnight
S9E5 - Pete Townshend: After the Fire
Nov. 3, 1985, midnight
S9E6 - Sir Stephen Spender
Nov. 10, 1985, midnight
S9E7 - Marguerite Duras
Nov. 17, 1985, midnight
S9E8 - Karole Armitage
Nov. 24, 1985, midnight
S9E9 - Peter Shaffer
Dec. 1, 1985, midnight
S9E10 - John Cleese
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.
Jan. 12, 1986, midnight
S9E11 - Vladimir Ashkenazy
Jan. 19, 1986, midnight
S9E12 - Paul Schrader
Jan. 26, 1986, midnight
S9E13 - Purcell's Dido and Aenaes
Feb. 2, 1986, midnight
S9E14 - Patrick Heron
Feb. 9, 1986, midnight
S9E15 - Blue Note Records
Feb. 16, 1986, midnight
S9E16 - Michala Petri
Feb. 23, 1986, midnight
S9E17 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
March 2, 1986, midnight
S9E18 - Absolute Beginners (film)
March 9, 1986, midnight
S9E19 - Arthur Boyd
March 23, 1986, midnight
S9E20 - Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical
April 6, 1986, midnight
S9E21 - British Soap Operas
April 13, 1986, midnight
S9E22 - Hull Truck Theatre Company
April 20, 1986, midnight
S9E23 - Velvet Underground
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.
April 27, 1986, midnight
S9E24 - Al Jolson
May 4, 1986, midnight
Sky Arts
60 min/ep
60 min
Jan. 14, 1978
Aug. 29, 2023, midnight
Ended
NR
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