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The South Bank Show

Season 11 · 24 episodes · Oct 4, 1987

  1. Episode 1

    Maria Callas

    Oct 4, 1987

  2. Episode 2

    Toni Morrison

    Oct 11, 1987

  3. Episode 3

    The Smiths

    Oct 18, 1987

    This documentary on The Smiths was filmed just days before the band went their separate ways in 1987. Contains interviews of Morrissey, Marr, Joyce and Rourke, as well as Linder, Shaun Duggan, Jo O'Keefe, John Peel, Nick Kent, Sandie Shaw and Viv Nicholson.

  4. Episode 4

    Andy Warhol

    Oct 25, 1987

  5. Episode 5

    Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega

    Nov 1, 1987

  6. Episode 6

    Sir Terence Conran

    Nov 8, 1987

  7. Episode 7

    Gore Vidal

    Nov 15, 1987

  8. Episode 8

    African music / Russian theatre

    Nov 22, 1987

  9. Episode 9

    Sir George Solti

    Nov 29, 1987

  10. Episode 10

    Eric Clapton

    Dec 6, 1987

  11. Episode 11

    Arts Review '87

    Dec 20, 1987

  12. Episode 12

    The Last Emperor (1988 film)

    Jan 17, 1988

  13. Episode 13

    Australian Aboriginies

    Jan 24, 1988

  14. Episode 14

    Boogie Woogie Music

    Jan 31, 1988

  15. Episode 15

    The Golden Age of Television

    Feb 14, 1988

    A lecture about television given at the British Film Institute.

  16. Episode 16

    George Barker

    Feb 21, 1988

  17. Episode 17

    Jackson Pollack

    Feb 28, 1988

  18. Episode 18

    Lenny Henry

    Mar 6, 1988

  19. Episode 19

    Peter Dickinson

    Mar 13, 1988

  20. Episode 20

    A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China

    Mar 20, 1988

  21. Episode 21

    Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans

    Mar 27, 1988

  22. Episode 22

    Ken Russell's ABC of British Music

    Apr 2, 1988

  23. Episode 24

    Doris Lessing

    Apr 17, 1988

  24. Episode 25

    Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production

    Apr 24, 1988