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The South Bank Show

Season 9 · 24 episodes · Oct 6, 1985

  1. Episode 1

    Sir Alec Guinness

    Oct 6, 1985

  2. Episode 2

    Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor

    Oct 13, 1985

  3. Episode 3

    Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year

    Oct 20, 1985

  4. Episode 4

    Theatre of Comedy workshop

    Oct 27, 1985

  5. Episode 5

    Pete Townshend: After the Fire

    Nov 3, 1985

  6. Episode 6

    Sir Stephen Spender

    Nov 10, 1985

  7. Episode 7

    Marguerite Duras

    Nov 17, 1985

  8. Episode 8

    Karole Armitage

    Nov 24, 1985

  9. Episode 9

    Peter Shaffer

    Dec 1, 1985

  10. Episode 10

    John Cleese

    Jan 12, 1986

    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.

  11. Episode 11

    Vladimir Ashkenazy

    Jan 19, 1986

  12. Episode 12

    Paul Schrader

    Jan 26, 1986

  13. Episode 13

    Purcell's Dido and Aenaes

    Feb 2, 1986

  14. Episode 14

    Patrick Heron

    Feb 9, 1986

  15. Episode 15

    Blue Note Records

    Feb 16, 1986

  16. Episode 16

    Michala Petri

    Feb 23, 1986

  17. Episode 17

    Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

    Mar 2, 1986

  18. Episode 18

    Absolute Beginners (film)

    Mar 9, 1986

  19. Episode 19

    Arthur Boyd

    Mar 23, 1986

  20. Episode 20

    Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical

    Apr 6, 1986

  21. Episode 21

    British Soap Operas

    Apr 13, 1986

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    Episode 22

    Hull Truck Theatre Company

    Apr 20, 1986

  23. Episode 23

    Velvet Underground

    Apr 27, 1986

    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.

  24. Episode 24

    Al Jolson

    May 4, 1986