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The South Bank Show

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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.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Sir Alec Guinness

    1985-10-06
  2. 2

    Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor

    1985-10-13
  3. 3

    Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year

    1985-10-20
  4. 4

    Theatre of Comedy workshop

    1985-10-27
  5. 5

    Pete Townshend: After the Fire

    1985-11-03
  6. 6

    Sir Stephen Spender

    1985-11-10
  7. 7

    Marguerite Duras

    1985-11-17
  8. 8

    Karole Armitage

    1985-11-24
  9. 9

    Peter Shaffer

    1985-12-01
  10. 10

    John Cleese

    1986-01-12

    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. 11

    Vladimir Ashkenazy

    1986-01-19
  12. 12

    Paul Schrader

    1986-01-26
  13. 13

    Purcell's Dido and Aenaes

    1986-02-02
  14. 14

    Patrick Heron

    1986-02-09
  15. 15

    Blue Note Records

    1986-02-16
  16. 16

    Michala Petri

    1986-02-23
  17. 17

    Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

    1986-03-02
  18. 18

    Absolute Beginners (film)

    1986-03-09
  19. 19

    Arthur Boyd

    1986-03-23
  20. 20

    Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical

    1986-04-06
  21. 21

    British Soap Operas

    1986-04-13
  22. 22

    Hull Truck Theatre Company

    1986-04-20
  23. 23

    Velvet Underground

    1986-04-27

    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. 24

    Al Jolson

    1986-05-04

Cast

Melvyn Bragg Self - Presenter

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