The South Bank Show Season 16 Episodes

Episode 1

Billy Connolly 2

53 mins

Episode 2

Alice Walker

53 mins

Episode 3

Peter O'Toole

53 mins

Melvyn Bragg interviews Peter O'Toole about the first volume of his autobiography. In it we learn of his love of acting, the race track and his strange boyhood obsession with Adolf Hitler and how this led to his involvement in the 1976 movie "Rogue Male".

Episode 4

Two Royal Ballet Dancers

53 mins

Episode 5

Robert Zemeckis

53 mins

Episode 6

George Formby

53 mins

Documentary about the life and death and the career of actor and singer/song writer George Formby. This episode of the south bank show covers the rise of George Formby career with insights of his family including his father and includes Interviews with George Formby's brother and sister, Ted and Elba.

Episode 7

Sir Richard Attenborough

75 mins

Documentary on the life and work of Richard Attenborough, broadcast to tie in with the release of Chaplin (1992).

Episode 8

The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax

53 mins

Episode 9

The World of Jeff Koons

53 mins

Episode 10

Jimi Hendrix 2

53 mins

Episode 11

Dracula

53 mins

A look at the famous vampire story from the original Bram Stoker novel to the then-recent big budget re-imagining by Francis Ford Coppola.

Episode 12

Monserrat Caballe

Sun, Jan 31, 199353 mins

Episode 13

Annie Leibovitz

51 mins

A profile of the celebrated American photographer Annie Leibovitz, following her at work in New York, Los Angeles and Paris and profiling two decades of popular culture and the cult of the celebrity through her camera lens.

Episode 14

Guggenheim Museum

53 mins

Episode 15

Dmitri and Sasha Sitkovetsky

53 mins

Episode 16

Jean Genet

53 mins

Episode 17

I, Berlioz

53 mins

The composer recounts personal loves and sorrows, ecstatic music-making, frustrated dealings with producers, ravages of war, endless revolutions, and as his own death nears, the threat of an invading army at the gates of Paris.

Episode 18

Richard Price

53 mins

Episode 19

John Banville

53 mins

Episode 20

Henryk Gorecki's 3rd Symphony

53 mins

Episode 21

Dudley Moore

53 mins

Profile of Dudley Moore. Contributions from Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Blake Edwards, Bo Derek, Sir Georg Solti and others. Revisits Sydney Russell Comprehensive and St Thomas's Church Dagenham. Performs at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Episode 22

Frink, 1930-1993 (Dame Elisabeth Frink)

53 mins

Episode 23

Benny Goodman, the King of Swing

53 mins

Episode 24

Paul Simon

53 mins

Episode 25

Norman Wisdom

53 mins