The South Bank Show Season 26 Episodes

Episode 1

Mike Leigh

53 mins

Episode 2

Akram Khan

53 mins

Episode 3

Graham Vick: Beethoven in the Big Top

53 mins

Graham Vick directs Birmingham Opera's community staging of Beethoven's Fidelio.

Episode 4

Craig David

53 mins

Episode 5

Andrew Davies

53 mins

Episode 6

Joan Rivers

53 mins

Episode 7

James MacMillan

53 mins

Episode 8

Willie Nelson

53 mins

Episode 9

Irek Mukhamedov

53 mins

Episode 10

Gerhard Richter

53 mins

Episode 11

Hanif Kureishi

53 mins

Episode 12

How to Get Rich: Felix Dennis

53 mins

Episode 13

Philip Pullman

53 mins

Episode 14

Caryl Phillips

53 mins

Filmed in London, Leeds and St Kitts, this documentary film explores the life and work of novelist and playwright, Caryl Phillips. Phillips, born in the West Indies but brought up in Leeds, has written extensively about notions of home and his colonial inheritance both in his novels but also in his non-fiction. We follow the author back to the West Indies of his birth but also to Leeds where his fascination and examination of ideas of identity and belonging is matched only by his obsession with Leeds United Football Club.

Episode 15

Conor McPherson

53 mins

Episode 16

Herbie Hancock

53 mins

Episode 17

Caetano Veloso

53 mins

Episode 18

Ang Lee

53 mins

Episode 19

The Real George Orwell

53 mins

Episode 20

Juan Diego Florez

53 mins

Episode 21

The Songwriting World of Nick Cave

51 mins

Documentary profile of one of the most original singer-songwriters, occasional novelist and now screenwriter, of the past 30 years. Filmed in London, Berlin and Bury-St-Edmunds, and built around a candid interview with Cave, the documentary looks at his early work but also examines his deep interest in dark love songs.

Episode 22

Albert Camus

53 mins

Episode 23

Robert Harris Takes on Rome

53 mins

Episode 24

Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Full Picture

53 mins

Episode 25

Ewan McGregor

53 mins