The South Bank Show

Episode 1

Francis Ford Coppola

53 mins

Episode 2

Royal Shakespeare Company Masterclass: Part 1

53 mins

Episode 3

Royal Shakespeare Company Masterclass: Part 2

53 mins

Episode 4

Talking Heads/School Choirs Competition

53 mins

Footage of band Talking Heads rehearsing.

Episode 5

Love and the Ice-Cream Vendor

53 mins

Episode 6

Fay Weldon/Richard Hoggart on Northern Ireland in drama

53 mins

Episode 7

Merce Cunningham

53 mins

Episode 8

Elegies for the Deaths of Three Spanish Poets

53 mins

Episode 9

A Time There Was... A profile of Benjamin Britten

103 mins

Featuring: Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Britten, Barbara Britten, Sviatoslav Richter, Janet Baker, Julian Bream, Heather Harper, John Shirley-Quirk, Imogen Holst, Rosamund Strode, Rudolf Bing, Henry Moore, Paul Rotha, Beata Mayer, David Rothman, The English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Stewart Bedford. With Music from: 'Peter Grimes' 'The Rape of Lucretia' 'Billy Budd' 'Turn of the Screw' 'Noye's Fludde' 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' 'Curlew River' 'The Burning Fiery Furnace' 'Death in Venice' 'War Requiem' 'Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra' and many more... Winner of the Prix Italia

Episode 10

The Greene Adaptations (Graham Greene films)

53 mins

Episode 11

Salsa (Puerto Rican music)

53 mins

Episode 12

The Worlds of Edward Bond

53 mins

Episode 13

Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli/Kingsley Amis

53 mins

Episode 14

New British Rock Films/The Tin Drum (film)

53 mins

Episode 15

Roman Polanski

42 mins

Episode 16

Tom Wolfe

53 mins

Episode 17

Andrew Wyeth

53 mins

Episode 18

Angus Wilson

53 mins

Episode 19

Jane Austen in Manhattan

53 mins

Episode 20

Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical

53 mins

Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of "Sweeney Todd", this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process with the musical's director, composer and actors.