The South Bank Show

Episode 1

Sir Alec Guinness

53 mins

Episode 2

Peter Ackroyd

53 mins

Episode 3

Ian McKellen: Diary of a Year

53 mins

Episode 4

Theatre of Comedy workshop

53 mins

Episode 5

Pete Townshend: After the Fire

53 mins

Episode 6

Sir Stephen Spender

53 mins

Episode 7

Marguerite Duras

53 mins

Episode 8

Karole Armitage

53 mins

Episode 9

Peter Shaffer

53 mins

Episode 10

John Cleese

53 mins

John Cleese is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 1986 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). Cleese speaks of his comedy background, writing for That Was the Week That Was, At Last the 1948 Show and The Frost Report, all which led to Monty Python's Flying Circus, and of Fawlty Towers, which was co-written with his then wife, Connie Booth.

Episode 11

Vladimir Ashkenazy

53 mins

Episode 12

Paul Schrader

53 mins

Episode 13

Purcell's Dido and Aenaes

53 mins

Episode 14

Patrick Heron

53 mins

Episode 15

Blue Note Records

53 mins

Episode 16

Michala Petri

53 mins

Episode 17

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

53 mins

Episode 18

Absolute Beginners (film)

53 mins

Episode 19

Arthur Boyd

51 mins

Episode 20

Elliott Carter

54 mins

Includes biographical information and performances of excerpts of Elliott Carter's compositions A Symphony of Three Orchestras, Holiday Overture, Concerto for Orchestra, String Quartet No. 2, Piano Sonata, and Night Fantasies.

Episode 21

Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical

53 mins

Episode 22

British Soap Operas

53 mins

Episode 23

Velvet Underground

53 mins

Episode 24

Hull Truck Theatre Company

53 mins

Episode 25

Al Jolson

53 mins