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The South Bank Show
First Air Date: 1978-01-14
Seasons: 39
Episodes: 743
Rating: 5.6/10
Overview:
The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show that was 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.
Genres: Documentary
πΊ Seasons
Episode 1: Paul McCartney/surrealist exhibition
Episode 2: Paganini Superstar
Episode 3: Roy Minton
Episode 4: David Hockney
Episode 5: Dennis Potter
Episode 6: John Peel/Jane Glover
Episode 7: Arabian Days (Edna O'Brien)/Quentin Crisp
Episode 8: Jacques Loussier
Episode 9: Ken Dodd
Episode 10: Georges Simenon
Episode 11: Horowitz at the White House
Episode 12: Carl Perkins/Morgan horses
Episode 13: Carry On with Paul Morissey (Carry On ... films)
Episode 14: Search for Shaw
Episode 15: Harold Pinter
Episode 16: Satyajit Ray/John Williams/Ralph McTell
Episode 17: Portrait of a Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan
Episode 18: Freddie Young
Episode 19: Frank Auerbach
Episode 20: Mayerling Ballet
Episode 21: John Osborne on Wardle's book on Devine/Pearl (radio play)
Episode 22: Ingmar Bergman at 60
Episode 23: Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (1)
Episode 24: Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (2)
Episode 1: Tom Stoppard
Episode 2: Grace Under Pressure (Anthony Burgess on Hemingway)
Episode 3: Woody Allen
Episode 4: Anatomy of an Opera: Jonathan Miller's Figaro
Episode 5: Rhythm of Resistance (South African music)
Episode 6: Harmony of the Spheres (Neil Ardley)
Episode 7: Circus Clowns/Schubert recital by Richter
Episode 8: Royal Shakespeare Company on tour
Episode 9: Brimstone & Treacle (Dennis Potter) / John McLaughlin, a Musical Journey
Episode 10: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Edward Gorey / Gunter Grass
Episode 11: Michael Cimino / Alan Bennett, Stephen Frears
Episode 12: Gordon Williams, Alan Sharp, Eddie Boyd
Episode 13: Derek Boshier / Ingrid Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Episode 14: Neil Simon
Episode 15: Beryl Cook / Cloud Nine rehearsals
Episode 16: Graham Sutherland
Episode 17: Darryl Way / Howard Brenton
Episode 18: The Europeans (film) / Joseph Heller
Episode 19: Asian Arts festival
Episode 20: Billy Connolly
Episode 21: Jessye Norman
Episode 22: Rough Trade (record label) / Allen Jones
Episode 23: Scum (film) / Keith Jarrett
Episode 24: Michael Tippett (90 min.)
Episode 1: Francis Ford Coppola
Episode 2: Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (1)
Episode 3: Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (2)
Episode 4: Talking Heads
Episode 5: Love and the Ice-Cream Vendor
Episode 6: Fay Weldon / Richard Hogart on Northern Ireland in drama
Episode 7: Merce Cunningham
Episode 8: Elegies for the Deaths of Three Spanish Poets
Episode 9: A Time There was ... (Benjamin Britten)
Episode 10: The Greene Adaptations (Graham Greene films)
Episode 11: Salsa (Puerto Rican music)
Episode 12: The Worlds of Edward Bond
Episode 13: Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli / Kinglsey Amis
Episode 14: new British rock films / The Tin Drum (film)
Episode 15: Roman Polanski
Episode 16: Tom Wolfe
Episode 17: Andrew Wyeth
Episode 18: Angus Wilson
Episode 19: Jane Austen (film)
Episode 1: Arthur Miller
Episode 2: William Golding
Episode 3: Akira Kurosawa
Episode 4: Stravinsky's The Firebird
Episode 5: No Need to Lie
Episode 6: The Passion (National Theatre's updating of medieval plays)
Episode 7: Toni Morrison
Episode 8: The Trespasser (film)
Episode 9: Don Juan in Hell
Episode 10: poetry workshop
Episode 11: Martin Scorsese
Episode 12: Elizabeth Taylor / John Hubbard
Episode 13: Bob Fosse
Episode 14: Robert Redford / Martin Amis
Episode 15: Verity Bargate / Howard Hodgkin
Episode 16: At the Haunted End of the Day: the Life of Sir William Walton
Episode 17: Gore Vidal
Episode 18: The Roots of the Tree (Ermanno Olmi)
Episode 19: Colin Welland
Episode 20: Christopher Logue / Phillip King
Episode 21: Lulu's Last Act (Berg opera)
Episode 22: Dame Ninette De Valois / David Hockney on Picasso
Episode 23: Clive James / Craig Raine
Episode 24: Soviet Art
Episode 25: Rhythm and Blues (The Blues Band, Dr. Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, Paul Jones)
Episode 26: Music for a City: Venice
Episode 1: The French Lieutenant's Woman
Episode 2: Elvis Costello
Episode 3: Old Glory: the Journey and the Book
Episode 4: Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan
Episode 5: Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield
Episode 6: A Talent to Vex: John Osborne
Episode 7: Mama Lu Parks
Episode 8: Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day
Episode 9: Milos Forman
Episode 10: Germaine Greer
Episode 11: Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH
Episode 12: Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller
Episode 13: Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson
Episode 14: Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)
Episode 15: Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash
Episode 16: Peter Maxwell-Davies
Episode 17: Saul Bellow
Episode 18: Indian wallpainting
Episode 19: Stravinski (1)
Episode 20: Stravinski (2)
Episode 21: Julian Lloyd-Webber
Episode 22: Miles Davis / Robert Nye
Episode 23: Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs)
Episode 24: Joseph Papp / James Galway
Episode 25: Werner Herzog
Episode 26: Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver)
Episode 27: Phillip Larkin
Episode 1: Laurence Olivier, a Life (1)
Episode 2: Laurence Olivier, a Life (2)
Episode 3: Peter Gabriel
Episode 4: Bruce Chatwin
Episode 5: Patricia Highsmith
Episode 6: Steven Spielberg
Episode 7: Gospel at Colonus
Episode 8: Simone De Beauvoir
Episode 9: Barry Flannigan / Seamus Heaney
Episode 10: David Hare
Episode 11: Agnes De Mille
Episode 12: Handel's Semele (by the Royal Opera House)
Episode 13: Sam Fuller
Episode 14: Local Hero (film)
Episode 15: R.K. Narayan
Episode 16: Ivo Pogorelich
Episode 17: John Le CarrΓΒ©
Episode 18: Choirs and Places Where They Sing
Episode 19: William Trevor
Episode 20: Gene Hackman
Episode 21: Keith Waterhouse
Episode 22: Robert Lowell / Benjamin Britten's Quartettino
Episode 23: Cowboy Art
Episode 24: Jiri Kylian
Episode 25: Producing Don Giovanni
Episode 26: Ken Russell's View of The Planets
Episode 1: Piper's Way
Episode 2: Yuri Lyubimov
Episode 4: Jack Lemmon
Episode 5: Catherine Cookson
Episode 6: Lillian Gish/Glen Baxter
Episode 7: Alberto Moravia
Episode 8: Ian Hamilton Finlay/Lord Gowrie
Episode 9: Barry Tuckwell: Master of the Horn
Episode 10: Trevor Griffiths
Episode 11: Weather Report
Episode 12: Claudio Arrau
Episode 13: Kathy Acker
Episode 14: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Episode 15: Sir Ernst Gombrich
Episode 16: Michael Frayn
Episode 17: Ed McBain
Episode 18: David Bintley: New Ballet at Sadler's Wells
Episode 19: Stephen Sondheim
Episode 20: Elisabeth Vellacott / DeCocoa, Hot Chocolate
Episode 21: adaptation of Ivy Compton Burnett's Elders and Betters
Episode 22: Kipling (one-man play with Alec McGowen)
Episode 23: Anthony Caro
Episode 1: Alan Bennett
Episode 2: McCartney's Broad Street
Episode 3: The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)
Episode 4: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Episode 5: Norman Nicholson
Episode 6: Joseph Heller
Episode 7: Mstislav Rostropovich
Episode 8: Max Wall
Episode 10: Alan Bleasdale
Episode 11: Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence
Episode 13: Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex
Episode 14: Marc Chagall
Episode 15: David Lean: a Life in Film
Episode 16: Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony
Episode 17: Little Richard
Episode 18: George Malcolm on Scarlatti
Episode 19: Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company
Episode 20: Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg
Episode 21: David Mamet
Episode 22: Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith
Episode 23: The Cotton Club (night club)
Episode 24: Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)
Episode 25: Francis Bacon
Episode 26: George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century
Episode 1: Sir Alec Guinness
Episode 2: Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
Episode 3: Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year
Episode 4: Theatre of Comedy workshop
Episode 5: Pete Townshend: After the Fire
Episode 6: Sir Stephen Spender
Episode 7: Marguerite Duras
Episode 8: Karole Armitage
Episode 9: Peter Shaffer
Episode 10: John Cleese
Episode 11: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Episode 12: Paul Schrader
Episode 13: Purcell's Dido and Aenaes
Episode 14: Patrick Heron
Episode 15: Blue Note Records
Episode 16: Michala Petri
Episode 17: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Episode 18: Absolute Beginners (film)
Episode 19: Arthur Boyd
Episode 20: Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical
Episode 21: British Soap Operas
Episode 22: Hull Truck Theatre Company
Episode 23: Velvet Underground
Episode 24: Al Jolson
Episode 1: John Mortimer
Episode 4: Michael Powell
Episode 5: Truman Capote
Episode 6: Fay Godwin
Episode 7: The Andrew Lloyd-Webber Story
Episode 8: Agatha Christie, How Did She Do It?
Episode 9: The Dream is Over (Christopher Bruce ballet on John Lennon)
Episode 10: Arts Review '86
Episode 11: Anthony Hopkins / David Hare
Episode 12: Philip Glass
Episode 13: Alvin Ailey Dance Theater
Episode 14: Anthony Green: RA, a Love Story
Episode 15: birth of Frankenstein and Dracula
Episode 16: Thomas Allen
Episode 17: The Wooster Group
Episode 18: The London Underground in art
Episode 20: Barbara Dickson
Episode 21: Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Episode 22: Turner at the Tate
Episode 23: George V. Higgins
Episode 24: Peter York lecture
Episode 25: The Aida File: The Making of the Opera (1)
Episode 26: The Aida File: Aida Performance (2)
Episode 1: Maria Callas
Episode 2: Toni Morrison
Episode 3: The Smiths
Episode 4: Andy Warhol
Episode 5: Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega
Episode 6: Sir Terence Conran
Episode 7: Gore Vidal
Episode 8: African music / Russian theatre
Episode 9: Sir George Solti
Episode 10: Eric Clapton
Episode 11: Arts Review '87
Episode 12: The Last Emperor (1988 film)
Episode 13: Australian Aboriginies
Episode 14: Boogie Woogie Music
Episode 15: The Golden Age of Television
Episode 16: George Barker
Episode 17: Jackson Pollack
Episode 18: Lenny Henry
Episode 19: Peter Dickinson
Episode 20: A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China
Episode 21: Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans
Episode 22: Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
Episode 24: Doris Lessing
Episode 25: Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production
Episode 1: The Art of Walt Disney
Episode 2: Bernard Shaw
Episode 3: Under Milk Wood
Episode 4: Toulouse-Lautrec
Episode 5: David Puttnam
Episode 6: David Hockney
Episode 7: Two Women in Three Dimensions (Wendy Taylor, Nicola Hicks)
Episode 8: Bristol WWII bombing raids reenactment
Episode 9: Raymond Chandler
Episode 10: Neil Jordan
Episode 11: John Houseman
Episode 12: David Bailey
Episode 13: Derek Walcott
Episode 14: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Episode 15: National Training Orchestra
Episode 16: Christopher Hampton
Episode 17: Istvan Szabo
Episode 18: Robert Redford
Episode 19: Tony Palmer on the concerto
Episode 20: Ben Elton
Episode 21: John Burnett
Episode 22: Put Blood in the Music (New York avant garde music)
Episode 23: John Ogdon
Episode 24: Sir William Golding
Episode 1: Martin Amis
Episode 2: Dustin Hoffman, Sir Peter Hall
Episode 3: Jimi Hendrix
Episode 4: Tom Keneally in Eritrea
Episode 5: Ken Russell
Episode 6: Steven Berkoff
Episode 7: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Episode 8: Fitzrovia
Episode 9: Dame Edna Everage
Episode 10: Evelyn Glennie
Episode 11: Peter Brook
Episode 12: Arts Review '89
Episode 13: Boris Pasternak
Episode 14: Sir David Lean, Robert Bolt
Episode 15: Christopher Hogwood
Episode 16: Chinua Achebe
Episode 17: Hans Werner Henze
Episode 18: Jock Tamson's Bairns (Gerry Mulgrew, Liz Lochhead)
Episode 19: Yuri Bashmet
Episode 20: DV8 Physical Theatre
Episode 21: Mark Morris: the Hidden Soul of Harmony
Episode 22: Carl Davis, Temba
Episode 23: Vivienne Westwood
Episode 24: Hindemith
Episode 25: Robert Altman
Episode 1: George Michael
Episode 2: Peter Ackroyd on Dickens
Episode 3: Spike Lee
Episode 4: Salman Rushdie
Episode 5: Roy Lichtenstein
Episode 6: Ken Russell on Anton Bruckner
Episode 7: Clear Cool Crystal Streams (Irish rock music)
Episode 8: John Updike
Episode 9: East German writers
Episode 10: Alan Parker
Episode 11: Cameron Mackintosh
Episode 12: Spitting Image
Episode 13: The Talis Scholars
Episode 14: Stan Laurel
Episode 15: August Wilson
Episode 16: Oscar Marzaroli
Episode 17: Anne-Sophie Mutter
Episode 18: Bonfire of the Vanities (1991 film)
Episode 19: Willard White
Episode 20: The Five Blind Boys of Alabama / R.S. Thomas
Episode 21: Steve Martin
Episode 22: Rudolph Nureyev
Episode 23: Kiri Te Kanawa
Episode 1: Private Eye
Episode 2: David Lodge
Episode 3: Terry Gilliam
Episode 4: Neil Simon
Episode 5: Heinrich Schiff
Episode 6: Seamus Heaney
Episode 7: John Osborne
Episode 8: Dame Britain (Vera Lynn)
Episode 9: Arthur Miller
Episode 10: Jose Carreras, a Life Story
Episode 11: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Episode 12: Arts Review '91
Episode 13: Douglas Adams
Episode 14: Lenny Henry Hunts the Funk
Episode 15: Hakan Hardenberger
Episode 16: Cecilia Bartoli
Episode 17: Les Murray
Episode 18: Colin Thubron
Episode 19: Pet Shop Boys
Episode 20: Paula Rego
Episode 21: Noel Coward
Episode 22: Anthony Hopkins
Episode 23: Terence Davis
Episode 24: Making Naked Lunch
Episode 25: The Making of Sgt. Pepper
Episode 1: Billy Connolly
Episode 2: Alice Walker
Episode 3: Peter O'Toole
Episode 4: Two Royal Ballet Dancers (Darcey Bussell, Viviana Durante)
Episode 5: Robert Zemeckis
Episode 6: George Formby
Episode 7: Sir Richard Attenborough
Episode 8: The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax
Episode 9: The World of Jeff Koons
Episode 10: Jimi Hendrix
Episode 11: Dracula
Episode 12: Monserrat Caballe
Episode 13: Annie Leibowitz
Episode 14: Guggenheim Museum
Episode 15: Dmitri and Sasha Sitkovetsky
Episode 16: Jean Genet
Episode 17: I, Berlioz
Episode 18: Richard Price
Episode 19: John Banville
Episode 20: Henryk Gorecki's 3rd symphony
Episode 21: Dudley Moore
Episode 22: Frink, 1930-1993 (Dame Elisabeth Frink)
Episode 23: Benny Goodman, the King of Swing
Episode 24: Paul Simon
Episode 25: Norman Wisdom
Episode 1: Sydney Pollack
Episode 2: Willy Russell
Episode 3: Ken Loach
Episode 4: Margaret Atwood
Episode 5: John Lee Hooker
Episode 6: Stevie Wonder
Episode 7: Sylvie Guillem
Episode 8: Tim Rice
Episode 9: Lynda La Plante
Episode 10: John Williams
Episode 11: John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (1)
Episode 12: John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (2)
Episode 13: Cliff Richard
Episode 14: Bheki Mseleku
Episode 15: Darker Than Me
Episode 16: Jean-Claude Carriere
Episode 17: Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool
Episode 18: Looking for the Perfect Beat: Rap
Episode 19: Larry Adler Plays Gershwin
Episode 20: Kiri's 50th Birthday Concert
Episode 21: Clive Barker
Episode 22: Dawn French
Episode 23: Christian Boltanski
Episode 24: Eric Newby
Episode 25: John Steinbeck
Episode 1: Kenneth Williams
Episode 2: Marilyn Horne
Episode 3: New Generation Poets
Episode 4: Vanessa Redgrave
Episode 5: David Mamet
Episode 6: The Shearing Touch (George Shearing)
Episode 7: Alan Ayckbourn
Episode 8: Frankenstein
Episode 9: Thora Hird
Episode 10: The Glory of Gershwin
Episode 11: P.J. O'Rourke
Episode 12: Lionel Bart
Episode 13: Carl Orff
Episode 14: Classic Widows
Episode 15: Jonathan Miller
Episode 16: Flags of the Fante Coast
Episode 17: Catherine Bailey, the Lady is a Tramp / Roger Ballen
Episode 18: Edward Albee
Episode 19: Jodie Foster
Episode 20: Martin Amis
Episode 21: Country Music
Episode 22: Miriam Makeba
Episode 1: Clint Eastwwod
Episode 2: Ackroyd's Blake
Episode 3: Tom Sharpe
Episode 4: kd lang
Episode 5: Pavarotti at 60
Episode 6: Jimmy Nail
Episode 7: Dame Judi Dench
Episode 8: Coronation Street
Episode 9: Dame Barbara Cartland
Episode 10: Jonathan Raban: Badlands / Wynton Marsalis
Episode 11: Elaine Page Special
Episode 12: Sting
Episode 13: Albert Finney
Episode 14: Marlene Dietrich
Episode 15: John Eliot Gardiner
Episode 16: Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence
Episode 17: Claes Oldenburg
Episode 18: Baaba Maal
Episode 19: Maxine Peake / Wynton Marsalis in New Orleans
Episode 20: Alan Ayckbourn Workshop
Episode 1: Victoria Wood
Episode 2: Sir John Mills
Episode 3: Michael Crawford
Episode 4: Norman Mailer on Picasso
Episode 5: Chanson
Episode 6: Michael Collins
Episode 7: Bryn Terfel
Episode 8: Howard Hodgkin
Episode 9: Jimmy McGovern
Episode 10: Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
Episode 11: Maggi Hambling
Episode 13: The US and Us (1)
Episode 14: The US and Us (2)
Episode 15: Gilbert and George (1)
Episode 16: Gilbert and George (2)
Episode 17: Valery Gergiev
Episode 18: Paganini
Episode 19: David Helfgott
Episode 20: Paul Auster
Episode 21: Young Directors (Preya Lal, Alexander Kelly, Franca Cereghini, Chris Dooks)
Episode 1: Scarfe on Hercules
Episode 2: Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance
Episode 3: Kay Mellor
Episode 4: BjΓΆrk
Episode 5: Iain Banks
Episode 6: Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures
Episode 7: Steven Bochco
Episode 8: Simon Raven
Episode 9: Franco Zeffirelli
Episode 10: Saul Zaentz
Episode 11: Gillian Wearing / Gary Hume
Episode 12: Marks and Gran
Episode 13: Hail Bop: a Portrait of John Adams
Episode 14: Nigel Kennedy
Episode 15: Gary Oldman
Episode 16: Body Art
Episode 17: John Tavener
Episode 18: The Bee Gees
Episode 19: Will Self
Episode 20: Afro-Cuban Allstars
Episode 21: This is Not an Exit: the Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis
Episode 22: Wayne Sleep
Episode 1: Ossie Clarke (1)
Episode 2: Ossie Clarke (2)
Episode 3: Lesley Garrett
Episode 4: Harold Pinter
Episode 5: Maxine Peake/Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Episode 6: Walter Mosley
Episode 7: Petula Clark
Episode 8: Warren Beatty
Episode 9: John Tomlinson
Episode 10: Javier du Frutos
Episode 11: UB40
Episode 12: Anish Kapoor
Episode 13: New South African Artists
Episode 14: Lucy Gannon
Episode 15: Tony Harrison
Episode 16: Dolly Parton
Episode 1: Paul Merton
Episode 2: Frank McCourt
Episode 3: Howard Jacobson
Episode 4: Jose Cura
Episode 5: James Galway
Episode 6: The Lion King (stage play based on the film)
Episode 7: Joan Collins
Episode 8: Blur
Episode 9: Yoko Ono
Episode 10: Cher
Episode 11: Countertenors
Episode 12: Bing Crosby
Episode 13: Shakespeare
Episode 14: Millennium Dome
Episode 15: Sam Mendes
Episode 16: Michael Douglas
Episode 17: Chuck Close
Episode 18: Emir Kusturica
Episode 19: Amis on Amis
Episode 20: (composing classical music) (1)
Episode 21: Simon Holt's Sunrise, Yellow Noise (2)
Episode 1: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton
Episode 2: Santana
Episode 3: Joyce [Carol Oates] on Marilyn [Monroe]
Episode 5: Mark Morris Dance Group
Episode 6: George MacDonald Fraser
Episode 7: Courtney Pine
Episode 8: Ron Howard
Episode 9: Dame Gillian Weir
Episode 10: [Marlene] Dumas and [Jemima] Stehli
Episode 11: Mark Quinn
Episode 12: Tom Jones
Episode 13: Ken Russell
Episode 14: Shirin Neshat
Episode 15: Russell Watson
Episode 16: Amos Oz
Episode 17: Greta Garbo
Episode 18: Elvis Costello with Annie Sofie von Otter
Episode 19: Bill Bryson
Episode 20: Ian Rankin
Episode 21: Ian Bostridge
Episode 22: Edmund White
Episode 23: Steve Coogan
Episode 24: Ravi Shankar
Episode 25: Tracey Emin
Episode 1: High and Low Culture in the Age of Television
Episode 2: (highlights)
Episode 3: Rachel Whiteread
Episode 4: Norman Foster
Episode 5: Dr. John
Episode 6: Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Episode 7: Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss RenΓΒ©e Fleming
Episode 8: The Sopranos
Episode 9: Leif Ove Andsnes
Episode 10: Why the Novel Matters
Episode 11: Meera Syal
Episode 12: Johnnie Ray
Episode 13: Mario Vargas Llosa
Episode 14: Fay Weldon
Episode 15: R.E.M.
Episode 16: Neil LaBute
Episode 17: Cinema of Fire (Iranian cinema)
Episode 18: Moby
Episode 19: Bernie Taupin
Episode 1: Mike Leigh
Episode 2: Akram Khan
Episode 3: Graham Vick: Beethoven in the Big Top
Episode 4: Craig David
Episode 5: Andrew Davies
Episode 6: Joan Rivers
Episode 7: Willie Nelson
Episode 8: James MacMillan
Episode 9: Irek Mukhamedov
Episode 10: Gerhard Richter
Episode 11: Hanif Kureishi
Episode 12: How to Get Rich: Felix Dennis
Episode 13: Philip Pullman
Episode 14: Caryl Phillips
Episode 15: Conor McPherson
Episode 16: Herbie Hancock
Episode 17: Caetano Veloso
Episode 18: Ang Lee
Episode 19: The Real George Orwell
Episode 20: Juan Diego Florez
Episode 21: Nick Cave
Episode 22: Albert Camus
Episode 23: Robert Harris Takes on Rome
Episode 24: Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Full Picture
Episode 25: Ewan McGregor
Episode 1: Germaine Greer
Episode 2: Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Episode 3: TV Stories (1)
Episode 4: TV Stories (2)
Episode 5: Jamie Cullum
Episode 6: The Wilson Twins
Episode 7: John Lennon's Jukebox
Episode 8: Jack Vettriano
Episode 9: The Dance Theatre of Harlem
Episode 10: Jeanette Winterson
Episode 11: Johnny Hallyday
Episode 12: Othello
Episode 13: Ian McKellen
Episode 1: Street Music Stories
Episode 2: Ronnie Wood
Episode 3: Willie Nelson
Episode 4: Malcolm Arnold (1)
Episode 5: Malcolm Arnold (2)
Episode 6: Robert Frank
Episode 7: Michael Frayn
Episode 8: The Darkness
Episode 9: Iggy Pop
Episode 10: Ruth Rendell
Episode 11: Howard Goodall
Episode 12: Pete 'n' Dud, The Lost Shows
Episode 13: Ian McEwan
Episode 14: Going Sane
Episode 15: Khaled and Rachid
Episode 16: Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg
Episode 17: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Episode 18: John Boorman
Episode 19: Red Priest
Episode 20: National Theatre's production of Henry IV
Episode 21: The Secret Art of War
Episode 22: Paul Abbott
Episode 23: Eric Sykes
Episode 1: Margot Fonteyn (1)
Episode 2: Margot Fonteyn (2)
Episode 3: Sophie Calle
Episode 4: Karl Jenkins
Episode 5: Eric Sykes
Episode 6: Maxim Vengerov
Episode 7: Alan Bennett
Episode 8: Pablo Trapero, Lucrecia Martel, Daniel Burman
Episode 9: The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy (film)
Episode 10: Peter Hall (1)
Episode 11: Peter Hall (2)
Episode 12: Little Britain: A South Bank Show Special
Episode 13: Armando Iannucci
Episode 1: Armando Iannucci
Episode 2: Manga Mania
Episode 3: John Rutter
Episode 4: PD James
Episode 5: Dusty Springfield
Episode 6: Seu Jorge
Episode 7: Romeo and Juliet
Episode 9: George Michael: I'm Your Man
Episode 10: Peter Blake
Episode 11: Nick Park & Aardman Animations
Episode 12: Steve Reich
Episode 1: Bill Bryson
Episode 2: JG Ballard
Episode 3: Robbie Coltrane
Episode 4: Episode 4
Episode 5: Spamalot
Episode 6: Claire Tomalin on Thomas Hardy
Episode 7: Sue Townsend
Episode 8: Lorenzo Da Ponte
Episode 9: Peter Blake
Episode 10: Nick Park and Aardman Animations
Episode 11: Steve Reich
Episode 12: Grayson Perry
Episode 13: Damien Hirst - Addicted To Art
Episode 14: Damien Hirst
Episode 15: Victoria Wood: A South Bank Show Special
Episode 16: Isabel Allende
Episode 17: Shane Meadows
Episode 18: Jarvis Cocker: Running The World
Episode 19: Martin Sheen On Playing It Real
Episode 20: Marianne Faithfull: A Life In Song
Episode 21: Zaha Hadid
Episode 22: MacBeth
Episode 23: Ian McMillan, Bard Of Barnsley
Episode 24: Emma Kirkby, The Unsung Heroine
Episode 25: June Whitfield
Episode 26: Michael Sheen On Playing It Real
Episode 27: Joan Dision
Episode 28: Ken Follett
Episode 29: The Mersey Sound
Episode 30: The Last Laugh: John Bird and John Fortune