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The South Bank Show
The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show, made by London Weekend Television. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, it was broadcast on ITV from 1978 until 2010 when it was cancelled and was revived by Sky Arts in 2012, finally ending in 2023. Seen in over 60 countries worldwide including Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden and the USA, its stated aim is to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.
Season 1 14 Jan 1978 – 22 Jul 1978 · 24 episodes
1 Paul McCartney/surrealist exhibition 14 Jan 1978 2 Paganini Superstar 21 Jan 1978 3 Roy Minton 28 Jan 1978 4 David Hockney 4 Feb 1978 5 Dennis Potter 11 Feb 1978 6 John Peel/Jane Glover 18 Feb 1978 7 Arabian Days (Edna O'Brien)/Quentin Crisp 25 Feb 1978 8 Jacques Loussier 4 Mar 1978 9 Ken Dodd 11 Mar 1978 10 Georges Simenon 18 Mar 1978 11 Horowitz at the White House 25 Mar 1978 12 Carl Perkins/Morgan horses 1 Apr 1978 13 Carry On with Paul Morissey (Carry On ... films) 8 Apr 1978 14 Search for Shaw 15 Apr 1978 15 Harold Pinter 22 Apr 1978 16 Satyajit Ray/John Williams/Ralph McTell 30 Apr 1978 17 Portrait of a Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan 6 May 1978 18 Freddie Young 13 May 1978 19 Frank Auerbach 20 May 1978 20 Mayerling Ballet 17 Jun 1978 21 John Osborne on Wardle's book on Devine/Pearl (radio play) 1 Jul 1978 22 Ingmar Bergman at 60 8 Jul 1978 23 Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (1) 15 Jul 1978 24 Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (2) 22 Jul 1978 Season 2 26 Nov 1978 – 24 Jun 1979 · 24 episodes
1 Tom Stoppard 26 Nov 1978 2 Grace Under Pressure (Anthony Burgess on Hemingway) 3 Dec 1978 3 Woody Allen 10 Dec 1978 4 Anatomy of an Opera: Jonathan Miller's Figaro 17 Dec 1978 5 Rhythm of Resistance (South African music) 14 Jan 1979 6 Harmony of the Spheres (Neil Ardley) 21 Jan 1979 7 Circus Clowns/Schubert recital by Richter 28 Jan 1979 8 Royal Shakespeare Company on tour 4 Feb 1979 9 Brimstone & Treacle (Dennis Potter) / John McLaughlin, a Musical Journey 11 Feb 1979 10 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Edward Gorey / Gunter Grass 18 Feb 1979 11 Michael Cimino / Alan Bennett, Stephen Frears 25 Feb 1979 12 Gordon Williams, Alan Sharp, Eddie Boyd 4 Mar 1979 13 Derek Boshier / Ingrid Bergman, Ingmar Bergman 11 Mar 1979 14 Neil Simon 18 Mar 1979 15 Beryl Cook / Cloud Nine rehearsals 25 Mar 1979 16 Graham Sutherland 1 Apr 1979 17 Darryl Way / Howard Brenton 22 Apr 1979 18 The Europeans (film) / Joseph Heller 29 Apr 1979 19 Asian Arts festival 6 May 1979 20 Billy Connolly 13 May 1979 21 Jessye Norman 20 May 1979 22 Rough Trade (record label) / Allen Jones 27 May 1979 23 Scum (film) / Keith Jarrett 17 Jun 1979 24 Michael Tippett (90 min.) 24 Jun 1979 Season 3 2 Dec 1979 – 6 Jul 1980 · 19 episodes
1 Francis Ford Coppola 2 Dec 1979 2 Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (1) 9 Dec 1979 3 Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (2) 16 Dec 1979 4 Talking Heads 23 Dec 1979 5 Love and the Ice-Cream Vendor 17 Feb 1980 6 Fay Weldon / Richard Hogart on Northern Ireland in drama 24 Feb 1980 7 Merce Cunningham 2 Mar 1980 8 Elegies for the Deaths of Three Spanish Poets 9 Mar 1980 9 A Time There was ... (Benjamin Britten) 6 Apr 1980 10 The Greene Adaptations (Graham Greene films) 13 Apr 1980 11 Salsa (Puerto Rican music) 27 Apr 1980 12 The Worlds of Edward Bond 4 May 1980 13 Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli / Kinglsey Amis 11 May 1980 14 new British rock films / The Tin Drum (film) 18 May 1980 15 Roman Polanski 25 May 1980 16 Tom Wolfe 1 Jun 1980 17 Andrew Wyeth 8 Jun 1980 18 Angus Wilson 29 Jun 1980 19 Jane Austen (film) 6 Jul 1980 Season 4 9 Nov 1980 – 28 Jun 1981 · 26 episodes
1 Arthur Miller 9 Nov 1980 2 William Golding 16 Nov 1980 3 Akira Kurosawa 23 Nov 1980 4 Stravinsky's The Firebird 30 Nov 1980 5 No Need to Lie 7 Dec 1980 6 The Passion (National Theatre's updating of medieval plays) 14 Dec 1980 7 Toni Morrison 18 Jan 1981 8 The Trespasser (film) 25 Jan 1981 9 Don Juan in Hell 8 Feb 1981 10 poetry workshop 15 Feb 1981 11 Martin Scorsese 22 Feb 1981 12 Elizabeth Taylor / John Hubbard 1 Mar 1981 13 Bob Fosse 8 Mar 1981 14 Robert Redford / Martin Amis 15 Mar 1981 15 Verity Bargate / Howard Hodgkin 29 Mar 1981 16 At the Haunted End of the Day: the Life of Sir William Walton 19 Apr 1981 17 Gore Vidal 26 Apr 1981 18 The Roots of the Tree (Ermanno Olmi) 3 May 1981 19 Colin Welland 10 May 1981 20 Christopher Logue / Phillip King 17 May 1981 21 Lulu's Last Act (Berg Opera) 24 May 1981 22 Dame Ninette De Valois / David Hockney on Picasso 31 May 1981 23 Clive James / Craig Raine 7 Jun 1981 24 Soviet Art 14 Jun 1981 25 Rhythm and Blues (The Blues Band, Dr. Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, Paul Jones) 21 Jun 1981 26 Music for a City: Venice 28 Jun 1981 Season 5 1 Nov 1981 – 30 May 1982 · 27 episodes
1 The French Lieutenant's Woman 1 Nov 1981 2 Elvis Costello 8 Nov 1981 3 Old Glory: the Journey and the Book 15 Nov 1981 4 Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan 22 Nov 1981 5 Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield 29 Nov 1981 6 A Talent to Vex: John Osborne 6 Dec 1981 7 Mama Lu Parks 17 Jan 1982 8 Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day 24 Jan 1982 9 Milos Forman 31 Jan 1982 10 Germaine Greer 7 Feb 1982 11 Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH 14 Feb 1982 12 Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller 21 Feb 1982 13 Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson 28 Feb 1982 14 Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre) 7 Mar 1982 15 Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash 14 Mar 1982 16 Peter Maxwell-Davies 21 Mar 1982 17 Saul Bellow 28 Mar 1982 18 Indian wallpainting 4 Apr 1982 19 Stravinski (1) 9 Apr 1982 20 Stravinski (2) 10 Apr 1982 21 Julian Lloyd-Webber 18 Apr 1982 22 Miles Davis / Robert Nye 25 Apr 1982 23 Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs) 2 May 1982 24 Joseph Papp / James Galway 9 May 1982 25 Werner Herzog 16 May 1982 26 Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver) 23 May 1982 27 Phillip Larkin 30 May 1982 Season 6 17 Oct 1982 – 12 Jun 1983 · 26 episodes
1 Laurence Olivier, a Life (1) 17 Oct 1982 2 Laurence Olivier, a Life (2) 24 Oct 1982 3 Peter Gabriel 31 Oct 1982 4 Bruce Chatwin 7 Nov 1982 5 Patricia Highsmith 14 Nov 1982 6 Steven Spielberg 21 Nov 1982 7 Gospel at Colonus 28 Nov 1982 8 Simone De Beauvoir 9 Jan 1983 9 Barry Flannigan / Seamus Heaney 23 Jan 1983 10 David Hare 30 Jan 1983 11 Agnes De Mille 6 Feb 1983 12 Handel's Semele (by the Royal Opera House) 13 Feb 1983 13 Sam Fuller 20 Feb 1983 14 Local Hero (film) 27 Feb 1983 15 R.K. Narayan 13 Mar 1983 16 Ivo Pogorelich 20 Mar 1983 17 John Le Carré 27 Mar 1983 18 Choirs and Places Where They Sing 3 Apr 1983 19 William Trevor 24 Apr 1983 20 Gene Hackman 1 May 1983 21 Keith Waterhouse 8 May 1983 22 Robert Lowell / Benjamin Britten's Quartettino 15 May 1983 23 Cowboy Art 22 May 1983 24 Jiri Kylian 29 May 1983 25 Producing Don Giovanni 5 Jun 1983 26 Ken Russell's View of The Planets 12 Jun 1983 Season 7 16 Oct 1983 – 24 Jun 1984 · 23 episodes
1 Piper's Way 16 Oct 1983 2 Yuri Lyubimov 23 Oct 1983 3 Peter Brook 30 Oct 1983 4 Jack Lemmon 6 Nov 1983 5 Catherine Cookson 20 Nov 1983 6 Lillian Gish/Glen Baxter 27 Nov 1983 7 Alberto Moravia 4 Dec 1983 8 Ian Hamilton Finlay/Lord Gowrie 11 Dec 1983 9 Barry Tuckwell: Master of the Horn 19 Feb 1984 10 Trevor Griffiths 26 Feb 1984 11 Weather Report 11 Mar 1984 12 Claudio Arrau 18 Mar 1984 13 Kathy Acker 1 Apr 1984 14 Ralph Vaughan Williams 8 Apr 1984 15 Sir Ernst Gombrich 15 Apr 1984 16 Michael Frayn 29 Apr 1984 17 Ed McBain 6 May 1984 18 David Bintley: New Ballet at Sadler's Wells 13 May 1984 19 Stephen Sondheim 20 May 1984 20 Elisabeth Vellacott / DeCocoa, Hot Chocolate 27 May 1984 21 Adaptation of Ivy Compton Burnett's Elders and Betters 3 Jun 1984 22 Kipling (One-man play with Alec McGowen) 10 Jun 1984 23 Anthony Caro 24 Jun 1984 Season 8 7 Oct 1984 – 16 Jun 1985 · 26 episodes
1 Alan Bennett 7 Oct 1984 2 McCartney's Broad Street 14 Oct 1984 3 The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company) 21 Oct 1984 4 Paolo and Vittorio Taviani 28 Oct 1984 5 Norman Nicholson 4 Nov 1984 6 Joseph Heller 11 Nov 1984 7 Mstislav Rostropovich 18 Nov 1984 8 Max Wall 25 Nov 1984 9 Malcolm McLaren 2 Dec 1984 10 Alan Bleasdale 13 Jan 1985 11 Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence 20 Jan 1985 12 Electronic Music 27 Jan 1985 13 Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex 3 Feb 1985 14 Marc Chagall 10 Feb 1985 15 David Lean: a Life in Film 17 Feb 1985 16 Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony 24 Feb 1985 17 Little Richard 3 Mar 1985 18 George Malcolm on Scarlatti 10 Mar 1985 19 Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company 17 Mar 1985 20 David Mamet 24 Mar 1985 21 Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg 31 Mar 1985 22 Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith 5 Apr 1985 23 The Cotton Club (night club) 26 May 1985 24 Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young) 2 Jun 1985 25 Francis Bacon 9 Jun 1985 26 George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century 16 Jun 1985 Season 9 6 Oct 1985 – 4 May 1986 · 24 episodes
1 Sir Alec Guinness 6 Oct 1985 2 Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor 13 Oct 1985 3 Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year 20 Oct 1985 4 Theatre of Comedy workshop 27 Oct 1985 5 Pete Townshend: After the Fire 3 Nov 1985 6 Sir Stephen Spender 10 Nov 1985 7 Marguerite Duras 17 Nov 1985 8 Karole Armitage 24 Nov 1985 9 Peter Shaffer 1 Dec 1985 10 John Cleese 12 Jan 1986 11 Vladimir Ashkenazy 19 Jan 1986 12 Paul Schrader 26 Jan 1986 13 Purcell's Dido and Aenaes 2 Feb 1986 14 Patrick Heron 9 Feb 1986 15 Blue Note Records 16 Feb 1986 16 Michala Petri 23 Feb 1986 17 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf 2 Mar 1986 18 Absolute Beginners (film) 9 Mar 1986 19 Arthur Boyd 23 Mar 1986 20 Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical 6 Apr 1986 21 British Soap Operas 13 Apr 1986 22 Hull Truck Theatre Company 20 Apr 1986 23 Velvet Underground 27 Apr 1986 24 Al Jolson 4 May 1986 Season 10 5 Oct 1986 – 19 Apr 1987 · 26 episodes
1 John Mortimer 5 Oct 1986 2 Itzhak Perlman 12 Oct 1986 3 Roald Dahl: Fe-Fi-Fo-fum 19 Oct 1986 4 Michael Powell 26 Oct 1986 5 Truman Capote 2 Nov 1986 6 Fay Godwin 9 Nov 1986 7 The Andrew Lloyd-Webber Story 15 Nov 1986 8 Agatha Christie, How Did She Do It? 23 Nov 1986 9 The Dream is Over (Christopher Bruce ballet on John Lennon) 30 Nov 1986 10 Arts Review '86 14 Dec 1986 11 Anthony Hopkins / David Hare 11 Jan 1987 12 Philip Glass 18 Jan 1987 13 Alvin Ailey Dance Theater 25 Jan 1987 14 Anthony Green: RA, a Love Story 1 Feb 1987 15 Birth of Frankenstein and Dracula 8 Feb 1987 16 Thomas Allen 15 Feb 1987 17 The Wooster Group 22 Feb 1987 18 The London Underground in art 1 Mar 1987 19 V.S. Naipaul 8 Mar 1987 20 Barbara Dickson 15 Mar 1987 21 Penguin Cafe Orchestra 22 Mar 1987 22 Turner at the Tate 29 Mar 1987 23 George V. Higgins 5 Apr 1987 24 Peter York lecture 12 Apr 1987 25 The Aida File: The Making of the Opera (1) 18 Apr 1987 26 The Aida File: Aida Performance (2) 19 Apr 1987 Season 11 4 Oct 1987 – 24 Apr 1988 · 25 episodes
1 Maria Callas 4 Oct 1987 2 Toni Morrison 11 Oct 1987 3 The Smiths 18 Oct 1987 4 Andy Warhol 25 Oct 1987 5 Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega 1 Nov 1987 6 Sir Terence Conran 8 Nov 1987 7 Gore Vidal 15 Nov 1987 8 African music / Russian theatre 22 Nov 1987 9 Sir George Solti 29 Nov 1987 10 Eric Clapton 6 Dec 1987 11 Arts Review '87 20 Dec 1987 12 The Last Emperor (1988 film) 17 Jan 1988 13 Australian Aboriginies 24 Jan 1988 14 Boogie Woogie Music 31 Jan 1988 15 The Golden Age of Television 14 Feb 1988 16 George Barker 21 Feb 1988 17 Jackson Pollack 28 Feb 1988 18 Lenny Henry 6 Mar 1988 19 Peter Dickinson 13 Mar 1988 20 A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China 20 Mar 1988 21 Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans 27 Mar 1988 22 Ken Russell's ABC of British Music 2 Apr 1988 23 Paul Bowles 10 Apr 1988 24 Doris Lessing 17 Apr 1988 25 Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production 24 Apr 1988 Season 12 25 Sep 1988 – 24 Mar 1989 · 24 episodes
1 The Art of Walt Disney 25 Sep 1988 2 Bernard Shaw 2 Oct 1988 3 Under Milk Wood 9 Oct 1988 4 Toulouse-Lautrec 16 Oct 1988 5 David Puttnam 23 Oct 1988 6 David Hockney 30 Oct 1988 7 Two Women in Three Dimensions (Wendy Taylor, Nicola Hicks) 13 Nov 1988 8 Bristol WWII Bombing Raids Reenactment 20 Nov 1988 9 Raymond Chandler 27 Nov 1988 10 Neil Jordan 4 Dec 1988 11 John Houseman 11 Dec 1988 12 David Bailey 18 Dec 1988 13 Derek Walcott 15 Jan 1989 14 Patrick Leigh Fermor 22 Jan 1989 15 National Training Orchestra 29 Jan 1989 16 Christopher Hampton 5 Feb 1989 17 Istvan Szabo 12 Feb 1989 18 Robert Redford 19 Feb 1989 19 Tony Palmer on the Concerto 26 Feb 1989 20 Ben Elton 5 Mar 1989 21 John Burnett 10 Mar 1989 22 Put Blood in the Music (New York avant garde music) 12 Mar 1989 23 John Ogdon 19 Mar 1989 24 Sir William Golding 24 Mar 1989 Season 13 17 Sep 1989 – 22 Apr 1990 · 25 episodes
1 Martin Amis 17 Sep 1989 2 Dustin Hoffman, Sir Peter Hall 24 Sep 1989 3 Jimi Hendrix 1 Oct 1989 4 Tom Keneally in Eritrea 8 Oct 1989 5 Ken Russell 15 Oct 1989 6 Steven Berkoff 22 Oct 1989 7 Gabriel Garcia Marquez 29 Oct 1989 8 Fitzrovia 12 Nov 1989 9 Dame Edna Everage 19 Nov 1989 10 Evelyn Glennie 26 Nov 1989 11 Peter Brook 3 Dec 1989 12 Arts Review '89 29 Dec 1989 13 Boris Pasternak 7 Jan 1990 14 Sir David Lean, Robert Bolt 21 Jan 1990 15 Christopher Hogwood 28 Jan 1990 16 Chinua Achebe 4 Feb 1990 17 Hans Werner Henze 11 Feb 1990 18 Jock Tamson's Bairns (Gerry Mulgrew, Liz Lochhead) 18 Feb 1990 19 Yuri Bashmet 4 Mar 1990 20 DV8 Physical Theatre 11 Mar 1990 21 Mark Morris: the Hidden Soul of Harmony 25 Mar 1990 22 Carl Davis, Temba 1 Apr 1990 23 Vivienne Westwood 8 Apr 1990 24 Hindemith 15 Apr 1990 25 Robert Altman 22 Apr 1990 Season 14 2 Sep 1990 – 29 Mar 1991 · 23 episodes
1 George Michael 2 Sep 1990 2 Peter Ackroyd on Dickens 9 Sep 1990 3 Spike Lee 23 Sep 1990 4 Salman Rushdie 30 Sep 1990 5 Roy Lichtenstein 7 Oct 1990 6 Ken Russell on Anton Bruckner 14 Oct 1990 7 Clear Cool Crystal Streams (Irish rock music) 21 Oct 1990 8 John Updike 28 Oct 1990 9 East German Writers 4 Nov 1990 10 Alan Parker 25 Nov 1990 11 Cameron Mackintosh 2 Dec 1990 12 Spitting Image 9 Dec 1990 13 The Talis Scholars 30 Dec 1990 14 Stan Laurel 6 Jan 1991 15 August Wilson 13 Jan 1991 16 Oscar Marzaroli 20 Jan 1991 17 Anne-Sophie Mutter 27 Jan 1991 18 Bonfire of the Vanities (1991 film) 3 Feb 1991 19 Willard White 10 Feb 1991 20 The Five Blind Boys of Alabama / R.S. Thomas 17 Feb 1991 21 Steve Martin 24 Feb 1991 22 Rudolph Nureyev 3 Mar 1991 23 Kiri Te Kanawa 29 Mar 1991 Season 15 15 Sep 1991 – 14 Jun 1992 · 25 episodes
1 Private Eye 15 Sep 1991 2 David Lodge 29 Sep 1991 3 Terry Gilliam 6 Oct 1991 4 Neil Simon 13 Oct 1991 5 Heinrich Schiff 20 Oct 1991 6 Seamus Heaney 27 Oct 1991 7 John Osborne 3 Nov 1991 8 Dame Britain (Vera Lynn) 10 Nov 1991 9 Arthur Miller 17 Nov 1991 10 Jose Carreras, a Life Story 24 Nov 1991 11 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 22 Dec 1991 12 Arts Review '91 29 Dec 1991 13 Douglas Adams 5 Jan 1992 14 Lenny Henry Hunts the Funk 12 Jan 1992 15 Hakan Hardenberger 19 Jan 1992 16 Cecilia Bartoli 26 Jan 1992 17 Les Murray 2 Feb 1992 18 Colin Thubron 9 Feb 1992 19 Pet Shop Boys 16 Feb 1992 20 Paula Rego 23 Feb 1992 21 Noel Coward 1 Mar 1992 22 Anthony Hopkins 29 Mar 1992 23 Terence Davis 5 Apr 1992 24 Making Naked Lunch 12 Apr 1992 25 The Making of Sgt. Pepper 14 Jun 1992 Season 16 4 Oct 1992 – 22 Aug 1993 · 25 episodes
1 Billy Connolly 4 Oct 1992 2 Alice Walker 11 Oct 1992 3 Peter O'Toole 18 Oct 1992 4 Two Royal Ballet Dancers (Darcey Bussell, Viviana Durante) 25 Oct 1992 5 Robert Zemeckis 1 Nov 1992 6 George Formby 8 Nov 1992 7 Sir Richard Attenborough 15 Nov 1992 8 The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax 6 Dec 1992 9 The World of Jeff Koons 13 Dec 1992 10 Jimi Hendrix 20 Dec 1992 11 Dracula 24 Jan 1993 12 Monserrat Caballe 31 Jan 1993 13 Annie Leibowitz 7 Feb 1993 14 Guggenheim Museum 14 Feb 1993 15 Dmitri and Sasha Sitkovetsky 21 Feb 1993 16 Jean Genet 28 Feb 1993 17 I, Berlioz 7 Mar 1993 18 Richard Price 14 Mar 1993 19 John Banville 21 Mar 1993 20 Henryk Gorecki's 3rd Symphony 4 Apr 1993 21 Dudley Moore 13 Jun 1993 22 Frink, 1930-1993 (Dame Elisabeth Frink) 20 Jun 1993 23 Benny Goodman, the King of Swing 4 Jul 1993 24 Paul Simon 15 Aug 1993 25 Norman Wisdom 22 Aug 1993 Season 17 12 Sep 1993 – 29 May 1994 · 26 episodes
1 Sydney Pollack 12 Sep 1993 2 Willy Russell 19 Sep 1993 3 Ken Loach 24 Jan 1993 4 Margaret Atwood 10 Oct 1993 5 John Lee Hooker 17 Oct 1993 6 Stevie Wonder 24 Oct 1993 7 Sylvie Guillem 31 Oct 1993 8 Tim Rice 7 Nov 1993 9 Lynda La Plante 14 Nov 1993 10 John Williams 21 Nov 1993 11 John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (1) 28 Nov 1993 12 John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (2) 5 Dec 1993 13 Cliff Richard 24 Dec 1993 14 Woody Allen 16 Jan 1994 15 Bheki Mseleku 23 Jan 1994 16 Darker Than Me 6 Feb 1994 17 Jean-Claude Carriere 13 Feb 1994 18 Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool 20 Feb 1994 19 Looking for the Perfect Beat: Rap 27 Feb 1994 20 Larry Adler Plays Gershwin 6 Mar 1994 21 Kiri's 50th Birthday Concert 13 Mar 1994 22 Clive Barker 10 Apr 1994 23 Dawn French 17 Apr 1994 24 Christian Boltanski 15 May 1994 25 Eric Newby 22 May 1994 26 John Steinbeck 29 May 1994 Season 18 18 Sep 1994 – 25 Jun 1995 · 22 episodes
1 Kenneth Williams 18 Sep 1994 2 Marilyn Horne 25 Sep 1994 3 New Generation Poets 2 Oct 1994 4 Vanessa Redgrave 9 Oct 1994 5 David Mamet 16 Oct 1994 6 The Shearing Touch (George Shearing) 23 Oct 1994 7 Alan Ayckbourn 30 Oct 1994 8 Frankenstein 6 Nov 1994 9 Thora Hird 13 Nov 1994 10 The Glory of Gershwin 20 Nov 1994 11 P.J. O'Rourke 27 Nov 1994 12 Carl Orff 29 Jan 1995 13 Classic Widows 5 Feb 1995 14 Jonathan Miller 12 Feb 1995 15 Flags of the Fante Coast 19 Feb 1995 16 Catherine Bailey, the Lady is a Tramp / Roger Ballen 26 Feb 1995 17 Edward Albee 5 Mar 1995 18 Jodie Foster 12 Mar 1995 19 Martin Amis 19 Mar 1995 20 Country Music 2 Apr 1995 21 Miriam Makeba 9 Apr 1995 22 Nora Ephron 25 Jun 1995 Season 19 10 Sep 1995 – 28 Jul 1996 · 20 episodes
1 Clint Eastwood 10 Sep 1995 2 Ackroyd's Blake 17 Sep 1995 3 Tom Sharpe 24 Sep 1995 4 K.D. Lang 1 Oct 1995 5 Pavarotti at 60 8 Oct 1995 6 Jimmy Nail 15 Oct 1995 7 Dame Judi Dench 29 Oct 1995 8 Coronation Street 5 Nov 1995 9 Dame Barbara Cartland 12 Nov 1995 10 Jonathan Raban: Badlands / Wynton Marsalis 19 Nov 1995 11 Elaine Page Special 7 Apr 1996 12 Sting 14 Apr 1996 13 Albert Finney 28 Apr 1996 14 Marlene Dietrich 5 May 1996 15 John Eliot Gardiner 12 May 1996 16 Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence 19 May 1996 17 Claes Oldenburg 26 May 1996 18 Baaba Maal 2 Jun 1996 19 Maxine Peake / Wynton Marsalis in New Orleans 21 Jul 1996 20 Alan Ayckbourn Workshop 28 Jul 1996 Season 20 15 Sep 1996 – 20 Jul 1997 · 21 episodes
1 Victoria Wood 15 Sep 1996 2 Sir John Mills 22 Sep 1996 3 Michael Crawford 29 Sep 1996 4 Norman Mailer on Picasso 6 Oct 1996 5 Chanson 13 Oct 1996 6 Michael Collins 27 Oct 1996 7 Bryn Terfel 3 Nov 1996 8 Howard Hodgkin 10 Nov 1996 9 Jimmy McGovern 17 Nov 1996 10 Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid 5 Jan 1997 11 Maggi Hambling 12 Jan 1997 12 John Galliano 19 Jan 1997 13 The US and Us (1) 26 Jan 1997 14 The US and Us (2) 2 Feb 1997 15 Gilbert and George (1) 9 Feb 1997 16 Gilbert and George (2) 16 Feb 1997 17 Valery Gergiev 23 Feb 1997 18 Paganini 4 May 1997 19 David Helfgott 22 Jun 1997 20 Paul Auster 6 Jul 1997 21 Young Directors (Preya Lal, Alexander Kelly, Franca Cereghini, Chris Dooks) 20 Jul 1997 Season 21 5 Oct 1997 – 30 Aug 1998 · 22 episodes
1 Scarfe on Hercules 5 Oct 1997 2 Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance 26 Oct 1997 3 Kay Mellor 2 Nov 1997 4 Björk 9 Nov 1997 5 Iain Banks 16 Nov 1997 6 Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures 23 Nov 1997 7 Steven Bochco 30 Nov 1997 8 Simon Raven 14 Dec 1997 9 Franco Zeffirelli 21 Dec 1997 10 Saul Zaentz 11 Jan 1998 11 Gillian Wearing / Gary Hume 18 Jan 1998 12 Marks and Gran 1 Feb 1998 13 Hail Bop: a Portrait of John Adams 8 Feb 1998 14 Nigel Kennedy 15 Feb 1998 15 Gary Oldman 15 Mar 1998 16 Body Art 5 Apr 1998 17 John Tavener 12 Apr 1998 18 The Bee Gees 7 Jun 1998 19 Will Self 5 Jul 1998 20 Afro-Cuban Allstars 19 Jul 1998 21 This is Not an Exit: the Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis 23 Aug 1998 22 Wayne Sleep 30 Aug 1998 Season 22 8 Nov 1998 – 4 Apr 1999 · 16 episodes
1 Ossie Clarke (1) 8 Nov 1998 2 Ossie Clarke (2) 15 Nov 1998 3 Lesley Garrett 22 Nov 1998 4 Harold Pinter 29 Nov 1998 5 Maxine Peake/Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 6 Dec 1998 6 Walter Mosley 13 Dec 1998 7 Petula Clark 20 Dec 1998 8 Warren Beatty 30 Dec 1998 9 John Tomlinson 10 Jan 1999 10 Javier du Frutos 31 Jan 1999 11 UB40 7 Feb 1999 12 Anish Kapoor 21 Feb 1999 13 New South African Artists 28 Feb 1999 14 Lucy Gannon 14 Mar 1999 15 Tony Harrison 28 Mar 1999 16 Dolly Parton 4 Apr 1999 Season 23 26 Sep 1999 – 2 Jul 2000 · 21 episodes
1 Paul Merton 26 Sep 1999 2 Frank McCourt 3 Oct 1999 3 Howard Jacobson 10 Oct 1999 4 Jose Cura 17 Oct 1999 5 James Galway 24 Oct 1999 6 The Lion King (stage play based on the film) 31 Oct 1999 7 Joan Collins 14 Nov 1999 8 Blur 21 Nov 1999 9 Yoko Ono 5 Dec 1999 10 Cher 12 Dec 1999 11 Countertenors 19 Dec 1999 12 Bing Crosby 26 Dec 1999 13 Shakespeare 23 Jan 2000 14 Millennium Dome 6 Feb 2000 15 Sam Mendes 13 Feb 2000 16 Michael Douglas 20 Feb 2000 17 Chuck Close 5 Mar 2000 18 Emir Kusturica 12 Mar 2000 19 Amis on Amis 18 Jun 2000 20 Composing Classical Music (1) 25 Jun 2000 21 Simon Holt's Sunrise, Yellow Noise (2) 2 Jul 2000 Season 24 1 Oct 2000 – 19 Aug 2001 · 25 episodes
1 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton 1 Oct 2000 2 Santana 8 Oct 2000 3 Joyce (Carol Oates) on Marilyn Monroe 15 Oct 2000 4 Carmen 22 Oct 2000 5 Mark Morris Dance Group 29 Oct 2000 6 George MacDonald Fraser 12 Nov 2000 7 Courtney Pine 19 Nov 2000 8 Ron Howard 26 Nov 2000 9 Dame Gillian Weir 3 Dec 2000 10 Marlene Dumas and Jemima Stehli 10 Dec 2000 11 Mark Quinn 17 Dec 2000 12 Tom Jones 24 Dec 2000 13 Ken Russell 11 Feb 2001 14 Shirin Neshat 18 Feb 2001 15 Russell Watson 25 Feb 2001 16 Amos Oz 4 Mar 2001 17 Greta Garbo 11 Mar 2001 18 Elvis Costello with Annie Sofie von Otter 18 Mar 2001 19 Bill Bryson 25 Mar 2001 20 Ian Rankin 1 Jul 2001 21 Ian Bostridge 8 Jul 2001 22 Edmund White 22 Jul 2001 23 Steve Coogan 5 Aug 2001 24 Ravi Shankar 12 Aug 2001 25 Tracey Emin 19 Aug 2001 Season 25 7 Oct 2001 – 4 Aug 2002 · 19 episodes
1 High and Low Culture in the Age of Television 7 Oct 2001 2 Highlights 14 Oct 2001 3 Rachel Whiteread 28 Oct 2001 4 Norman Foster 11 Nov 2001 5 Dr. John 18 Nov 2001 6 Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings 16 Dec 2001 7 Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming 3 Feb 2002 8 The Sopranos 10 Feb 2002 9 Leif Ove Andsnes 24 Feb 2002 10 Why the Novel Matters 17 Mar 2002 11 Meera Syal 24 Mar 2002 12 Johnnie Ray 31 Mar 2002 13 Mario Vargas Llosa 21 Apr 2002 14 Fay Weldon 5 May 2002 15 R.E.M. 12 May 2002 16 Neil LaBute 23 Jun 2002 17 Cinema of Fire (Iranian cinema) 30 Jun 2002 18 Moby 7 Jul 2002 19 Bernie Taupin 4 Aug 2002 Season 26 13 Oct 2002 – 21 Sep 2003 · 25 episodes
1 Mike Leigh 13 Oct 2002 2 Akram Khan 20 Oct 2002 3 Graham Vick: Beethoven in the Big Top 27 Oct 2002 4 Craig David 10 Nov 2002 5 Andrew Davies 17 Nov 2002 6 Joan Rivers 24 Nov 2002 7 James MacMillan 5 Jan 2003 8 Willie Nelson 12 Jan 2003 9 Irek Mukhamedov 19 Jan 2003 10 Gerhard Richter 2 Feb 2003 11 Hanif Kureishi 9 Feb 2003 12 How to Get Rich: Felix Dennis 16 Feb 2003 13 Philip Pullman 9 Mar 2003 14 Caryl Phillips 13 Apr 2003 15 Conor McPherson 18 May 2003 16 Herbie Hancock 29 Jun 2003 17 Caetano Veloso 6 Jul 2003 18 Ang Lee 13 Jul 2003 19 The Real George Orwell 27 Jul 2003 20 Juan Diego Florez 3 Aug 2003 21 Nick Cave 10 Aug 2003 22 Albert Camus 31 Aug 2003 23 Robert Harris Takes on Rome 7 Sep 2003 24 Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Full Picture 14 Sep 2003 25 Ewan McGregor 21 Sep 2003 Season 27 19 Oct 2003 – 27 Jun 2004 · 13 episodes
1 Germaine Greer 19 Oct 2003 2 Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra 7 Dec 2003 3 TV Stories (1) 1 Feb 2004 4 TV Stories (2) 8 Feb 2004 5 Jamie Cullum 22 Feb 2004 6 The Wilson Twins 7 Mar 2004 7 John Lennon's Jukebox 14 Mar 2004 8 Jack Vettriano 21 Mar 2004 9 The Dance Theatre of Harlem 4 Apr 2004 10 Jeanette Winterson 2 May 2004 11 Johnny Hallyday 9 May 2004 12 Othello 16 May 2004 13 Ian McKellen 27 Jun 2004 Season 28 22 Aug 2004 – 15 May 2005 · 22 episodes
1 Street Music Stories 22 Aug 2004 2 Ronnie Wood 5 Sep 2004 3 Willie Nelson 19 Sep 2004 4 Malcolm Arnold (1) 26 Sep 2004 5 Malcolm Arnold (2) 3 Oct 2004 6 Robert Frank 17 Oct 2004 7 Michael Frayn 14 Nov 2004 8 The Darkness 21 Nov 2004 9 Iggy Pop 5 Dec 2004 10 Ruth Rendell 12 Dec 2004 11 Howard Goodall 19 Dec 2004 12 Pete 'n' Dud, The Lost Shows 2 Jan 2005 13 Ian McEwan 20 Feb 2005 14 Going Sane 6 Mar 2005 15 Khaled and Rachid 13 Mar 2005 16 Alina Cojocaru & Johan Kobborg 27 Mar 2005 17 The Garden of Cosmic Speculation 3 Apr 2005 18 John Boorman 10 Apr 2005 19 Red Priest 24 Apr 2005 20 National Theatre's production of Henry IV 1 May 2005 21 The Secret Art of War 8 May 2005 22 Paul Abbott 15 May 2005 Season 29 7 Aug 2005 – 11 Jun 2006 · 19 episodes
1 Margot Fonteyn (1) 7 Aug 2005 2 Margot Fonteyn (2) 14 Aug 2005 3 Sophie Calle 21 Aug 2005 4 Karl Jenkins 11 Sep 2005 5 Eric Sykes 18 Sep 2005 6 Maxim Vengerov 2 Oct 2005 7 Alan Bennett 9 Oct 2005 8 Pablo Trapero, Lucrecia Martel, Daniel Burman 16 Oct 2005 9 The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy (film) 23 Oct 2005 10 Peter Hall (1) 30 Oct 2005 11 Peter Hall (2) 6 Nov 2005 12 Little Britain: A South Bank Show Special 25 Dec 2005 13 Armando Iannucci 12 Feb 2006 14 Manga Mania 19 Feb 2006 15 John Rutter 12 Mar 2006 16 PD James 26 Mar 2006 17 Dusty Springfield 9 Apr 2006 18 Seu Jorge 4 Jun 2006 19 Romeo and Juliet 11 Jun 2006 Season 30 10 Sep 2006 – 29 Jul 2007 · 25 episodes
1 Bill Bryson 10 Sep 2006 2 JG Ballard 17 Sep 2006 3 Robbie Coltrane 24 Sep 2006 4 Episode 4 1 Oct 2006 5 Spamalot 15 Oct 2006 6 Claire Tomalin on Thomas Hardy 22 Oct 2006 7 Sue Townsend 29 Oct 2006 8 Lorenzo Da Ponte 5 Nov 2006 9 Peter Blake 19 Nov 2006 10 Nick Park and Aardman Animations 26 Nov 2006 11 Steve Reich 10 Dec 2006 12 Grayson Perry 17 Dec 2006 13 Damien Hirst - Addicted to Art 7 Jan 2007 14 Mark Wallinger 4 Mar 2007 15 Victoria Wood: A South Bank Show Special 11 Mar 2007 16 Isabel Allende 22 Apr 2007 17 Shane Meadows 29 Apr 2007 18 Jarvis Cocker: Running the World 10 Jun 2007 19 Martin Sheen on Playing It Real 17 Jun 2007 20 Marianne Faithfull: A Life in Song 24 Jun 2007 21 Zaha Hadid 1 Jul 2007 22 MacBeth 8 Jul 2007 23 Ian McMillan, Bard of Barnsley 15 Jul 2007 24 Emma Kirkby, The Unsung Heroine 22 Jul 2007 25 June Whitfield 29 Jul 2007 Season 31 2 Sep 2007 – 13 Jul 2008 · 19 episodes
1 Michael Sheen on Playing It Real 2 Sep 2007 2 Joan Dision 23 Sep 2007 3 Ken Follett 30 Sep 2007 4 The Mersey Sound 7 Oct 2007 5 The Last Laugh: John Bird and John Fortune 14 Oct 2007 6 Annie Lennox 25 Nov 2007 7 Eric Clapton 2 Dec 2007 8 The Making of Viva La Diva 9 Dec 2007 9 The Nutcracker Story 26 Dec 2007 10 Kevin Spacey at The Old Vic 6 Jan 2008 11 Lang Lang 10 Feb 2008 12 David McVicar 9 Mar 2008 13 Revolution 68 16 Mar 2008 14 Liza Minnelli 4 May 2008 15 The Damned United 11 May 2008 16 Gore Vidal 18 May 2008 17 Sarah Waters 8 Jun 2008 18 Tasmin Little 15 Jun 2008 19 Billy Joel 13 Jul 2008 Season 32 21 Sep 2008 – 24 May 2009 · 15 episodes
1 The Streets 21 Sep 2008 2 The One Ronnie 5 Oct 2008 3 Bond 19 Oct 2008 4 Cildo Meireles 26 Oct 2008 5 Sam Taylor-Wood 16 Nov 2008 6 The Mariinsky Theatre 7 Dec 2008 7 The South Bank Show Awards 28 Jan 2009 8 Beyond the Footlights 1 Feb 2009 9 The Tempest 8 Feb 2009 10 Will Young 15 Mar 2009 11 Messiah 12 Apr 2009 12 William Goldman 26 Apr 2009 13 Out of Nigeria (1) 10 May 2009 14 Out of Nigeria (2) 17 May 2009 15 Peter Kosminsky 24 May 2009 Season 33 13 Sep 2009 – 30 May 2010 · 21 episodes
1 The Wagner Family 13 Sep 2009 2 Coldplay 20 Sep 2009 3 Andy Warhol 4 Oct 2009 4 Disney.Pixar 11 Oct 2009 5 Lee Hall 18 Oct 2009 6 Nick Hornby 25 Oct 2009 7 Elbow 15 Nov 2009 8 Carol Ann Duffy 6 Dec 2009 9 Wayne McGregor 13 Dec 2009 10 The Royal Shakespeare Company 28 Dec 2009 11 South Bank Show Awards 2009 31 Jan 2010 12 Andrew Lloyd Webber Revisited 28 Mar 2010 13 Billy Connolly Revisited 4 Apr 2010 14 Ian McEwan Revisited 11 Apr 2010 15 Ian McKellen Revisited 18 Apr 2010 16 Stephen Sondheim Revisited 25 Apr 2010 17 David Hockney Revisited 2 May 2010 18 Judi Dench Revisited 9 May 2010 19 Kiri Te Kanawa Revisited 16 May 2010 20 Victoria Wood Revisited 23 May 2010 21 The Final Cut 30 May 2010 Season 34 28 May 2012 – 18 Jun 2012 · 4 episodes
1 Nicholas Hytner 28 May 2012 2 Pat Barker 4 Jun 2012 3 Trevor Nelson and Dizzee Rascal 11 Jun 2012 4 Carlos Acosta, Edward Watson and Tamara Rojo 18 Jun 2012 Season 35 18 Apr 2013 – 23 May 2013 · 6 episodes
1 Tim Minchin 18 Apr 2013 2 David Hare 25 Apr 2013 3 Alison Balsom 2 May 2013 4 Tamara Rojo 9 May 2013 5 Alfie Boe 16 May 2013 6 Britart: Painting Is Back 23 May 2013 Season 36 22 May 2014 – 26 Jun 2014 · 6 episodes
1 John Lloyd 22 May 2014 2 Kate Atkinson 29 May 2014 3 Abi Morgan 5 Jun 2014 4 An Anatomy of King Lear 12 Jun 2014 5 Angel Blue 19 Jun 2014 6 Daniel Radcllffe 26 Jun 2014
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Season 48 Season 2015 10 Jun 2015 – 15 Jul 2015 · 6 episodes
1 George RR Martin 10 Jun 2015 2 Paul Greengrass 17 Jun 2015 3 Margaret Drabble 24 Jun 2015 4 Laura Mvula 1 Jul 2015 5 Joseph Calleja 8 Jul 2015 6 Mark Rylance 15 Jul 2015 Season 2017 19 Jul 2017 – 23 Aug 2017 · 6 episodes
1 Amma Asante 19 Jul 2017 2 Karl Ove Knausgård 23 Jul 2017 3 Sally Wainwright 2 Aug 2017 4 Benjamin Clementine 9 Aug 2017 5 Jude Law, Ivo van Hove 16 Aug 2017 6 Yinka Shonibare MBE 23 Aug 2017 Season 2018 7 Nov 2018 – 12 Dec 2018 · 6 episodes
1 Tracey Ullman 7 Nov 2018 2 Beverley Knight 14 Nov 2018 3 Danielle de Niese 21 Nov 2018 4 Sonia Friedman 28 Nov 2018 5 Gail Rebuck 5 Dec 2018 6 Andria Zafirakou 12 Dec 2018 Season 2019 5 May 2019 – 6 Aug 2019 · 4 episodes
1 Jed Mercurio 5 May 2019 2 Jack Thorne 23 Jul 2019 3 Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith 30 Jul 2019 4 Heidi Thomas 6 Aug 2019 Season 2020 22 Nov 2020 – 13 Dec 2020 · 4 episodes
1 Gillian Anderson 22 Nov 2020 2 Bernardine Evaristo 29 Nov 2020 3 Benjamin Zephaniah 6 Dec 2020 4 Simon Armitage 13 Dec 2020 Season 2021 24 Jun 2021 – 22 Jul 2021 · 5 episodes
1 Arlo Parks & Samuel Bailey 24 Jun 2021 2 The Pin, Marina Kemp & Nick Rowland 1 Jul 2021 3 Noah Jupe, Mishka Rushdie Momen & Alex Woolf 8 Jul 2021 4 Arielle Smith & Alberta Whittle 15 Jul 2021 5 The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2021 22 Jul 2021 Season 2022 13 Jul 2022 – 3 Aug 2022 · 4 episodes
1 The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2022 13 Jul 2022 2 Frank Skinner 20 Jul 2022 3 Helen Mirren 27 Jul 2022 4 Carlos Acosta 3 Aug 2022 Season 2023 5 Jul 2023 · 1 episode
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