Episodes
Sir Alec Guinness
October 6, 1985
Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
October 13, 1985
Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year
October 20, 1985
Theatre of Comedy workshop
October 27, 1985
Pete Townshend: After the Fire
November 3, 1985
Sir Stephen Spender
November 10, 1985
Marguerite Duras
November 17, 1985
Karole Armitage
November 24, 1985
Peter Shaffer
December 1, 1985
John Cleese
January 12, 1986
Cleese was silently scripting A Fish Called Wanda at the time this interview was filmed. It is not mentioned in this program. What is mentioned is Cleese's spectrum of work from sketch comedy to industrial training films to therapeutical books. Video clips include sequences from Cleese's classics: At Last the 1948 Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and Fawlty Towers.
Vladimir Ashkenazy
January 19, 1986
Paul Schrader
January 26, 1986
Purcell's Dido and Aenaes
February 2, 1986
Patrick Heron
February 9, 1986
Blue Note Records
February 16, 1986
Michala Petri
February 23, 1986
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
March 2, 1986
Absolute Beginners (film)
March 9, 1986
Arthur Boyd
March 23, 1986
Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical
April 6, 1986
British Soap Operas
April 13, 1986
Hull Truck Theatre Company
April 20, 1986
Velvet Underground
April 27, 1986
The South Bank Show’s Velvet Underground documentary contains interviews with Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Moe Tucker, Nico, Andy Warhol and lots of early Velvet performance footage.
Al Jolson
May 4, 1986
