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The South Bank Show

Season 5

1981 · 27 episodes

  1. 1. The French Lieutenant's Woman

    1981-11-01 · 60m

  2. 2. Elvis Costello

    1981-11-08 · 60m

  3. 3. Old Glory: the Journey and the Book

    1981-11-15 · 60m

  4. 4. Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan

    1981-11-22 · 60m

  5. 5. Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield

    1981-11-29 · 60m

  6. 6. A Talent to Vex: John Osborne

    1981-12-06 · 60m

  7. 7. Mama Lu Parks

    1982-01-17 · 60m

  8. 8. Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day

    1982-01-24 · 60m

  9. 9. Milos Forman

    1982-01-31 · 60m

  10. 10. Germaine Greer

    1982-02-07 · 60m

  11. 11. Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH

    1982-02-14 · 60m

  12. 12. Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller

    1982-02-21 · 60m

  13. 13. Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson

    1982-02-28 · 60m

  14. 14. Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)

    1982-03-07 · 60m

  15. 15. Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash

    1982-03-14 · 60m

  16. 16. Peter Maxwell-Davies

    1982-03-21 · 60m

  17. 17. Saul Bellow

    1982-03-28 · 60m

  18. 18. Indian wallpainting

    1982-04-04 · 60m

  19. 19. Stravinski (1)

    1982-04-09 · 60m

  20. 20. Stravinski (2)

    1982-04-10 · 60m

  21. 21. Julian Lloyd-Webber

    1982-04-18 · 60m

  22. 22. Miles Davis / Robert Nye

    1982-04-25 · 60m

  23. 23. Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs)

    1982-05-02 · 60m

  24. 24. Joseph Papp / James Galway

    1982-05-09 · 60m

  25. 25. Werner Herzog

    1982-05-16 · 60m

  26. 26. Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver)

    1982-05-23 · 60m

  27. 27. Phillip Larkin

    1982-05-30 · 60m

    In March 1981 Melvyn Bragg travelled to Hull to interview the poet, librarian and jazz critic Philip Larkin.

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