Season 9

1. Sir Alec Guinness

1985-10-06 · 60m

2. Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor

1985-10-13 · 60m

3. Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year

1985-10-20 · 60m

4. Theatre of Comedy workshop

1985-10-27 · 60m

5. Pete Townshend: After the Fire

1985-11-03 · 60m

6. Sir Stephen Spender

1985-11-10 · 60m

7. Marguerite Duras

1985-11-17 · 60m

8. Karole Armitage

1985-11-24 · 60m

9. Peter Shaffer

1985-12-01 · 60m

10. John Cleese

1986-01-12 · 60m

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.

11. Vladimir Ashkenazy

1986-01-19 · 60m

12. Paul Schrader

1986-01-26 · 60m

13. Purcell's Dido and Aenaes

1986-02-02 · 60m

14. Patrick Heron

1986-02-09 · 60m

15. Blue Note Records

1986-02-16 · 60m

16. Michala Petri

1986-02-23 · 60m

17. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

1986-03-02 · 60m

18. Absolute Beginners (film)

1986-03-09 · 60m

19. Arthur Boyd

1986-03-23 · 60m

20. Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical

1986-04-06 · 60m

21. British Soap Operas

1986-04-13 · 60m

22. Hull Truck Theatre Company

1986-04-20 · 60m

23. Velvet Underground

1986-04-27 · 60m

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.

24. Al Jolson

1986-05-04 · 60m