Series · Talk, Documentary
The South Bank Show (1978)Season 8
★ 5.6 · 7 votes45 seasons · 776 episodesTalk, Documentary1978
The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show 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.
- Creator
- Melvyn Bragg
- Writers
- Melvyn Bragg
- Network
- ITV1, Sky Arts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- First aired
- January 14, 1978
- Status
- Ended
Cast
Melvyn BraggSelf - Presenter
David Hockney
Ken RussellSelf
Peter HallSelf
Alan Bennett
Germaine Greer
Martin Amis
Gore Vidal
Ian McKellen
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Alec GuinnessSelf
Nick ParkSelf
Dennis Potter
John Williams
Ingmar Bergman
Anthony Burgess
Neil Simon
Joseph Heller
Billy Connolly- Fay Weldon
Episodes
0/24 watched- Episode 1: Alan Bennett1 h · Oct 7, 1984
- Episode 2: McCartney's Broad Street1 h · Oct 14, 1984
- Episode 3: The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)1 h · Oct 21, 1984
- Episode 4: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani1 h · Oct 28, 1984
- Episode 5: Norman Nicholson1 h · Nov 4, 1984
- Episode 6: Joseph Heller1 h · Nov 11, 1984
- Episode 7: Mstislav Rostropovich1 h · Nov 18, 1984
- Episode 8: Max Wall1 h · Nov 25, 1984
- Episode 10: Alan Bleasdale1 h · Jan 13, 1985
- Episode 11: Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence1 h · Jan 20, 1985
- Episode 13: Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex1 h · Feb 3, 1985
- Episode 14: Marc Chagall1 h · Feb 10, 1985
- Episode 15: David Lean: a Life in Film1 h · Feb 17, 1985
- Episode 16: Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony1 h · Feb 24, 1985
- Episode 17: Little Richard1 h · Mar 3, 1985
- Episode 18: George Malcolm on Scarlatti1 h · Mar 10, 1985
- Episode 19: Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company1 h · Mar 17, 1985
- Episode 20: Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg1 h · Mar 31, 1985
- Episode 21: David Mamet1 h · Mar 24, 1985
- Episode 22: Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith1 h · Apr 5, 1985
- Episode 23: The Cotton Club (night club)1 h · May 26, 1985
- Episode 24: Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)1 h · Jun 2, 1985
- Episode 25: Francis Bacon1 h · Jun 9, 1985
- Episode 26: George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century1 h · Jun 16, 1985
