The South Bank Show - Season 5

1. The French Lieutenant's Woman

Aired: 11/1/1981

2. Elvis Costello

Aired: 11/8/1981

3. Old Glory: the Journey and the Book

Aired: 11/15/1981

4. Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan

Aired: 11/22/1981

5. Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield

Aired: 11/29/1981

6. A Talent to Vex: John Osborne

Aired: 12/6/1981

7. Mama Lu Parks

Aired: 1/17/1982

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

Aired: 1/24/1982

9. Milos Forman

Aired: 1/31/1982

10. Germaine Greer

Aired: 2/7/1982

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

Aired: 2/14/1982

12. Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller

Aired: 2/21/1982

13. Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson

Aired: 2/28/1982

14. Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)

Aired: 3/7/1982

15. Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash

Aired: 3/14/1982

16. Peter Maxwell-Davies

Aired: 3/21/1982

17. Saul Bellow

Aired: 3/28/1982

18. Indian wallpainting

Aired: 4/4/1982

19. Stravinski (1)

Aired: 4/9/1982

20. Stravinski (2)

Aired: 4/10/1982

21. Julian Lloyd-Webber

Aired: 4/18/1982

22. Miles Davis / Robert Nye

Aired: 4/25/1982

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

Aired: 5/2/1982

24. Joseph Papp / James Galway

Aired: 5/9/1982

25. Werner Herzog

Aired: 5/16/1982

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

Aired: 5/23/1982

27. Phillip Larkin

Aired: 5/30/1982

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