The South Bank Show - Season 8

1. Alan Bennett

Aired: 10/7/1984

2. McCartney's Broad Street

Aired: 10/14/1984

Behind the scenes look at the making of Paul McCartney's 1984 movie Give My Regards To Broad Street.

3. The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)

Aired: 10/21/1984

4. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

Aired: 10/28/1984

5. Norman Nicholson

Aired: 11/4/1984

6. Joseph Heller

Aired: 11/11/1984

7. Mstislav Rostropovich

Aired: 11/18/1984

8. Max Wall

Aired: 11/25/1984

10. Alan Bleasdale

Aired: 1/13/1985

11. Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence

Aired: 1/20/1985

13. Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex

Aired: 2/3/1985

14. Marc Chagall

Aired: 2/10/1985

15. David Lean: a Life in Film

Aired: 2/17/1985

16. Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony

Aired: 2/24/1985

17. Little Richard

Aired: 3/3/1985

18. George Malcolm on Scarlatti

Aired: 3/10/1985

19. Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company

Aired: 3/17/1985

20. Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg

Aired: 3/31/1985

21. David Mamet

Aired: 3/24/1985

22. Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith

Aired: 4/5/1985

23. The Cotton Club (night club)

Aired: 5/26/1985

24. Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)

Aired: 6/2/1985

25. Francis Bacon

Aired: 6/9/1985

As part of The South Bank Show series, director David Hinton and interviewer Melvyn Bragg accompany Francis Bacon for a day during his second retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London, in 1985. The conversation reveals the artist’s influences, theories and obsessions.

26. George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century

Aired: 6/16/1985