The South Bank Show - Season 9

1. Sir Alec Guinness

Aired: 10/6/1985

2. Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor

Aired: 10/13/1985

3. Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year

Aired: 10/20/1985

4. Theatre of Comedy workshop

Aired: 10/27/1985

5. Pete Townshend: After the Fire

Aired: 11/3/1985

6. Sir Stephen Spender

Aired: 11/10/1985

7. Marguerite Duras

Aired: 11/17/1985

8. Karole Armitage

Aired: 11/24/1985

9. Peter Shaffer

Aired: 12/1/1985

10. John Cleese

Aired: 1/12/1986

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

Aired: 1/19/1986

12. Paul Schrader

Aired: 1/26/1986

13. Purcell's Dido and Aenaes

Aired: 2/2/1986

14. Patrick Heron

Aired: 2/9/1986

15. Blue Note Records

Aired: 2/16/1986

16. Michala Petri

Aired: 2/23/1986

17. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Aired: 3/2/1986

18. Absolute Beginners (film)

Aired: 3/9/1986

19. Arthur Boyd

Aired: 3/23/1986

20. Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical

Aired: 4/6/1986

21. British Soap Operas

Aired: 4/13/1986

22. Hull Truck Theatre Company

Aired: 4/20/1986

23. Velvet Underground

Aired: 4/27/1986

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

Aired: 5/4/1986