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The South Bank Show

Season 5 · 27 episodes · Nov 1, 1981

  1. Episode 1

    The French Lieutenant's Woman

    Nov 1, 1981

  2. Episode 2

    Elvis Costello

    Nov 8, 1981

  3. Episode 3

    Old Glory: the Journey and the Book

    Nov 15, 1981

  4. Episode 4

    Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan

    Nov 22, 1981

  5. Episode 5

    Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield

    Nov 29, 1981

  6. Episode 6

    A Talent to Vex: John Osborne

    Dec 6, 1981

  7. Episode 7

    Mama Lu Parks

    Jan 17, 1982

  8. Episode 8

    Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day

    Jan 24, 1982

  9. Episode 9

    Milos Forman

    Jan 31, 1982

  10. Episode 10

    Germaine Greer

    Feb 7, 1982

  11. Episode 11

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

    Feb 14, 1982

  12. Episode 12

    Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller

    Feb 21, 1982

  13. Episode 13

    Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson

    Feb 28, 1982

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    Episode 14

    Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)

    Mar 7, 1982

  15. Episode 15

    Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash

    Mar 14, 1982

  16. Episode 16

    Peter Maxwell-Davies

    Mar 21, 1982

  17. Episode 17

    Saul Bellow

    Mar 28, 1982

  18. Episode 18

    Indian wallpainting

    Apr 4, 1982

  19. Episode 19

    Stravinski (1)

    Apr 9, 1982

  20. Episode 20

    Stravinski (2)

    Apr 10, 1982

  21. Episode 21

    Julian Lloyd-Webber

    Apr 18, 1982

  22. Episode 22

    Miles Davis / Robert Nye

    Apr 25, 1982

  23. Episode 23

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

    May 2, 1982

  24. Episode 24

    Joseph Papp / James Galway

    May 9, 1982

  25. Episode 25

    Werner Herzog

    May 16, 1982

  26. Episode 26

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

    May 23, 1982

  27. Episode 27

    Phillip Larkin

    May 30, 1982

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