The South Bank Show (Season 11)

Maria Callas (Episode 1)

Air date: 1987-10-04

Runtime: 60 min

Toni Morrison (Episode 2)

Air date: 1987-10-11

Runtime: 60 min

The Smiths (Episode 3)

Air date: 1987-10-18

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: This documentary on The Smiths was filmed just days before the band went their separate ways in 1987. Contains interviews of Morrissey, Marr, Joyce and Rourke, as well as Linder, Shaun Duggan, Jo O'Keefe, John Peel, Nick Kent, Sandie Shaw and Viv Nicholson.

Andy Warhol (Episode 4)

Air date: 1987-10-25

Runtime: 60 min

Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega (Episode 5)

Air date: 1987-11-01

Runtime: 60 min

Sir Terence Conran (Episode 6)

Air date: 1987-11-08

Runtime: 60 min

Gore Vidal (Episode 7)

Air date: 1987-11-15

Runtime: 60 min

African music / Russian theatre (Episode 8)

Air date: 1987-11-22

Runtime: 60 min

Sir George Solti (Episode 9)

Air date: 1987-11-29

Runtime: 60 min

Eric Clapton (Episode 10)

Air date: 1987-12-06

Runtime: 60 min

Arts Review '87 (Episode 11)

Air date: 1987-12-20

Runtime: 60 min

The Last Emperor (1988 film) (Episode 12)

Air date: 1988-01-17

Runtime: 60 min

Australian Aboriginies (Episode 13)

Air date: 1988-01-24

Runtime: 60 min

Boogie Woogie Music (Episode 14)

Air date: 1988-01-31

Runtime: 60 min

The Golden Age of Television (Episode 15)

Air date: 1988-02-14

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: A lecture about television given at the British Film Institute.

George Barker (Episode 16)

Air date: 1988-02-21

Runtime: 60 min

Jackson Pollack (Episode 17)

Air date: 1988-02-28

Runtime: 60 min

Lenny Henry (Episode 18)

Air date: 1988-03-06

Runtime: 60 min

Peter Dickinson (Episode 19)

Air date: 1988-03-13

Runtime: 60 min

A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China (Episode 20)

Air date: 1988-03-20

Runtime: 60 min

Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans (Episode 21)

Air date: 1988-03-27

Runtime: 60 min

Ken Russell's ABC of British Music (Episode 22)

Air date: 1988-04-02

Runtime: 60 min

Doris Lessing (Episode 23)

Air date: 1988-04-17

Runtime: 60 min

Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production (Episode 24)

Air date: 1988-04-24

Runtime: 60 min