The South Bank Show (Season 31)

Bill Bryson (Episode 1)

Air date: 2006-09-10

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Bill Bryson revisits the haunts of his childhood

JG Ballard (Episode 2)

Air date: 2006-09-17

Runtime: 60 min

Robbie Coltrane (Episode 3)

Air date: 2006-09-24

Runtime: 60 min

Episode 4 (Episode 4)

Air date: 2006-10-01

Runtime: 60 min

Spamalot (Episode 5)

Air date: 2006-10-15

Runtime: 60 min

Claire Tomalin on Thomas Hardy (Episode 6)

Air date: 2006-10-22

Runtime: 60 min

Sue Townsend (Episode 7)

Air date: 2006-10-29

Runtime: 60 min

Lorenzo Da Ponte (Episode 8)

Air date: 2006-11-05

Runtime: 60 min

Peter Blake (Episode 9)

Air date: 2006-11-19

Runtime: 60 min

Nick Park and Aardman Animations (Episode 10)

Air date: 2006-11-26

Runtime: 60 min

Steve Reich (Episode 11)

Air date: 2006-12-10

Runtime: 60 min

Grayson Perry (Episode 12)

Air date: 2006-12-17

Runtime: 60 min

Damien Hirst - Addicted To Art (Episode 13)

Air date: 2007-01-01

Runtime: 60 min

Damien Hirst (Episode 14)

Air date: 2007-01-06

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: This episode of The South Bank Show provides a unique insight into Damien Hirst not as the enfant terrible of an art world but as an art collector and businessman. Known for creating one of the most famous icons of modern art, a 14ft tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde, which shocked the public, he also produces decorative spot and spin paintings. His prolific output and entrepreneurialism have made him one of the world's most expensive living artists, with an estimated fortune of £100 million. One of Hirst's motivations for his growing art collection is Toddington, a dilapidated Gothic Manor house in Gloucestershire, which he purchased in 2005 for £3 million and will one day house his entire collection. Here, he shows Melvyn Bragg around Toddington, outlining his plans for its future. They discuss his art collection, his artistic heroes and the relationship between money and art.

Victoria Wood: A South Bank Show Special (Episode 15)

Air date: 2007-03-11

Runtime: 60 min

Isabel Allende (Episode 16)

Air date: 2007-04-22

Runtime: 60 min

Shane Meadows (Episode 17)

Air date: 2007-04-29

Runtime: 60 min

Jarvis Cocker: Running The World (Episode 18)

Air date: 2007-06-10

Runtime: 60 min

Martin Sheen On Playing It Real (Episode 19)

Air date: 2007-06-17

Runtime: 60 min

Marianne Faithfull: A Life In Song (Episode 20)

Air date: 2007-06-24

Runtime: 60 min

Zaha Hadid (Episode 21)

Air date: 2007-07-01

Runtime: 60 min

MacBeth (Episode 22)

Air date: 2007-07-08

Runtime: 60 min

Ian McMillan, Bard Of Barnsley (Episode 23)

Air date: 2007-07-15

Runtime: 60 min

Emma Kirkby, The Unsung Heroine (Episode 24)

Air date: 2007-07-22

Runtime: 60 min

June Whitfield (Episode 25)

Air date: 2007-07-29

Runtime: 60 min

Michael Sheen On Playing It Real (Episode 26)

Air date: 2007-09-02

Runtime: 60 min

Joan Dision (Episode 27)

Air date: 2007-09-23

Runtime: 60 min

Ken Follett (Episode 28)

Air date: 2007-09-30

Runtime: 60 min

The Mersey Sound (Episode 29)

Air date: 2007-10-07

Runtime: 60 min

The Last Laugh: John Bird and John Fortune (Episode 30)

Air date: 2007-10-14

Runtime: 60 min