The South Bank Show (Season 5)

The French Lieutenant's Woman (Episode 1)

Air date: 1981-11-01

Runtime: 60 min

Elvis Costello (Episode 2)

Air date: 1981-11-08

Runtime: 60 min

Old Glory: the Journey and the Book (Episode 3)

Air date: 1981-11-15

Runtime: 60 min

Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan (Episode 4)

Air date: 1981-11-22

Runtime: 60 min

Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield (Episode 5)

Air date: 1981-11-29

Runtime: 60 min

A Talent to Vex: John Osborne (Episode 6)

Air date: 1981-12-06

Runtime: 60 min

Mama Lu Parks (Episode 7)

Air date: 1982-01-17

Runtime: 60 min

Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day (Episode 8)

Air date: 1982-01-24

Runtime: 60 min

Milos Forman (Episode 9)

Air date: 1982-01-31

Runtime: 60 min

Germaine Greer (Episode 10)

Air date: 1982-02-07

Runtime: 60 min

Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH (Episode 11)

Air date: 1982-02-14

Runtime: 60 min

Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller (Episode 12)

Air date: 1982-02-21

Runtime: 60 min

Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson (Episode 13)

Air date: 1982-02-28

Runtime: 60 min

Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre) (Episode 14)

Air date: 1982-03-07

Runtime: 60 min

Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash (Episode 15)

Air date: 1982-03-14

Runtime: 60 min

Peter Maxwell-Davies (Episode 16)

Air date: 1982-03-21

Runtime: 60 min

Saul Bellow (Episode 17)

Air date: 1982-03-28

Runtime: 60 min

Indian wallpainting (Episode 18)

Air date: 1982-04-04

Runtime: 60 min

Stravinski (1) (Episode 19)

Air date: 1982-04-09

Runtime: 60 min

Stravinski (2) (Episode 20)

Air date: 1982-04-10

Runtime: 60 min

Julian Lloyd-Webber (Episode 21)

Air date: 1982-04-18

Runtime: 60 min

Miles Davis / Robert Nye (Episode 22)

Air date: 1982-04-25

Runtime: 60 min

Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs) (Episode 23)

Air date: 1982-05-02

Runtime: 60 min

Joseph Papp / James Galway (Episode 24)

Air date: 1982-05-09

Runtime: 60 min

Werner Herzog (Episode 25)

Air date: 1982-05-16

Runtime: 60 min

Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver) (Episode 26)

Air date: 1982-05-23

Runtime: 60 min

Phillip Larkin (Episode 27)

Air date: 1982-05-30

Runtime: 60 min

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