The South Bank Show (Season 8)

Alan Bennett (Episode 1)

Air date: 1984-10-07

Runtime: 60 min

McCartney's Broad Street (Episode 2)

Air date: 1984-10-14

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: Behind the scenes look at the making of Paul McCartney's 1984 movie Give My Regards To Broad Street.

The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company) (Episode 3)

Air date: 1984-10-21

Runtime: 60 min

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Episode 4)

Air date: 1984-10-28

Runtime: 60 min

Norman Nicholson (Episode 5)

Air date: 1984-11-04

Runtime: 60 min

Joseph Heller (Episode 6)

Air date: 1984-11-11

Runtime: 60 min

Mstislav Rostropovich (Episode 7)

Air date: 1984-11-18

Runtime: 60 min

Max Wall (Episode 8)

Air date: 1984-11-25

Runtime: 60 min

Alan Bleasdale (Episode 9)

Air date: 1985-01-13

Runtime: 60 min

Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence (Episode 10)

Air date: 1985-01-20

Runtime: 60 min

Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex (Episode 11)

Air date: 1985-02-03

Runtime: 60 min

Marc Chagall (Episode 12)

Air date: 1985-02-10

Runtime: 60 min

David Lean: a Life in Film (Episode 13)

Air date: 1985-02-17

Runtime: 60 min

Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony (Episode 14)

Air date: 1985-02-24

Runtime: 60 min

Little Richard (Episode 15)

Air date: 1985-03-03

Runtime: 60 min

George Malcolm on Scarlatti (Episode 16)

Air date: 1985-03-10

Runtime: 60 min

Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company (Episode 17)

Air date: 1985-03-17

Runtime: 60 min

Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg (Episode 18)

Air date: 1985-03-31

Runtime: 60 min

David Mamet (Episode 19)

Air date: 1985-03-24

Runtime: 60 min

Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith (Episode 20)

Air date: 1985-04-05

Runtime: 60 min

The Cotton Club (night club) (Episode 21)

Air date: 1985-05-26

Runtime: 60 min

Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young) (Episode 22)

Air date: 1985-06-02

Runtime: 60 min

Francis Bacon (Episode 23)

Air date: 1985-06-09

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: As part of The South Bank Show series, director David Hinton and interviewer Melvyn Bragg accompany Francis Bacon for a day during his second retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London, in 1985. The conversation reveals the artist’s influences, theories and obsessions.

George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century (Episode 24)

Air date: 1985-06-16

Runtime: 60 min