Season 8

1. Alan Bennett

1984-10-07 · 60m

2. McCartney's Broad Street

1984-10-14 · 60m

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

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

1984-10-21 · 60m

4. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

1984-10-28 · 60m

5. Norman Nicholson

1984-11-04 · 60m

6. Joseph Heller

1984-11-11 · 60m

7. Mstislav Rostropovich

1984-11-18 · 60m

8. Max Wall

1984-11-25 · 60m

10. Alan Bleasdale

1985-01-13 · 60m

11. Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence

1985-01-20 · 60m

13. Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex

1985-02-03 · 60m

14. Marc Chagall

1985-02-10 · 60m

15. David Lean: a Life in Film

1985-02-17 · 60m

16. Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony

1985-02-24 · 60m

17. Little Richard

1985-03-03 · 60m

18. George Malcolm on Scarlatti

1985-03-10 · 60m

19. Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company

1985-03-17 · 60m

20. Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg

1985-03-31 · 60m

21. David Mamet

1985-03-24 · 60m

22. Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith

1985-04-05 · 60m

23. The Cotton Club (night club)

1985-05-26 · 60m

24. Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)

1985-06-02 · 60m

25. Francis Bacon

1985-06-09 · 60m

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.

26. George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century

1985-06-16 · 60m