The South Bank Show

TV Show Details

Original name: The South Bank Show
Years: 1978 - ..
Status: In Progress
Genre: Documentary
Creator
Seasons: 39 (740 episodes)
Episode Time: ~ 60 min

Season 39

Release date: 18.04.2013

Released episodes: 1 / 1

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Tim Minchin	18.04.2013Episode Rating: N/A

Season 38

Release date: 28.05.2012

Released episodes: 4 / 4

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Nicholas Hytner	28.05.2012Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Pat Barker	04.06.2012Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Trevor Nelson and Dizzee Rascal	11.06.2012Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Carlos Acosta, Edward Watson and Tamara Rojo	18.06.2012Episode Rating: N/A

Season 37

Release date: 28.03.2010

Released episodes: 10 / 10

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Andrew Lloyd Webber	28.03.2010Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Billy Connolly Revisited	04.04.2010Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Ian McEwan Revisited	11.04.2010Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Ian McKellen	18.04.2010Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Stephen Sondheim	25.04.2010Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6David Hockney	02.05.2010Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Judi Dench	09.05.2010Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Kiri Te Kanawa Revisited	16.05.2010Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Victoria Wood	23.05.2010Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10The Final Cut	30.05.2010Episode Rating: N/A

Season 36

Release date: 13.09.2009

Released episodes: 10 / 10

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1The Wagner Family	13.09.2009Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Coldplay	20.09.2009Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Andy Warhol	04.10.2009Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Disney and Pixar	11.10.2009Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Lee Hall	18.10.2009Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Nick Hornby	25.10.2009Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Elbow	15.11.2009Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Carol Ann Duffy	06.12.2009Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Royal Shakespeare Company	28.12.2009Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11South Bank Show Awards 2009	31.01.2010Episode Rating: N/A

Season 35

Release date: 28.01.2009

Released episodes: 9 / 9

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1The South Bank Show Awards	28.01.2009Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Beyond the Footlights	01.02.2009Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3The Tempest	08.02.2009Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Will Young	17.03.2009Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Messiah	12.04.2009Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6William Goldman	26.04.2009Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Out Of Nigeria	10.05.2009Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Out Of Nigeria (2)	17.05.2009Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Peter Kosminsky	24.05.2009Episode Rating: N/A

Season 34

Release date: 21.09.2008

Released episodes: 6 / 6

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1The Streets	21.09.2008Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2The One Ronnie	05.10.2008Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Bond	22.10.2008Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Cildo Meireles	26.10.2008Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Sam Taylor-Wood	16.11.2008Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6The Mariinsky Theatre	07.12.2008Episode Rating: N/A

Season 33

Release date: 04.05.2008

Released episodes: 6 / 6

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Liza Minnelli	04.05.2008Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2The Damned United	11.05.2008Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Gore Vidal	18.05.2008Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Sarah Waters	08.06.2008Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Tasmin Little	15.06.2008Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Billy Joel	13.07.2008Episode Rating: N/A

Season 32

Release date: 25.11.2007

Released episodes: 6 / 8

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Annie Lennox	25.11.2007Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Eric Clapton	02.12.2007Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3The Making Of Viva La Diva	09.12.2007Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4The Nutcracker Story	26.12.2007Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Kevin Spacey	N/A
6	Episode 6Tim Burton	N/A
7	Episode 7David McVicar	09.03.2008Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Revolution 68	16.03.2008Episode Rating: N/A

Season 31

Release date: 10.09.2006

Released episodes: 30 / 30

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Bill Bryson	10.09.2006Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2JG Ballard	17.09.2006Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Robbie Coltrane	24.09.2006Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Episode 4	01.10.2006Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Spamalot	15.10.2006Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Claire Tomalin on Thomas Hardy	22.10.2006Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Sue Townsend	29.10.2006Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Lorenzo Da Ponte	05.11.2006Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Peter Blake	19.11.2006Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Nick Park and Aardman Animations	26.11.2006Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Steve Reich	10.12.2006Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Grayson Perry	17.12.2006Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Damien Hirst - Addicted To Art	01.01.2007Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Damien Hirst	06.01.2007Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Victoria Wood: A South Bank Show Special	11.03.2007Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Isabel Allende	22.04.2007Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Shane Meadows	29.04.2007Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Jarvis Cocker: Running The World	10.06.2007Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Martin Sheen On Playing It Real	17.06.2007Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Marianne Faithfull: A Life In Song	24.06.2007Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Zaha Hadid	01.07.2007Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22MacBeth	08.07.2007Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Ian McMillan, Bard Of Barnsley	15.07.2007Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Emma Kirkby, The Unsung Heroine	22.07.2007Episode Rating: N/A
25	Episode 25June Whitfield	29.07.2007Episode Rating: N/A
26	Episode 26Michael Sheen On Playing It Real	02.09.2007Episode Rating: N/A
27	Episode 27Joan Dision	23.09.2007Episode Rating: N/A
28	Episode 28Ken Follett	30.09.2007Episode Rating: N/A
29	Episode 29The Mersey Sound	07.10.2007Episode Rating: N/A
30	Episode 30The Last Laugh: John Bird and John Fortune	14.10.2007Episode Rating: N/A

Season 30

Release date: 12.02.2006

Released episodes: 8 / 8

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Armando Iannucci	12.02.2006Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Manga Mania	19.02.2006Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3John Rutter	12.03.2006Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4PD James	26.03.2006Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Dusty Springfield	09.04.2006Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Seu Jorge	04.06.2006Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Romeo and Juliet	11.06.2006Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Steve Reich	10.12.2006Episode Rating: N/A

Season 29

Release date: 07.08.2005

Released episodes: 12 / 13

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Margot Fonteyn (1)	07.08.2005Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Margot Fonteyn (2)	14.08.2005Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Sophie Calle	21.08.2005Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Karl Jenkins	11.09.2005Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Eric Sykes	18.09.2005Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Maxim Vengerov	02.10.2005Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Alan Bennett	09.10.2005Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Pablo Trapero, Lucrecia Martel, Daniel Burman	16.10.2005Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy (film)	23.10.2005Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Peter Hall (1)	30.10.2005Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Peter Hall (2)	06.11.2005Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Little Britain: A South Bank Show Special	25.12.2005Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Armando Iannucci	N/A

Season 28

Release date: 22.08.2004

Released episodes: 23 / 23

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Street Music Stories	22.08.2004Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Ronnie Wood	05.09.2004Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Willie Nelson	19.09.2004Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Malcolm Arnold (1)	26.09.2004Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Malcolm Arnold (2)	03.10.2004Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Robert Frank	17.10.2004Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Michael Frayn	14.11.2004Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8The Darkness	21.11.2004Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Iggy Pop	05.12.2004Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Ruth Rendell	12.12.2004Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Howard Goodall	19.12.2004Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Pete 'n' Dud, The Lost Shows	01.01.2005Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Ian McEwan	20.02.2005Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Going Sane	06.03.2005Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Khaled and Rachid	13.03.2005Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg	27.03.2005Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17The Garden of Cosmic Speculation	03.04.2005Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18John Boorman	10.04.2005Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Red Priest	24.04.2005Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20National Theatre's production of Henry IV	01.05.2005Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21The Secret Art of War	08.05.2005Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Paul Abbott	15.05.2005Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Eric Sykes	18.09.2005Episode Rating: N/A

Season 27

Release date: 19.10.2003

Released episodes: 13 / 13

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Germaine Greer	19.10.2003Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra	07.12.2003Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3TV Stories (1)	01.02.2004Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4TV Stories (2)	08.02.2004Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Jamie Cullum	22.02.2004Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6The Wilson Twins	07.03.2004Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7John Lennon's Jukebox	14.03.2004Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Jack Vettriano	21.03.2004Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9The Dance Theatre of Harlem	04.04.2004Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Jeanette Winterson	02.05.2004Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Johnny Hallyday	09.05.2004Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Othello	16.05.2004Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Ian McKellen	29.06.2004Episode Rating: N/A

Season 26

Release date: 13.10.2002

Released episodes: 25 / 25

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Mike Leigh	13.10.2002Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Akram Khan	20.10.2002Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Graham Vick: Beethoven in the Big Top	27.10.2002Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Craig David	10.11.2002Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Andrew Davies	17.11.2002Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Joan Rivers	24.11.2002Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Willie Nelson	12.01.2003Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8James MacMillan	05.01.2003Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Irek Mukhamedov	19.01.2003Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Gerhard Richter	02.02.2003Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Hanif Kureishi	09.02.2003Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12How to Get Rich: Felix Dennis	16.02.2003Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Philip Pullman	09.03.2003Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Caryl Phillips	13.04.2003Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Conor McPherson	18.05.2003Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Herbie Hancock	29.06.2003Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Caetano Veloso	06.07.2003Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Ang Lee	13.07.2003Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19The Real George Orwell	27.07.2003Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Juan Diego Florez	03.08.2003Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Nick Cave	10.08.2003Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Albert Camus	31.08.2003Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Robert Harris Takes on Rome	07.09.2003Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Full Picture	19.09.2003Episode Rating: N/A
25	Episode 25Ewan McGregor	21.09.2003Episode Rating: N/A

Season 25

Release date: 07.10.2001

Released episodes: 18 / 19

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1High and Low Culture in the Age of Television	07.10.2001Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2(highlights)	14.10.2001Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Rachel Whiteread	28.10.2001Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Norman Foster	11.11.2001Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Dr. John	18.11.2001Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings	16.12.2001Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss RenÃ©e Fleming	N/A
8	Episode 8The Sopranos	10.02.2002Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Leif Ove Andsnes	24.02.2002Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Why the Novel Matters	17.03.2002Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Meera Syal	24.03.2002Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Johnnie Ray	31.03.2002Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Mario Vargas Llosa	21.04.2002Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Fay Weldon	05.05.2002Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15R.E.M.	09.05.2002Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Neil LaBute	23.06.2002Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Cinema of Fire (Iranian cinema)	30.06.2002Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Moby	07.07.2002Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Bernie Taupin	04.08.2002Episode Rating: N/A

Season 24

Release date: 01.10.2000

Released episodes: 24 / 24

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton	01.10.2000Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Santana	08.10.2000Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Joyce [Carol Oates] on Marilyn [Monroe]	15.10.2000Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Mark Morris Dance Group	29.10.2000Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6George MacDonald Fraser	12.11.2000Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Courtney Pine	19.11.2000Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Ron Howard	26.11.2000Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Dame Gillian Weir	03.12.2000Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10[Marlene] Dumas and [Jemima] Stehli	10.12.2000Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Mark Quinn	17.12.2000Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Tom Jones	24.12.2000Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Ken Russell	11.02.2001Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Shirin Neshat	18.02.2001Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Russell Watson	25.02.2001Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Amos Oz	04.03.2001Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Greta Garbo	11.03.2001Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Elvis Costello with Annie Sofie von Otter	18.03.2001Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Bill Bryson	25.03.2001Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Ian Rankin	01.07.2001Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Ian Bostridge	08.07.2001Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Edmund White	22.07.2001Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Steve Coogan	05.08.2001Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Ravi Shankar	12.08.2001Episode Rating: N/A
25	Episode 25Tracey Emin	19.08.2001Episode Rating: N/A

Season 23

Release date: 26.09.1999

Released episodes: 21 / 21

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Paul Merton	26.09.1999Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Frank McCourt	03.10.1999Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Howard Jacobson	10.10.1999Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Jose Cura	17.10.1999Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5James Galway	24.10.1999Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6The Lion King (stage play based on the film)	31.10.1999Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Joan Collins	14.11.1999Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Blur	21.11.1999Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Yoko Ono	05.12.1999Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Cher	11.12.1999Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Countertenors	19.12.1999Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Bing Crosby	26.12.1999Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Shakespeare	23.01.2000Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Millennium Dome	07.02.2000Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Sam Mendes	14.02.2000Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Michael Douglas	21.02.2000Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Chuck Close	05.03.2000Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Emir Kusturica	12.03.2000Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Amis on Amis	18.06.2000Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20(composing classical music) (1)	25.06.2000Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Simon Holt's Sunrise, Yellow Noise (2)	02.07.2000Episode Rating: N/A

Season 22

Release date: 08.11.1998

Released episodes: 16 / 16

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Ossie Clarke (1)	08.11.1998Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Ossie Clarke (2)	15.11.1998Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Lesley Garrett	22.11.1998Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Harold Pinter	29.11.1998Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Maxine Peake/Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo	06.12.1998Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Walter Mosley	13.12.1998Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Petula Clark	20.12.1998Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Warren Beatty	30.12.1998Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9John Tomlinson	10.01.1999Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Javier du Frutos	31.01.1999Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11UB40	07.02.1999Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Anish Kapoor	21.02.1999Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13New South African Artists	28.02.1999Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Lucy Gannon	14.03.1999Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Tony Harrison	28.03.1999Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Dolly Parton	09.04.1999Episode Rating: N/A

Season 21

Release date: 05.10.1997

Released episodes: 22 / 22

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Scarfe on Hercules	05.10.1997Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance	26.10.1997Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Kay Mellor	02.11.1997Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Björk	09.11.1997Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Iain Banks	16.11.1997Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures	23.11.1997Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Steven Bochco	30.11.1997Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Simon Raven	14.12.1997Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Franco Zeffirelli	21.12.1997Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Saul Zaentz	11.01.1998Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Gillian Wearing / Gary Hume	18.01.1998Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Marks and Gran	01.02.1998Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Hail Bop: a Portrait of John Adams	08.02.1998Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Nigel Kennedy	15.02.1998Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Gary Oldman	15.03.1998Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Body Art	05.04.1998Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17John Tavener	12.04.1998Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18The Bee Gees	07.06.1998Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Will Self	05.07.1998Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Afro-Cuban Allstars	19.07.1998Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21This is Not an Exit: the Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis	23.08.1998Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Wayne Sleep	30.08.1998Episode Rating: N/A

Season 20

Release date: 15.09.1996

Released episodes: 20 / 20

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Victoria Wood	15.09.1996Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Sir John Mills	22.09.1996Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Michael Crawford	29.09.1996Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Norman Mailer on Picasso	06.10.1996Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Chanson	13.10.1996Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Michael Collins	27.10.1996Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Bryn Terfel	03.11.1996Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Howard Hodgkin	10.11.1996Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Jimmy McGovern	17.11.1996Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid	05.01.1997Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Maggi Hambling	12.01.1997Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13The US and Us (1)	26.01.1997Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14The US and Us (2)	02.02.1997Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Gilbert and George (1)	09.02.1997Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Gilbert and George (2)	16.02.1997Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Valery Gergiev	23.02.1997Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Paganini	04.05.1997Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19David Helfgott	22.06.1997Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Paul Auster	06.07.1997Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Young Directors (Preya Lal, Alexander Kelly, Franca Cereghini, Chris Dooks)	20.07.1997Episode Rating: N/A

Season 19

Release date: 10.09.1995

Released episodes: 20 / 20

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Clint Eastwwod	10.09.1995Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Ackroyd's Blake	17.09.1995Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Tom Sharpe	24.09.1995Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4kd lang	01.10.1995Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Pavarotti at 60	08.10.1995Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Jimmy Nail	15.10.1995Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Dame Judi Dench	29.10.1995Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Coronation Street	05.11.1995Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Dame Barbara Cartland	12.11.1995Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Jonathan Raban: Badlands / Wynton Marsalis	19.11.1995Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Elaine Page Special	07.04.1996Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Sting	14.04.1996Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Albert Finney	28.04.1996Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Marlene Dietrich	05.05.1996Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15John Eliot Gardiner	12.05.1996Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence	19.05.1996Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Claes Oldenburg	26.05.1996Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Baaba Maal	02.06.1996Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Maxine Peake / Wynton Marsalis in New Orleans	21.07.1996Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Alan Ayckbourn Workshop	28.07.1996Episode Rating: N/A

Season 18

Release date: 18.09.1994

Released episodes: 22 / 22

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Kenneth Williams	18.09.1994Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Marilyn Horne	25.09.1994Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3New Generation Poets	02.10.1994Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Vanessa Redgrave	09.10.1994Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5David Mamet	16.10.1994Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6The Shearing Touch (George Shearing)	23.10.1994Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Alan Ayckbourn	30.10.1994Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Frankenstein	06.11.1994Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Thora Hird	13.11.1994Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10The Glory of Gershwin	20.11.1994Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11P.J. O'Rourke	27.11.1994Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Lionel Bart	11.12.1994Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Carl Orff	29.01.1995Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Classic Widows	05.02.1995Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Jonathan Miller	12.02.1995Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Flags of the Fante Coast	19.02.1995Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Catherine Bailey, the Lady is a Tramp / Roger Ballen	26.02.1995Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Edward Albee	05.03.1995Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Jodie Foster	12.03.1995Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Martin Amis	19.03.1995Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Country Music	02.04.1995Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Miriam Makeba	09.04.1995Episode Rating: N/A

Season 17

Release date: 12.09.1993

Released episodes: 25 / 25

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Sydney Pollack	12.09.1993Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Willy Russell	19.09.1993Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Ken Loach	03.10.1993Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Margaret Atwood	10.10.1993Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5John Lee Hooker	17.10.1993Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Stevie Wonder	24.10.1993Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Sylvie Guillem	31.10.1993Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Tim Rice	07.11.1993Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Lynda La Plante	14.11.1993Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10John Williams	21.11.1993Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (1)	28.11.1993Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (2)	05.12.1993Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Cliff Richard	24.12.1993Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Bheki Mseleku	23.01.1994Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Darker Than Me	06.02.1994Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Jean-Claude Carriere	13.02.1994Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool	20.02.1994Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Looking for the Perfect Beat: Rap	27.02.1994Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Larry Adler Plays Gershwin	06.03.1994Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Kiri's 50th Birthday Concert	13.03.1994Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Clive Barker	10.04.1994Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Dawn French	17.04.1994Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Christian Boltanski	15.05.1994Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Eric Newby	22.05.1994Episode Rating: N/A
25	Episode 25John Steinbeck	29.05.1994Episode Rating: N/A

Season 16

Release date: 04.10.1992

Released episodes: 25 / 25

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Billy Connolly	04.10.1992Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Alice Walker	11.10.1992Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Peter O'Toole	18.10.1992Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Two Royal Ballet Dancers (Darcey Bussell, Viviana Durante)	25.10.1992Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Robert Zemeckis	01.11.1992Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6George Formby	08.11.1992Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Sir Richard Attenborough	15.11.1992Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax	06.12.1992Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9The World of Jeff Koons	13.12.1992Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Jimi Hendrix	20.12.1992Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Dracula	24.01.1993Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Monserrat Caballe	31.01.1993Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Annie Leibowitz	07.02.1993Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Guggenheim Museum	14.02.1993Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Dmitri and Sasha Sitkovetsky	21.02.1993Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Jean Genet	28.02.1993Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17I, Berlioz	07.03.1993Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Richard Price	14.03.1993Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19John Banville	21.03.1993Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Henryk Gorecki's 3rd symphony	04.04.1993Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Dudley Moore	13.06.1993Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Frink, 1930-1993 (Dame Elisabeth Frink)	20.06.1993Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Benny Goodman, the King of Swing	04.07.1993Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Paul Simon	15.08.1993Episode Rating: N/A
25	Episode 25Norman Wisdom	22.08.1993Episode Rating: N/A

Season 15

Release date: 15.09.1991

Released episodes: 24 / 25

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Private Eye	15.09.1991Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2David Lodge	29.09.1991Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Terry Gilliam	06.10.1991Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Neil Simon	13.10.1991Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Heinrich Schiff	20.10.1991Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Seamus Heaney	27.10.1991Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7John Osborne	03.11.1991Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Dame Britain (Vera Lynn)	10.11.1991Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Arthur Miller	17.11.1991Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Jose Carreras, a Life Story	24.11.1991Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Dame Kiri Te Kanawa	22.12.1991Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Arts Review '91	29.12.1991Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Douglas Adams	05.01.1992Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Lenny Henry Hunts the Funk	12.01.1992Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Hakan Hardenberger	19.01.1992Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Cecilia Bartoli	28.11.1999Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Les Murray	02.02.1992Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Colin Thubron	09.02.1992Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Pet Shop Boys	16.02.1992Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Paula Rego	23.02.1992Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Noel Coward	01.03.1992Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Anthony Hopkins	29.03.1992Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Terence Davis	05.04.1992Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Making Naked Lunch	12.04.1992Episode Rating: N/A
25	Episode 25The Making of Sgt. Pepper	N/A

Season 14

Release date: 02.09.1990

Released episodes: 23 / 23

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1George Michael	02.09.1990Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Peter Ackroyd on Dickens	09.09.1990Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Spike Lee	23.09.1990Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Salman Rushdie	30.09.1990Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Roy Lichtenstein	07.10.1990Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Ken Russell on Anton Bruckner	14.10.1990Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Clear Cool Crystal Streams (Irish rock music)	21.10.1990Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8John Updike	28.10.1990Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9East German writers	04.11.1990Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Alan Parker	25.11.1990Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Cameron Mackintosh	02.12.1990Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Spitting Image	09.12.1990Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13The Talis Scholars	30.12.1990Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Stan Laurel	06.01.1991Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15August Wilson	13.01.1991Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Oscar Marzaroli	20.01.1991Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Anne-Sophie Mutter	27.01.1991Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Bonfire of the Vanities (1991 film)	03.02.1991Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Willard White	10.02.1991Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20The Five Blind Boys of Alabama / R.S. Thomas	17.02.1991Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Steve Martin	24.02.1991Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Rudolph Nureyev	03.03.1991Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Kiri Te Kanawa	29.03.1991Episode Rating: N/A

Season 13

Release date: 17.09.1989

Released episodes: 25 / 25

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Martin Amis	17.09.1989Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Dustin Hoffman, Sir Peter Hall	24.09.1989Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Jimi Hendrix	01.10.1989Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Tom Keneally in Eritrea	08.10.1989Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Ken Russell	15.10.1989Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Steven Berkoff	22.10.1989Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Gabriel Garcia Marquez	29.10.1989Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Fitzrovia	12.11.1989Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Dame Edna Everage	19.11.1989Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Evelyn Glennie	26.11.1989Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Peter Brook	03.12.1989Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Arts Review '89	29.12.1989Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Boris Pasternak	07.01.1990Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Sir David Lean, Robert Bolt	21.01.1990Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Christopher Hogwood	28.01.1990Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Chinua Achebe	04.02.1990Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Hans Werner Henze	11.02.1990Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Jock Tamson's Bairns (Gerry Mulgrew, Liz Lochhead)	18.02.1990Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Yuri Bashmet	04.03.1990Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20DV8 Physical Theatre	11.03.1990Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Mark Morris: the Hidden Soul of Harmony	25.03.1990Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Carl Davis, Temba	01.04.1990Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Vivienne Westwood	08.04.1990Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Hindemith	15.04.1990Episode Rating: N/A
25	Episode 25Robert Altman	22.04.1990Episode Rating: N/A

Season 12

Release date: 25.09.1988

Released episodes: 24 / 24

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1The Art of Walt Disney	25.09.1988Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Bernard Shaw	02.10.1988Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Under Milk Wood	09.10.1988Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Toulouse-Lautrec	16.10.1988Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5David Puttnam	23.10.1988Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6David Hockney	30.10.1988Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Two Women in Three Dimensions (Wendy Taylor, Nicola Hicks)	13.11.1988Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Bristol WWII bombing raids reenactment	20.11.1988Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Raymond Chandler	27.11.1988Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Neil Jordan	04.12.1988Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11John Houseman	11.12.1988Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12David Bailey	18.12.1988Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Derek Walcott	15.01.1989Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Patrick Leigh Fermor	22.01.1989Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15National Training Orchestra	29.01.1989Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Christopher Hampton	05.02.1989Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Istvan Szabo	12.02.1989Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Robert Redford	19.02.1989Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Tony Palmer on the concerto	26.02.1989Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Ben Elton	05.03.1989Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21John Burnett	10.03.1989Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Put Blood in the Music (New York avant garde music)	12.03.1989Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23John Ogdon	19.03.1989Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Sir William Golding	24.03.1989Episode Rating: N/A

Season 11

Release date: 04.10.1987

Released episodes: 24 / 24

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Maria Callas	04.10.1987Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Toni Morrison	11.10.1987Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3The Smiths	18.10.1987Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Andy Warhol	25.10.1987Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega	01.11.1987Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Sir Terence Conran	08.11.1987Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Gore Vidal	15.11.1987Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8African music / Russian theatre	22.11.1987Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Sir George Solti	29.11.1987Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Eric Clapton	06.12.1987Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Arts Review '87	20.12.1987Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12The Last Emperor (1988 film)	17.01.1988Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Australian Aboriginies	24.01.1988Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Boogie Woogie Music	31.01.1988Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15The Golden Age of Television	14.02.1988Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16George Barker	21.02.1988Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Jackson Pollack	28.02.1988Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Lenny Henry	06.03.1988Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Peter Dickinson	13.03.1988Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China	20.03.1988Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans	27.03.1988Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Ken Russell's ABC of British Music	02.04.1988Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Doris Lessing	17.04.1988Episode Rating: N/A
25	Episode 25Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production	24.04.1988Episode Rating: N/A

Season 10

Release date: 05.10.1986

Released episodes: 23 / 23

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1John Mortimer	05.10.1986Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Michael Powell	26.10.1986Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Truman Capote	02.11.1986Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Fay Godwin	09.11.1986Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7The Andrew Lloyd-Webber Story	15.11.1986Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Agatha Christie, How Did She Do It?	23.11.1986Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9The Dream is Over (Christopher Bruce ballet on John Lennon)	30.11.1986Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Arts Review '86	14.12.1986Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Anthony Hopkins / David Hare	11.01.1987Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Philip Glass	18.01.1987Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Alvin Ailey Dance Theater	25.01.1987Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Anthony Green: RA, a Love Story	01.02.1987Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15birth of Frankenstein and Dracula	08.02.1987Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Thomas Allen	15.02.1987Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17The Wooster Group	22.02.1987Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18The London Underground in art	01.03.1987Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Barbara Dickson	15.03.1987Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Penguin Cafe Orchestra	22.03.1987Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Turner at the Tate	29.03.1987Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23George V. Higgins	05.04.1987Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Peter York lecture	12.04.1987Episode Rating: N/A
25	Episode 25The Aida File: The Making of the Opera (1)	18.04.1987Episode Rating: N/A
26	Episode 26The Aida File: Aida Performance (2)	19.04.1987Episode Rating: N/A

Season 9

Release date: 06.10.1985

Released episodes: 24 / 24

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Sir Alec Guinness	06.10.1985Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor	13.10.1985Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year	20.10.1985Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Theatre of Comedy workshop	27.10.1985Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Pete Townshend: After the Fire	03.11.1985Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Sir Stephen Spender	10.11.1985Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Marguerite Duras	17.11.1985Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Karole Armitage	24.11.1985Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Peter Shaffer	01.12.1985Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10John Cleese	12.01.1986Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Vladimir Ashkenazy	19.01.1986Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Paul Schrader	26.01.1986Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Purcell's Dido and Aenaes	02.02.1986Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Patrick Heron	09.02.1986Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Blue Note Records	16.02.1986Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Michala Petri	23.02.1986Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Elisabeth Schwarzkopf	02.03.1986Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Absolute Beginners (film)	09.03.1986Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Arthur Boyd	23.03.1986Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical	06.04.1986Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21British Soap Operas	13.04.1986Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Hull Truck Theatre Company	20.04.1986Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Velvet Underground	27.04.1986Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Al Jolson	04.05.1986Episode Rating: N/A

Season 8

Release date: 07.10.1984

Released episodes: 24 / 24

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Alan Bennett	07.10.1984Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2McCartney's Broad Street	14.10.1984Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)	21.10.1984Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Paolo and Vittorio Taviani	28.10.1984Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Norman Nicholson	04.11.1984Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Joseph Heller	11.11.1984Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Mstislav Rostropovich	18.11.1984Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Max Wall	25.11.1984Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Alan Bleasdale	13.01.1985Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence	20.01.1985Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex	03.02.1985Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Marc Chagall	10.02.1985Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15David Lean: a Life in Film	17.02.1985Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony	24.02.1985Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Little Richard	03.03.1985Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18George Malcolm on Scarlatti	10.03.1985Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company	17.03.1985Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg	31.03.1985Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21David Mamet	24.03.1985Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith	05.04.1985Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23The Cotton Club (night club)	26.05.1985Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)	02.06.1985Episode Rating: N/A
25	Episode 25Francis Bacon	09.06.1985Episode Rating: N/A
26	Episode 26George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century	16.06.1985Episode Rating: N/A

Season 7

Release date: 16.10.1983

Released episodes: 22 / 22

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Piper's Way	16.10.1983Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Yuri Lyubimov	23.10.1983Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Jack Lemmon	06.11.1983Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Catherine Cookson	20.11.1983Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Lillian Gish/Glen Baxter	27.11.1983Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Alberto Moravia	04.12.1983Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Ian Hamilton Finlay/Lord Gowrie	11.12.1983Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Barry Tuckwell: Master of the Horn	19.02.1984Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Trevor Griffiths	26.02.1984Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Weather Report	11.03.1984Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Claudio Arrau	18.03.1984Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Kathy Acker	01.04.1984Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Ralph Vaughan Williams	08.04.1984Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Sir Ernst Gombrich	15.04.1984Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Michael Frayn	29.04.1984Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Ed McBain	06.05.1984Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18David Bintley: New Ballet at Sadler's Wells	13.05.1984Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Stephen Sondheim	20.05.1984Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Elisabeth Vellacott / DeCocoa, Hot Chocolate	27.05.1984Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21adaptation of Ivy Compton Burnett's Elders and Betters	03.06.1984Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Kipling (one-man play with Alec McGowen)	10.06.1984Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Anthony Caro	24.06.1984Episode Rating: N/A

Season 6

Release date: 17.10.1982

Released episodes: 26 / 26

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Laurence Olivier, a Life (1)	17.10.1982Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Laurence Olivier, a Life (2)	24.10.1982Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Peter Gabriel	31.10.1982Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Bruce Chatwin	07.11.1982Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Patricia Highsmith	14.11.1982Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Steven Spielberg	21.11.1982Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Gospel at Colonus	28.11.1982Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Simone De Beauvoir	09.01.1983Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Barry Flannigan / Seamus Heaney	23.01.1983Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10David Hare	30.01.1983Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Agnes De Mille	06.02.1983Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Handel's Semele (by the Royal Opera House)	13.02.1983Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Sam Fuller	20.02.1983Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Local Hero (film)	27.02.1983Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15R.K. Narayan	13.03.1983Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Ivo Pogorelich	20.03.1983Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17John Le CarrÃ©	27.03.1983Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Choirs and Places Where They Sing	03.04.1983Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19William Trevor	24.04.1983Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Gene Hackman	01.05.1983Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Keith Waterhouse	08.05.1983Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Robert Lowell / Benjamin Britten's Quartettino	15.05.1983Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Cowboy Art	22.05.1983Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Jiri Kylian	29.05.1983Episode Rating: N/A
25	Episode 25Producing Don Giovanni	05.06.1983Episode Rating: N/A
26	Episode 26Ken Russell's View of The Planets	12.06.1983Episode Rating: N/A

Season 5

Release date: 01.11.1981

Released episodes: 27 / 27

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1The French Lieutenant's Woman	01.11.1981Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Elvis Costello	08.11.1981Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Old Glory: the Journey and the Book	15.11.1981Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan	22.11.1981Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield	29.11.1981Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6A Talent to Vex: John Osborne	06.12.1981Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Mama Lu Parks	17.01.1982Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day	24.01.1982Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Milos Forman	31.01.1982Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Germaine Greer	07.02.1982Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH	14.02.1982Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller	21.02.1982Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson	28.02.1982Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)	07.03.1982Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash	14.03.1982Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Peter Maxwell-Davies	21.03.1982Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Saul Bellow	28.03.1982Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Indian wallpainting	04.04.1982Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Stravinski (1)	09.04.1982Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Stravinski (2)	10.04.1982Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Julian Lloyd-Webber	18.04.1982Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Miles Davis / Robert Nye	25.04.1982Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs)	02.05.1982Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Joseph Papp / James Galway	09.05.1982Episode Rating: N/A
25	Episode 25Werner Herzog	16.05.1982Episode Rating: N/A
26	Episode 26Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver)	23.05.1982Episode Rating: N/A
27	Episode 27Phillip Larkin	30.05.1982Episode Rating: N/A

Season 4

Release date: 09.11.1980

Released episodes: 26 / 26

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Arthur Miller	09.11.1980Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2William Golding	16.11.1980Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Akira Kurosawa	23.11.1980Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Stravinsky's The Firebird	30.11.1980Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5No Need to Lie	07.12.1980Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6The Passion (National Theatre's updating of medieval plays)	14.12.1980Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Toni Morrison	18.01.1981Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8The Trespasser (film)	25.01.1981Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Don Juan in Hell	08.02.1981Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10poetry workshop	15.02.1981Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Martin Scorsese	22.02.1981Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Elizabeth Taylor / John Hubbard	01.03.1981Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Bob Fosse	08.03.1981Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Robert Redford / Martin Amis	15.03.1981Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Verity Bargate / Howard Hodgkin	29.03.1981Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16At the Haunted End of the Day: the Life of Sir William Walton	19.04.1981Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Gore Vidal	26.04.1981Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18The Roots of the Tree (Ermanno Olmi)	03.05.1981Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Colin Welland	10.05.1981Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Christopher Logue / Phillip King	17.05.1981Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Lulu's Last Act (Berg opera)	24.05.1981Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Dame Ninette De Valois / David Hockney on Picasso	31.05.1981Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Clive James / Craig Raine	07.06.1981Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Soviet Art	14.06.1981Episode Rating: N/A
25	Episode 25Rhythm and Blues (The Blues Band, Dr. Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, Paul Jones)	21.06.1981Episode Rating: N/A
26	Episode 26Music for a City: Venice	28.06.1981Episode Rating: N/A

Season 3

Release date: 02.12.1979

Released episodes: 19 / 19

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Francis Ford Coppola	02.12.1979Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (1)	09.12.1979Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (2)	16.12.1979Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Talking Heads	23.12.1979Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Love and the Ice-Cream Vendor	17.02.1980Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Fay Weldon / Richard Hogart on Northern Ireland in drama	24.02.1980Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Merce Cunningham	02.03.1980Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Elegies for the Deaths of Three Spanish Poets	09.03.1980Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9A Time There was ... (Benjamin Britten)	06.04.1980Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10The Greene Adaptations (Graham Greene films)	13.04.1980Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Salsa (Puerto Rican music)	27.04.1980Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12The Worlds of Edward Bond	04.05.1980Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli / Kinglsey Amis	11.05.1980Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14new British rock films / The Tin Drum (film)	18.05.1980Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Roman Polanski	25.05.1980Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Tom Wolfe	01.06.1980Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Andrew Wyeth	08.06.1980Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Angus Wilson	29.06.1980Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Jane Austen (film)	06.07.1980Episode Rating: N/A

Season 2

Release date: 26.11.1978

Released episodes: 24 / 24

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Tom Stoppard	26.11.1978Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Grace Under Pressure (Anthony Burgess on Hemingway)	03.12.1978Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Woody Allen	10.12.1978Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4Anatomy of an Opera: Jonathan Miller's Figaro	17.12.1978Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Rhythm of Resistance (South African music)	14.01.1979Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6Harmony of the Spheres (Neil Ardley)	21.01.1979Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Circus Clowns/Schubert recital by Richter	28.01.1979Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Royal Shakespeare Company on tour	04.02.1979Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Brimstone & Treacle (Dennis Potter) / John McLaughlin, a Musical Journey	11.02.1979Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Edward Gorey / Gunter Grass	18.02.1979Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Michael Cimino / Alan Bennett, Stephen Frears	25.02.1979Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Gordon Williams, Alan Sharp, Eddie Boyd	04.03.1979Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Derek Boshier / Ingrid Bergman, Ingmar Bergman	11.03.1979Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Neil Simon	18.03.1979Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Beryl Cook / Cloud Nine rehearsals	25.03.1979Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Graham Sutherland	01.04.1979Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Darryl Way / Howard Brenton	22.04.1979Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18The Europeans (film) / Joseph Heller	29.04.1979Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Asian Arts festival	06.05.1979Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Billy Connolly	13.05.1979Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21Jessye Norman	20.05.1979Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Rough Trade (record label) / Allen Jones	27.05.1979Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Scum (film) / Keith Jarrett	17.06.1979Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Michael Tippett (90 min.)	24.06.1979Episode Rating: N/A

Season 1

Release date: 14.01.1978

Released episodes: 24 / 24

#	Episode	Date
1	Episode 1Paul McCartney/surrealist exhibition	14.01.1978Episode Rating: N/A
2	Episode 2Paganini Superstar	21.01.1978Episode Rating: N/A
3	Episode 3Roy Minton	28.01.1978Episode Rating: N/A
4	Episode 4David Hockney	04.02.1978Episode Rating: N/A
5	Episode 5Dennis Potter	11.02.1978Episode Rating: N/A
6	Episode 6John Peel/Jane Glover	18.02.1978Episode Rating: N/A
7	Episode 7Arabian Days (Edna O'Brien)/Quentin Crisp	25.02.1978Episode Rating: N/A
8	Episode 8Jacques Loussier	04.03.1978Episode Rating: N/A
9	Episode 9Ken Dodd	11.03.1978Episode Rating: N/A
10	Episode 10Georges Simenon	18.03.1978Episode Rating: N/A
11	Episode 11Horowitz at the White House	25.03.1978Episode Rating: N/A
12	Episode 12Carl Perkins/Morgan horses	01.04.1978Episode Rating: N/A
13	Episode 13Carry On with Paul Morissey (Carry On ... films)	08.04.1978Episode Rating: N/A
14	Episode 14Search for Shaw	15.04.1978Episode Rating: N/A
15	Episode 15Harold Pinter	22.04.1978Episode Rating: N/A
16	Episode 16Satyajit Ray/John Williams/Ralph McTell	30.04.1978Episode Rating: N/A
17	Episode 17Portrait of a Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan	06.05.1978Episode Rating: N/A
18	Episode 18Freddie Young	13.05.1978Episode Rating: N/A
19	Episode 19Frank Auerbach	20.05.1978Episode Rating: N/A
20	Episode 20Mayerling Ballet	17.06.1978Episode Rating: N/A
21	Episode 21John Osborne on Wardle's book on Devine/Pearl (radio play)	01.07.1978Episode Rating: N/A
22	Episode 22Ingmar Bergman at 60	08.07.1978Episode Rating: N/A
23	Episode 23Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (1)	15.07.1978Episode Rating: N/A
24	Episode 24Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (2)	22.07.1978Episode Rating: N/A

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