The South Bank Show

E1Tom Stoppard26 Nov 19780 E2Grace Under Pressure (Anthony Burgess on Hemingway)3 Dec 19780 E3Woody Allen10 Dec 19780 E4Anatomy of an Opera: Jonathan Miller's Figaro17 Dec 19780 E5Rhythm of Resistance (South African music)14 Jan 19790

Season 2

1978

24 episodes

E1Francis Ford Coppola2 Dec 19790 E2Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (1)9 Dec 19790 E3Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (2)16 Dec 19790 E4Talking Heads23 Dec 19790 E5Love and the Ice-Cream Vendor17 Feb 19800

Season 3

1979

19 episodes

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Season 4

1980

26 episodes

E1Arthur Miller9 Nov 19800 E2William Golding16 Nov 19800 E3Akira Kurosawa23 Nov 19800 E4Stravinsky's The Firebird30 Nov 19800 E5No Need to Lie7 Dec 19800

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Season 5

1981

27 episodes

E1The French Lieutenant's Woman1 Nov 19810 E2Elvis Costello8 Nov 19810 E3Old Glory: the Journey and the Book15 Nov 19810 E4Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan22 Nov 19810 E5Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield29 Nov 19810

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Season 6

1982

26 episodes

E1Laurence Olivier, a Life (1)17 Oct 19820 E2Laurence Olivier, a Life (2)24 Oct 19820 E3Peter Gabriel31 Oct 19820 E4Bruce Chatwin7 Nov 19820 E5Patricia Highsmith14 Nov 19820

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Season 7

1983

22 episodes

E1Piper's Way16 Oct 19830 E2Yuri Lyubimov23 Oct 19830 E4Jack Lemmon6 Nov 19830 E5Catherine Cookson20 Nov 19830 E6Lillian Gish/Glen Baxter27 Nov 19830

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Season 8

1984

24 episodes

E1Alan Bennett7 Oct 19840 E2McCartney's Broad Street14 Oct 19840 E3The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)21 Oct 19840 E4Paolo and Vittorio Taviani28 Oct 19840 E5Norman Nicholson4 Nov 19840

E1Sir Alec Guinness6 Oct 19850 E2Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor13 Oct 19850 E3Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year20 Oct 19850 E4Theatre of Comedy workshop27 Oct 19850 E5Pete Townshend: After the Fire3 Nov 19850

Season 9

1985

24 episodes

E1John Mortimer5 Oct 19860 E4Michael Powell26 Oct 19860 E5Truman Capote2 Nov 19860 E6Fay Godwin9 Nov 19860 E7The Andrew Lloyd-Webber Story15 Nov 19860

Season 10

1986

23 episodes

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Season 11

1987

24 episodes

E1Maria Callas4 Oct 19870 E2Toni Morrison11 Oct 19870 E3The Smiths18 Oct 19870 E4Andy Warhol25 Oct 19870 E5Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega1 Nov 19870

E1The Art of Walt Disney25 Sept 19880 E2Bernard Shaw2 Oct 19880 E3Under Milk Wood9 Oct 19880 E4Toulouse-Lautrec16 Oct 19880 E5David Puttnam23 Oct 19880

Season 12

1988

24 episodes

E1Martin Amis17 Sept 19890 E2Dustin Hoffman, Sir Peter Hall24 Sept 19890 E3Jimi Hendrix1 Oct 19890 E4Tom Keneally in Eritrea8 Oct 19890 E5Ken Russell15 Oct 19890

Season 13

1989

25 episodes

E1George Michael2 Sept 19900 E2Peter Ackroyd on Dickens9 Sept 19900 E3Spike Lee23 Sept 19900 E4Salman Rushdie30 Sept 19900 E5Roy Lichtenstein7 Oct 19900

Season 14

1990

23 episodes

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Season 15

1991

25 episodes

E1Private Eye15 Sept 19910 E2David Lodge29 Sept 19910 E3Terry Gilliam6 Oct 19910 E4Neil Simon13 Oct 19910 E5Heinrich Schiff20 Oct 19910

E1Billy Connolly4 Oct 19920 E2Alice Walker11 Oct 19920 E3Peter O'Toole18 Oct 19920 E4Two Royal Ballet Dancers (Darcey Bussell, Viviana Durante)25 Oct 19920 E5Robert Zemeckis1 Nov 19920

Season 16

1992

25 episodes

E1Sydney Pollack12 Sept 19930 E2Willy Russell19 Sept 19930 E3Ken Loach3 Oct 19930 E4Margaret Atwood10 Oct 19930 E5John Lee Hooker17 Oct 19930

Season 17

1993

25 episodes

E1Kenneth Williams18 Sept 19940 E2Marilyn Horne25 Sept 19940 E3New Generation Poets2 Oct 19940 E4Vanessa Redgrave9 Oct 19940 E5David Mamet16 Oct 19940

Season 18

1994

22 episodes

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Season 19

1995

20 episodes

E1Clint Eastwwod10 Sept 19950 E2Ackroyd's Blake17 Sept 19950 E3Tom Sharpe24 Sept 19950 E4kd lang1 Oct 19950 E5Pavarotti at 608 Oct 19950

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Season 20

1996

20 episodes

E1Victoria Wood15 Sept 19960 E2Sir John Mills22 Sept 19960 E3Michael Crawford29 Sept 19960 E4Norman Mailer on Picasso6 Oct 19960 E5Chanson13 Oct 19960

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Season 21

1997

22 episodes

E1Scarfe on Hercules5 Oct 19970 E2Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance26 Oct 19970 E3Kay Mellor2 Nov 19970 E4Björk9 Nov 19970 E5Iain Banks16 Nov 19970

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Season 22

1998

16 episodes

E1Ossie Clarke (1)8 Nov 19980 E2Ossie Clarke (2)15 Nov 19980 E3Lesley Garrett22 Nov 19980 E4Harold Pinter29 Nov 19980 E5Maxine Peake/Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo6 Dec 19980

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Season 23

1999

21 episodes

E1Paul Merton26 Sept 19990 E2Frank McCourt3 Oct 19990 E3Howard Jacobson10 Oct 19990 E4Jose Cura17 Oct 19990 E5James Galway24 Oct 19990

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Season 24

2000

24 episodes

E1Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton1 Oct 20000 E2Santana8 Oct 20000 E3Joyce [Carol Oates] on Marilyn [Monroe]15 Oct 20000 E5Mark Morris Dance Group29 Oct 20000 E6George MacDonald Fraser12 Nov 20000

E1High and Low Culture in the Age of Television7 Oct 20010 E2(highlights)14 Oct 20010 E3Rachel Whiteread28 Oct 20010 E4Norman Foster11 Nov 20010 E5Dr. John18 Nov 20010

Season 25

2001

19 episodes

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Season 26

2002

25 episodes

E1Mike Leigh13 Oct 20020 E2Akram Khan20 Oct 20020 E3Graham Vick: Beethoven in the Big Top27 Oct 20020 E4Craig David10 Nov 20020 E5Andrew Davies17 Nov 20020

E1Germaine Greer19 Oct 20030 E2Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra7 Dec 20030 E3TV Stories (1)1 Feb 20040 E4TV Stories (2)8 Feb 20040 E5Jamie Cullum22 Feb 20040

Season 27

2003

13 episodes

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Season 28

2004

23 episodes

E1Street Music Stories22 Aug 20040 E2Ronnie Wood5 Sept 20040 E3Willie Nelson19 Sept 20040 E4Malcolm Arnold (1)26 Sept 20040 E5Malcolm Arnold (2)3 Oct 20040

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Season 29

2005

13 episodes

E1Margot Fonteyn (1)7 Aug 20050 E2Margot Fonteyn (2)14 Aug 20050 E3Sophie Calle21 Aug 20050 E4Karl Jenkins11 Sept 20050 E5Eric Sykes18 Sept 20050

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Season 30

2006

11 episodes

E1Armando Iannucci12 Feb 20060 E2Manga Mania19 Feb 20060 E3John Rutter12 Mar 20060 E4PD James26 Mar 20060 E5Dusty Springfield9 Apr 20060

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Season 31

2006

30 episodes

E1Bill Bryson10 Sept 20060 E2JG Ballard17 Sept 20060 E3Robbie Coltrane24 Sept 20060 E4Episode 41 Oct 20060 E5Spamalot15 Oct 20060

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Season 32

2007

8 episodes

E1Annie Lennox25 Nov 20070 E2Eric Clapton2 Dec 20070 E3The Making Of Viva La Diva9 Dec 20070 E4The Nutcracker Story26 Dec 20070 E5Kevin Spacey0

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Season 33

2008

6 episodes

E1Liza Minnelli4 May 20080 E2The Damned United11 May 20080 E3Gore Vidal18 May 20080 E4Sarah Waters8 Jun 20080 E5Tasmin Little15 Jun 20080

E1The Streets21 Sept 20080 E2The One Ronnie5 Oct 20080 E3Bond22 Oct 20080 E4Cildo Meireles26 Oct 20080 E5Sam Taylor-Wood16 Nov 20080

Season 34

2008

6 episodes

E1The South Bank Show Awards28 Jan 20090 E2Beyond the Footlights1 Feb 20090 E3The Tempest8 Feb 20090 E4Will Young17 Mar 20090 E5Messiah12 Apr 20090

Season 35

2009

9 episodes

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Season 36

2014

10 episodes

E1John Lloyd22 May 20140 E2Kate Atkinson29 May 20140 E3Abi Morgan5 Jun 20140 E4King Lear12 Jun 20140 E5Angel Blue19 Jun 20140

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Season 37

2015

10 episodes

E1George R.R. Martin10 Jun 20150 E2Paul Greengrass17 Jun 20150 E3Margaret Drabble24 Jun 20150 E4Laura Mvula1 Jul 20150 E5Joseph Calleja8 Jul 20150

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Season 38

2016

6 episodes

E1Sly & Robbie15 Jun 20160 E2Joyce DiDonato22 Jun 20160 E3Russell T Davies29 Jun 20160 E4Ballet Black6 Jul 20160 E5Benedict Cumberbach's 'Hamlet'13 Jul 20160

E1Amma Asante19 Jul 20170 E2Karl Ove Knausgaard26 Jul 20170 E3Sally Wainwright2 Aug 20170 E4Benjamin Clementine9 Aug 20170 E5Obsession: Jude Law & Ivo Van Hove16 Aug 20170

Season 39

2017

6 episodes

E1Tracey Ullman7 Nov 20180 E2Beverley Knight14 Nov 20180 E3Danielle de Niese21 Nov 20180 E4Sonia Friedman28 Nov 20180 E5Gail Rebuck5 Dec 20180

Season 40

2018

6 episodes