Season 8
Alan Bennett
McCartney's Broad Street
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)
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Norman Nicholson
Joseph Heller
Mstislav Rostropovich
Max Wall
Alan Bleasdale
Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence
Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex
Marc Chagall
David Lean: a Life in Film
Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony
Little Richard
George Malcolm on Scarlatti
Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company
Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg
David Mamet
Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith
The Cotton Club (night club)
Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)
Francis Bacon
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