About this season
The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.
Episodes (24)
1. Maria Callas
Aired 4 October 1987 • 60 min
2. Toni Morrison
Aired 11 October 1987 • 60 min
3. The Smiths
Aired 18 October 1987 • 60 min
This documentary on The Smiths was filmed just days before the band went their separate ways in 1987. Contains interviews of Morrissey, Marr, Joyce and Rourke, as well as Linder, Shaun Duggan, Jo O'Keefe, John Peel, Nick Kent, Sandie Shaw and Viv Nicholson.
4. Andy Warhol
Aired 25 October 1987 • 60 min
5. Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega
Aired 1 November 1987 • 60 min
6. Sir Terence Conran
Aired 8 November 1987 • 60 min
7. Gore Vidal
Aired 15 November 1987 • 60 min
8. African music / Russian theatre
Aired 22 November 1987 • 60 min
9. Sir George Solti
Aired 29 November 1987 • 60 min
10. Eric Clapton
Aired 6 December 1987 • 60 min
11. Arts Review '87
Aired 20 December 1987 • 60 min
12. The Last Emperor (1988 film)
Aired 17 January 1988 • 60 min
13. Australian Aboriginies
Aired 24 January 1988 • 60 min
14. Boogie Woogie Music
Aired 31 January 1988 • 60 min
15. The Golden Age of Television
Aired 14 February 1988 • 60 min
A lecture about television given at the British Film Institute.
16. George Barker
Aired 21 February 1988 • 60 min
17. Jackson Pollack
Aired 28 February 1988 • 60 min
18. Lenny Henry
Aired 6 March 1988 • 60 min
19. Peter Dickinson
Aired 13 March 1988 • 60 min
20. A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China
Aired 20 March 1988 • 60 min
21. Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans
Aired 27 March 1988 • 60 min
22. Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
Aired 2 April 1988 • 60 min
24. Doris Lessing
Aired 17 April 1988 • 60 min
25. Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production
Aired 24 April 1988 • 60 min