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 (20)
1. Clint Eastwwod
Aired 10 September 1995 • 60 min
2. Ackroyd's Blake
Aired 17 September 1995 • 60 min
3. Tom Sharpe
Aired 24 September 1995 • 60 min
4. kd lang
Aired 1 October 1995 • 60 min
5. Pavarotti at 60
Aired 8 October 1995 • 60 min
6. Jimmy Nail
Aired 15 October 1995 • 60 min
7. Dame Judi Dench
Aired 29 October 1995 • 60 min
8. Coronation Street
Aired 5 November 1995 • 60 min
Documentary about the origins, the history and the making of CORONATION STREET, including interviews with cast and crew and footage from behind the scenes of the production.
9. Dame Barbara Cartland
Aired 12 November 1995 • 60 min
10. Jonathan Raban: Badlands / Wynton Marsalis
Aired 19 November 1995 • 60 min
11. Elaine Page Special
Aired 7 April 1996 • 60 min
12. Sting
Aired 14 April 1996 • 60 min
This report brings you back in 1996, when Sting records "Mercury falling". You will see Sting in his home of lake house, talking about the writting process, see him recording the varied tracks of the album and heard them as working versions... a superb moment...
13. Albert Finney
Aired 28 April 1996 • 60 min
14. Marlene Dietrich
Aired 5 May 1996 • 60 min
15. John Eliot Gardiner
Aired 12 May 1996 • 60 min
16. Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence
Aired 19 May 1996 • 60 min
17. Claes Oldenburg
Aired 26 May 1996 • 60 min
18. Baaba Maal
Aired 2 June 1996 • 60 min
19. Maxine Peake / Wynton Marsalis in New Orleans
Aired 21 July 1996 • 60 min
20. Alan Ayckbourn Workshop
Aired 28 July 1996 • 60 min