Season 9

Sir Alec Guinness

Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor

Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year

Theatre of Comedy workshop

Pete Townshend: After the Fire

Sir Stephen Spender

Marguerite Duras

Karole Armitage

Peter Shaffer

John Cleese

Cleese was silently scripting A Fish Called Wanda at the time this interview was filmed. It is not mentioned in this program. What is mentioned is Cleese's spectrum of work from sketch comedy to industrial training films to therapeutical books. Video clips include sequences from Cleese's classics: At Last the 1948 Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and Fawlty Towers.

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Paul Schrader

Purcell's Dido and Aenaes

Patrick Heron

Blue Note Records

Michala Petri

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Absolute Beginners (film)

Arthur Boyd

Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical

British Soap Operas

Hull Truck Theatre Company

Velvet Underground

The South Bank Show’s Velvet Underground documentary contains interviews with Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Moe Tucker, Nico, Andy Warhol and lots of early Velvet performance footage.

Al Jolson