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Episode # Prod # Air Date Subjects
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• Season 1
1 1-01 14/Jan/78 Paul McCartney/surrealist exhibition
2 1-02 21/Jan/78 Paganini Superstar
3 1-03 28/Jan/78 Roy Minton
4 1-04 04/Feb/78 David Hockney
5 1-05 11/Feb/78 Dennis Potter
6 1-06 18/Feb/78 John Peel/Jane Glover
7 1-07 25/Feb/78 Arabian Days (Edna O'Brien)/Quentin Crisp
8 1-08 04/Mar/78 Jacques Loussier
9 1-09 11/Mar/78 Ken Dodd
10 1-10 18/Mar/78 Georges Simenon
11 1-11 25/Mar/78 Horowitz at the White House
12 1-12 01/Apr/78 Carl Perkins/Morgan horses
13 1-13 08/Apr/78 Carry On with Paul Morissey (Carry On ... films)
14 1-14 15/Apr/78 Search for Shaw
15 1-15 22/Apr/78 Harold Pinter
16 1-16 30/Apr/78 Satyajit Ray/John Williams/Ralph McTell
17 1-17 06/May/78 Portrait of a Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan
18 1-18 13/May/78 Freddie Young
19 1-19 20/May/78 Frank Auerbach
20 1-20 17/Jun/78 Mayerling Ballet
21 1-21 01/Jul/78 John Osborne on Wardle's book on Devine/Pearl (radio play)
22 1-22 08/Jul/78 Ingmar Bergman at 60
23 1-23 15/Jul/78 Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (1)
24 1-24 22/Jul/78 Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (2)
• Season 2
25 2-01 26/Nov/78 Tom Stoppard
26 2-02 03/Dec/78 Grace Under Pressure (Anthony Burgess on Hemingway)
27 2-03 10/Dec/78 Woody Allen
28 2-04 17/Dec/78 Anatomy of an Opera: Jonathan Miller's Figaro
29 2-05 14/Jan/79 Rhythm of Resistance (South African music)
30 2-06 21/Jan/79 Harmony of the Spheres (Neil Ardley)
31 2-07 28/Jan/79 Circus Clowns/Schubert recital by Richter
32 2-08 04/Feb/79 Royal Shakespeare Company on tour
33 2-09 11/Feb/79 Brimstone & Treacle (Dennis Potter) / John McLaughlin, a Musical Journey
34 2-10 18/Feb/79 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Edward Gorey / Gunter Grass
35 2-11 25/Feb/79 Michael Cimino / Alan Bennett, Stephen Frears
36 2-12 04/Mar/79 Gordon Williams, Alan Sharp, Eddie Boyd
37 2-13 11/Mar/79 Derek Boshier / Ingrid Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
38 2-14 18/Mar/79 Neil Simon
39 2-15 25/Mar/79 Beryl Cook / Cloud Nine rehearsals
40 2-16 01/Apr/79 Graham Sutherland
41 2-17 22/Apr/79 Darryl Way / Howard Brenton
42 2-18 29/Apr/79 The Europeans (film) / Joseph Heller
43 2-19 06/May/79 Asian Arts festival
44 2-20 13/May/79 Billy Connolly
45 2-21 20/May/79 Jessye Norman
46 2-22 27/May/79 Rough Trade (record label) / Allen Jones
47 2-23 17/Jun/79 Scum (film) / Keith Jarrett
48 2-24 24/Jun/79 Michael Tippett (90 min.)
• Season 3
49 3-01 02/Dec/79 Francis Ford Coppola
50 3-02 09/Dec/79 Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (1)
51 3-03 16/Dec/79 Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (2)
52 3-04 23/Dec/79 Talking Heads
53 3-05 17/Feb/80 Love and the Ice-Cream Vendor
54 3-06 24/Feb/80 Fay Weldon / Richard Hogart on Northern Ireland in drama
55 3-07 02/Mar/80 Merce Cunningham
56 3-08 09/Mar/80 Elegies for the Deaths of Three Spanish Poets
57 3-09 06/Apr/80 A Time There was ... (Benjamin Britten)
58 3-10 13/Apr/80 The Greene Adaptations (Graham Greene films)
59 3-11 27/Apr/80 Salsa (Puerto Rican music)
60 3-12 04/May/80 The Worlds of Edward Bond
61 3-13 11/May/80 Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli / Kinglsey Amis
62 3-14 18/May/80 new British rock films / The Tin Drum (film)
63 3-15 25/May/80 Roman Polanski
64 3-16 01/Jun/80 Tom Wolfe
65 3-17 08/Jun/80 Andrew Wyeth
66 3-18 29/Jun/80 Angus Wilson
67 3-19 06/Jul/80 Jane Austen (film)
• Season 4
68 4-01 09/Nov/80 Arthur Miller
69 4-02 16/Nov/80 William Golding
70 4-03 23/Nov/80 Akira Kurosawa
71 4-04 30/Nov/80 Stravinsky's The Firebird
72 4-05 07/Dec/80 No Need to Lie
73 4-06 14/Dec/80 The Passion (National Theatre's updating of medieval plays)
74 4-07 18/Jan/81 Toni Morrison
75 4-08 25/Jan/81 The Trespasser (film)
76 4-09 08/Feb/81 Don Juan in Hell
77 4-10 15/Feb/81 poetry workshop
78 4-11 22/Feb/81 Martin Scorsese
79 4-12 01/Mar/81 Elizabeth Taylor / John Hubbard
80 4-13 08/Mar/81 Bob Fosse
81 4-14 15/Mar/81 Robert Redford / Martin Amis
82 4-15 29/Mar/81 Verity Bargate / Howard Hodgkin
83 4-16 19/Apr/81 At the Haunted End of the Day: the Life of Sir William Walton
84 4-17 26/Apr/81 Gore Vidal
85 4-18 03/May/81 The Roots of the Tree (Ermanno Olmi)
86 4-19 10/May/81 Colin Welland
87 4-20 17/May/81 Christopher Logue / Phillip King
88 4-21 24/May/81 Lulu's Last Act (Berg opera)
89 4-22 31/May/81 Dame Ninette De Valois / David Hockney on Picasso
90 4-23 07/Jun/81 Clive James / Craig Raine
91 4-24 14/Jun/81 Soviet Art
92 4-25 21/Jun/81 Rhythm and Blues (The Blues Band, Dr. Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, Paul Jones)
93 4-26 28/Jun/81 Music for a City: Venice
• Season 5
94 5-01 01/Nov/81 The French Lieutenant's Woman
95 5-02 08/Nov/81 Elvis Costello
96 5-03 15/Nov/81 Old Glory: the Journey and the Book
97 5-04 22/Nov/81 Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan
98 5-05 29/Nov/81 Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield
99 5-06 06/Dec/81 A Talent to Vex: John Osborne
100 5-07 17/Jan/82 Mama Lu Parks
101 5-08 24/Jan/82 Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day
102 5-09 31/Jan/82 Milos Forman
103 5-10 07/Feb/82 Germaine Greer
104 5-11 14/Feb/82 Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH
105 5-12 21/Feb/82 Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller
106 5-13 28/Feb/82 Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson
107 5-14 07/Mar/82 Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)
108 5-15 14/Mar/82 Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash
109 5-16 21/Mar/82 Peter Maxwell-Davies
110 5-17 28/Mar/82 Saul Bellow
111 5-18 04/Apr/82 Indian wallpainting
112 5-19 09/Apr/82 Stravinski (1)
113 5-20 10/Apr/82 Stravinski (2)
114 5-21 18/Apr/82 Julian Lloyd-Webber
115 5-22 25/Apr/82 Miles Davis / Robert Nye
116 5-23 02/May/82 Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs)
117 5-24 09/May/82 Joseph Papp / James Galway
118 5-25 16/May/82 Werner Herzog
119 5-26 23/May/82 Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver)
120 5-27 30/May/82 Phillip Larkin
• Season 6
121 6-01 17/Oct/82 Laurence Olivier, a Life (1)
122 6-02 24/Oct/82 Laurence Olivier, a Life (2)
123 6-03 31/Oct/82 Peter Gabriel
124 6-04 07/Nov/82 Bruce Chatwin
125 6-05 14/Nov/82 Patricia Highsmith
126 6-06 21/Nov/82 Steven Spielberg
127 6-07 28/Nov/82 Gospel at Colonus
128 6-08 09/Jan/83 Simone De Beauvoir
129 6-09 23/Jan/83 Barry Flannigan / Seamus Heaney
130 6-10 30/Jan/83 David Hare
131 6-11 06/Feb/83 Agnes De Mille
132 6-12 13/Feb/83 Handel's Semele (by the Royal Opera House)
133 6-13 20/Feb/83 Sam Fuller
134 6-14 27/Feb/83 Local Hero (film)
135 6-15 13/Mar/83 R.K. Narayan
136 6-16 20/Mar/83 Ivo Pogorelich
137 6-17 27/Mar/83 John Le Carré
138 6-18 03/Apr/83 Choirs and Places Where They Sing
139 6-19 24/Apr/83 William Trevor
140 6-20 01/May/83 Gene Hackman
141 6-21 08/May/83 Keith Waterhouse
142 6-22 15/May/83 Robert Lowell / Benjamin Britten's Quartettino
143 6-23 22/May/83 Cowboy Art
144 6-24 29/May/83 Jiri Kylian
145 6-25 05/Jun/83 Producing Don Giovanni
146 6-26 12/Jun/83 Ken Russell's View of The Planets
• Season 7
147 7-01 16/Oct/83 Piper's Way
148 7-02 23/Oct/83 Yuri Lyubimov
149 7-03 30/Oct/83 Peter Brook
150 7-04 06/Nov/83 Jack Lemmon
151 7-05 13/Nov/83 David Hockney
153 7-06 27/Nov/83 Lillian Gish/Glen Baxter
154 7-07 04/Dec/83 Alberto Moravia
155 7-08 11/Dec/83 Ian Hamilton Finlay/Lord Gowrie
156 7-09 19/Feb/84 Barry Tuckwell: Master of the Horn
157 7-10 26/Feb/84 Trevor Griffiths
158 7-11 11/Mar/84 Weather Report
159 7-12 18/Mar/84 Claudio Arrau
160 7-13 01/Apr/84 Kathy Acker
161 7-14 08/Apr/84 Ralph Vaughan Williams
162 7-15 15/Apr/84 Sir Ernst Gombrich
163 7-16 29/Apr/84 Michael Frayn
164 7-17 06/May/84 Ed McBain
165 7-18 13/May/84 David Bintley: New Ballet at Sadler's Wells
166 7-19 20/May/84 Stephen Sondheim
167 7-20 27/May/84 Elisabeth Vellacott / DeCocoa, Hot Chocolate
168 7-21 03/Jun/84 adaptation of Ivy Compton Burnett's Elders and Betters
169 7-22 10/Jun/84 Kipling (one-man play with Alec McGowen)
170 7-23 24/Jun/84 Anthony Caro
• Season 8
171 8-01 07/Oct/84 Alan Bennett
172 8-02 14/Oct/84 McCartney's Broad Street
173 8-03 21/Oct/84 The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)
174 8-04 28/Oct/84 Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
175 8-05 04/Nov/84 Norman Nicholson
176 8-06 11/Nov/84 Joseph Heller
177 8-07 18/Nov/84 Mstislav Rostropovich
178 8-08 25/Nov/84 Max Wall
179 8-09 02/Dec/84 Malcolm McLaren
180 8-10 13/Jan/85 Alan Bleasdale
181 8-11 20/Jan/85 Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence
182 8-12 27/Jan/85 Electronic Music
183 8-13 03/Feb/85 Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex
184 8-14 10/Feb/85 Marc Chagall
185 8-15 17/Feb/85 David Lean: a Life in Film
186 8-16 24/Feb/85 Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony
187 8-17 03/Mar/85 Little Richard
188 8-18 10/Mar/85 George Malcolm on Scarlatti
189 8-19 17/Mar/85 Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company
190 8-21 24/Mar/85 David Mamet
190 8-20 31/Mar/85 Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg
191 8-22 05/Apr/85 Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith
192 8-23 26/May/85 The Cotton Club (night club)
193 8-24 02/Jun/85 Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)
194 8-25 09/Jun/85 Francis Bacon
195 8-26 16/Jun/85 George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century
• Season 9
196 9-01 06/Oct/85 Sir Alec Guinness
197 9-02 13/Oct/85 Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
198 9-03 20/Oct/85 Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year
199 9-04 27/Oct/85 Theatre of Comedy workshop
200 9-05 03/Nov/85 Pete Townshend: After the Fire
201 9-06 10/Nov/85 Sir Stephen Spender
202 9-07 17/Nov/85 Marguerite Duras
203 9-08 24/Nov/85 Karole Armitage
204 9-09 01/Dec/85 Peter Shaffer
205 9-10 12/Jan/86 John Cleese
206 9-11 19/Jan/86 Vladimir Ashkenazy
207 9-12 26/Jan/86 Paul Schrader
208 9-13 02/Feb/86 Purcell's Dido and Aenaes
209 9-14 09/Feb/86 Patrick Heron
210 9-15 16/Feb/86 Blue Note Records
211 9-16 23/Feb/86 Michala Petri
212 9-17 02/Mar/86 Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
213 9-18 09/Mar/86 Absolute Beginners (film)
214 9-19 23/Mar/86 Arthur Boyd
215 9-20 06/Apr/86 Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical
216 9-21 13/Apr/86 British Soap Operas
217 9-22 20/Apr/86 Hull Truck Theatre Company
218 9-23 27/Apr/86 Velvet Underground
219 9-24 04/May/86 Al Jolson
• Season 10
220 10-01 05/Oct/86 John Mortimer
221 10-02 12/Oct/86 Itzhak Perlman
222 10-03 19/Oct/86 Roald Dahl: Fe-Fi-Fo-fum
223 10-04 26/Oct/86 Michael Powell
224 10-05 02/Nov/86 Truman Capote
225 10-06 09/Nov/86 Fay Godwin
226 10-07 15/Nov/86 The Andrew Lloyd-Webber Story
227 10-08 23/Nov/86 Agatha Christie, How Did She Do It?
228 10-09 30/Nov/86 The Dream is Over (Christopher Bruce ballet on John Lennon)
229 10-10 14/Dec/86 Arts Review '86
230 10-11 11/Jan/87 Anthony Hopkins / David Hare
231 10-12 18/Jan/87 Philip Glass
232 10-13 25/Jan/87 Alvin Ailey Dance Theater
233 10-14 01/Feb/87 Anthony Green: RA, a Love Story
234 10-15 08/Feb/87 birth of Frankenstein and Dracula
235 10-16 15/Feb/87 Thomas Allen
236 10-17 22/Feb/87 The Wooster Group
237 10-18 01/Mar/87 The London Underground in art
238 10-19 08/Mar/87 V.S. Naipaul
239 10-20 15/Mar/87 Barbara Dickson
240 10-21 22/Mar/87 Penguin Cafe Orchestra
241 10-22 29/Mar/87 Turner at the Tate
242 10-23 05/Apr/87 George V. Higgins
243 10-24 12/Apr/87 Peter York lecture
244 10-25 18/Apr/87 The Aida File: The Making of the Opera (1)
245 10-26 19/Apr/87 The Aida File: Aida Performance (2)
• Season 11
246 11-01 04/Oct/87 Maria Callas
247 11-02 11/Oct/87 Toni Morrison
248 11-03 18/Oct/87 The Smiths
249 11-04 25/Oct/87 Andy Warhol
250 11-05 01/Nov/87 Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega
251 11-06 08/Nov/87 Sir Terence Conran
252 11-07 15/Nov/87 Gore Vidal
253 11-08 22/Nov/87 African music / Russian theatre
254 11-09 29/Nov/87 Sir George Solti
255 11-10 06/Dec/87 Eric Clapton
256 11-11 20/Dec/87 Arts Review '87
257 11-12 17/Jan/88 The Last Emperor (1988 film)
258 11-13 24/Jan/88 Australian Aboriginies
259 11-14 31/Jan/88 Boogie Woogie Music
260 11-15 14/Feb/88 The Golden Age of Television
261 11-16 21/Feb/88 George Barker
262 11-17 28/Feb/88 Jackson Pollack
263 11-18 06/Mar/88 Lenny Henry
264 11-19 13/Mar/88 Peter Dickinson
265 11-20 20/Mar/88 A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China
266 11-21 27/Mar/88 Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans
267 11-22 02/Apr/88 Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
268 11-23 10/Apr/88 Paul Bowles
269 11-24 17/Apr/88 Doris Lessing
270 11-25 24/Apr/88 Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production
• Season 12
271 12-01 25/Sep/88 The Art of Walt Disney
272 12-02 02/Oct/88 Bernard Shaw
273 12-03 09/Oct/88 Under Milk Wood
274 12-04 16/Oct/88 Toulouse-Lautrec
275 12-05 23/Oct/88 David Puttnam
276 12-06 30/Oct/88 David Hockney
277 12-07 13/Nov/88 Two Women in Three Dimensions (Wendy Taylor, Nicola Hicks)
278 12-08 20/Nov/88 Bristol WWII bombing raids reenactment
279 12-09 27/Nov/88 Raymond Chandler
280 12-10 04/Dec/88 Neil Jordan
281 12-11 11/Dec/88 John Houseman
282 12-12 18/Dec/88 David Bailey
283 12-13 15/Jan/89 Derek Walcott
284 12-14 22/Jan/89 Patrick Leigh Fermor
285 12-15 29/Jan/89 National Training Orchestra
286 12-16 05/Feb/89 Christopher Hampton
287 12-17 12/Feb/89 Istvan Szabo
288 12-18 19/Feb/89 Robert Redford
289 12-19 26/Feb/89 Tony Palmer on the concerto
290 12-20 05/Mar/89 Ben Elton
291 12-21 10/Mar/89 John Burnett
292 12-22 12/Mar/89 Put Blood in the Music (New York avant garde music)
293 12-23 19/Mar/89 John Ogdon
294 12-24 24/Mar/89 Sir William Golding
• Season 13
295 13-01 17/Sep/89 Martin Amis
296 13-02 24/Sep/89 Dustin Hoffman, Sir Peter Hall
297 13-03 01/Oct/89 Jimi Hendrix
298 13-04 08/Oct/89 Tom Keneally in Eritrea
299 13-05 15/Oct/89 Ken Russell
300 13-06 22/Oct/89 Steven Berkoff
301 13-07 29/Oct/89 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
302 13-08 12/Nov/89 Fitzrovia
303 13-09 19/Nov/89 Dame Edna Everage
304 13-10 26/Nov/89 Evelyn Glennie
305 13-11 03/Dec/89 Peter Brook
306 13-12 29/Dec/89 Arts Review '89
307 13-13 07/Jan/90 Boris Pasternak
308 13-14 21/Jan/90 Sir David Lean, Robert Bolt
309 13-15 28/Jan/90 Christopher Hogwood
310 13-16 04/Feb/90 Chinua Achebe
311 13-17 11/Feb/90 Hans Werner Henze
312 13-18 18/Feb/90 Jock Tamson's Bairns (Gerry Mulgrew, Liz Lochhead)
313 13-19 04/Mar/90 Yuri Bashmet
314 13-20 11/Mar/90 DV8 Physical Theatre
315 13-21 25/Mar/90 Mark Morris: the Hidden Soul of Harmony
316 13-22 01/Apr/90 Carl Davis, Temba
317 13-23 08/Apr/90 Vivienne Westwood
318 13-24 15/Apr/90 Hindemith
319 13-25 22/Apr/90 Robert Altman
• Season 14
320 14-01 02/Sep/90 George Michael
321 14-02 09/Sep/90 Peter Ackroyd on Dickens
322 14-03 23/Sep/90 Spike Lee
323 14-04 30/Sep/90 Salman Rushdie
324 14-05 07/Oct/90 Roy Lichtenstein
325 14-06 14/Oct/90 Ken Russell on Anton Bruckner
326 14-07 21/Oct/90 Clear Cool Crystal Streams (Irish rock music)
327 14-08 28/Oct/90 John Updike
328 14-09 04/Nov/90 East German writers
329 14-10 25/Nov/90 Alan Parker
330 14-11 02/Dec/90 Cameron Mackintosh
331 14-12 09/Dec/90 Spitting Image
332 14-13 30/Dec/90 The Talis Scholars
333 14-14 06/Jan/91 Stan Laurel
334 14-15 13/Jan/91 August Wilson
335 14-16 20/Jan/91 Oscar Marzaroli
336 14-17 27/Jan/91 Anne-Sophie Mutter
337 14-18 03/Feb/91 Bonfire of the Vanities (1991 film)
338 14-19 10/Feb/91 Willard White
339 14-20 17/Feb/91 The Five Blind Boys of Alabama / R.S. Thomas
340 14-21 24/Feb/91 Steve Martin
341 14-22 03/Mar/91 Rudolph Nureyev
342 14-23 29/Mar/91 Kiri Te Kanawa
• Season 15
343 15-01 15/Sep/91 Private Eye
344 15-02 29/Sep/91 David Lodge
345 15-03 06/Oct/91 Terry Gilliam
346 15-04 13/Oct/91 Neil Simon
347 15-05 20/Oct/91 Heinrich Schiff
348 15-06 27/Oct/91 Seamus Heaney
349 15-07 03/Nov/91 John Osborne
350 15-08 10/Nov/91 Dame Britain (Vera Lynn)
351 15-09 17/Nov/91 Arthur Miller
352 15-10 24/Nov/91 Jose Carreras, a Life Story
353 15-11 22/Dec/91 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
354 15-12 29/Dec/91 Arts Review '91
355 15-13 05/Jan/92 Douglas Adams
356 15-14 12/Jan/92 Lenny Henry Hunts the Funk
357 15-15 19/Jan/92 Hakan Hardenberger
358 15-16 28/Nov/99 Cecilia Bartoli
359 15-17 02/Feb/92 Les Murray
360 15-18 09/Feb/92 Colin Thubron
361 15-19 16/Feb/92 Pet Shop Boys
362 15-20 23/Feb/92 Paula Rego
363 15-21 01/Mar/92 Noel Coward
364 15-22 29/Mar/92 Anthony Hopkins
365 15-23 05/Apr/92 Terence Davis
366 15-24 12/Apr/92 Making Naked Lunch
367 15-25 14/Jun/92 The Making of Sgt. Pepper
• Season 16
368 16-01 04/Oct/92 Billy Connolly
369 16-02 11/Oct/92 Alice Walker
370 16-03 18/Oct/92 Peter O'Toole
371 16-04 25/Oct/92 Two Royal Ballet Dancers (Darcey Bussell, Viviana Durante)
372 16-05 01/Nov/92 Robert Zemeckis
373 16-06 08/Nov/92 George Formby
374 16-07 15/Nov/92 Sir Richard Attenborough
375 16-08 06/Dec/92 The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax
376 16-09 13/Dec/92 The World of Jeff Koons
377 16-10 20/Dec/92 Jimi Hendrix
378 16-11 24/Jan/93 Dracula
379 16-12 31/Jan/93 Monserrat Caballe
380 16-13 07/Feb/93 Annie Leibowitz
381 16-14 14/Feb/93 Guggenheim Museum
382 16-15 21/Feb/93 Dmitri and Sasha Sitkovetsky
383 16-16 28/Feb/93 Jean Genet
384 16-17 07/Mar/93 I, Berlioz
385 16-18 14/Mar/93 Richard Price
386 16-19 21/Mar/93 John Banville
387 16-20 04/Apr/93 Henryk Gorecki's 3rd symphony
388 16-21 13/Jun/93 Dudley Moore
389 16-22 20/Jun/93 Frink, 1930-1993 (Dame Elisabeth Frink)
390 16-23 04/Jul/93 Benny Goodman, the King of Swing
391 16-24 15/Aug/93 Paul Simon
392 16-25 22/Aug/93 Norman Wisdom
• Season 17
393 17-01 12/Sep/93 Sydney Pollack
394 17-02 19/Sep/93 Willy Russell
395 17-03 03/Oct/93 Ken Loach
396 17-04 10/Oct/93 Margaret Atwood
397 17-05 17/Oct/93 John Lee Hooker
398 17-06 24/Oct/93 Stevie Wonder
399 17-07 31/Oct/93 Sylvie Guillem
400 17-08 07/Nov/93 Tim Rice
401 17-09 14/Nov/93 Lynda La Plante
402 17-10 21/Nov/93 John Williams
403 17-11 28/Nov/93 John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (1)
404 17-12 05/Dec/93 John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (2)
405 17-13 24/Dec/93 Cliff Richard
405 17-14 16/Jan/94 Woody Allen
406 17-15 23/Jan/94 Bheki Mseleku
407 17-16 06/Feb/94 Darker Than Me
408 17-17 13/Feb/94 Jean-Claude Carriere
409 17-18 20/Feb/94 Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool
410 17-19 27/Feb/94 Looking for the Perfect Beat: Rap
411 17-20 06/Mar/94 Larry Adler Plays Gershwin
412 17-21 13/Mar/94 Kiri's 50th Birthday Concert
413 17-22 10/Apr/94 Clive Barker
414 17-23 17/Apr/94 Dawn French
415 17-24 15/May/94 Christian Boltanski
416 17-25 22/May/94 Eric Newby
417 17-26 29/May/94 John Steinbeck
• Season 18
418 18-01 18/Sep/94 Kenneth Williams
419 18-02 25/Sep/94 Marilyn Horne
420 18-03 02/Oct/94 New Generation Poets
421 18-04 09/Oct/94 Vanessa Redgrave
422 18-05 16/Oct/94 David Mamet
423 18-06 23/Oct/94 The Shearing Touch (George Shearing)
424 18-07 30/Oct/94 Alan Ayckbourn
425 18-08 06/Nov/94 Frankenstein
426 18-09 13/Nov/94 Thora Hird
427 18-10 20/Nov/94 The Glory of Gershwin
428 18-11 27/Nov/94 P.J. O'Rourke
429 18-12 11/Dec/94 Lionel Bart
430 18-13 29/Jan/95 Carl Orff
431 18-14 05/Feb/95 Classic Widows
432 18-15 12/Feb/95 Jonathan Miller
433 18-16 19/Feb/95 Flags of the Fante Coast
434 18-17 26/Feb/95 Catherine Bailey, the Lady is a Tramp / Roger Ballen
435 18-18 05/Mar/95 Edward Albee
436 18-19 12/Mar/95 Jodie Foster
437 18-20 19/Mar/95 Martin Amis
438 18-21 02/Apr/95 Country Music
439 18-22 09/Apr/95 Miriam Makeba
440 18-23 25/Jun/95 Nora Ephron
• Season 19
441 19-01 10/Sep/95 Clint Eastwwod
442 19-02 17/Sep/95 Ackroyd's Blake
443 19-03 24/Sep/95 Tom Sharpe
444 19-04 01/Oct/95 kd lang
445 19-05 08/Oct/95 Pavarotti at 60
446 19-06 15/Oct/95 Jimmy Nail
447 19-07 29/Oct/95 Dame Judi Dench
448 19-08 05/Nov/95 Coronation Street
449 19-09 12/Nov/95 Dame Barbara Cartland
450 19-10 19/Nov/95 Jonathan Raban: Badlands / Wynton Marsalis
451 19-11 07/Apr/96 Elaine Page Special
452 19-12 14/Apr/96 Sting
453 19-13 28/Apr/96 Albert Finney
454 19-14 05/May/96 Marlene Dietrich
455 19-15 12/May/96 John Eliot Gardiner
456 19-16 19/May/96 Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence
457 19-17 26/May/96 Claes Oldenburg
458 19-18 02/Jun/96 Baaba Maal
459 19-19 21/Jul/96 Maxine Peake / Wynton Marsalis in New Orleans
460 19-20 28/Jul/96 Alan Ayckbourn Workshop
• Season 20
461 20-01 15/Sep/96 Victoria Wood
462 20-02 22/Sep/96 Sir John Mills
463 20-03 29/Sep/96 Michael Crawford
464 20-04 06/Oct/96 Norman Mailer on Picasso
465 20-05 13/Oct/96 Chanson
465 20-06 27/Oct/96 Michael Collins
467 20-07 03/Nov/96 Bryn Terfel
468 20-08 10/Nov/96 Howard Hodgkin
469 20-09 17/Nov/96 Jimmy McGovern
470 20-10 05/Jan/97 Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
471 20-11 12/Jan/97 Maggi Hambling
472 20-12 19/Jan/97 John Galliano
473 20-13 26/Jan/97 The US and Us (1)
474 20-14 02/Feb/97 The US and Us (2)
475 20-15 09/Feb/97 Gilbert and George (1)
476 20-16 16/Feb/97 Gilbert and George (2)
477 20-17 23/Feb/97 Valery Gergiev
478 20-18 04/May/97 Paganini
479 20-19 22/Jun/97 David Helfgott
480 20-20 06/Jul/97 Paul Auster
481 20-21 20/Jul/97 Young Directors (Preya Lal, Alexander Kelly, Franca Cereghini, Chris Dooks)
• Season 21
482 21-01 05/Oct/97 Scarfe on Hercules
483 21-02 26/Oct/97 Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance
484 21-03 02/Nov/97 Kay Mellor
485 21-04 09/Nov/97 Björk
486 21-05 16/Nov/97 Iain Banks
487 21-06 23/Nov/97 Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures
488 21-07 30/Nov/97 Steven Bochco
489 21-08 14/Dec/97 Simon Raven
490 21-09 21/Dec/97 Franco Zeffirelli
491 21-10 11/Jan/98 Saul Zaentz
492 21-11 18/Jan/98 Gillian Wearing / Gary Hume
493 21-12 01/Feb/98 Marks and Gran
494 21-13 08/Feb/98 Hail Bop: a Portrait of John Adams
495 21-14 15/Feb/98 Nigel Kennedy
496 21-15 15/Mar/98 Gary Oldman
497 21-16 05/Apr/98 Body Art
498 21-17 12/Apr/98 John Tavener
499 21-18 07/Jun/98 The Bee Gees
500 21-19 05/Jul/98 Will Self
501 21-20 19/Jul/98 Afro-Cuban Allstars
502 21-21 23/Aug/98 This is Not an Exit: the Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis
503 21-22 30/Aug/98 Wayne Sleep
• Season 22
504 22-01 08/Nov/98 Ossie Clarke (1)
505 22-02 15/Nov/98 Ossie Clarke (2)
506 22-03 22/Nov/98 Lesley Garrett
507 22-04 29/Nov/98 Harold Pinter
508 22-05 06/Dec/98 Maxine Peake/Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
509 22-06 13/Dec/98 Walter Mosley
510 22-07 20/Dec/98 Petula Clark
511 22-08 30/Dec/98 Warren Beatty
512 22-09 10/Jan/99 John Tomlinson
513 22-10 31/Jan/99 Javier du Frutos
514 22-11 07/Feb/99 UB40
515 22-12 21/Feb/99 Anish Kapoor
516 22-13 28/Feb/99 New South African Artists
517 22-14 14/Mar/99 Lucy Gannon
518 22-15 28/Mar/99 Tony Harrison
519 22-16 09/Apr/99 Dolly Parton
• Season 23
520 23-01 26/Sep/99 Paul Merton
521 23-02 03/Oct/99 Frank McCourt
522 23-03 10/Oct/99 Howard Jacobson
523 23-04 17/Oct/99 Jose Cura
524 23-05 24/Oct/99 James Galway
525 23-06 31/Oct/99 The Lion King (stage play based on the film)
526 23-07 14/Nov/99 Joan Collins
527 23-08 21/Nov/99 Blur
529 23-09 05/Dec/99 Yoko Ono
530 23-10 11/Dec/99 Cher
531 23-11 19/Dec/99 Countertenors
532 23-12 26/Dec/99 Bing Crosby
533 23-13 23/Jan/00 Shakespeare
534 23-14 07/Feb/00 Millennium Dome
535 23-15 14/Feb/00 Sam Mendes
536 23-16 21/Feb/00 Michael Douglas
537 23-17 05/Mar/00 Chuck Close
538 23-18 12/Mar/00 Emir Kusturica
540 23-19 18/Jun/00 Amis on Amis
541 23-20 25/Jun/00 (composing classical music) (1)
542 23-21 02/Jul/00 Simon Holt's Sunrise, Yellow Noise (2)
• Season 24
543 24-01 01/Oct/00 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton
544 24-02 08/Oct/00 Santana
545 24-03 15/Oct/00 Joyce [Carol Oates] on Marilyn [Monroe]
546 24-04 22/Oct/00 Carmen
547 24-05 29/Oct/00 Mark Morris Dance Group
548 24-06 12/Nov/00 George MacDonald Fraser
549 24-07 19/Nov/00 Courtney Pine
550 24-08 26/Nov/00 Ron Howard
551 24-09 03/Dec/00 Dame Gillian Weir
552 24-10 10/Dec/00 [Marlene] Dumas and [Jemima] Stehli
553 24-11 17/Dec/00 Mark Quinn
554 24-12 24/Dec/00 Tom Jones
555 24-13 11/Feb/01 Ken Russell
556 24-14 18/Feb/01 Shirin Neshat
557 24-15 25/Feb/01 Russell Watson
558 24-16 04/Mar/01 Amos Oz
559 24-17 11/Mar/01 Greta Garbo
560 24-18 18/Mar/01 Elvis Costello with Annie Sofie von Otter
561 24-19 25/Mar/01 Bill Bryson
562 24-20 01/Jul/01 Ian Rankin
563 24-21 08/Jul/01 Ian Bostridge
564 24-22 22/Jul/01 Edmund White
565 24-23 05/Aug/01 Steve Coogan
566 24-24 12/Aug/01 Ravi Shankar
567 24-25 19/Aug/01 Tracey Emin
• Season 25
568 25-01 07/Oct/01 High and Low Culture in the Age of Television
569 25-02 14/Oct/01 (highlights)
570 25-03 28/Oct/01 Rachel Whiteread
571 25-04 11/Nov/01 Norman Foster
572 25-05 18/Nov/01 Dr. John
573 25-06 16/Dec/01 Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
574 25-07 03/Feb/02 Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
575 25-08 10/Feb/02 The Sopranos
576 25-09 24/Feb/02 Leif Ove Andsnes
577 25-10 17/Mar/02 Why the Novel Matters
578 25-11 24/Mar/02 Meera Syal
579 25-12 31/Mar/02 Johnnie Ray
580 25-13 21/Apr/02 Mario Vargas Llosa
581 25-14 05/May/02 Fay Weldon
582 25-15 09/May/02 R.E.M.
583 25-16 23/Jun/02 Neil LaBute
584 25-17 30/Jun/02 Cinema of Fire (Iranian cinema)
585 25-18 07/Jul/02 Moby
586 25-19 04/Aug/02 Bernie Taupin
• Season 26
587 26-01 13/Oct/02 Mike Leigh
588 26-02 20/Oct/02 Akram Khan
589 26-03 27/Oct/02 Graham Vick: Beethoven in the Big Top
590 26-04 10/Nov/02 Craig David
591 26-05 17/Nov/02 Andrew Davies
592 26-06 24/Nov/02 Joan Rivers
593 26-07 12/Jan/03 Willie Nelson
594 26-08 05/Jan/03 James MacMillan
595 26-09 19/Jan/03 Irek Mukhamedov
596 26-10 02/Feb/03 Gerhard Richter
597 26-11 09/Feb/03 Hanif Kureishi
598 26-12 16/Feb/03 How to Get Rich: Felix Dennis
599 26-13 09/Mar/03 Philip Pullman
600 26-14 13/Apr/03 Caryl Phillips
601 26-15 18/May/03 Conor McPherson
602 26-16 29/Jun/03 Herbie Hancock
603 26-17 06/Jul/03 Caetano Veloso
604 26-18 13/Jul/03 Ang Lee
605 26-19 27/Jul/03 The Real George Orwell
606 26-20 03/Aug/03 Juan Diego Florez
607 26-21 10/Aug/03 Nick Cave
608 26-22 31/Aug/03 Albert Camus
609 26-23 07/Sep/03 Robert Harris Takes on Rome
610 26-24 19/Sep/03 Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Full Picture
611 26-25 21/Sep/03 Ewan McGregor
• Season 27
612 27-01 19/Oct/03 Germaine Greer
613 27-02 07/Dec/03 Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
614 27-03 01/Feb/04 TV Stories (1)
615 27-04 08/Feb/04 TV Stories (2)
616 27-05 22/Feb/04 Jamie Cullum
617 27-06 07/Mar/04 The Wilson Twins
618 27-07 14/Mar/04 John Lennon's Jukebox
619 27-08 21/Mar/04 Jack Vettriano
620 27-09 04/Apr/04 The Dance Theatre of Harlem
621 27-10 02/May/04 Jeanette Winterson
622 27-11 09/May/04 Johnny Hallyday
623 27-12 16/May/04 Othello
624 27-13 29/Jun/04 Ian McKellen
• Season 28
625 28-01 22/Aug/04 Street Music Stories
626 28-02 05/Sep/04 Ronnie Wood
627 28-03 19/Sep/04 Willie Nelson
628 28-04 26/Sep/04 Malcolm Arnold (1)
629 28-05 03/Oct/04 Malcolm Arnold (2)
630 28-06 17/Oct/04 Robert Frank
632 28-07 14/Nov/04 Michael Frayn
633 28-08 21/Nov/04 The Darkness
634 28-09 05/Dec/04 Iggy Pop
635 28-10 12/Dec/04 Ruth Rendell
636 28-11 19/Dec/04 Howard Goodall
637 28-12 01/Jan/05 Pete 'n' Dud, The Lost Shows
638 28-13 20/Feb/05 Ian McEwan
639 28-14 06/Mar/05 Going Sane
640 28-15 13/Mar/05 Khaled and Rachid
641 28-16 27/Mar/05 Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg
642 28-17 03/Apr/05 The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
643 28-18 10/Apr/05 John Boorman
644 28-19 24/Apr/05 Red Priest
645 28-20 01/May/05 National Theatre's production of Henry IV
646 28-21 08/May/05 The Secret Art of War
647 28-22 15/May/05 Paul Abbott
• Season 29
648 29-01 07/Aug/05 Margot Fonteyn (1)
649 29-02 14/Aug/05 Margot Fonteyn (2)
650 29-03 21/Aug/05 Sophie Calle
651 29-04 11/Sep/05 Karl Jenkins
652 29-05 18/Sep/05 Eric Sykes
653 29-06 02/Oct/05 Maxim Vengerov
654 29-07 09/Oct/05 Alan Bennett
655 29-08 16/Oct/05 Pablo Trapero, Lucrecia Martel, Daniel Burman
656 29-09 23/Oct/05 The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy (film)
657 29-10 30/Oct/05 Peter Hall (1)
658 29-11 06/Nov/05 Peter Hall (2)
659 29-12 25/Dec/05 Little Britain: A South Bank Show Special
• Season 30
660 30-01 12/Feb/06 Armando Iannucci
661 30-02 19/Feb/06 Manga Mania
662 30-03 12/Mar/06 John Rutter
663 30-04 26/Mar/06 PD James
664 30-05 09/Apr/06 Dusty Springfield
665 30-06 04/Jun/06 Seu Jorge
666 30-07 11/Jun/06 Romeo and Juliet
• Season 31
667 31-01 10/Sep/06 Bill Bryson
668 31-02 17/Sep/06 JG Ballard
669 31-03 24/Sep/06 Robbie Coltrane
670 31-04 01/Oct/06 Episode 4
671 31-05 15/Oct/06 Spamalot
672 31-06 22/Oct/06 Claire Tomalin on Thomas Hardy
673 31-07 29/Oct/06 Sue Townsend
674 31-08 05/Nov/06 Lorenzo Da Ponte
675 31-09 19/Nov/06 Peter Blake
676 31-10 26/Nov/06 Nick Park and Aardman Animations
677 31-11 10/Dec/06 Steve Reich
678 31-12 17/Dec/06 Grayson Perry
679 31-13 01/Jan/07 Damien Hirst - Addicted To Art
680 31-14 04/Mar/07 Mark Wallinger
681 31-15 11/Mar/07 Victoria Wood: A South Bank Show Special
682 31-16 22/Apr/07 Isabel Allende
683 31-17 29/Apr/07 Shane Meadows
684 31-18 10/Jun/07 Jarvis Cocker: Running The World
685 31-19 17/Jun/07 Martin Sheen On Playing It Real
686 31-20 24/Jun/07 Marianne Faithfull: A Life In Song
687 31-21 01/Jul/07 Zaha Hadid
688 31-22 08/Jul/07 MacBeth
689 31-23 15/Jul/07 Ian McMillan, Bard Of Barnsley
690 31-24 22/Jul/07 Emma Kirkby, The Unsung Heroine
691 31-25 29/Jul/07 June Whitfield
692 31-26 02/Sep/07 Michael Sheen On Playing It Real
693 31-27 23/Sep/07 Joan Dision
694 31-28 30/Sep/07 Ken Follett
695 31-29 07/Oct/07 The Mersey Sound
696 31-30 14/Oct/07 The Last Laugh: John Bird and John Fortune
• Season 32
697 32-01 25/Nov/07 Annie Lennox
698 32-02 02/Dec/07 Eric Clapton
699 32-03 09/Dec/07 The Making Of Viva La Diva
700 32-04 26/Dec/07 The Nutcracker Story
701 32-05 06/Jan/08 Kevin Spacey At The Old Vic
702 32-06 10/Feb/08 Lang Lang
703 32-07 09/Mar/08 David McVicar
704 32-08 16/Mar/08 Revolution 68
• Season 33
705 33-01 04/May/08 Liza Minnelli
706 33-02 11/May/08 The Damned United
707 33-03 18/May/08 Gore Vidal
708 33-04 08/Jun/08 Sarah Waters
709 33-05 15/Jun/08 Tasmin Little
710 33-06 13/Jul/08 Billy Joel
• Season 34
711 34-01 21/Sep/08 The Streets
712 34-02 05/Oct/08 The One Ronnie
713 34-03 22/Oct/08 Bond
714 34-04 26/Oct/08 Cildo Meireles
715 34-05 16/Nov/08 Sam Taylor-Wood
716 34-06 07/Dec/08 The Mariinsky Theatre
• Season 35
717 35-01 28/Jan/09 The South Bank Show Awards
718 35-02 01/Feb/09 Beyond the Footlights
719 35-03 08/Feb/09 The Tempest
720 35-04 17/Mar/09 Will Young
721 35-05 12/Apr/09 Messiah
722 35-06 26/Apr/09 William Goldman
723 35-07 10/May/09 Out Of Nigeria
724 35-08 17/May/09 Out Of Nigeria (2)
725 35-09 24/May/09 Peter Kosminsky
• Season 36
726 36-01 13/Sep/09 The Wagner Family
727 36-02 20/Sep/09 Coldplay
728 36-03 04/Oct/09 Andy Warhol
729 36-04 11/Oct/09 Disney.Pixar
730 36-05 18/Oct/09 Lee Hall
731 36-06 25/Oct/09 Nick Hornby
732 36-07 15/Nov/09 Elbow
733 36-08 06/Dec/09 Carol Ann Duffy
734 36-09 13/Dec/09 Wayne Mcgregor
735 36-10 28/Dec/09 The Royal Shakespeare Company
736 36-11 31/Jan/10 South Bank Show Awards 2009
• Season 37
737 37-01 28/Mar/10 Andrew Lloyd Webber Revisited
738 37-02 04/Apr/10 Billy Connolly Revisited
739 37-03 11/Apr/10 Ian McEwan Revisited
740 37-04 18/Apr/10 Ian McKellen Revisited
741 37-05 25/Apr/10 Stephen Sondheim Revisited
742 37-06 02/May/10 David Hockney Revisited
743 37-07 09/May/10 Judi Dench Revisited
744 37-08 16/May/10 Kiri Te Kanawa Revisited
745 37-09 23/May/10 Victoria Wood Revisited
746 37-10 30/May/10 The Final Cut
