The South Bank Show

• Melvyn Bragg

                            Original
  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    8-20                31/Mar/85   Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg
190    8-21                24/Mar/85   David Mamet
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               16/Jan/94   Woody Allen
406    17-14               23/Jan/94   Bheki Mseleku
407    17-15               06/Feb/94   Darker Than Me
408    17-16               13/Feb/94   Jean-Claude Carriere
409    17-17               20/Feb/94   Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool
410    17-18               27/Feb/94   Looking for the Perfect Beat: Rap
411    17-19               06/Mar/94   Larry Adler Plays Gershwin
412    17-20               13/Mar/94   Kiri's 50th Birthday Concert
413    17-21               10/Apr/94   Clive Barker
414    17-22               17/Apr/94   Dawn French
415    17-23               15/May/94   Christian Boltanski
416    17-24               22/May/94   Eric Newby
417    17-25               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