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 (6)
1. Amma Asante
Aired 19 July 2017 • 60 min
Bragg meets award-winning writer and director Amma Asante on the set of her latest film, Where Hands Touch, to find out more about the inspirational filmmaker.
2. Karl Ove Knausgaard
Aired 26 July 2017
Bragg meets Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard to discuss his life and work, including his six-volume Min Kamp series of autobiographical novels.
3. Sally Wainwright
Aired 2 August 2017
Bragg meets Sally Wainwright, one of the UK's most revered TV writers who has won BAFTA awards for her dramas Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley.
4. Benjamin Clementine
Aired 9 August 2017
Bragg meets Benjamin Clementine to discuss his roller-coaster ride from busking in Paris to becoming a world-renowned singer-songwriter.
5. Obsession: Jude Law & Ivo Van Hove
Aired 16 August 2017
Bragg talks to double Oscar nominee Jude Law and director Ivo van Hove about their production of Obsession at London's Barbican.
6. Yinka Shonibare
Aired 23 August 2017