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 (22)
1. Piper's Way
Aired 16 October 1983 • 60 min
2. Yuri Lyubimov
Aired 23 October 1983 • 60 min
4. Jack Lemmon
Aired 6 November 1983 • 60 min
5. Catherine Cookson
Aired 20 November 1983 • 60 min
6. Lillian Gish/Glen Baxter
Aired 27 November 1983 • 60 min
7. Alberto Moravia
Aired 4 December 1983 • 60 min
8. Ian Hamilton Finlay/Lord Gowrie
Aired 11 December 1983 • 60 min
9. Barry Tuckwell: Master of the Horn
Aired 19 February 1984 • 60 min
10. Trevor Griffiths
Aired 26 February 1984 • 60 min
11. Weather Report
Aired 11 March 1984 • 60 min
12. Claudio Arrau
Aired 18 March 1984 • 60 min
13. Kathy Acker
Aired 1 April 1984 • 60 min
14. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Aired 8 April 1984 • 60 min
15. Sir Ernst Gombrich
Aired 15 April 1984 • 60 min
16. Michael Frayn
Aired 29 April 1984 • 60 min
17. Ed McBain
Aired 6 May 1984 • 60 min
18. David Bintley: New Ballet at Sadler's Wells
Aired 13 May 1984 • 60 min
19. Stephen Sondheim
Aired 20 May 1984 • 60 min
20. Elisabeth Vellacott / DeCocoa, Hot Chocolate
Aired 27 May 1984 • 60 min
21. adaptation of Ivy Compton Burnett's Elders and Betters
Aired 3 June 1984 • 60 min
22. Kipling (one-man play with Alec McGowen)
Aired 10 June 1984 • 60 min
23. Anthony Caro
Aired 24 June 1984 • 60 min