1. The French Lieutenant's Woman

2. Elvis Costello

3. Old Glory: the Journey and the Book

4. Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan

5. Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield

6. A Talent to Vex: John Osborne

7. Mama Lu Parks

8. Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day

9. Milos Forman

10. Germaine Greer

11. Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH

12. Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller

13. Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson

14. Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)

15. Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash

16. Peter Maxwell-Davies

17. Saul Bellow

18. Indian wallpainting

19. Stravinski (1)

20. Stravinski (2)

21. Julian Lloyd-Webber

22. Miles Davis / Robert Nye

23. Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs)

24. Joseph Papp / James Galway

25. Werner Herzog

26. Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver)

27. Phillip Larkin

In March 1981 Melvyn Bragg travelled to Hull to interview the poet, librarian and jazz critic Philip Larkin.