All Available Episode
All Season 8 Episode
1. Alan Bennett
2. McCartney's Broad Street
Behind the scenes look at the making of Paul McCartney's 1984 movie Give My Regards To Broad Street.
3. The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)
4. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
5. Norman Nicholson
6. Joseph Heller
7. Mstislav Rostropovich
8. Max Wall
10. Alan Bleasdale
11. Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence
13. Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex
14. Marc Chagall
15. David Lean: a Life in Film
16. Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony
17. Little Richard
18. George Malcolm on Scarlatti
19. Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company
20. Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg
21. David Mamet
22. Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith
23. The Cotton Club (night club)
24. Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)
25. Francis Bacon
As part of The South Bank Show series, director David Hinton and interviewer Melvyn Bragg accompany Francis Bacon for a day during his second retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London, in 1985. The conversation reveals the artist’s influences, theories and obsessions.