The South Bank Show - Season 18

Season 18

Episodes

Kenneth Williams

Marilyn Horne

New Generation Poets

Vanessa Redgrave

David Mamet

The Shearing Touch (George Shearing)

Alan Ayckbourn

Frankenstein

Thora Hird

The Glory of Gershwin

P.J. O'Rourke

Carl Orff

Classic Widows

Jonathan Miller

Flags of the Fante Coast

Catherine Bailey, the Lady is a Tramp / Roger Ballen

Edward Albee

Jodie Foster

Martin Amis

Country Music

Miriam Makeba

Nora Ephron
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