The South Bank Show - Season 5

Season 5
Episodes

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Elvis Costello

Old Glory: the Journey and the Book

Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan

Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield

A Talent to Vex: John Osborne

Mama Lu Parks

Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day

Milos Forman

Germaine Greer

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

Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller

Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson

Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)

Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash

Peter Maxwell-Davies

Saul Bellow

Indian wallpainting

Stravinski (1)

Stravinski (2)

Julian Lloyd-Webber

Miles Davis / Robert Nye

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

Joseph Papp / James Galway

Werner Herzog

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

Phillip Larkin
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