Season 8
Season 8 • 1984
0Episodes
1. Alan Bennett
1984-10-07 • 60 min
2. McCartney's Broad Street
Behind the scenes look at the making of Paul McCartney's 1984 movie Give My Regards To Broad Street.
1984-10-14 • 60 min
3. The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)
1984-10-21 • 60 min
4. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
1984-10-28 • 60 min
5. Norman Nicholson
1984-11-04 • 60 min
6. Joseph Heller
1984-11-11 • 60 min
7. Mstislav Rostropovich
1984-11-18 • 60 min

8. Max Wall
1984-11-25 • 60 min
10. Alan Bleasdale
1985-01-13 • 60 min
11. Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence
1985-01-20 • 60 min
13. Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex
1985-02-03 • 60 min
14. Marc Chagall
1985-02-10 • 60 min
15. David Lean: a Life in Film
1985-02-17 • 60 min
16. Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony
1985-02-24 • 60 min
17. Little Richard
1985-03-03 • 60 min
18. George Malcolm on Scarlatti
1985-03-10 • 60 min
19. Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company
1985-03-17 • 60 min
20. Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg
1985-03-31 • 60 min
21. David Mamet
1985-03-24 • 60 min
22. Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith
1985-04-05 • 60 min
23. The Cotton Club (night club)
1985-05-26 • 60 min
24. Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)
1985-06-02 • 60 min
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.
1985-06-09 • 60 min
26. George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century
1985-06-16 • 60 min