Season 9
Season 9 • 1985
0Episodes
1. Sir Alec Guinness
1985-10-06 • 60 min
2. Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
1985-10-13 • 60 min
3. Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year
1985-10-20 • 60 min
4. Theatre of Comedy workshop
1985-10-27 • 60 min
5. Pete Townshend: After the Fire
1985-11-03 • 60 min
6. Sir Stephen Spender
1985-11-10 • 60 min
7. Marguerite Duras
1985-11-17 • 60 min
8. Karole Armitage
1985-11-24 • 60 min
9. Peter Shaffer
1985-12-01 • 60 min
10. John Cleese
Cleese was silently scripting A Fish Called Wanda at the time this interview was filmed. It is not mentioned in this program. What is mentioned is Cleese's spectrum of work from sketch comedy to industrial training films to therapeutical books. Video clips include sequences from Cleese's classics: At Last the 1948 Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and Fawlty Towers.
1986-01-12 • 60 min
11. Vladimir Ashkenazy
1986-01-19 • 60 min
12. Paul Schrader
1986-01-26 • 60 min
13. Purcell's Dido and Aenaes
1986-02-02 • 60 min
14. Patrick Heron
1986-02-09 • 60 min
15. Blue Note Records
1986-02-16 • 60 min
16. Michala Petri
1986-02-23 • 60 min
17. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
1986-03-02 • 60 min
18. Absolute Beginners (film)
1986-03-09 • 60 min
19. Arthur Boyd
1986-03-23 • 60 min
20. Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical
1986-04-06 • 60 min
21. British Soap Operas
1986-04-13 • 60 min

22. Hull Truck Theatre Company
1986-04-20 • 60 min
23. Velvet Underground
The South Bank Show’s Velvet Underground documentary contains interviews with Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Moe Tucker, Nico, Andy Warhol and lots of early Velvet performance footage.
1986-04-27 • 60 min
24. Al Jolson
1986-05-04 • 60 min