Season 9
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Episodes
2 - Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
3 - Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year
4 - Theatre of Comedy workshop
5 - Pete Townshend: After the Fire
6 - Sir Stephen Spender
7 - Marguerite Duras
8 - Karole Armitage
9 - Peter Shaffer
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.
11 - Vladimir Ashkenazy
12 - Paul Schrader
13 - Purcell's Dido and Aenaes
14 - Patrick Heron
15 - Blue Note Records
16 - Michala Petri
17 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
18 - Absolute Beginners (film)
19 - Arthur Boyd
20 - Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical
21 - British Soap Operas
22 - Hull Truck Theatre Company
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.