The South Bank Show - Season 4

Season 4

Episodes

Arthur Miller

William Golding

Akira Kurosawa

Stravinsky's The Firebird

No Need to Lie

The Passion (National Theatre's updating of medieval plays)

Toni Morrison

The Trespasser (film)

Don Juan in Hell

poetry workshop

Martin Scorsese

Elizabeth Taylor / John Hubbard

Bob Fosse

Robert Redford / Martin Amis

Verity Bargate / Howard Hodgkin

At the Haunted End of the Day: the Life of Sir William Walton

Gore Vidal

The Roots of the Tree (Ermanno Olmi)

Colin Welland

Christopher Logue / Phillip King

Lulu's Last Act (Berg Opera)

Dame Ninette De Valois / David Hockney on Picasso

Clive James / Craig Raine

Soviet Art

Rhythm and Blues (The Blues Band, Dr. Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, Paul Jones)

Music for a City: Venice
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