The South Bank Show - Season 8
Season 8
Episodes
Alan Bennett
McCartney's Broad Street
The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Norman Nicholson
Joseph Heller
Mstislav Rostropovich
Max Wall
Malcolm McLaren
Alan Bleasdale
Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence
Electronic Music
Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex
Marc Chagall
David Lean: a Life in Film
Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony
Little Richard
George Malcolm on Scarlatti
Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company
David Mamet
Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg
Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith
The Cotton Club (night club)
Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)
Francis Bacon
George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century
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