The French Lieutenant's Woman

Episode number: 1

Elvis Costello

Episode number: 2

Old Glory: the Journey and the Book

Episode number: 3

Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan

Episode number: 4

Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield

Episode number: 5

A Talent to Vex: John Osborne

Episode number: 6

Mama Lu Parks

Episode number: 7

Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day

Episode number: 8

Milos Forman

Episode number: 9

Germaine Greer

Episode number: 10

Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH

Episode number: 11

Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller

Episode number: 12

Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson

Episode number: 13

Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)

Episode number: 14

Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash

Episode number: 15

Peter Maxwell-Davies

Episode number: 16

Saul Bellow

Episode number: 17

Indian wallpainting

Episode number: 18

Stravinski (1)

Episode number: 19

Stravinski (2)

Episode number: 20

Julian Lloyd-Webber

Episode number: 21

Miles Davis / Robert Nye

Episode number: 22

Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs)

Episode number: 23

Joseph Papp / James Galway

Episode number: 24

Werner Herzog

Episode number: 25

Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver)

Episode number: 26

Phillip Larkin

Episode number: 27

Overview: In March 1981 Melvyn Bragg travelled to Hull to interview the poet, librarian and jazz critic Philip Larkin.