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Sir Alec Guinness
Episode number: 1
Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
Episode number: 2
Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year
Episode number: 3
Theatre of Comedy workshop
Episode number: 4
Pete Townshend: After the Fire
Episode number: 5
Sir Stephen Spender
Episode number: 6
Marguerite Duras
Episode number: 7
Karole Armitage
Episode number: 8
Peter Shaffer
Episode number: 9
John Cleese
Episode number: 10
Overview: 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.
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Episode number: 11
Paul Schrader
Episode number: 12
Purcell's Dido and Aenaes
Episode number: 13
Patrick Heron
Episode number: 14
Blue Note Records
Episode number: 15
Michala Petri
Episode number: 16
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Episode number: 17
Absolute Beginners (film)
Episode number: 18
Arthur Boyd
Episode number: 19
Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical
Episode number: 20
British Soap Operas
Episode number: 21
Hull Truck Theatre Company
Episode number: 22
Velvet Underground
Episode number: 23
Overview: 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.