Season 8

1. Alan Bennett

2. McCartney's Broad Street

Behind the scenes look at the making of Paul McCartney's 1984 movie Give My Regards To Broad Street.

3. The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)

4. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

5. Norman Nicholson

6. Joseph Heller

7. Mstislav Rostropovich

8. Max Wall

10. Alan Bleasdale

11. Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence

13. Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex

14. Marc Chagall

15. David Lean: a Life in Film

16. Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony

17. Little Richard

18. George Malcolm on Scarlatti

19. Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company

20. Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg

21. David Mamet

22. Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith

23. The Cotton Club (night club)

24. Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)

25. Francis Bacon

As part of The South Bank Show series, director David Hinton and interviewer Melvyn Bragg accompany Francis Bacon for a day during his second retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London, in 1985. The conversation reveals the artist’s influences, theories and obsessions.

26. George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century