The South Bank Show – Season 5
1981
27 Episodes
Episodes
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S05E01
The French Lieutenant's Woman
01 Nov 198160m
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S05E02
Elvis Costello
08 Nov 198160m
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S05E03
Old Glory: the Journey and the Book
15 Nov 198160m
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S05E04
Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan
22 Nov 198160m
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S05E05
Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield
29 Nov 198160m
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S05E06
A Talent to Vex: John Osborne
06 Dec 198160m
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S05E07
Mama Lu Parks
17 Jan 198260m
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S05E08
Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day
24 Jan 198260m
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S05E09
Milos Forman
31 Jan 198260m
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S05E10
Germaine Greer
07 Feb 198260m
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S05E11
Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH
14 Feb 198260m
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S05E12
Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller
21 Feb 198260m
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S05E13
Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson
28 Feb 198260m

S05E14
Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)
07 Mar 198260m
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S05E15
Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash
14 Mar 198260m
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S05E16
Peter Maxwell-Davies
21 Mar 198260m
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S05E17
Saul Bellow
28 Mar 198260m
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S05E18
Indian wallpainting
04 Apr 198260m
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S05E19
Stravinski (1)
09 Apr 198260m
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S05E20
Stravinski (2)
10 Apr 198260m
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S05E21
Julian Lloyd-Webber
18 Apr 198260m
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S05E22
Miles Davis / Robert Nye
25 Apr 198260m
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S05E23
Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs)
02 May 198260m
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S05E24
Joseph Papp / James Galway
09 May 198260m
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S05E25
Werner Herzog
16 May 198260m
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S05E26
Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver)
23 May 198260m
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S05E27
Phillip Larkin
In March 1981 Melvyn Bragg travelled to Hull to interview the poet, librarian and jazz critic Philip Larkin.
30 May 198260m