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October 6, 1985

Season 9

01. Sir Alec Guinness

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October 6, 1985

02. Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor

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October 13, 1985

03. Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year

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October 20, 1985

04. Theatre of Comedy workshop

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October 27, 1985

05. Pete Townshend: After the Fire

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November 3, 1985

06. Sir Stephen Spender

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November 10, 1985

07. Marguerite Duras

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November 17, 1985

08. Karole Armitage

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November 24, 1985

09. Peter Shaffer

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December 1, 1985

10. John Cleese

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.

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January 12, 1986

11. Vladimir Ashkenazy

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January 19, 1986

12. Paul Schrader

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January 26, 1986

13. Purcell's Dido and Aenaes

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February 2, 1986

14. Patrick Heron

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February 9, 1986

15. Blue Note Records

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February 16, 1986

16. Michala Petri

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February 23, 1986

17. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

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March 2, 1986

18. Absolute Beginners (film)

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March 9, 1986

19. Arthur Boyd

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March 23, 1986

20. Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical

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April 6, 1986

21. British Soap Operas

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April 13, 1986

22. Hull Truck Theatre Company

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April 20, 1986

23. Velvet Underground

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.

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April 27, 1986

24. Al Jolson

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May 4, 1986