8x1 - Alan Bennett

October 7, 1984

8x3 - The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)

October 21, 1984

8x4 - Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

October 28, 1984

8x5 - Norman Nicholson

November 4, 1984

8x6 - Joseph Heller

November 11, 1984

8x7 - Mstislav Rostropovich

November 18, 1984

8x8 - Max Wall

November 25, 1984

8x10 - Alan Bleasdale

January 13, 1985

8x11 - Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence

January 20, 1985

8x13 - Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex

February 3, 1985

8x14 - Marc Chagall

February 10, 1985

8x15 - David Lean: a Life in Film

February 17, 1985

8x16 - Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony

February 24, 1985

8x17 - Little Richard

March 3, 1985

8x18 - George Malcolm on Scarlatti

March 10, 1985

8x19 - Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company

March 17, 1985

8x20 - Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg

March 31, 1985

8x21 - David Mamet

March 24, 1985

8x22 - Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith

April 5, 1985

8x23 - The Cotton Club (night club)

May 26, 1985

8x24 - Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)

June 2, 1985

8x25 - Francis Bacon

June 9, 1985

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.

8x26 - George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century

June 16, 1985