The South Bank Show
Overview
The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.
Cast
Melvyn Bragg
Self - Presenter
David Hockney
Ken Russell
Self
Peter Hall
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Alan Bennett
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Germaine Greer
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Martin Amis
Gore Vidal
Ian McKellen
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Alec Guinness
Self
Nick Park
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Dennis Potter
John Williams
Ingmar Bergman
Anthony Burgess
Neil Simon
Joseph Heller
Billy Connolly
Fay Weldon
Arthur Miller
William Golding
Toni Morrison
Robert Redford
Howard Hodgkin
Elvis Costello
Ian McEwan
John Osborne
David Lean
Self
Barry Humphries
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James Galway
Laurence Olivier
Ian Hislop
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Seamus Heaney
David Hare
Michael Frayn
Michael Crawford
David Mamet
Harold Pinter
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Peter Ackroyd
Wayne Sleep
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Anthony Hopkins
Eric Clapton
Lenny Henry
Ben Elton
Jimi Hendrix
Eric Sykes
Self
Armando Iannucci
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George Michael
Kiri Te Kanawa
Dudley Moore
Alan Ayckbourn
Wynton Marsalis
Maxine Peake
Victoria Wood
Bill Bryson
Willie Nelson
Malcolm Arnold
Margot Fonteyn
Damien Hirst
Paul McCartney
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Fernando Meirelles
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Robert Altman
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Gene Hackman
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Annie Lennox
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Helen Worth
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Robbie Coltrane
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Steven Spielberg
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Ian La Frenais
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Stephen Mangan
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Emma Kirkby
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P. D. James
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Billie Jean King
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Terry Gilliam
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Trevor Nunn
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Patrick Marber
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Camille Paglia
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Richard Ingrams
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Bob Mortimer
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Matt Lucas
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Rebecca Front
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Ronnie Corbett
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Sue Townsend
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David Schneider
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Elton John
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Vic Reeves
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David Walliams
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Steve Box
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Tom Gasek
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Rolf Harris
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Ray Harryhausen
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Jeffrey Katzenberg
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Jane Kite
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Peter Lord
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Peter Sallis
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David Sproxton
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Bill Bryden
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Brian Glover
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Mike Newell
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Lesley Manville
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Roy Minton
John Peel
Quentin Crisp
Jacques Loussier
Ken Dodd
Georges Simenon
Ralph McTell
Satyajit Ray
Herbert von Karajan
Freddie Young
Frank Auerbach
Tom Stoppard
Woody Allen
John McLaughlin
Michael Cimino
Stephen Frears
Gordon Williams
Alan Sharp
Eddie Boyd
Derek Boshier
Graham Sutherland
Darryl Way
Howard Brenton
Jessye Norman
Allen Jones
Keith Jarrett
Michael Tippett
Francis Ford Coppola
Chris Frantz
Jerry Harrison
Tina Weymouth
David Byrne
Merce Cunningham
Benjamin Britten
Graham Greene
Edward Bond
Yehudi Menuhin
Stéphane Grappelli
Kingsley Amis
Roman Polanski
Tom Wolfe
Andrew Wyeth
Angus Wilson
Akira Kurosawa
Martin Scorsese
Elizabeth Taylor
John Hubbard
Bob Fosse
Verity Bargate
William Walton
Ermanno Olmi
Colin Welland
Christopher Logue
Lulu
Ninette de Valois
Clive James
Craig Raine
Rick Vito
Melvin Jackson
Patrick Caulfield
Mama Lu Parks
Miloš Forman
Pauline Kael
Jerry Leiber
Mike Stoller
Laurie Anderson
Peter Maxwell Davies
Saul Bellow
Julian Lloyd Webber
Miles Davis
Joseph Papp
Werner Herzog
Philip Larkin
Peter Gabriel
Bruce Chatwin
Patricia Highsmith
Simone de Beauvoir
Barry Flanagan
Agnes de Mille
R.K. Narayan
Ivo Pogorelich
John le Carré
William Trevor
Keith Waterhouse
Robert Lowell
Jiří Kylián
Yuri Lyubimov
Jack Lemmon
Catherine Cookson
Lillian Gish
Alberto Moravia
Barry Tuckwell
Trevor Griffiths
Claudio Arrau
Kathy Acker
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ernst Gombrich
Ed McBain
Stephen Sondheim
Alec McCowen
Anthony Caro
Paolo Taviani
Vittorio Taviani
Nora Nicholson
Mstislav Rostropovich
Max Wall
Alan Bleasdale
Marc Chagall
Simon Rattle
Little Richard
George Malcolm
Billy Bragg
Francis Bacon
George Steiner
Pete Townshend
Stephen Spender
Marguerite Duras
Karole Armitage
Peter Shaffer
John Cleese
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Paul Schrader
Patrick Heron
Michala Petri
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Arthur Boyd
Hal Prince
Al Jolson
John Mortimer
Michael Powell
Truman Capote
Fay Godwin
Agatha Christie
Philip Glass
Thomas Allen
George V. Higgins
Maria Callas
Morrissey
Andy Warhol
Frank Rich
Suzanne Vega
Terence Conran
Georg Solti
Jackson Pollock
Doris Lessing
Bernard Shaw
David Puttnam
Raymond Chandler
Neil Jordan
John Houseman
David Bailey
Derek Walcott
Patrick Leigh-Fermor
Christopher Hampton
István Szabó
Dustin Hoffman
Steven Berkoff
Gabriel García Márquez
Evelyn Glennie
Peter Brook
Boris Pasternak
Robert Bolt
Christopher Hogwood
Chinua Achebe
Hans Werner Henze
Gerry Mulgrew
Liz Lochhead
Yuri Bashmet
Vivienne Westwood
Spike Lee
Salman Rushdie
Roy Lichtenstein
John Updike
Alan Parker
Cameron Mackintosh
Stan Laurel
August Wilson
Oscar Marzaroli
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Willard White
Steve Martin
Rudolf Nureyev
David Lodge
Vera Lynn
José Carreras
Douglas Adams
Håkan Hardenberger
Cecilia Bartoli
Colin Thubron
Neil Tennant
Chris Lowe
Paula Rego
Noël Coward
Terence Davies
David Cronenberg
Alice Walker
Peter O'Toole
Darcey Bussell
Viviana Durante
Robert Zemeckis
George Formby
Richard Attenborough
Arnold Bax
Jeff Koons
Montserrat Caballé
Annie Leibovitz
Jean Genet
Richard Price
John Banville
Benny Goodman
Paul Simon
Norman Wisdom
Sydney Pollack
Willy Russell
Ken Loach
Margaret Atwood
John Lee Hooker
Stevie Wonder
Sylvie Guillem
Tim Rice
Lynda La Plante
Cliff Richard
Jean-Claude Carrière
Danny Kaye
Clive Barker
Dawn French
Christian Boltanski
John Steinbeck
Kenneth Williams
Marilyn Horne
Vanessa Redgrave
George Shearing
Thora Hird
P. J. O'Rourke
Lionel Bart
Carl Orff
Jonathan Miller
Roger Ballen
Edward Albee
Jodie Foster
Miriam Makeba
Clint Eastwood
Tom Sharpe
K.D. Lang
Luciano Pavarotti
Jimmy Nail
Judi Dench
Barbara Cartland
Jonathan Raban
Elaine Page
Sting
Albert Finney
Marlene Dietrich
John Eliot Gardiner
Claes Oldenburg
Baaba Maal
John Mills
Norman Mailer
Bryn Terfel
Jimmy McGovern
Humphrey Bogart
Maggi Hambling
Valery Gergiev
David Helfgott
Paul Auster
Franca Cereghini
Chris Dooks
Michael Flatley
Kay Mellor
Björk
Iain Banks
Matthew Bourne
Steven Bochco
Simon Raven
Franco Zeffirelli
Saul Zaentz
Gillian Wearing
Gary Hume
Nigel Kennedy
Gary Oldman
John Tavener
Maurice Gibb
Robin Gibb
Barry Gibb
Will Self
Bret Easton Ellis
Lesley Garrett
Walter Mosley
Petula Clark
Warren Beatty
John Tomlinson
Javier De Frutos
Robin Campbell
Earl Falconer
Ali Campbell
Norman Hassan
Laurence Parry
Anish Kapoor
Lucy Gannon
Tony Harrison
Dolly Parton
Paul Merton
Frank McCourt
José Cura
Joan Collins
Damon Albarn
Graham Coxon
Alex James
Dave Rowntree
Yoko Ono
Cher
Bing Crosby
Sam Mendes
Michael Douglas
Chuck Close
Emir Kusturica
Carlos Santana
George MacDonald Fraser
Courtney Pine
Ron Howard
Marlene Dumas
Tom Jones
Shirin Neshat
Russell Watson
Amos Oz
Greta Garbo
Anne Sofie von Otter
Ian Rankin
Ian Bostridge
Edmund White
Steve Coogan
Ravi Shankar
Tracey Emin
Rachel Whiteread
Norman Foster
Renée Fleming
Leif Ove Andsnes
Meera Syal
Johnnie Ray
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peter Buck
Mike Mills
Michael Stipe
Neil LaBute
Moby
Bernie Taupin
Mike Leigh
Akram Khan
Graham Vick
Craig David
Andrew Davies
Joan Rivers
Irek Mukhamedov
Gerhard Richter
Hanif Kureishi
Philip Pullman
Caryl Phillips
Conor McPherson
Herbie Hancock
Caetano Veloso
Ang Lee
Juan Diego Flórez
Nick Cave
Albert Camus
Robert Harris
Ewan McGregor
Daniel Barenboim
Jamie Cullum
Jack Vettriano
Jeanette Winterson
Johnny Hallyday
Ronnie Wood
Robert Frank
Iggy Pop
Ruth Rendell
Howard Goodall
Peter Cook
Alina Cojocaru
Johan Kobborg
John Boorman
Paul Abbott
Sophie Calle
Karl Jenkins
Maxim Vengerov
Pablo Trapero
Lucrecia Martel
Daniel Burman
John Rutter
Dusty Springfield
Seu Jorge
J.G. Ballard
Claire Tomalin
Lorenzo da Ponte
Grayson Perry
Isabel Allende
Shane Meadows
Jarvis Cocker
Martin Sheen
Marianne Faithfull
Zaha Hadid
Ian McMillan
June Whitfield
Michael Sheen
Joan Didion
Ken Follett
John Bird
John Fortune
Kevin Spacey
Tim Burton
David McVicar
Liza Minnelli
David Peace
Sarah Waters
Tasmin Little
Billy Joel
Mike Skinner
Cildo Meireles
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Will Young
William Goldman
Peter Kosminsky
John Lloyd
Kate Atkinson
Abi Morgan
Angel Blue
Daniel Radcliffe
George R.R. Martin
Paul Greengrass
Margaret Drabble
Laura Mvula
Joseph Calleja
Mark Rylance
Joyce DiDonato
Russell T Davies
Benedict Cumberbatch
Jackie Kay
Amma Asante
Karl Ove Knausgård
Sally Wainwright
Benjamin Clementine
Jude Law
Ivo van Hove
Yinka Shonibare
Tracey Ullman
Beverley Knight
Danielle de Niese
Sonia Friedman
Jed Mercurio
Jack Thorne
Steve Pemberton
Reece Shearsmith
Heidi Thomas
Gillian Anderson
Bernardine Evaristo
Benjamin Zephaniah
Simon Armitage
Arlo Parks
Samuel Bailey
Nick Rowland
Noah Jupe
Alex Wolff
Arielle Smith
Alberta Whittle
Frank Skinner
Helen Mirren
Carlos Acosta
Amanda Root
Claire Clairmont
- Creator / Director
- Melvyn Bragg
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Rating source
- TMDB
- Keywords
- #arts and culture, #talk show
