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.
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| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Paul McCartney/surrealist exhibition | 1978-01-14 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Paganini Superstar | 1978-01-21 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | Roy Minton | 1978-01-28 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | David Hockney | 1978-02-04 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Dennis Potter | 1978-02-11 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | John Peel/Jane Glover | 1978-02-18 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | Arabian Days (Edna O'Brien)/Quentin Crisp | 1978-02-25 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Jacques Loussier | 1978-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Ken Dodd | 1978-03-11 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | Georges Simenon | 1978-03-18 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Horowitz at the White House | 1978-03-25 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Carl Perkins/Morgan horses | 1978-04-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | Carry On with Paul Morissey (Carry On ... films) | 1978-04-08 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | Search for Shaw | 1978-04-15 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 15 | Harold Pinter | 1978-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 16 | Satyajit Ray/John Williams/Ralph McTell | 1978-04-30 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 17 | Portrait of a Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan | 1978-05-06 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 18 | Freddie Young | 1978-05-13 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 19 | Frank Auerbach | 1978-05-20 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 20 | Mayerling Ballet | 1978-06-17 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 21 | John Osborne on Wardle's book on Devine/Pearl (radio play) | 1978-07-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 22 | Ingmar Bergman at 60 | 1978-07-08 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 23 | Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (1) | 1978-07-15 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 24 | Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (2) | 1978-07-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Tom Stoppard | 1978-11-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Grace Under Pressure (Anthony Burgess on Hemingway) | 1978-12-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Woody Allen | 1978-12-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Anatomy of an Opera: Jonathan Miller's Figaro | 1978-12-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Rhythm of Resistance (South African music) | 1979-01-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Harmony of the Spheres (Neil Ardley) | 1979-01-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | Circus Clowns/Schubert recital by Richter | 1979-01-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | Royal Shakespeare Company on tour | 1979-02-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Brimstone & Treacle (Dennis Potter) / John McLaughlin, a Musical Journey | 1979-02-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Edward Gorey / Gunter Grass | 1979-02-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | Michael Cimino / Alan Bennett, Stephen Frears | 1979-02-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 12 | Gordon Williams, Alan Sharp, Eddie Boyd | 1979-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 13 | Derek Boshier / Ingrid Bergman, Ingmar Bergman | 1979-03-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 14 | Neil Simon | 1979-03-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 15 | Beryl Cook / Cloud Nine rehearsals | 1979-03-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 16 | Graham Sutherland | 1979-04-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 17 | Darryl Way / Howard Brenton | 1979-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 18 | The Europeans (film) / Joseph Heller | 1979-04-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 19 | Asian Arts festival | 1979-05-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 20 | Billy Connolly | 1979-05-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 21 | Jessye Norman | 1979-05-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 22 | Rough Trade (record label) / Allen Jones | 1979-05-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 23 | Scum (film) / Keith Jarrett | 1979-06-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 24 | Michael Tippett (90 min.) | 1979-06-24 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1979-12-02 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (1) | 1979-12-09 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (2) | 1979-12-16 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | Talking Heads | 1979-12-23 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Love and the Ice-Cream Vendor | 1980-02-17 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | Fay Weldon / Richard Hogart on Northern Ireland in drama | 1980-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | Merce Cunningham | 1980-03-02 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | Elegies for the Deaths of Three Spanish Poets | 1980-03-09 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | A Time There was ... (Benjamin Britten) | 1980-04-06 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | The Greene Adaptations (Graham Greene films) | 1980-04-13 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 11 | Salsa (Puerto Rican music) | 1980-04-27 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 12 | The Worlds of Edward Bond | 1980-05-04 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 13 | Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli / Kinglsey Amis | 1980-05-11 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 14 | new British rock films / The Tin Drum (film) | 1980-05-18 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 15 | Roman Polanski | 1980-05-25 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 16 | Tom Wolfe | 1980-06-01 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 17 | Andrew Wyeth | 1980-06-08 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 18 | Angus Wilson | 1980-06-29 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 19 | Jane Austen (film) | 1980-07-06 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | Arthur Miller | 1980-11-09 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | William Golding | 1980-11-16 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | Akira Kurosawa | 1980-11-23 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | Stravinsky's The Firebird | 1980-11-30 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | No Need to Lie | 1980-12-07 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | The Passion (National Theatre's updating of medieval plays) | 1980-12-14 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | Toni Morrison | 1981-01-18 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 8 | The Trespasser (film) | 1981-01-25 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 9 | Don Juan in Hell | 1981-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 10 | poetry workshop | 1981-02-15 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 11 | Martin Scorsese | 1981-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 12 | Elizabeth Taylor / John Hubbard | 1981-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 13 | Bob Fosse | 1981-03-08 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 14 | Robert Redford / Martin Amis | 1981-03-15 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 15 | Verity Bargate / Howard Hodgkin | 1981-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 16 | At the Haunted End of the Day: the Life of Sir William Walton | 1981-04-19 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 17 | Gore Vidal | 1981-04-26 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 18 | The Roots of the Tree (Ermanno Olmi) | 1981-05-03 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 19 | Colin Welland | 1981-05-10 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 20 | Christopher Logue / Phillip King | 1981-05-17 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 21 | Lulu's Last Act (Berg Opera) | 1981-05-24 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 22 | Dame Ninette De Valois / David Hockney on Picasso | 1981-05-31 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 23 | Clive James / Craig Raine | 1981-06-07 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 24 | Soviet Art | 1981-06-14 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 25 | Rhythm and Blues (The Blues Band, Dr. Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, Paul Jones) | 1981-06-21 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 26 | Music for a City: Venice | 1981-06-28 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | 1981-11-01 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | Elvis Costello | 1981-11-08 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | Old Glory: the Journey and the Book | 1981-11-15 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan | 1981-11-22 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield | 1981-11-29 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | A Talent to Vex: John Osborne | 1981-12-06 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 7 | Mama Lu Parks | 1982-01-17 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 8 | Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day | 1982-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 9 | Milos Forman | 1982-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 10 | Germaine Greer | 1982-02-07 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 11 | Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH | 1982-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 12 | Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller | 1982-02-21 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 13 | Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson | 1982-02-28 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 14 | Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre) | 1982-03-07 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 15 | Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash | 1982-03-14 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 16 | Peter Maxwell-Davies | 1982-03-21 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 17 | Saul Bellow | 1982-03-28 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 18 | Indian wallpainting | 1982-04-04 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 19 | Stravinski (1) | 1982-04-09 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 20 | Stravinski (2) | 1982-04-10 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 21 | Julian Lloyd-Webber | 1982-04-18 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 22 | Miles Davis / Robert Nye | 1982-04-25 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 23 | Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs) | 1982-05-02 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 24 | Joseph Papp / James Galway | 1982-05-09 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 25 | Werner Herzog | 1982-05-16 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 26 | Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver) | 1982-05-23 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 27 | Phillip Larkin | 1982-05-30 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | Laurence Olivier, a Life (1) | 1982-10-17 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 2 | Laurence Olivier, a Life (2) | 1982-10-24 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | Peter Gabriel | 1982-10-31 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 4 | Bruce Chatwin | 1982-11-07 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 5 | Patricia Highsmith | 1982-11-14 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 6 | Steven Spielberg | 1982-11-21 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 7 | Gospel at Colonus | 1982-11-28 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 8 | Simone De Beauvoir | 1983-01-09 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 9 | Barry Flannigan / Seamus Heaney | 1983-01-23 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 10 | David Hare | 1983-01-30 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 11 | Agnes De Mille | 1983-02-06 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 12 | Handel's Semele (by the Royal Opera House) | 1983-02-13 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 13 | Sam Fuller | 1983-02-20 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 14 | Local Hero (film) | 1983-02-27 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 15 | R.K. Narayan | 1983-03-13 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 16 | Ivo Pogorelich | 1983-03-20 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 17 | John Le Carré | 1983-03-27 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 18 | Choirs and Places Where They Sing | 1983-04-03 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 19 | William Trevor | 1983-04-24 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 20 | Gene Hackman | 1983-05-01 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 21 | Keith Waterhouse | 1983-05-08 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 22 | Robert Lowell / Benjamin Britten's Quartettino | 1983-05-15 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 23 | Cowboy Art | 1983-05-22 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 24 | Jiri Kylian | 1983-05-29 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 25 | Producing Don Giovanni | 1983-06-05 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 26 | Ken Russell's View of The Planets | 1983-06-12 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 1 | Piper's Way | 1983-10-16 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 2 | Yuri Lyubimov | 1983-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 3 | Peter Brook | 1983-10-30 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 4 | Jack Lemmon | 1983-11-06 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 5 | Catherine Cookson | 1983-11-20 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 6 | Lillian Gish/Glen Baxter | 1983-11-27 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 7 | Alberto Moravia | 1983-12-04 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 8 | Ian Hamilton Finlay/Lord Gowrie | 1983-12-11 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 9 | Barry Tuckwell: Master of the Horn | 1984-02-19 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 10 | Trevor Griffiths | 1984-02-26 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 11 | Weather Report | 1984-03-11 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 12 | Claudio Arrau | 1984-03-18 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 13 | Kathy Acker | 1984-04-01 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 14 | Ralph Vaughan Williams | 1984-04-08 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 15 | Sir Ernst Gombrich | 1984-04-15 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 16 | Michael Frayn | 1984-04-29 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 17 | Ed McBain | 1984-05-06 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 18 | David Bintley: New Ballet at Sadler's Wells | 1984-05-13 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 19 | Stephen Sondheim | 1984-05-20 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 20 | Elisabeth Vellacott / DeCocoa, Hot Chocolate | 1984-05-27 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 21 | Adaptation of Ivy Compton Burnett's Elders and Betters | 1984-06-03 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 22 | Kipling (One-man play with Alec McGowen) | 1984-06-10 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 23 | Anthony Caro | 1984-06-24 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 1 | Alan Bennett | 1984-10-07 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 2 | McCartney's Broad Street | 1984-10-14 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 3 | The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company) | 1984-10-21 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 4 | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | 1984-10-28 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 5 | Norman Nicholson | 1984-11-04 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 6 | Joseph Heller | 1984-11-11 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 7 | Mstislav Rostropovich | 1984-11-18 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 8 | Max Wall | 1984-11-25 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 9 | Malcolm McLaren | 1984-12-02 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 10 | Alan Bleasdale | 1985-01-13 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 11 | Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence | 1985-01-20 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 12 | Electronic Music | 1985-01-27 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 13 | Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex | 1985-02-03 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 14 | Marc Chagall | 1985-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 15 | David Lean: a Life in Film | 1985-02-17 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 16 | Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony | 1985-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 17 | Little Richard | 1985-03-03 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 18 | George Malcolm on Scarlatti | 1985-03-10 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 19 | Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company | 1985-03-17 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 20 | David Mamet | 1985-03-24 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 21 | Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg | 1985-03-31 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 22 | Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith | 1985-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 23 | The Cotton Club (night club) | 1985-05-26 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 24 | Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young) | 1985-06-02 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 25 | Francis Bacon | 1985-06-09 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 26 | George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century | 1985-06-16 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 1 | Sir Alec Guinness | 1985-10-06 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 2 | Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor | 1985-10-13 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 3 | Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year | 1985-10-20 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 4 | Theatre of Comedy workshop | 1985-10-27 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 5 | Pete Townshend: After the Fire | 1985-11-03 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 6 | Sir Stephen Spender | 1985-11-10 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 7 | Marguerite Duras | 1985-11-17 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 8 | Karole Armitage | 1985-11-24 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 9 | Peter Shaffer | 1985-12-01 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 10 | John Cleese | 1986-01-12 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 11 | Vladimir Ashkenazy | 1986-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 12 | Paul Schrader | 1986-01-26 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 13 | Purcell's Dido and Aenaes | 1986-02-02 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 14 | Patrick Heron | 1986-02-09 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 15 | Blue Note Records | 1986-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 16 | Michala Petri | 1986-02-23 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 17 | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | 1986-03-02 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 18 | Absolute Beginners (film) | 1986-03-09 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 19 | Arthur Boyd | 1986-03-23 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 20 | Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical | 1986-04-06 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 21 | British Soap Operas | 1986-04-13 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 22 | Hull Truck Theatre Company | 1986-04-20 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 23 | Velvet Underground | 1986-04-27 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 24 | Al Jolson | 1986-05-04 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 1 | John Mortimer | 1986-10-05 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 2 | Itzhak Perlman | 1986-10-12 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 3 | Roald Dahl: Fe-Fi-Fo-fum | 1986-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 4 | Michael Powell | 1986-10-26 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 5 | Truman Capote | 1986-11-02 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 6 | Fay Godwin | 1986-11-09 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 7 | The Andrew Lloyd-Webber Story | 1986-11-15 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 8 | Agatha Christie, How Did She Do It? | 1986-11-23 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 9 | The Dream is Over (Christopher Bruce ballet on John Lennon) | 1986-11-30 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 10 | Arts Review '86 | 1986-12-14 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 11 | Anthony Hopkins / David Hare | 1987-01-11 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 12 | Philip Glass | 1987-01-18 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 13 | Alvin Ailey Dance Theater | 1987-01-25 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 14 | Anthony Green: RA, a Love Story | 1987-02-01 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 15 | Birth of Frankenstein and Dracula | 1987-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 16 | Thomas Allen | 1987-02-15 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 17 | The Wooster Group | 1987-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 18 | The London Underground in art | 1987-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 19 | V.S. Naipaul | 1987-03-08 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 20 | Barbara Dickson | 1987-03-15 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 21 | Penguin Cafe Orchestra | 1987-03-22 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 22 | Turner at the Tate | 1987-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 23 | George V. Higgins | 1987-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 24 | Peter York lecture | 1987-04-12 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 25 | The Aida File: The Making of the Opera (1) | 1987-04-18 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 26 | The Aida File: Aida Performance (2) | 1987-04-19 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 1 | Maria Callas | 1987-10-04 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 2 | Toni Morrison | 1987-10-11 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 3 | The Smiths | 1987-10-18 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 4 | Andy Warhol | 1987-10-25 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 5 | Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega | 1987-11-01 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 6 | Sir Terence Conran | 1987-11-08 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 7 | Gore Vidal | 1987-11-15 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 8 | African music / Russian theatre | 1987-11-22 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 9 | Sir George Solti | 1987-11-29 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 10 | Eric Clapton | 1987-12-06 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 11 | Arts Review '87 | 1987-12-20 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 12 | The Last Emperor (1988 film) | 1988-01-17 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 13 | Australian Aboriginies | 1988-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 14 | Boogie Woogie Music | 1988-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 15 | The Golden Age of Television | 1988-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 16 | George Barker | 1988-02-21 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 17 | Jackson Pollack | 1988-02-28 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 18 | Lenny Henry | 1988-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 19 | Peter Dickinson | 1988-03-13 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 20 | A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China | 1988-03-20 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 21 | Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans | 1988-03-27 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 22 | Ken Russell's ABC of British Music | 1988-04-02 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 23 | Paul Bowles | 1988-04-10 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 24 | Doris Lessing | 1988-04-17 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 25 | Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production | 1988-04-24 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 1 | The Art of Walt Disney | 1988-09-25 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 2 | Bernard Shaw | 1988-10-02 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 3 | Under Milk Wood | 1988-10-09 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 4 | Toulouse-Lautrec | 1988-10-16 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 5 | David Puttnam | 1988-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 6 | David Hockney | 1988-10-30 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 7 | Two Women in Three Dimensions (Wendy Taylor, Nicola Hicks) | 1988-11-13 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 8 | Bristol WWII Bombing Raids Reenactment | 1988-11-20 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 9 | Raymond Chandler | 1988-11-27 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 10 | Neil Jordan | 1988-12-04 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 11 | John Houseman | 1988-12-11 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 12 | David Bailey | 1988-12-18 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 13 | Derek Walcott | 1989-01-15 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 14 | Patrick Leigh Fermor | 1989-01-22 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 15 | National Training Orchestra | 1989-01-29 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 16 | Christopher Hampton | 1989-02-05 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 17 | Istvan Szabo | 1989-02-12 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 18 | Robert Redford | 1989-02-19 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 19 | Tony Palmer on the Concerto | 1989-02-26 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 20 | Ben Elton | 1989-03-05 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 21 | John Burnett | 1989-03-10 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 22 | Put Blood in the Music (New York avant garde music) | 1989-03-12 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 23 | John Ogdon | 1989-03-19 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 24 | Sir William Golding | 1989-03-24 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 1 | Martin Amis | 1989-09-17 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 2 | Dustin Hoffman, Sir Peter Hall | 1989-09-24 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 3 | Jimi Hendrix | 1989-10-01 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 4 | Tom Keneally in Eritrea | 1989-10-08 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 5 | Ken Russell | 1989-10-15 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 6 | Steven Berkoff | 1989-10-22 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 7 | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | 1989-10-29 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 8 | Fitzrovia | 1989-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 9 | Dame Edna Everage | 1989-11-19 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 10 | Evelyn Glennie | 1989-11-26 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 11 | Peter Brook | 1989-12-03 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 12 | Arts Review '89 | 1989-12-29 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 13 | Boris Pasternak | 1990-01-07 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 14 | Sir David Lean, Robert Bolt | 1990-01-21 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 15 | Christopher Hogwood | 1990-01-28 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 16 | Chinua Achebe | 1990-02-04 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 17 | Hans Werner Henze | 1990-02-11 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 18 | Jock Tamson's Bairns (Gerry Mulgrew, Liz Lochhead) | 1990-02-18 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 19 | Yuri Bashmet | 1990-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 20 | DV8 Physical Theatre | 1990-03-11 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 21 | Mark Morris: the Hidden Soul of Harmony | 1990-03-25 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 22 | Carl Davis, Temba | 1990-04-01 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 23 | Vivienne Westwood | 1990-04-08 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 24 | Hindemith | 1990-04-15 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 25 | Robert Altman | 1990-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 1 | George Michael | 1990-09-02 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 2 | Peter Ackroyd on Dickens | 1990-09-09 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 3 | Spike Lee | 1990-09-23 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 4 | Salman Rushdie | 1990-09-30 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 5 | Roy Lichtenstein | 1990-10-07 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 6 | Ken Russell on Anton Bruckner | 1990-10-14 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 7 | Clear Cool Crystal Streams (Irish rock music) | 1990-10-21 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 8 | John Updike | 1990-10-28 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 9 | East German Writers | 1990-11-04 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 10 | Alan Parker | 1990-11-25 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 11 | Cameron Mackintosh | 1990-12-02 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 12 | Spitting Image | 1990-12-09 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 13 | The Talis Scholars | 1990-12-30 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 14 | Stan Laurel | 1991-01-06 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 15 | August Wilson | 1991-01-13 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 16 | Oscar Marzaroli | 1991-01-20 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 17 | Anne-Sophie Mutter | 1991-01-27 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 18 | Bonfire of the Vanities (1991 film) | 1991-02-03 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 19 | Willard White | 1991-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 20 | The Five Blind Boys of Alabama / R.S. Thomas | 1991-02-17 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 21 | Steve Martin | 1991-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 22 | Rudolph Nureyev | 1991-03-03 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 23 | Kiri Te Kanawa | 1991-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 1 | Private Eye | 1991-09-15 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 2 | David Lodge | 1991-09-29 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 3 | Terry Gilliam | 1991-10-06 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 4 | Neil Simon | 1991-10-13 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 5 | Heinrich Schiff | 1991-10-20 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 6 | Seamus Heaney | 1991-10-27 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 7 | John Osborne | 1991-11-03 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 8 | Dame Britain (Vera Lynn) | 1991-11-10 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 9 | Arthur Miller | 1991-11-17 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 10 | Jose Carreras, a Life Story | 1991-11-24 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 11 | Dame Kiri Te Kanawa | 1991-12-22 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 12 | Arts Review '91 | 1991-12-29 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 13 | Douglas Adams | 1992-01-05 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 14 | Lenny Henry Hunts the Funk | 1992-01-12 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 15 | Hakan Hardenberger | 1992-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 16 | Cecilia Bartoli | 1992-01-26 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 17 | Les Murray | 1992-02-02 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 18 | Colin Thubron | 1992-02-09 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 19 | Pet Shop Boys | 1992-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 20 | Paula Rego | 1992-02-23 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 21 | Noel Coward | 1992-03-01 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 22 | Anthony Hopkins | 1992-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 23 | Terence Davis | 1992-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 24 | Making Naked Lunch | 1992-04-12 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 25 | The Making of Sgt. Pepper | 1992-06-14 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 1 | Billy Connolly | 1992-10-04 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 2 | Alice Walker | 1992-10-11 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 3 | Peter O'Toole | 1992-10-18 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 4 | Two Royal Ballet Dancers (Darcey Bussell, Viviana Durante) | 1992-10-25 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 5 | Robert Zemeckis | 1992-11-01 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 6 | George Formby | 1992-11-08 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 7 | Sir Richard Attenborough | 1992-11-15 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 8 | The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax | 1992-12-06 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 9 | The World of Jeff Koons | 1992-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 10 | Jimi Hendrix | 1992-12-20 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 11 | Dracula | 1993-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 12 | Monserrat Caballe | 1993-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 13 | Annie Leibowitz | 1993-02-07 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 14 | Guggenheim Museum | 1993-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 15 | Dmitri and Sasha Sitkovetsky | 1993-02-21 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 16 | Jean Genet | 1993-02-28 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 17 | I, Berlioz | 1993-03-07 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 18 | Richard Price | 1993-03-14 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 19 | John Banville | 1993-03-21 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 20 | Henryk Gorecki's 3rd Symphony | 1993-04-04 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 21 | Dudley Moore | 1993-06-13 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 22 | Frink, 1930-1993 (Dame Elisabeth Frink) | 1993-06-20 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 23 | Benny Goodman, the King of Swing | 1993-07-04 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 24 | Paul Simon | 1993-08-15 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 25 | Norman Wisdom | 1993-08-22 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 1 | Sydney Pollack | 1993-09-12 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 2 | Willy Russell | 1993-09-19 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 3 | Ken Loach | 1993-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 4 | Margaret Atwood | 1993-10-10 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 5 | John Lee Hooker | 1993-10-17 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 6 | Stevie Wonder | 1993-10-24 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 7 | Sylvie Guillem | 1993-10-31 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 8 | Tim Rice | 1993-11-07 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 9 | Lynda La Plante | 1993-11-14 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 10 | John Williams | 1993-11-21 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 11 | John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (1) | 1993-11-28 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 12 | John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (2) | 1993-12-05 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 13 | Cliff Richard | 1993-12-24 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 14 | Woody Allen | 1994-01-16 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 15 | Bheki Mseleku | 1994-01-23 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 16 | Darker Than Me | 1994-02-06 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 17 | Jean-Claude Carriere | 1994-02-13 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 18 | Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool | 1994-02-20 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 19 | Looking for the Perfect Beat: Rap | 1994-02-27 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 20 | Larry Adler Plays Gershwin | 1994-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 21 | Kiri's 50th Birthday Concert | 1994-03-13 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 22 | Clive Barker | 1994-04-10 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 23 | Dawn French | 1994-04-17 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 24 | Christian Boltanski | 1994-05-15 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 25 | Eric Newby | 1994-05-22 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 26 | John Steinbeck | 1994-05-29 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 1 | Kenneth Williams | 1994-09-18 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 2 | Marilyn Horne | 1994-09-25 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 3 | New Generation Poets | 1994-10-02 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 4 | Vanessa Redgrave | 1994-10-09 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 5 | David Mamet | 1994-10-16 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 6 | The Shearing Touch (George Shearing) | 1994-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 7 | Alan Ayckbourn | 1994-10-30 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 8 | Frankenstein | 1994-11-06 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 9 | Thora Hird | 1994-11-13 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 10 | The Glory of Gershwin | 1994-11-20 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 11 | P.J. O'Rourke | 1994-11-27 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 12 | Carl Orff | 1995-01-29 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 13 | Classic Widows | 1995-02-05 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 14 | Jonathan Miller | 1995-02-12 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 15 | Flags of the Fante Coast | 1995-02-19 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 16 | Catherine Bailey, the Lady is a Tramp / Roger Ballen | 1995-02-26 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 17 | Edward Albee | 1995-03-05 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 18 | Jodie Foster | 1995-03-12 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 19 | Martin Amis | 1995-03-19 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 20 | Country Music | 1995-04-02 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 21 | Miriam Makeba | 1995-04-09 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 22 | Nora Ephron | 1995-06-25 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 1 | Clint Eastwood | 1995-09-10 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 2 | Ackroyd's Blake | 1995-09-17 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 3 | Tom Sharpe | 1995-09-24 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 4 | K.D. Lang | 1995-10-01 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 5 | Pavarotti at 60 | 1995-10-08 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 6 | Jimmy Nail | 1995-10-15 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 7 | Dame Judi Dench | 1995-10-29 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 8 | Coronation Street | 1995-11-05 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 9 | Dame Barbara Cartland | 1995-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 10 | Jonathan Raban: Badlands / Wynton Marsalis | 1995-11-19 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 11 | Elaine Page Special | 1996-04-07 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 12 | Sting | 1996-04-14 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 13 | Albert Finney | 1996-04-28 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 14 | Marlene Dietrich | 1996-05-05 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 15 | John Eliot Gardiner | 1996-05-12 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 16 | Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence | 1996-05-19 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 17 | Claes Oldenburg | 1996-05-26 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 18 | Baaba Maal | 1996-06-02 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 19 | Maxine Peake / Wynton Marsalis in New Orleans | 1996-07-21 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 20 | Alan Ayckbourn Workshop | 1996-07-28 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 1 | Victoria Wood | 1996-09-15 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 2 | Sir John Mills | 1996-09-22 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 3 | Michael Crawford | 1996-09-29 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 4 | Norman Mailer on Picasso | 1996-10-06 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 5 | Chanson | 1996-10-13 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 6 | Michael Collins | 1996-10-27 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 7 | Bryn Terfel | 1996-11-03 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 8 | Howard Hodgkin | 1996-11-10 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 9 | Jimmy McGovern | 1996-11-17 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 10 | Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid | 1997-01-05 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 11 | Maggi Hambling | 1997-01-12 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 12 | John Galliano | 1997-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 13 | The US and Us (1) | 1997-01-26 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 14 | The US and Us (2) | 1997-02-02 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 15 | Gilbert and George (1) | 1997-02-09 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 16 | Gilbert and George (2) | 1997-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 17 | Valery Gergiev | 1997-02-23 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 18 | Paganini | 1997-05-04 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 19 | David Helfgott | 1997-06-22 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 20 | Paul Auster | 1997-07-06 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 21 | Young Directors (Preya Lal, Alexander Kelly, Franca Cereghini, Chris Dooks) | 1997-07-20 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 1 | Scarfe on Hercules | 1997-10-05 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 2 | Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance | 1997-10-26 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 3 | Kay Mellor | 1997-11-02 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 4 | Björk | 1997-11-09 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 5 | Iain Banks | 1997-11-16 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 6 | Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures | 1997-11-23 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 7 | Steven Bochco | 1997-11-30 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 8 | Simon Raven | 1997-12-14 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 9 | Franco Zeffirelli | 1997-12-21 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 10 | Saul Zaentz | 1998-01-11 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 11 | Gillian Wearing / Gary Hume | 1998-01-18 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 12 | Marks and Gran | 1998-02-01 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 13 | Hail Bop: a Portrait of John Adams | 1998-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 14 | Nigel Kennedy | 1998-02-15 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 15 | Gary Oldman | 1998-03-15 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 16 | Body Art | 1998-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 17 | John Tavener | 1998-04-12 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 18 | The Bee Gees | 1998-06-07 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 19 | Will Self | 1998-07-05 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 20 | Afro-Cuban Allstars | 1998-07-19 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 21 | This is Not an Exit: the Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis | 1998-08-23 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 22 | Wayne Sleep | 1998-08-30 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 1 | Ossie Clarke (1) | 1998-11-08 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 2 | Ossie Clarke (2) | 1998-11-15 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 3 | Lesley Garrett | 1998-11-22 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 4 | Harold Pinter | 1998-11-29 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 5 | Maxine Peake/Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo | 1998-12-06 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 6 | Walter Mosley | 1998-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 7 | Petula Clark | 1998-12-20 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 8 | Warren Beatty | 1998-12-30 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 9 | John Tomlinson | 1999-01-10 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 10 | Javier du Frutos | 1999-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 11 | UB40 | 1999-02-07 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 12 | Anish Kapoor | 1999-02-21 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 13 | New South African Artists | 1999-02-28 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 14 | Lucy Gannon | 1999-03-14 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 15 | Tony Harrison | 1999-03-28 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 16 | Dolly Parton | 1999-04-04 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 1 | Paul Merton | 1999-09-26 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 2 | Frank McCourt | 1999-10-03 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 3 | Howard Jacobson | 1999-10-10 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 4 | Jose Cura | 1999-10-17 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 5 | James Galway | 1999-10-24 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 6 | The Lion King (stage play based on the film) | 1999-10-31 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 7 | Joan Collins | 1999-11-14 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 8 | Blur | 1999-11-21 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 9 | Yoko Ono | 1999-12-05 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 10 | Cher | 1999-12-12 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 11 | Countertenors | 1999-12-19 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 12 | Bing Crosby | 1999-12-26 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 13 | Shakespeare | 2000-01-23 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 14 | Millennium Dome | 2000-02-06 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 15 | Sam Mendes | 2000-02-13 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 16 | Michael Douglas | 2000-02-20 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 17 | Chuck Close | 2000-03-05 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 18 | Emir Kusturica | 2000-03-12 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 19 | Amis on Amis | 2000-06-18 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 20 | Composing Classical Music (1) | 2000-06-25 | 60 min |
| Season 23 | Episode 21 | Simon Holt's Sunrise, Yellow Noise (2) | 2000-07-02 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 1 | Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton | 2000-10-01 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 2 | Santana | 2000-10-08 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 3 | Joyce (Carol Oates) on Marilyn Monroe | 2000-10-15 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 4 | Carmen | 2000-10-22 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 5 | Mark Morris Dance Group | 2000-10-29 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 6 | George MacDonald Fraser | 2000-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 7 | Courtney Pine | 2000-11-19 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 8 | Ron Howard | 2000-11-26 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 9 | Dame Gillian Weir | 2000-12-03 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 10 | Marlene Dumas and Jemima Stehli | 2000-12-10 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 11 | Mark Quinn | 2000-12-17 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 12 | Tom Jones | 2000-12-24 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 13 | Ken Russell | 2001-02-11 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 14 | Shirin Neshat | 2001-02-18 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 15 | Russell Watson | 2001-02-25 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 16 | Amos Oz | 2001-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 17 | Greta Garbo | 2001-03-11 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 18 | Elvis Costello with Annie Sofie von Otter | 2001-03-18 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 19 | Bill Bryson | 2001-03-25 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 20 | Ian Rankin | 2001-07-01 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 21 | Ian Bostridge | 2001-07-08 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 22 | Edmund White | 2001-07-22 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 23 | Steve Coogan | 2001-08-05 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 24 | Ravi Shankar | 2001-08-12 | 60 min |
| Season 24 | Episode 25 | Tracey Emin | 2001-08-19 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 1 | High and Low Culture in the Age of Television | 2001-10-07 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 2 | Highlights | 2001-10-14 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 3 | Rachel Whiteread | 2001-10-28 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 4 | Norman Foster | 2001-11-11 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 5 | Dr. John | 2001-11-18 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 6 | Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings | 2001-12-16 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 7 | Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming | 2002-02-03 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 8 | The Sopranos | 2002-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 9 | Leif Ove Andsnes | 2002-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 10 | Why the Novel Matters | 2002-03-17 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 11 | Meera Syal | 2002-03-24 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 12 | Johnnie Ray | 2002-03-31 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 13 | Mario Vargas Llosa | 2002-04-21 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 14 | Fay Weldon | 2002-05-05 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 15 | R.E.M. | 2002-05-12 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 16 | Neil LaBute | 2002-06-23 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 17 | Cinema of Fire (Iranian cinema) | 2002-06-30 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 18 | Moby | 2002-07-07 | 60 min |
| Season 25 | Episode 19 | Bernie Taupin | 2002-08-04 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 1 | Mike Leigh | 2002-10-13 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 2 | Akram Khan | 2002-10-20 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 3 | Graham Vick: Beethoven in the Big Top | 2002-10-27 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 4 | Craig David | 2002-11-10 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 5 | Andrew Davies | 2002-11-17 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 6 | Joan Rivers | 2002-11-24 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 7 | James MacMillan | 2003-01-05 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 8 | Willie Nelson | 2003-01-12 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 9 | Irek Mukhamedov | 2003-01-19 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 10 | Gerhard Richter | 2003-02-02 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 11 | Hanif Kureishi | 2003-02-09 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 12 | How to Get Rich: Felix Dennis | 2003-02-16 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 13 | Philip Pullman | 2003-03-09 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 14 | Caryl Phillips | 2003-04-13 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 15 | Conor McPherson | 2003-05-18 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 16 | Herbie Hancock | 2003-06-29 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 17 | Caetano Veloso | 2003-07-06 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 18 | Ang Lee | 2003-07-13 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 19 | The Real George Orwell | 2003-07-27 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 20 | Juan Diego Florez | 2003-08-03 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 21 | Nick Cave | 2003-08-10 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 22 | Albert Camus | 2003-08-31 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 23 | Robert Harris Takes on Rome | 2003-09-07 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 24 | Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Full Picture | 2003-09-14 | 60 min |
| Season 26 | Episode 25 | Ewan McGregor | 2003-09-21 | 60 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 1 | Germaine Greer | 2003-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 2 | Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra | 2003-12-07 | 60 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 3 | TV Stories (1) | 2004-02-01 | 60 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 4 | TV Stories (2) | 2004-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 5 | Jamie Cullum | 2004-02-22 | 60 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 6 | The Wilson Twins | 2004-03-07 | 60 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 7 | John Lennon's Jukebox | 2004-03-14 | 60 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 8 | Jack Vettriano | 2004-03-21 | 60 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 9 | The Dance Theatre of Harlem | 2004-04-04 | 60 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 10 | Jeanette Winterson | 2004-05-02 | 60 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 11 | Johnny Hallyday | 2004-05-09 | 60 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 12 | Othello | 2004-05-16 | 60 min |
| Season 27 | Episode 13 | Ian McKellen | 2004-06-27 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 1 | Street Music Stories | 2004-08-22 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 2 | Ronnie Wood | 2004-09-05 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 3 | Willie Nelson | 2004-09-19 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 4 | Malcolm Arnold (1) | 2004-09-26 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 5 | Malcolm Arnold (2) | 2004-10-03 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 6 | Robert Frank | 2004-10-17 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 7 | Michael Frayn | 2004-11-14 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 8 | The Darkness | 2004-11-21 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 9 | Iggy Pop | 2004-12-05 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 10 | Ruth Rendell | 2004-12-12 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 11 | Howard Goodall | 2004-12-19 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 12 | Pete 'n' Dud, The Lost Shows | 2005-01-02 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 13 | Ian McEwan | 2005-02-20 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 14 | Going Sane | 2005-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 15 | Khaled and Rachid | 2005-03-13 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 16 | Alina Cojocaru & Johan Kobborg | 2005-03-27 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 17 | The Garden of Cosmic Speculation | 2005-04-03 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 18 | John Boorman | 2005-04-10 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 19 | Red Priest | 2005-04-24 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 20 | National Theatre's production of Henry IV | 2005-05-01 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 21 | The Secret Art of War | 2005-05-08 | 60 min |
| Season 28 | Episode 22 | Paul Abbott | 2005-05-15 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 1 | Margot Fonteyn (1) | 2005-08-07 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 2 | Margot Fonteyn (2) | 2005-08-14 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 3 | Sophie Calle | 2005-08-21 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 4 | Karl Jenkins | 2005-09-11 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 5 | Eric Sykes | 2005-09-18 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 6 | Maxim Vengerov | 2005-10-02 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 7 | Alan Bennett | 2005-10-09 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 8 | Pablo Trapero, Lucrecia Martel, Daniel Burman | 2005-10-16 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 9 | The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy (film) | 2005-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 10 | Peter Hall (1) | 2005-10-30 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 11 | Peter Hall (2) | 2005-11-06 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 12 | Little Britain: A South Bank Show Special | 2005-12-25 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 13 | Armando Iannucci | 2006-02-12 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 14 | Manga Mania | 2006-02-19 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 15 | John Rutter | 2006-03-12 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 16 | PD James | 2006-03-26 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 17 | Dusty Springfield | 2006-04-09 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 18 | Seu Jorge | 2006-06-04 | 60 min |
| Season 29 | Episode 19 | Romeo and Juliet | 2006-06-11 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 1 | Bill Bryson | 2006-09-10 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 2 | JG Ballard | 2006-09-17 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 3 | Robbie Coltrane | 2006-09-24 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 4 | Episode 4 | 2006-10-01 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 5 | Spamalot | 2006-10-15 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 6 | Claire Tomalin on Thomas Hardy | 2006-10-22 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 7 | Sue Townsend | 2006-10-29 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 8 | Lorenzo Da Ponte | 2006-11-05 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 9 | Peter Blake | 2006-11-19 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 10 | Nick Park and Aardman Animations | 2006-11-26 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 11 | Steve Reich | 2006-12-10 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 12 | Grayson Perry | 2006-12-17 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 13 | Damien Hirst - Addicted to Art | 2007-01-07 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 14 | Mark Wallinger | 2007-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 15 | Victoria Wood: A South Bank Show Special | 2007-03-11 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 16 | Isabel Allende | 2007-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 17 | Shane Meadows | 2007-04-29 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 18 | Jarvis Cocker: Running the World | 2007-06-10 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 19 | Martin Sheen on Playing It Real | 2007-06-17 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 20 | Marianne Faithfull: A Life in Song | 2007-06-24 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 21 | Zaha Hadid | 2007-07-01 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 22 | MacBeth | 2007-07-08 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 23 | Ian McMillan, Bard of Barnsley | 2007-07-15 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 24 | Emma Kirkby, The Unsung Heroine | 2007-07-22 | 60 min |
| Season 30 | Episode 25 | June Whitfield | 2007-07-29 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 1 | Michael Sheen on Playing It Real | 2007-09-02 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 2 | Joan Dision | 2007-09-23 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 3 | Ken Follett | 2007-09-30 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 4 | The Mersey Sound | 2007-10-07 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 5 | The Last Laugh: John Bird and John Fortune | 2007-10-14 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 6 | Annie Lennox | 2007-11-25 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 7 | Eric Clapton | 2007-12-02 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 8 | The Making of Viva La Diva | 2007-12-09 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 9 | The Nutcracker Story | 2007-12-26 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 10 | Kevin Spacey at The Old Vic | 2008-01-06 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 11 | Lang Lang | 2008-02-10 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 12 | David McVicar | 2008-03-09 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 13 | Revolution 68 | 2008-03-16 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 14 | Liza Minnelli | 2008-05-04 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 15 | The Damned United | 2008-05-11 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 16 | Gore Vidal | 2008-05-18 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 17 | Sarah Waters | 2008-06-08 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 18 | Tasmin Little | 2008-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 31 | Episode 19 | Billy Joel | 2008-07-13 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 1 | The Streets | 2008-09-21 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 2 | The One Ronnie | 2008-10-05 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 3 | Bond | 2008-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 4 | Cildo Meireles | 2008-10-26 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 5 | Sam Taylor-Wood | 2008-11-16 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 6 | The Mariinsky Theatre | 2008-12-07 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 7 | The South Bank Show Awards | 2009-01-28 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 8 | Beyond the Footlights | 2009-02-01 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 9 | The Tempest | 2009-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 10 | Will Young | 2009-03-15 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 11 | Messiah | 2009-04-12 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 12 | William Goldman | 2009-04-26 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 13 | Out of Nigeria (1) | 2009-05-10 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 14 | Out of Nigeria (2) | 2009-05-17 | 60 min |
| Season 32 | Episode 15 | Peter Kosminsky | 2009-05-24 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 1 | The Wagner Family | 2009-09-13 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 2 | Coldplay | 2009-09-20 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 3 | Andy Warhol | 2009-10-04 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 4 | Disney.Pixar | 2009-10-11 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 5 | Lee Hall | 2009-10-18 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 6 | Nick Hornby | 2009-10-25 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 7 | Elbow | 2009-11-15 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 8 | Carol Ann Duffy | 2009-12-06 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 9 | Wayne McGregor | 2009-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 10 | The Royal Shakespeare Company | 2009-12-28 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 11 | South Bank Show Awards 2009 | 2010-01-31 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 12 | Andrew Lloyd Webber Revisited | 2010-03-28 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 13 | Billy Connolly Revisited | 2010-04-04 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 14 | Ian McEwan Revisited | 2010-04-11 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 15 | Ian McKellen Revisited | 2010-04-18 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 16 | Stephen Sondheim Revisited | 2010-04-25 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 17 | David Hockney Revisited | 2010-05-02 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 18 | Judi Dench Revisited | 2010-05-09 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 19 | Kiri Te Kanawa Revisited | 2010-05-16 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 20 | Victoria Wood Revisited | 2010-05-23 | 60 min |
| Season 33 | Episode 21 | The Final Cut | 2010-05-30 | 60 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 1 | Nicholas Hytner | 2012-05-28 | 60 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 2 | Pat Barker | 2012-06-04 | 60 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 3 | Trevor Nelson and Dizzee Rascal | 2012-06-11 | 60 min |
| Season 34 | Episode 4 | Carlos Acosta, Edward Watson and Tamara Rojo | 2012-06-18 | 60 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 1 | Tim Minchin | 2013-04-18 | 60 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 2 | David Hare | 2013-04-25 | 60 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 3 | Alison Balsom | 2013-05-02 | 60 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 4 | Tamara Rojo | 2013-05-09 | 60 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 5 | Alfie Boe | 2013-05-16 | 60 min |
| Season 35 | Episode 6 | Britart: Painting Is Back | 2013-05-23 | 60 min |
| Season 36 | Episode 1 | John Lloyd | 2014-05-22 | 60 min |
| Season 36 | Episode 2 | Kate Atkinson | 2014-05-29 | 60 min |
| Season 36 | Episode 3 | Abi Morgan | 2014-06-05 | 60 min |
| Season 36 | Episode 4 | An Anatomy of King Lear | 2014-06-12 | 60 min |
| Season 36 | Episode 5 | Angel Blue | 2014-06-19 | 60 min |
| Season 36 | Episode 6 | Daniel Radcllffe | 2014-06-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 1 | George RR Martin | 2015-06-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 2 | Paul Greengrass | 2015-06-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 3 | Margaret Drabble | 2015-06-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 4 | Laura Mvula | 2015-07-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 5 | Joseph Calleja | 2015-07-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 6 | Mark Rylance | 2015-07-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 1 | Amma Asante | 2017-07-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 2 | Karl Ove Knausgård | 2017-07-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 3 | Sally Wainwright | 2017-08-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 4 | Benjamin Clementine | 2017-08-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 5 | Jude Law, Ivo van Hove | 2017-08-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 6 | Yinka Shonibare MBE | 2017-08-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 1 | Tracey Ullman | 2018-11-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 2 | Beverley Knight | 2018-11-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 3 | Danielle de Niese | 2018-11-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 4 | Sonia Friedman | 2018-11-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 5 | Gail Rebuck | 2018-12-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 6 | Andria Zafirakou | 2018-12-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 1 | Jed Mercurio | 2019-05-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 2 | Jack Thorne | 2019-07-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 3 | Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith | 2019-07-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 4 | Heidi Thomas | 2019-08-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 1 | Gillian Anderson | 2020-11-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 2 | Bernardine Evaristo | 2020-11-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 3 | Benjamin Zephaniah | 2020-12-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 4 | Simon Armitage | 2020-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 1 | Arlo Parks & Samuel Bailey | 2021-06-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 2 | The Pin, Marina Kemp & Nick Rowland | 2021-07-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 3 | Noah Jupe, Mishka Rushdie Momen & Alex Woolf | 2021-07-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 4 | Arielle Smith & Alberta Whittle | 2021-07-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 5 | The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2021 | 2021-07-22 | 120 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 1 | The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2022 | 2022-07-13 | 120 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 2 | Frank Skinner | 2022-07-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 3 | Helen Mirren | 2022-07-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 4 | Carlos Acosta | 2022-08-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 1 | The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2023 | 2023-07-05 | 120 min |