The South Bank Show

Paul McCartney/surrealist exhibition

Paganini Superstar

Roy Minton

David Hockney

Dennis Potter

John Peel/Jane Glover

Arabian Days (Edna O'Brien)/Quentin Crisp

Jacques Loussier

Ken Dodd

Georges Simenon

Horowitz at the White House

Carl Perkins/Morgan horses

Carry On with Paul Morissey (Carry On ... films)

Search for Shaw

Harold Pinter

Satyajit Ray/John Williams/Ralph McTell

Portrait of a Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan

Freddie Young

Frank Auerbach

Mayerling Ballet

John Osborne on Wardle's book on Devine/Pearl (radio play)

Ingmar Bergman at 60

Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (1)

Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (2)

Tom Stoppard

Grace Under Pressure (Anthony Burgess on Hemingway)

Woody Allen

Anatomy of an Opera: Jonathan Miller's Figaro

Rhythm of Resistance (South African music)

Harmony of the Spheres (Neil Ardley)

Circus Clowns/Schubert recital by Richter

Royal Shakespeare Company on tour

Brimstone & Treacle (Dennis Potter) / John McLaughlin, a Musical Journey

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Edward Gorey / Gunter Grass

Michael Cimino / Alan Bennett, Stephen Frears

Gordon Williams, Alan Sharp, Eddie Boyd

Derek Boshier / Ingrid Bergman, Ingmar Bergman

Neil Simon

Beryl Cook / Cloud Nine rehearsals

Graham Sutherland

Darryl Way / Howard Brenton

The Europeans (film) / Joseph Heller

Asian Arts festival

Billy Connolly

Jessye Norman

Rough Trade (record label) / Allen Jones

Scum (film) / Keith Jarrett

Michael Tippett (90 min.)

Francis Ford Coppola

Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (1)

Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (2)

Talking Heads

Love and the Ice-Cream Vendor

Fay Weldon / Richard Hogart on Northern Ireland in drama

Merce Cunningham

Elegies for the Deaths of Three Spanish Poets

A Time There was ... (Benjamin Britten)

The Greene Adaptations (Graham Greene films)

Salsa (Puerto Rican music)

The Worlds of Edward Bond

Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli / Kinglsey Amis

new British rock films / The Tin Drum (film)

Roman Polanski

Tom Wolfe

Andrew Wyeth

Angus Wilson

Jane Austen (film)

Arthur Miller

William Golding

Akira Kurosawa

Stravinsky's The Firebird

No Need to Lie

The Passion (National Theatre's updating of medieval plays)

Toni Morrison

The Trespasser (film)

Don Juan in Hell

poetry workshop

Martin Scorsese

Elizabeth Taylor / John Hubbard

Bob Fosse

Robert Redford / Martin Amis

Verity Bargate / Howard Hodgkin

At the Haunted End of the Day: the Life of Sir William Walton

Gore Vidal

The Roots of the Tree (Ermanno Olmi)

Colin Welland

Christopher Logue / Phillip King

Lulu's Last Act (Berg Opera)

Dame Ninette De Valois / David Hockney on Picasso

Clive James / Craig Raine

Soviet Art

Rhythm and Blues (The Blues Band, Dr. Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, Paul Jones)

Music for a City: Venice

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Elvis Costello

Old Glory: the Journey and the Book

Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan

Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield

A Talent to Vex: John Osborne

Mama Lu Parks

Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day

Milos Forman

Germaine Greer

Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH

Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller

Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson

Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)

Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash

Peter Maxwell-Davies

Saul Bellow

Indian wallpainting

Stravinski (1)

Stravinski (2)

Julian Lloyd-Webber

Miles Davis / Robert Nye

Caught in the Act (Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs)

Joseph Papp / James Galway

Werner Herzog

Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver)

Phillip Larkin

Laurence Olivier, a Life (1)

Laurence Olivier, a Life (2)

Peter Gabriel

Bruce Chatwin

Patricia Highsmith

Steven Spielberg

Gospel at Colonus

Simone De Beauvoir

Barry Flannigan / Seamus Heaney

David Hare

Agnes De Mille

Handel's Semele (by the Royal Opera House)

Sam Fuller

Local Hero (film)

R.K. Narayan

Ivo Pogorelich

John Le Carré

Choirs and Places Where They Sing

William Trevor

Gene Hackman

Keith Waterhouse

Robert Lowell / Benjamin Britten's Quartettino

Cowboy Art

Jiri Kylian

Producing Don Giovanni

Ken Russell's View of The Planets

Piper's Way

Yuri Lyubimov

Peter Brook

Jack Lemmon

Catherine Cookson

Lillian Gish/Glen Baxter

Alberto Moravia

Ian Hamilton Finlay/Lord Gowrie

Barry Tuckwell: Master of the Horn

Trevor Griffiths

Weather Report

Claudio Arrau

Kathy Acker

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Sir Ernst Gombrich

Michael Frayn

Ed McBain

David Bintley: New Ballet at Sadler's Wells

Stephen Sondheim

Elisabeth Vellacott / DeCocoa, Hot Chocolate

Adaptation of Ivy Compton Burnett's Elders and Betters

Kipling (One-man play with Alec McGowen)

Anthony Caro

Alan Bennett

McCartney's Broad Street

The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

Norman Nicholson

Joseph Heller

Mstislav Rostropovich

Max Wall

Malcolm McLaren

Alan Bleasdale

Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence

Electronic Music

Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex

Marc Chagall

David Lean: a Life in Film

Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony

Little Richard

George Malcolm on Scarlatti

Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company

David Mamet

Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg

Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith

The Cotton Club (night club)

Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)

Francis Bacon

George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century

Sir Alec Guinness

Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor

Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year

Theatre of Comedy workshop

Pete Townshend: After the Fire

Sir Stephen Spender

Marguerite Duras

Karole Armitage

Peter Shaffer

John Cleese

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Paul Schrader

Purcell's Dido and Aenaes

Patrick Heron

Blue Note Records

Michala Petri

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

Absolute Beginners (film)

Arthur Boyd

Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical

British Soap Operas

Hull Truck Theatre Company

Velvet Underground

Al Jolson

John Mortimer

Itzhak Perlman

Roald Dahl: Fe-Fi-Fo-fum

Michael Powell

Truman Capote

Fay Godwin

The Andrew Lloyd-Webber Story

Agatha Christie, How Did She Do It?

The Dream is Over (Christopher Bruce ballet on John Lennon)

Arts Review '86

Anthony Hopkins / David Hare

Philip Glass

Alvin Ailey Dance Theater

Anthony Green: RA, a Love Story

Birth of Frankenstein and Dracula

Thomas Allen

The Wooster Group

The London Underground in art

V.S. Naipaul

Barbara Dickson

Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Turner at the Tate

George V. Higgins

Peter York lecture

The Aida File: The Making of the Opera (1)

The Aida File: Aida Performance (2)

Maria Callas

Toni Morrison

The Smiths

Andy Warhol

Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega

Sir Terence Conran

Gore Vidal

African music / Russian theatre

Sir George Solti

Eric Clapton

Arts Review '87

The Last Emperor (1988 film)

Australian Aboriginies

Boogie Woogie Music

The Golden Age of Television

George Barker

Jackson Pollack

Lenny Henry

Peter Dickinson

A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China

Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans

Ken Russell's ABC of British Music

Paul Bowles

Doris Lessing

Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production

The Art of Walt Disney

Bernard Shaw

Under Milk Wood

Toulouse-Lautrec

David Puttnam

David Hockney

Two Women in Three Dimensions (Wendy Taylor, Nicola Hicks)

Bristol WWII Bombing Raids Reenactment

Raymond Chandler

Neil Jordan

John Houseman

David Bailey

Derek Walcott

Patrick Leigh Fermor

National Training Orchestra

Christopher Hampton

Istvan Szabo

Robert Redford

Tony Palmer on the Concerto

Ben Elton

John Burnett

Put Blood in the Music (New York avant garde music)

John Ogdon

Sir William Golding

Martin Amis

Dustin Hoffman, Sir Peter Hall

Jimi Hendrix

Tom Keneally in Eritrea

Ken Russell

Steven Berkoff

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Fitzrovia

Dame Edna Everage

Evelyn Glennie

Peter Brook

Arts Review '89

Boris Pasternak

Sir David Lean, Robert Bolt

Christopher Hogwood

Chinua Achebe

Hans Werner Henze

Jock Tamson's Bairns (Gerry Mulgrew, Liz Lochhead)

Yuri Bashmet

DV8 Physical Theatre

Mark Morris: the Hidden Soul of Harmony

Carl Davis, Temba

Vivienne Westwood

Hindemith

Robert Altman

George Michael

Peter Ackroyd on Dickens

Spike Lee

Salman Rushdie

Roy Lichtenstein

Ken Russell on Anton Bruckner

Clear Cool Crystal Streams (Irish rock music)

John Updike

East German Writers

Alan Parker

Cameron Mackintosh

Spitting Image

The Talis Scholars

Stan Laurel

August Wilson

Oscar Marzaroli

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Bonfire of the Vanities (1991 film)

Willard White

The Five Blind Boys of Alabama / R.S. Thomas

Steve Martin

Rudolph Nureyev

Kiri Te Kanawa

Private Eye

David Lodge

Terry Gilliam

Neil Simon

Heinrich Schiff

Seamus Heaney

John Osborne

Dame Britain (Vera Lynn)

Arthur Miller

Jose Carreras, a Life Story

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

Arts Review '91

Douglas Adams

Lenny Henry Hunts the Funk

Hakan Hardenberger

Cecilia Bartoli

Les Murray

Colin Thubron

Pet Shop Boys

Paula Rego

Noel Coward

Anthony Hopkins

Terence Davis

Making Naked Lunch

The Making of Sgt. Pepper

Billy Connolly

Alice Walker

Peter O'Toole

Two Royal Ballet Dancers (Darcey Bussell, Viviana Durante)

Robert Zemeckis

George Formby

Sir Richard Attenborough

The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax

The World of Jeff Koons

Jimi Hendrix

Dracula

Monserrat Caballe

Annie Leibowitz

Guggenheim Museum

Dmitri and Sasha Sitkovetsky

Jean Genet

I, Berlioz

Richard Price

John Banville

Henryk Gorecki's 3rd Symphony

Dudley Moore

Frink, 1930-1993 (Dame Elisabeth Frink)

Benny Goodman, the King of Swing

Paul Simon

Norman Wisdom

Sydney Pollack

Willy Russell

Ken Loach

Margaret Atwood

John Lee Hooker

Stevie Wonder

Sylvie Guillem

Tim Rice

Lynda La Plante

John Williams

John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (1)

John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (2)

Cliff Richard

Woody Allen

Bheki Mseleku

Darker Than Me

Jean-Claude Carriere

Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool

Looking for the Perfect Beat: Rap

Larry Adler Plays Gershwin

Kiri's 50th Birthday Concert

Clive Barker

Dawn French

Christian Boltanski

Eric Newby

John Steinbeck

Kenneth Williams

Marilyn Horne

New Generation Poets

Vanessa Redgrave

David Mamet

The Shearing Touch (George Shearing)

Alan Ayckbourn

Frankenstein

Thora Hird

The Glory of Gershwin

P.J. O'Rourke

Carl Orff

Classic Widows

Jonathan Miller

Flags of the Fante Coast

Catherine Bailey, the Lady is a Tramp / Roger Ballen

Edward Albee

Jodie Foster

Martin Amis

Country Music

Miriam Makeba

Nora Ephron

Clint Eastwood

Ackroyd's Blake

Tom Sharpe

K.D. Lang

Pavarotti at 60

Jimmy Nail

Dame Judi Dench

Coronation Street

Dame Barbara Cartland

Jonathan Raban: Badlands / Wynton Marsalis

Elaine Page Special

Sting

Albert Finney

Marlene Dietrich

John Eliot Gardiner

Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence

Claes Oldenburg

Baaba Maal

Maxine Peake / Wynton Marsalis in New Orleans

Alan Ayckbourn Workshop

Victoria Wood

Sir John Mills

Michael Crawford

Norman Mailer on Picasso

Chanson

Michael Collins

Bryn Terfel

Howard Hodgkin

Jimmy McGovern

Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid

Maggi Hambling

John Galliano

The US and Us (1)

The US and Us (2)

Gilbert and George (1)

Gilbert and George (2)

Valery Gergiev

Paganini

David Helfgott

Paul Auster

Young Directors (Preya Lal, Alexander Kelly, Franca Cereghini, Chris Dooks)

Scarfe on Hercules

Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance

Kay Mellor

Björk

Iain Banks

Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures

Steven Bochco

Simon Raven

Franco Zeffirelli

Saul Zaentz

Gillian Wearing / Gary Hume

Marks and Gran

Hail Bop: a Portrait of John Adams

Nigel Kennedy

Gary Oldman

Body Art

John Tavener

The Bee Gees

Will Self

Afro-Cuban Allstars

This is Not an Exit: the Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis

Wayne Sleep

Ossie Clarke (1)

Ossie Clarke (2)

Lesley Garrett

Harold Pinter

Maxine Peake/Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Walter Mosley

Petula Clark

Warren Beatty

John Tomlinson

Javier du Frutos

UB40

Anish Kapoor

New South African Artists

Lucy Gannon

Tony Harrison

Dolly Parton

Paul Merton

Frank McCourt

Howard Jacobson

Jose Cura

James Galway

The Lion King (stage play based on the film)

Joan Collins

Blur

Yoko Ono

Cher

Countertenors

Bing Crosby

Shakespeare

Millennium Dome

Sam Mendes

Michael Douglas

Chuck Close

Emir Kusturica

Amis on Amis

Composing Classical Music (1)

Simon Holt's Sunrise, Yellow Noise (2)

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton

Santana

Joyce (Carol Oates) on Marilyn Monroe

Carmen

Mark Morris Dance Group

George MacDonald Fraser

Courtney Pine

Ron Howard

Dame Gillian Weir

Marlene Dumas and Jemima Stehli

Mark Quinn

Tom Jones

Ken Russell

Shirin Neshat

Russell Watson

Amos Oz

Greta Garbo

Elvis Costello with Annie Sofie von Otter

Bill Bryson

Ian Rankin

Ian Bostridge

Edmund White

Steve Coogan

Ravi Shankar

Tracey Emin

High and Low Culture in the Age of Television

Highlights

Rachel Whiteread

Norman Foster

Dr. John

Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming

The Sopranos

Leif Ove Andsnes

Why the Novel Matters

Meera Syal

Johnnie Ray

Mario Vargas Llosa

Fay Weldon

R.E.M.

Neil LaBute

Cinema of Fire (Iranian cinema)

Moby

Bernie Taupin

Mike Leigh

Akram Khan

Graham Vick: Beethoven in the Big Top

Craig David

Andrew Davies

Joan Rivers

James MacMillan

Willie Nelson

Irek Mukhamedov

Gerhard Richter

Hanif Kureishi

How to Get Rich: Felix Dennis

Philip Pullman

Caryl Phillips

Conor McPherson

Herbie Hancock

Caetano Veloso

Ang Lee

The Real George Orwell

Juan Diego Florez

Nick Cave

Albert Camus

Robert Harris Takes on Rome

Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Full Picture

Ewan McGregor

Germaine Greer

Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

TV Stories (1)

TV Stories (2)

Jamie Cullum

The Wilson Twins

John Lennon's Jukebox

Jack Vettriano

The Dance Theatre of Harlem

Jeanette Winterson

Johnny Hallyday

Othello

Ian McKellen

Street Music Stories

Ronnie Wood

Willie Nelson

Malcolm Arnold (1)

Malcolm Arnold (2)

Robert Frank

Michael Frayn

The Darkness

Iggy Pop

Ruth Rendell

Howard Goodall

Pete 'n' Dud, The Lost Shows

Ian McEwan

Going Sane

Khaled and Rachid

Alina Cojocaru & Johan Kobborg

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation

John Boorman

Red Priest

National Theatre's production of Henry IV

The Secret Art of War

Paul Abbott

Margot Fonteyn (1)

Margot Fonteyn (2)

Sophie Calle

Karl Jenkins

Eric Sykes

Maxim Vengerov

Alan Bennett

Pablo Trapero, Lucrecia Martel, Daniel Burman

The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy (film)

Peter Hall (1)

Peter Hall (2)

Little Britain: A South Bank Show Special

Armando Iannucci

Manga Mania

John Rutter

PD James

Dusty Springfield

Seu Jorge

Romeo and Juliet

Bill Bryson

JG Ballard

Robbie Coltrane

Episode 4

Spamalot

Claire Tomalin on Thomas Hardy

Sue Townsend

Lorenzo Da Ponte

Peter Blake

Nick Park and Aardman Animations

Steve Reich

Grayson Perry

Damien Hirst - Addicted to Art

Mark Wallinger

Victoria Wood: A South Bank Show Special

Isabel Allende

Shane Meadows

Jarvis Cocker: Running the World

Martin Sheen on Playing It Real

Marianne Faithfull: A Life in Song

Zaha Hadid

MacBeth

Ian McMillan, Bard of Barnsley

Emma Kirkby, The Unsung Heroine

June Whitfield

Michael Sheen on Playing It Real

Joan Dision

Ken Follett

The Mersey Sound

The Last Laugh: John Bird and John Fortune

Annie Lennox

Eric Clapton

The Making of Viva La Diva

The Nutcracker Story

Kevin Spacey at The Old Vic

Lang Lang

David McVicar

Revolution 68

Liza Minnelli

The Damned United

Gore Vidal

Sarah Waters

Tasmin Little

Billy Joel

The Streets

The One Ronnie

Bond

Cildo Meireles

Sam Taylor-Wood

The Mariinsky Theatre

The South Bank Show Awards

Beyond the Footlights

The Tempest

Will Young

Messiah

William Goldman

Out of Nigeria (1)

Out of Nigeria (2)

Peter Kosminsky

The Wagner Family

Coldplay

Andy Warhol

Disney.Pixar

Lee Hall

Nick Hornby

Elbow

Carol Ann Duffy

Wayne McGregor

The Royal Shakespeare Company

South Bank Show Awards 2009

Andrew Lloyd Webber Revisited

Billy Connolly Revisited

Ian McEwan Revisited

Ian McKellen Revisited

Stephen Sondheim Revisited

David Hockney Revisited

Judi Dench Revisited

Kiri Te Kanawa Revisited

Victoria Wood Revisited

The Final Cut

Nicholas Hytner

Pat Barker

Trevor Nelson and Dizzee Rascal

Carlos Acosta, Edward Watson and Tamara Rojo

Tim Minchin

David Hare

Alison Balsom

Tamara Rojo

Alfie Boe

Britart: Painting Is Back

John Lloyd

Kate Atkinson

Abi Morgan

An Anatomy of King Lear

Angel Blue

Daniel Radcllffe

George RR Martin

Paul Greengrass

Margaret Drabble

Laura Mvula

Joseph Calleja

Mark Rylance

Amma Asante

Melvyn Bragg meets award-winning writer and director Amma Asante on the set of her latest film, Where Hands Touch, to find out more about the inspirational filmmaker.

Karl Ove Knausgård

Melvyn Bragg meets award-winning Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård to discuss his life and work, including his six-volume Min Kamp series of autobiographical novels.

Sally Wainwright

Melvyn Bragg meets Sally Wainwright, one of the UK's most highly acclaimed TV writers who has won BAFTA awards for her dramas Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley.

Benjamin Clementine

Melvyn Bragg meets Benjamin Clementine to discuss his a rollercoaster ride from busking in Paris to becoming one of the greatest singer-songwriters of his generation.

Jude Law, Ivo van Hove

Melvyn Bragg talks to double Oscar nominee Jude Law and director Ivo van Hove as the highly anticipated production of Obsession comes to the Barbican.

Yinka Shonibare MBE

Melvyn Bragg meets British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE, whose eye-catching works include Nelson's Ship in a Bottle that was displayed on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth.

Tracey Ullman

Melvyn Bragg returns with a new series of The South Bank Show, meeting more leading lights of the arts world, starting with comedian Tracey Ullman.

Beverley Knight

Melvyn Bragg talks to Beverley Knight. Regarded as one of Britain's greatest soul singers, she was awarded an MBE in 2006 for services to music.

Danielle de Niese

Melvyn Bragg meets Danielle de Niese, the opera star who has won worldwide acclaim as a prolific recording artist, TV personality and philanthropist.

Sonia Friedman

Melvyn Bragg talks to Sonia Friedman, the renowned theatre producer responsible for some of the most successful productions in West End and on Broadway.

Gail Rebuck

Melvyn Bragg talks to Gail Rebuck. As one of the most influential figures in British publishing she was awarded a CBE in 2000 and made a Dame in 2009.

Andria Zafirakou

Melvyn Bragg talks to Andria Zafirakou, a teacher at Alperton Community School and the 2018 Global Teacher Prize winner, about why the arts matter.

Jed Mercurio

Melvyn Bragg sits down for an exclusive interview with the writer and creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty, Jed Mercurio.

Jack Thorne

Melvyn Bragg meets screenwriter Jack Thorne, looking at his work on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and going on the set of his adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith

Melvyn Bragg meets comedy writers and actors Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, talking about their work on The League of Gentlemen and going behind the scenes on an episode of Inside No 9.

Heidi Thomas

Melvyn Bragg meets Call the Midwife creator Heidi Thomas, chatting to her about her life and career, including her adaptations of Little Women and Ballet Shoes.

Gillian Anderson

The arts programme returns with Melvyn Bragg meeting actress Gillian Anderson at the Young Vic in London, where she discusses her career in film, TV and theare. She also performs an exclusive reading as Margaret Thatcher, who she plays in Netflix drama The Crown.

Bernardine Evaristo

Melvyn Bragg talks to author Bernardine Evaristo, the first black woman to win the Booker Prize, about her life, her work and her determination to succeed.

Benjamin Zephaniah

Melvyn Bragg speaks to performance poet Benjamin Zephaniah, who discusses his life and performs a selection of his most personal poems.

Simon Armitage

Arlo Parks & Samuel Bailey

The return of the long-running arts programme presented by Melvyn Bragg, with this run of the show focusing on the nominees for this year's Sky Arts South Bank Times Breakthrough Awards, as well as previous winners. beginning with Arlo Parks and Samuel Bailey.

The Pin, Marina Kemp & Nick Rowland

Melvyn Bragg presents profiles of comedy double-act the Pin, author Marina Kemp and film director Nick Rowland.

Noah Jupe, Mishka Rushdie Momen & Alex Woolf

Meeting Noah Jupe, Mishka Rushdie Momen and Alex Woolf - young and talented creatives nominated for the 2021 Sky Arts South Bank Times Breakthrough Awards.

Arielle Smith & Alberta Whittle

The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2021

The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2022

Melvyn Bragg hosts the 26th ceremony, honouring excellence in dance, theatre, pop, TV drama, film, classical music, literature, opera, comedy and visual art.

Frank Skinner

Comedian and writer Frank Skinner has become one of Britain's best-loved and most successful comedians since his debut on the comedy circuit in 1987. Frank talks to Melvyn about his working-class upbringing, his decision to embark on a career as a comedian at the relatively late age of 30, and the success of his TV presenting career including Fantasy Football League and The Frank Skinner Show. 

Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren is one of the best-known and most respected actresses in the world, with a career that spans over 30 years. In the first episode of the series, she joins Melvyn to discuss her diverse and prolific career across theatre, film, and television, exploring a range of work including her early days at the Royal Shakespeare Company to her extraordinary Oscar winning performance in The Queen. 

Carlos Acosta

Cuban ballet superstar Carlos Acosta has captivated audiences around the world throughout his 30-year career. Celebrated for his athleticism, phenomenal technique and magnetic stage presence, Carlos talks to Melvyn about his life and career, starting with his childhood in Cuba and his performance at the Prix De Lausanne international youth ballet competition which made him the youngest ever principal with the English National Ballet. 

The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2023

Melvyn Bragg hosts the 27th ceremony, honouring excellence in dance, theatre, pop, TV drama, film, classical music, literature, opera, comedy and visual art.