Sir Alec Guinness
Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames

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
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.
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

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.
Al Jolson