The South Bank Show
Season 8 Episode 25 - Francis Bacon
5.6 ?
1978
Documentary, Talk
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.
Episodes in Season 8
1
Alan Bennett
60 min
2
McCartney's Broad Street
60 min
3
The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)
60 min
4
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
60 min
5
Norman Nicholson
60 min
6
Joseph Heller
60 min
7
Mstislav Rostropovich
60 min
8
Max Wall
60 min
10
Alan Bleasdale
60 min
11
Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence
60 min
13
Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex
60 min
14
Marc Chagall
60 min
15
David Lean: a Life in Film
60 min
16
Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony
60 min
17
Little Richard
60 min
18
George Malcolm on Scarlatti
60 min
19
Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company
60 min
20
Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg
60 min
21
David Mamet
60 min
22
Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith
60 min
23
The Cotton Club (night club)
60 min
24
Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)
60 min
25
Francis Bacon
60 min
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George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century
60 min
