The South Bank Show Season 31, Episode 6: Claire Tomalin on Thomas Hardy

Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson revisits the haunts of his childhood

60 min

JG Ballard

60 min

Robbie Coltrane

60 min

Episode 4

60 min

Spamalot

60 min

Sue Townsend

60 min

Lorenzo Da Ponte

60 min

Peter Blake

60 min

Nick Park and Aardman Animations

60 min

Steve Reich

60 min

Grayson Perry

60 min

Damien Hirst - Addicted To Art

60 min

Damien Hirst

This episode of The South Bank Show provides a unique insight into Damien Hirst not as the enfant terrible of an art world but as an art collector and businessman. Known for creating one of the most famous icons of modern art, a 14ft tiger shark suspended in formaldehyde, which shocked the public, he also produces decorative spot and spin paintings. His prolific output and entrepreneurialism have made him one of the world's most expensive living artists, with an estimated fortune of £100 million. One of Hirst's motivations for his growing art collection is Toddington, a dilapidated Gothic Manor house in Gloucestershire, which he purchased in 2005 for £3 million and will one day house his entire collection. Here, he shows Melvyn Bragg around Toddington, outlining his plans for its future. They discuss his art collection, his artistic heroes and the relationship between money and art.

60 min

Victoria Wood: A South Bank Show Special

60 min

Isabel Allende

60 min

Shane Meadows

60 min

Jarvis Cocker: Running The World

60 min

Martin Sheen On Playing It Real

60 min

Marianne Faithfull: A Life In Song

60 min

Zaha Hadid

60 min

MacBeth

60 min

Ian McMillan, Bard Of Barnsley

60 min

Emma Kirkby, The Unsung Heroine

60 min

June Whitfield

60 min

Michael Sheen On Playing It Real

60 min

Joan Dision

60 min

Ken Follett

60 min

The Mersey Sound

60 min

The Last Laugh: John Bird and John Fortune

60 min