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The South Bank Show

Season 8 • Episode 24 • Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)

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The South Bank Show Season 8, Episode 24: Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)

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Episodes

24 episodes
1

Alan Bennett

60 min
2

McCartney's Broad Street

Behind the scenes look at the making of Paul McCartney's 1984 movie Give My Regards To 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
Max Wall
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

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.

60 min
26

George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century

60 min