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Archive Collection:
MS 1959

1978-2010

The South Bank Show Production Archive (SBSP, 1978-2010) is a nationally valuable audio-visual collection. First aired in 1978, the South Bank Show is a longstanding, popular British arts television s...

Archive Item:
MS 1959/1/20/1

1978

There are two short additional clips at the end of recording.

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MS 1959/4/15/1

1981

Full programme, with promo at the end of recording.

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MS 1959/5/13/1

1982

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MS 1959/6/26/1

1983

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MS 1959/7/7/1

1983

Promo at the end of recording.

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MS 1959/8/2/1

1984

Promo at end of recording.

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MS 1959/8/16/1

1985

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MS 1959/17/3/1

1993

Two promos at end of recording

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MS 1959/19/7/1

17/10/1995

Playing Lady Macbeth, playing Cleopatra opposite Anthony Hopkins in Antony and Cleopatra, reading through a scene from Twelfth night with John Barton and Richard Pasco, with Michael Williams in A Fine...

Archive Item:
MS 1959/21/19/1

27/05/1997

Polhemus talks about body modification, fashion, and western civilisation's alienation from the human body as artistic medium. Interview touches on religion, ritual, gender, identity, cryogenics, colo...

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MS 1959/21/20/1

1998

Discusses early life in Italy under Fascism, seeing Laurence Olivier in Henry V in 1945, relationship with England, Mary O'Neill and Florence's Scorpioni, Shakespeare, The Scots Guards, early career i...