The South Bank Show · SEASON 11
The Smiths
Episode 3 · 1987-10-18

- Documentary
- Talk
Episode overview
This documentary on The Smiths was filmed just days before the band went their separate ways in 1987. Contains interviews of Morrissey, Marr, Joyce and Rourke, as well as Linder, Shaun Duggan, Jo O'Keefe, John Peel, Nick Kent, Sandie Shaw and Viv Nicholson.
60 minutes
Season 11 episodes
1. Maria Callas1987-10-04
2. Toni Morrison1987-10-11
3. The Smiths1987-10-18
4. Andy Warhol1987-10-25
5. Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega1987-11-01
6. Sir Terence Conran1987-11-08
7. Gore Vidal1987-11-15
8. African music / Russian theatre1987-11-22
9. Sir George Solti1987-11-29
10. Eric Clapton1987-12-06
11. Arts Review '871987-12-20
12. The Last Emperor (1988 film)1988-01-17
13. Australian Aboriginies1988-01-24
14. Boogie Woogie Music1988-01-31
15. The Golden Age of Television1988-02-14
16. George Barker1988-02-21
17. Jackson Pollack1988-02-28
18. Lenny Henry1988-03-06
19. Peter Dickinson1988-03-13
20. A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China1988-03-20
21. Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans1988-03-27
22. Ken Russell's ABC of British Music1988-04-02
24. Doris Lessing1988-04-17
25. Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production1988-04-24