Yinka Shonibare

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

Get up close to artists, writers, actors, comedians and poets – and discover both what fires their imaginations and the forces that have shaped their extraordinary lives.

Interviewees discuss the memories, tastes and experiences that they associate with Africa for a personal vision of the continent.

Un Ballo in Maschera (2004) by Yinka Shonibare reframes the story from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera of the same title.

Two dancers mirroring each other.

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

Get up close to artists, writers, actors, comedians and poets – and discover both what fires their imaginations and the forces that have shaped their extraordinary lives.

Un Ballo in Maschera (2004) by Yinka Shonibare reframes the story from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera of the same title.

Two dancers mirroring each other.