The South Bank Show Gore Vidal.

The South Bank Show Gore Vidal. [videorecording] : - [U.K.] : ITV 1, 2008. - 1 videodisc (DVD) (60 mins.) : sd, col. ; 12 cm. - The South Bank show; .

Transmitted on ITV1, 18 May 2008.

Directed and produced by David Thomas; presented by Melvyn Bragg. Directed and produced by David Thomas; presented by Melvyn Bragg.

Gore Vidal is the last survivor of the great post-war generation of American novelists that included Norman Mailer, Joseph Heller and Saul Bellow. At 82, Vidal is still a fine essayist on socio-political, sexual, historical and literary themes - a true literary radical and polymath.


Vidal, Gore, 1925-