Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Shakespeare double bill at Stratford
Titus Andronicus and Two Gentlemen of Verona make a Shakespeare double bill at Stratford
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Shakespeare at the Millennium – New Directions?
The challenges of directing Shakespeare for 21st-century audiences
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Shakespeare at the Millennium – In Translation
How do other cultures and languages interpret the plays of Shakespeare?
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Shakespeare at the Millennium – Contemporary Performance
How should Shakespeare's plays be performed in English for 21st-century audiences?
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Shakespeare – How do we like ours?
Can the Royal Shakespeare Company be trusted with the Bard?
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Shakespeare - Henry V
A discussion on the number of Shakespeare plays showing in smaller theatres
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Shadows and Fog
American director Woody Allen's film Shadows and Fog
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Sex in the cinema
An in-depth look at the portrayal of sex in the cinema
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Sean O'Casey's Gunman echoes down the years
The new resonance of Sean O' Casey's 1923 play The Shadow of a Gunman
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Sean O'Casey: A Life
Review of Sean O'Casey: A Life by biographer Garry O'Connor
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Seamus Heaney and Irish literature
The Irish poet talks about his collection, Electric Light
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Seamus Heaney
A programme on the Irish poet, critic, playwright and Nobel laureate, Seamus Heaney
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Sculpture you can touch
Sculpture for the Blind at the Tate Gallery, London, plus Cartiass by Arnold Wesker
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Sculptor Sir Anthony Caro
How artists use ‘everyday stuff’ such as steel. Presented by Michael Rosen
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Sculptor Glynn Williams
How artists use ‘everyday stuff’ such as stone. Presented by Michael Rosen
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Sculptor David Nash
How artists use ‘everyday stuff’ such as wood. Presented by Michael Rosen
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sculptor and printmaker Elisabeth Frink
"I think that is the job of artists, to comment on what is going on"
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Scottish literature's colourful tradition
A special programme which takes an in-depth look at modern Scottish literature
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Scott Turow's Burden of Proof
Four great names in novels: Scott Turow, James Joyce, DH Lawrence and Anita Brookner
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Scorched Earth by Edward Fenton
Writer Edward Fenton plus Glenda Jackson and Brian Cox on O'Neil's Strange Interlude
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Schoenberg Festival
Ensemble Organum perform Franciscan chant; Tribute to Arnold Schoenberg.
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Schindler's Ark
With writer Thomas Keneally, actress Janet Suzman and artist Philip Castle
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Scandal
British film Scandal directed by Michael Caton-Jones with John Hurt
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Saving Private Ryan review
"One of the finest war sequences ever put on screen" – Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan
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Saul Bellow - The Actual
A review of a new novel by Saul Bellow, The Actual
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Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye
Books about films, featuring directors Satyajit Ray, Andrei Tarkovsky and David Lean
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Satire on stage and page in Edinburgh
A new production of The Beggar's Opera and prints and paintings by Honoré Daumier
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Sartre for the 21st Century
How relevant are the ideas and Existentialist philiosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre today?
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge in a new Light
Richard Holmes shines a new light on the Romantic English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Shem's Mount Misery
A psychiatrist and a writer reviews the American writer and psychiatrist's novel