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Meridian Episodes

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    Samuel Pepys – the Great Diarist

    Claire Tomalin talks about her biography of the great diarist Samuel Pepys

  2. Samuel Beckett's I'll Go On

    Actor Barry McGovern on performing Samuel Beckett's I'll Go On

  3. Samuel Beckett

    A look at the life and times of Samuel Beckett

  4. Samuel Beckett

    Special exploring the Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet

  5. Samson and Delilah – the opera

    Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saens and Tibetan Inroads by Stephen Lowe

  6. Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

    Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, a controversial new film written by Hanif Kureishi

  7. Sam Shepard's True West

    Bob Hoskins and Anthony Sher in Shepard's True West, plus violinist Manuk Parikian

  8. Sam Mendes interview

    The director of American Beauty discusses his successful transition from stage to screen

  9. Salzburg Festival on the Internet

    Gerard Mortier talks about the development of a remarkable internet initiative

  10. Salvador Dalí, a painted Life

    Salvador Dalí's life and art, as seen through his painting The Burning Giraffe

  11. Salvador Dali biography

    A 600-page biography of Salvador Dali

  12. Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet

    What is Rushdie's novel really about - love, art, identity or the modern human condition?

  13. Salman Rushdie: Life after The Satanic Verses (part two)

    "Nothing like this has ever happened to any book. Ever." Salman Rushdie

  14. Salman Rushdie: Life after The Satanic Verses (part one)

    "If literature isn't an argument with the world, it's nothing." Salman Rushdie

  15. Salman Rushdie interview

    Interview with author Salman Rushdie on the first anniversary of the fatwa against him

  16. Salman Rushdie – Shaking up Myth and Time

    Salman Rushdie talks about his new novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

  17. Ryszard Kapuściński's African Years

    Ryszard Kapuściński on his new book about his half-century reporting from Africa

  18. Ruth Rendell – a Life in Crime

    Profile of English crime novelist Ruth Rendell

  19. Ruth Rendell - The Chimney-sweeper's Boy

    Review of Ruth Rendell's The Chimney-sweeper's Boy

  20. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

    Interview with screenwriter and author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  21. Russian film director Sergie Eisenstein

    British exhibition devoted to revolutionary Russian film director Sergie Eisenstein

  22. Russian composer Alfred Schnittke

    The legacy of the Soviet composer is explored after he dies aged 63

  23. Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin

    The life and work of the Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin

  24. Russia's past goes on show in China

    An exhibition of rare Russian treasures goes on show in China

  25. Russell Hoban's Pilgermann

    Author Russell Hoban, plus critic Marina Vaizey on Polish artist Gershon Iskowitz

  26. Rushdie Wins Booker Prize

    Midnight's Children wins the Booker Prize and its author Salman Rushdie is interviewed

  27. Running on Empty - Sidney Lumet

    American-themed programme with work from North and South of the continent

  28. Runaway Train by Andrei Konchalovsky

    New film survival-thriller Runaway Train by Andrei Konchalovsky

  29. Runaway success of Athletics Novels

    The new literary genre of athletics novels including Lovelock by James McNeish

  30. Rudolf Nureyev tribute

    A look at the career of the classical ballet dancer, Rudolf Nureyev who has recently died

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