Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Robert Redford
A 1998 interview with cinema icon Robert Redford, who has died aged 89
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Robert Morley obituary
Remembering English character actor Robert Morley, star of The African Queen
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Robert Mitchum
A tribute to 'old stone face' Robert Mitchum
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Robert Graves Special
Includes interviews with Graves, biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, and multiple excerpts
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Robert de Niro's A Bronx Tale
Robert de Niro challenges the glamour of the gangster
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Robert Altman's Fool for Love
American director's Robert Altman's film Fool For Love starring Sam Shepard
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Roald Dahl - interview
Special programme talking to Britain's most popular children's writer, Roald Dahl
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RK Naryan remembered
A tribute to the Indian writer, with contributions from Mark Tully and archive interviews.
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Rita Dove – Poet of her People
American Rita Dove talks about her work, including the poem On the Bus with Rosa Parks
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Rick Moody
The American novelist and author of The Ice Storm talks about his memoirs
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Richard Watkins, French Horn virtuoso
Interview with Richard Watkins, one of the leading horn players of his generation
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Richard Tognetti and the ACO – Australia's musical Ambassadors
Richard Tognetti talks about the rich programme of the Australian Chamber Orchestra
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Richard Sheridan's Rivals
Stage director Peter Wood, plus Ntozake Shange's novel Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
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Richard II
A review of William Shakespeare's Richard II
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Richard Attenborough's A Chorus Line
Richard Attenborough's film version of stage musical A Chorus Line
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Rhapsody in Blue
The story of how George Gershwin wrote his most famous work
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Reviving The Cocktail Party
Theatre director John Dexter on reviving TS Eliot's play The Cocktail Party
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Reviving P. G. Wodehouse, the playwright
Bertie Wooster's creator also wrote plays and one is revived by the Bristol Old Vic
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Review of the year 1992
A look at the highs and lows of the arts during the 12 months of 1992
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Review of the year - 1998
A look back at the arts that provided the backdrop to the 12 months that was 1998
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Review of the year - 1997
Special edition of Meridian looking back at the past twelve months
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Review of the year - 1995
A round up of the year in the arts
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Review of the year - 1993
A review of the arts during the 12 months of 1993
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Review of the year - 1991
A special programme which reviews the events in the art world over the past 12 months
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Reuben Reuben
A review of Stephen Lowe's film Reuben Reuben
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Return To Joujouka
Retracing Brian Jones' 1967 journey to encounter the master musicians of Morocco
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Restoration by Edward Bond – did the Butler do it?
Radical playwright and comic moralist Edward Bond on Restoration, his musical play
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Restoration - on the film set
A review of the film adapted from Rose Tremain's novel Restoration
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Report from the 1984 Buxton Festival
Report from the 1984 Buxton Festival
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Report from Cannes
Fun, sun, chaos, madness, hard work, no sleep: opinions on the Cannes Film Festival