Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Lyric Opera of Chicago
How the opera has become one of America’s most respected and successful companies
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Lulu joins Glyndborne's 'naughty girls'
Alban Berg's opera Lulu is staged for Glyndbourne by Graham Vick
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Luigi Pirandello
Review of the play Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
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Lueen Conning and Dido
Two female writers who are tackling the issue of 'coloured' identity in South Africa
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Luchino Visconti's The Leopard
Visconti's The Leopard, Bertolt Brech biography, German painter Georg Baselitz
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Luc Besson's Nikita
Luc Besson's film Nikita where a French agent turns a drug punk into an assassin
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Love is Dancing
A new production of Charles Dyer's Love is Dancing in London
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Love and Death – on Stage and Page
Tristran and Isolde is the first of the tragic romances reviewed this week
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Louise Bourgeois
The life and work of the French-American artist and sculptor
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Louis Malle's Damage
Report on Louis Malle's film Damage starring Jeremy Irons
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Lost In Translation?
The programme asks, why bother with translation of literature?
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Los Angeles: The City Of Mirrors
A portrait of the Californian city which has reinvented itself through TV and film
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Lorrie Moore
US writer Lorrie Moore talks about her collection of short stories - Birds of America
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Lord Young's Enterprise Years
Book reviews: The Enterprise Years by Lord Young and My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer
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Looking for William Bligh
The story of Captain William Bligh and his descendants on Pitcairn Island
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London's Tricycle theatre damaged by fire
A report on the fire which damaged London's Tricycle Theatre
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London's poetry row
A report on a row in the poetry world
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London's Notting Hill Carnival
The history of the annual event which has become Europe's biggest largest public gathering
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London's architecture
Has London's post war architectural project gone too far?
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London Mime Festival
London's fifteenth international mime festival
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London International Festival of Theatre special
Exploring the sixth festival with its founding directors, Lucy Neal and Rose Fenton
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London International Festival of Theatre
London's two-week International Festival of Theatre
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Lolita at 40
The story of how Lolita, the controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov, came to be published
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Lolita
Review of a film version of Lolita
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Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod
Report on the annual festival of folk music, song and dance from around the world
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Living History - Kaleidoscope
A look at istorical figures portrayed in the cinema
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Live from Australia's Perth Festival
The first of Ota Shogo's wordless Japanese station plays, Mizu no Eki (The Water Station)
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Live again on the Edinburgh Fringe
Pick of the 1984 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where theatrical resurrection is in vogue
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Liv Ullman takes her Place behind the Camera
"I was born to be behind the camera," says Liv Ullman, distinguished actress and director
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Literary Prize-fighting in France
The winner of The Prix Goncourt, Un Grand pas vers le Bon Dieu by Jean Herman