Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Jazz Summer School
Report on a jazz summer school in Hull, England
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Jay Griffiths on her essays about time
The British journalist Jay Griffiths talks about her book Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time
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Jarman's Edward II
Derek Jarman's film adaptation of Edward II
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Jarman's Caravaggio
A review of Derek Jarman's film Caravaggio
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Japanese film in Korea
A Japanese movie showing in Korean theatres for the first time
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Japanese Designers
The rise of Japanese fashion designers, Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo
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Japanese Cultural Festival in London
Novelist Francis King reviews the The Great Japan Exhibition at the Royal Academy
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Japanese Butoh Dance Company
Plus, Julian Barnes' Before She Met Me and CP Taylor's Bring Me Sunshine, Bring Me Smiles
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Jane Smiley's The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
The critic Elizabeth Glick reviews the novel by the Pulitzer prize winner Jane Smiley
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Jane Smiley - Pulitzer prize winner
A feature-length programme on the novelist Jane Smiley
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Jane Austen - a life of pride and prejudice
A look at the life of Jane Austen through two new biographies
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James Turrell's Roden Crater
How the American sculptor made his famous work in an extinct volcano in Arizona
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James Stirling and Turner
Opening of a new gallery to showcase the work of Turner
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James Patrick Donleavy
The work of James Patrick Donleavy
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James Kelman's short stories
A review of the Scottish author's short story collection The Good Times
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James Ivory - Heat and Dust
Film director James Ivory and critic Prabhu Guptara, plus French pianist Cecile Ousset
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James Herbert's 48
A review of James Herbert's latest novel 48
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James Galway
Profile of James Galway, the Northern Ireland-born virtuoso flautist
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James Bond and other cultural survivors
James Bond returns in new film 'Never Say Never Again', featuring Sean Connery
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James Bond - The Living Daylights
Review of latest James Bond film The Living Daylights
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James Baldwin - obituary
Special obituary show for Black-American writer James Baldwin
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Jacques Tati - film season
A screening of Jacques Tati films at the Barbican
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Jack Kerouac
The alienation of young people as exemplified by the work of Jack Kerouac
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J.R.R. Tolkien
A special programme which looks at the author J. R. R Tolkien
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J. M. Coetzee's latest novel of post-Apartheid Life
How Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee addresses sex and politics in post-Apartheid South Africa
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J. G. Ballard
A look at the British writer J G Ballard
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Ivor Novello
Ivor Novello and co-star Mary Ellis, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and painter Glenn Sujo
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Ivan Vladislavic interview
The South African storyteller talks about his novel The Restless Supermarket
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Italian Journeys
Jonathan Keates on his Italian Journeys and Maggie Gee on her novel Where Are the Snows?
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Israeli writer Amos Oz
Israeli writer Amos Oz on his novel Black Box