BBC World Service - Meridian

Comedy at the Edinburgh Festival 1991

Highlights include Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson as singer-songwriters Victor and Barry

Includes performer Roy Hutchins on Heathcote Williams' poem Autogeddon

Exended interview with writer-director Woody Allen

New play about Isadora Duncan starring Vanessa Redgrave and Michael Sheen

Talking with Hugh O'Shaughnessy about his book Around the Spanish Main

Patrick Kavanaugh, composer of a new work based on CS Lewis' The Great Dance

Talking with Francis Bacon in his 82nd year: "I've painted because it excited me to try"

Controversial festival of Nubian arts in Aswan, Egypt, with musician Ali Koban

New play of the novel The Manchurian Candidate with Sian Phillips

In depth look at the music and the people of the Festival d'Avignon