BBC World Service - Meridian

Remembering Dame Peggy

Remembering actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft with Sir John Gielgud

A visit to one of Middle America's most innovative cultural institutions

Exploring the sixth festival with its founding directors, Lucy Neal and Rose Fenton

Remembering the tenor saxophonist and his bossa nova classic Girl From Ipanema

A Spanish and an Indian musician liberate their stringed instruments

Director Irwin Winkler and blacklisted actor Sam Wanamaker on Guilty by Suspicion

Report from Prague on the first book fair since the collapse of communism

Review of Misery, the film based on Stephen King's psychological horror novel

Jonathan Keates on his Italian Journeys and Maggie Gee on her novel Where Are the Snows?

Exploring the life and work of British contemporary composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle