Meridian

Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world

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Meridian's highlights of 1999
The year's high points in film, music, dance, literature and architecture
23 Dec 1999,28 mins
Disney's Fantasia
Critics and fans talk about the movie which has divided audiences since its release
17 Dec 1999,28 mins
The Art Of Fireworks
How fireworks have influenced art and literature
12 Dec 1999,28 mins
Utopias in literature
Professor John Carey and AC Grayling discuss the Faber Book of Utopias
03 Dec 1999,28 mins
Waiting for Love in Commmunist China
Prize-winning novelist Ha Jin talks about writing in English about love and life in China
01 Dec 1999,27 mins
The Turner Prize
The winner of the prize is announced: Steve McQueen
30 Nov 1999,29 mins
Mumbai Film Festival
How the Indian city's uniquely privately-financed festival was founded
22 Nov 1999,30 mins
Joan of Arc
Why the French figure has inspired more than 50 films and over 1000 books
16 Nov 1999,28 mins
Frederick Forsyth interview
The political thriller writer talks about his book, The Phantom of Manhattan
16 Nov 1999,28 mins
Noel Coward profile
The life of the English actor, playwright and composer
11 Nov 1999,28 mins
PD James interview
The British author talks about why she writes detective fiction
09 Nov 1999,28 mins
Tracey Emin's My Bed
The art critic Adrian Searle talks about the vandalisation of the British artist's work
04 Nov 1999,28 mins
Jay Griffiths on her essays about time
The British journalist Jay Griffiths talks about her book Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time
02 Nov 1999,28 mins
Annie Leibovitz's Women
The American photographer's collection of female subjects reviewed
02 Nov 1999,28 mins
Simon Schama on Rembrandt
The historian Simon Schama talks about why Rembrandt continues to exert such a hold on us
21 Oct 1999,28 mins
The Elgin Marbles
Whether the Greek sculptures should be returned to Greece.
19 Oct 1999,27 mins
Frank McCourt interview
The Irish-American author of Angela's Ashes talks about its sequel 'Tis
19 Oct 1999,29 mins
Francis Wheen on Karl Marx
The British journalist talks about his book about the founder of international communism
16 Oct 1999,28 mins
Edward Said interview
The literary theorist and Palestinian activist talks about his memoirs Out of Place
14 Oct 1999,28 mins
American writer Dava Sobel
The author of Longitude on her book, Gallileo's Daughter about the Italian astonomer
12 Oct 1999,28 mins
The Japanese movie Cursed: The Financially Corrupt Islands
How a film about a banking panic proved a big hit in Japan
12 Oct 1999,28 mins
China's avant garde art
Exploring the exciting counter culture of China's contemporary art scene
07 Oct 1999,28 mins
Ben Elton interview
The writer and comedian talks about his novel Inconceivable
05 Oct 1999,28 mins
French play The Man Who Said Non
A review of the play about Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill from 1940 to 1945
05 Oct 1999,28 mins
Edgar Allen Poe
The short and strange life of the American author and creator of the detective story
02 Oct 1999,28 mins
Harold Evans on The American Century
The English publisher and journalist talks about his history of 20th-century America
30 Sep 1999,28 mins
The American century: Art and culture 1950-2000
The Royal Opera House opens after renovations; Nick Hughes' Rwanda set film '100 Days'; 'Sensation' exhibition of British art in New York; Tim Winton's Australian play, based on the novel 'Cloudstreet'.
28 Sep 1999,28 mins
The German writer Günter Grass
George Steiner on why the German novelist so deserved the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature
28 Sep 1999,28 mins
Rose Tremain
The English novelist talks about her book Music and Silence
22 Sep 1999,28 mins
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman
How the decision to rerun a Soviet-era TV drama on Czech TV has been fiercely criticised
21 Sep 1999,27 mins