Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
The 50th anniversary of the Royal Opera House in London
31 Jan 1997,·28 mins
The Cairo Book Fair, which has attracted a million and a half people this year
28 Jan 1997,·28 mins
A review of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming
24 Jan 1997,·28 mins
The role of slavery in the building of the British empire
Tribute to late James Dickey, American writer whose death was announced at the age of 73
21 Jan 1997,·28 mins
A special programme which takes an in-depth look at modern Scottish literature
20 Jan 1997,·28 mins
A review of the outlandish and the improbable at the London International Mime Festival
17 Jan 1997,·28 mins
A review of Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington in the film The Preacher's Wife
15 Jan 1997,·27 mins
The winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry, the Australian Les Murray
14 Jan 1997,·28 mins
Review of The Portrait of a Lady starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Jane Campion
13 Jan 1997,·27 mins
A look at Elsinore by Robert Lepage, a one-man interpretation of Hamlet
10 Jan 1997,·28 mins
A look at a new novel by Jeanette Winterson, launching her new publisher
07 Jan 1997,·28 mins
A review of Kathleen Turner as V. I. Warshawski in a film version of Sara Paretksy's books
03 Jan 1997,·28 mins
A look at a London revival of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Violence erupts in Iran over a film featuring a transvestite character
01 Jan 1997,·28 mins
A documentary about the writer Walter Mosley
A special program which takes an in depth look at the life of Peter Stein
A documentary on the Australian poet Les Murray
A half century since Streetcar Named Desire by American playwright, Tennessee Williams
27 Dec 1996,·28 mins
Terry Pratchett, whose latest Discworld book The Hog Father has just been published
23 Dec 1996,·28 mins
A review of the latest performance of Guys and Dolls with Imelda Staunton
20 Dec 1996,·28 mins
Ancient and modern Greek poetry set to music and performed fby Maria Farantouri
13 Dec 1996,·28 mins
A review of Michael Crichton's latest novel
10 Dec 1996,·28 mins
Discussing the work of Howard Hodgkin
06 Dec 1996,·26 mins
Alan Ayckbourn's Christmas play for children is reviewed
06 Dec 1996,·28 mins
The film director, producer and writer, Howard Hawks
05 Dec 1996,·28 mins
04 Dec 1996,·28 mins
A review of Ken Saro-Wiwa's posthumously published novel
03 Dec 1996,·28 mins
The collapse of communism in the former Soviet Union and the arts
02 Dec 1996,·28 mins
A review of Gregory Doran's production of Henry VIII
29 Nov 1996,·28 mins
