Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
The latest from the Berlin Film Festival, which has been ignored by the US
01 Mar 1991,·27 mins
An obituary of late of Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias
26 Feb 1991,·27 mins
A look at the work of Eastern European playwrights and writers
21 Feb 1991,·28 mins
A review of this year's Oscars, winning films include Dances with Wolves
15 Feb 1991,·27 mins
Review of the film The Grifters
08 Feb 1991,·28 mins
A review of the Festival of Childhood at the Barbican in London
07 Feb 1991,·27 mins
The second in a series of programmes on the arts in South Africa
05 Feb 1991,·27 mins
A look at Cape Town, South Africa and the arts scene there
04 Feb 1991,·27 mins
Batman and Dick Tracy are celebrated with other comic book heroes in France
01 Feb 1991,·27 mins
The official war artist has been announced as John Keane
25 Jan 1991,·27 mins
A review of the film Awakenings starring Robert DeNiro
24 Jan 1991,·28 mins
A special look at fiction from South America
A special programme which takes a in depth look at the play Hedda Gabler
22 Jan 1991,·27 mins
Review of Derek Jarman's film The Garden
18 Jan 1991,·27 mins
A special programme which takes a look at how the arts world is responding to Aids
15 Jan 1991,·28 mins
David Lodge reports from Cairo on the response of Kuwaiti musicians to the crisis there
11 Jan 1991,·28 mins
The second of a series of programmes about Frank Muir and his take on comedy
10 Jan 1991,·28 mins
A special programme which takes an in-depth look at Maori culture
08 Jan 1991,·28 mins
A review of the latest interpretation of Faust, an opera
03 Jan 1991,·27 mins
An exhibition of Mexican art is Los Angeles
01 Jan 1991,·28 mins
An African storytelling special
01 Jan 1991,·29 mins
Review of Harold Brodkey's latest novel The Runaway Soul
A three hour film version of the Mhabharata
21 Dec 1990,·28 mins
Review of new biographies
20 Dec 1990,·28 mins
A review of 1990, including clips of the most memorable moments of Meridian over the year
A review of the latest stage version of Don Juan
14 Dec 1990,·29 mins
The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose by Frank Muir
13 Dec 1990,·27 mins
A special programme on award-winning American writer Ursula K Le Guin
13 Dec 1990,·29 mins
Alan Bennett's musical adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows
13 Dec 1990,·28 mins
The folk, street, and church music that surrounded writer Thomas Hardy
11 Dec 1990,·28 mins
