Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Profile of US author Alice Walker, the first black woman to ever win the Pulitzer prize
09 Nov 1989,·28 mins
With Canadian Oscar winner Frederic Back and Japanese animator Kihachiro Kawamoto
07 Nov 1989,·28 mins
Don Webb on his new play Mindrape about notorious experiments on British servicemen
03 Nov 1989,·28 mins
Backstage at the Glasgow Print and Sculpture Studios with Scottish artist Ken Currie
03 Nov 1989,·29 mins
Dance Umbrella opens in London, plus remembering actor Sir Anthony Quayle
27 Oct 1989,·28 mins
Christopher Bigsby reports from the 1989 Booker Prize for fiction
26 Oct 1989,·28 mins
With work from Sergei Prokofiev, William Walton, Dmitri Shostakovich and Bernard Herrmann
25 Oct 1989,·28 mins
Profile of author Doris Lessing to celebrate her 70th birthday
22 Oct 1989,·24 mins
Kurt Weill's American opera Street Scene revived by the English National Opera
20 Oct 1989,·28 mins
British mountaineer Chris Bonington on his autobiography Mountaineer
19 Oct 1989,·28 mins
Polish director Antoni Libera on his production of Samuel Beckett's Crap's Last Tape
13 Oct 1989,·28 mins
Special programme dedicated to the life and work of the US film actress
12 Oct 1989,·28 mins
Film Dead Poets Society by director Peter Weir starring Robin Williams
29 Sep 1989,·29 mins
Profile of Andy Warhol, leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art
26 Sep 1989,·28 mins
Feature on the American composer and lyricist Irving Berlin
25 Sep 1989,·27 mins
The musical Miss Saigon in London
22 Sep 1989,·29 mins
Music inspired by the Orkney Islands.
18 Sep 1989,·28 mins
A look at the turbulent lives of some famous writers
14 Sep 1989,·28 mins
A review of My Left Foot with the director Jim Sheridan
08 Sep 1989,·28 mins
Marking a half century since the beginning of the World War II
07 Sep 1989,·28 mins
A profile of Laurie Lee and his musical album Edge of Day
06 Sep 1989,·28 mins
The programme marks the 50th birthday of playwright Alan Ayckbourn
05 Sep 1989,·29 mins
The programme follows the filming of Kenneth Branagh's version of Henry V
05 Sep 1989,·30 mins
The magic of Edinburgh and the third Edinburgh book festival
31 Aug 1989,·29 mins
A review of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
25 Aug 1989,·28 mins
A programme devoted to the English comedy actor Charlie Chaplin
23 Aug 1989,·28 mins
A look at recent take overs in the book publishing industry
18 Aug 1989,·29 mins
Author Anthony Burgess talks about his new novel Any Old Iron
18 Aug 1989,·28 mins
Oscar Wilde's Salome is featuring in two productions at the Edinburgh Festival
A report on a row in the poetry world
10 Aug 1989,·28 mins
