Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Writer Salman Rushdie on the controversy surrounding his new book The Satanic Verses
13 Jan 1989,·28 mins
Sophocles' Greek tragedy Electra directed by Deborah Warner
01 Jan 1989,·28 mins
British actress Vanessa Redgrave on inviting the Russian Vakhtangov Theatre to London
Director Sir Peter Hall on casting US film star Dustin Hoffman in The Merchant of Venice
Special programme talking to Britain's most popular children's writer, Roald Dahl
Trends in children's writing from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Matilda
25 Dec 1988,·28 mins
Favourite books include Nora by Brenda Maddox and Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child
21 Dec 1988,·28 mins
Includes interviews with Jonah Moyo and Devera Ngwena Jazz Band, both from Zimbabwe
20 Dec 1988,·29 mins
Director Sir Peter Hall on Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending with Vanessa Redgrave
16 Dec 1988,·28 mins
Special exploring the injuries suffered by musicians
15 Dec 1988,·28 mins
The Australian-born British novelist who wrote a series of novels about Mary Poppins
13 Dec 1988,·28 mins
Exploring the ghost story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
13 Dec 1988,·27 mins
Film director Miguel Pereira on his Argentine and British co-production Veronico Cruz
09 Dec 1988,·28 mins
Special programme dedicated to Singapore-born British classical pianist Melvyn Tan
06 Dec 1988,·28 mins
Plus US stand-up comedian Charles Fleischer on voicing Roger in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
02 Dec 1988,·28 mins
An audience of millions watched the first European Film Awards ceremony
01 Dec 1988,·28 mins
A review of R.M Lammings new book The Notebook of Gismondo Cavaletti
The book Heroes about the Nigerian civil war
30 Nov 1988,·28 mins
The Turner Prize winner 1998
25 Nov 1988,·28 mins
The unravelling of an American legend in a film by Francis Ford Coppola
18 Nov 1988,·28 mins
A look at English literature
17 Nov 1988,·28 mins
Michael Holroyd and Hilary Spurling discuss literary biographies
The premier of the opera The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
11 Nov 1988,·28 mins
Actor power in the British Theatre, the Renaissance Theatre Company
09 Nov 1988,·28 mins
A new biography of Prince Charles to mark his 40th birthday
Celebrations mark the 60th birthday of Mickey Mouse
08 Nov 1988,·28 mins
Marking the 70th anniversary of the the armistice
07 Nov 1988,·28 mins
Sir Alec Guinness in the West End play A Walk in the Woods
04 Nov 1988,·28 mins
A look at the work of the musician of Michael Tilson Thomas
01 Nov 1988,·28 mins
A David Hockney retrospective at the Tate Gallery
28 Oct 1988,·28 mins
