Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Seamus Heaney and Les Murray discuss the impact of poetry
27 Oct 1988,·28 mins
Peter Carey, wins this year's Booker Prize
25 Oct 1988,·28 mins
A gallery of The Warrior Queens in Antonia Fraser's latest book
20 Oct 1988,·29 mins
Watching actors of the RSC through their paces in rehearsals
18 Oct 1988,·28 mins
The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded
12 Oct 1988,·28 mins
Review of David Hare's latest play The Secret Rapture
07 Oct 1988,·29 mins
A review of Kingley Amis's Difficulties with Girls
05 Oct 1988,·28 mins
A look at the life and work of one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th Century
04 Oct 1988,·30 mins
The life and work of Hungarian composer Béla Viktor János Bartók
27 Sep 1988,·29 mins
Celebrating the life and work of Thomas Gainsborough
26 Sep 1988,·28 mins
Our Country's Good, review of a play by Timberlake Wertenbaker
23 Sep 1988,·29 mins
The official biography of George Bernard Shaw by Michael Holroyd
21 Sep 1988,·28 mins
Examining the life and work of Colonel T.E. Lawrence
15 Sep 1988,·28 mins
From the National Film Theatre and the newly opened Museum of The Moving Image
13 Sep 1988,·28 mins
A review of the annual film festival in Venice
09 Sep 1988,·29 mins
Festival 'fatigue' at the 42nd Edinburgh Festival
02 Sep 1988,·27 mins
The latest offerings from the Edinburgh Festival
01 Sep 1988,·28 mins
A review of Children of the Arbat by Anatoly Rybakov
31 Aug 1988,·29 mins
An interview with the Indian theatre company Naya's founder Habib Tanvir
27 Aug 1988,·28 mins
A new study of Napoleon Bonaparte and his parents
24 Aug 1988,·28 mins
The South Bank Festival of music in London
A review of the 42nd Edinburgh Film Festival
23 Aug 1988,·28 mins
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, a controversial new film written by Hanif Kureishi
21 Aug 1988,·28 mins
The variety of talent on show at Edinburgh's fringe theatre
19 Aug 1988,·28 mins
Interview with American film director, John Howard Carpenter
15 Aug 1988,·19 mins
A review of the play Mrs Klein by Nicholas Wright
12 Aug 1988,·28 mins
A review of the Iranian film The Runner
05 Aug 1988,·27 mins
Daughter of Shanghai, the memoirs of Tsai Chin
03 Aug 1988,·29 mins
Discussing the history of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
02 Aug 1988,·28 mins
Cannes film festival winners, plus A Cry in the Dark starring Meryl Streep
