Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
American singer Eartha Kitt - one of the most distinctive voices of the 20th Century
01 Aug 1988,·28 mins
Jenny Hargreaves talks with US director Spike Lee talks about his film School Daze
29 Jul 1988,·28 mins
Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri talks about his new book Stars of the New Curfew
27 Jul 1988,·28 mins
British exhibition devoted to revolutionary Russian film director Sergie Eisenstein
22 Jul 1988,·28 mins
Special on American crime writer Raymond Chandler
19 Jul 1988,·28 mins
What goes into a work of art? Special on the orchestral parts that make up Ravel's Bolero
18 Jul 1988,·28 mins
Israeli writer Amos Oz on his novel Black Box
16 Jul 1988,·28 mins
New Ray of Light Festival in England featuring Indian music and dance
15 Jul 1988,·28 mins
Exhibition of Picasso at London's Tate and new biography by Arianna Huffington
08 Jul 1988,·28 mins
Report from the first New York International Arts Festival with artist Martha Clarke
01 Jul 1988,·28 mins
The life and work of the controversial award-winning film and theatre director
28 Jun 1988,·28 mins
The life and work of the German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director
The return of "Crocodile" Dundee with review by Australian literary scholar Peter Nicholls
24 Jun 1988,·28 mins
Special edition on the period instrument ensemble founded by Andrew Parrott in 1973
21 Jun 1988,·29 mins
Director Charles Sturridge on his film A Handful of Dust
17 Jun 1988,·28 mins
The uncertain future of theatre in Turkey with actress Yildiz Kenter
10 Jun 1988,·28 mins
Special edition on Scottish Opera's revival of Bernstein's operetta
06 Jun 1988,·28 mins
Remembering Indian film actor, producer and director Raj Kapoor
03 Jun 1988,·28 mins
With Canadian writer Kate Pullinger and Russian dissident and writer Irina Ratushinskay
31 May 1988,·28 mins
Reviews of National Theatre productions of Cymbeline, A Winter's Tale and The Tempest
27 May 1988,·28 mins
Biographies of writer Leo Tolstoy, composer George Gershwin and actor Laurence Olivier
25 May 1988,·29 mins
US film Ironweed starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep directed by Hector Babenco
20 May 1988,·28 mins
Review of Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa
18 May 1988,·28 mins
Report on Japan's Silk Road Exhibition in Nara celebrating the great trade route
17 May 1988,·28 mins
Report on Glasgow's international arts festival Mayfest with Bill Burdett-Coutts
13 May 1988,·28 mins
Playwright Jim Allen on his controversial play Perdition at the Conway Hall
06 May 1988,·29 mins
Bluebeard: The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988) by Kurt Vonnegut
04 May 1988,·28 mins
Special on the company devoted to performing the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan
03 May 1988,·29 mins
Wall Street with Michael Douglas plus Cheek by Jowl's A Family Affair
29 Apr 1988,·28 mins
Includes Kabuki theatre Chushingura with Nakamura Kichiemon
28 Apr 1988,·29 mins
