Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Celebrating Shakespeare with Professor of Poetry at Oxford University Peter Levi
22 Apr 1988,·28 mins
The Unbearable Lightness of Being directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Daniel Day-Lewis
15 Apr 1988,·28 mins
Remembering South African author and anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton
13 Apr 1988,·28 mins
Report from the week long Young Playwright Festival at the Theatre Royal, London
12 Apr 1988,·29 mins
The life and work of Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi
06 Apr 1988,·28 mins
Special on the Taj Mahal, a mausoleum born of grief in Agra, India
05 Apr 1988,·28 mins
Director Nicholas Hytner on his production of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute
31 Mar 1988,·29 mins
Arthur Conan Doyle's greatest creation and one of literature's greatest detective
29 Mar 1988,·28 mins
Steven Spielberg's film Empire of the Sun, including interview with writer JG Ballard
26 Mar 1988,·28 mins
The British touring company taking opera to places that don't normally have access
22 Mar 1988,·29 mins
English writer Pip Broughton on translating Bertolt Brecht
18 Mar 1988,·29 mins
Review of Sean O'Casey: A Life by biographer Garry O'Connor
16 Mar 1988,·28 mins
Film Someone to Watch Over Me by English director Ridley Scott
11 Mar 1988,·29 mins
Talking with British playwright Tom Stoppard as his latest play Hapgood opens in London
10 Mar 1988,·28 mins
Dangerous Liasons starring John Malkovich and Glenn Close, directed by Stephen Frears
10 Mar 1988,·29 mins
Report from Egypt, visiting Cairo's new arts complex and opera house
06 Mar 1988,·29 mins
'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford, directed by Alan Ayckbourn at the National Theatre
05 Mar 1988,·30 mins
Politics and art in Israel
01 Mar 1988,·28 mins
Bernardo Bertolucci's new film, The Last Emperor
26 Feb 1988,·28 mins
A review of the French novel The Wedding
24 Feb 1988,·28 mins
The Discovery of India, a 44-hour long television documentary
23 Feb 1988,·29 mins
A history of the double bass
South African playwright Athol Fugard talks about his new play
19 Feb 1988,·29 mins
A review of Christopher Hope's biography White Boy Running
17 Feb 1988,·28 mins
The history of the Hollywood Bowl
16 Feb 1988,·27 mins
Sir John Gielgud returns to the London stage after an absence of 10 years
12 Feb 1988,·29 mins
Profile of the American film director and actor John Huston
09 Feb 1988,·28 mins
A review of Kenyan film White Mischief directed by Michael Radford
05 Feb 1988,·28 mins
Clashes and confrontations in the arts over plans to introduce Clause 28
29 Jan 1988,·28 mins
The legacy of Raymond Williams
27 Jan 1988,·28 mins
