Meridian

Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world

World Service,2413 episodes

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The British animation industry.
The animated film industry is booming in Britain
13 Feb 1987,28 mins
The Mosquito Coast
Review of the Mosquito Coast, a film directed by Peter Weir
10 Feb 1987,28 mins
Berlin's history
A special show on Berlins history through Hitler's regime and to its modern state
06 Feb 1987,28 mins
Berlin - 750th Anniversary
Berlin on its 750th Anniversary, a look at the city now divided by the Berlin wall
03 Feb 1987,28 mins
Heartburn - Streep and Nicolson
A review of the film Heartburn starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson
20 Jan 1987,28 mins
Placido Domingo as Otello
Placido Domingo on stage in Verdi's Opera Otello
16 Jan 1987,28 mins
Andre Tarkovsky
A special edition dedicated to the life and work of Russian film maker Andre Tarkovsky
13 Jan 1987,28 mins
Hopkins as King Lear
A review of Anthony Hopkins as King Lear
12 Dec 1986,28 mins
Eat the Peach
Peter Ormrod's new film Eat the Peach is reviewed
09 Dec 1986,28 mins
Bertrand Tavernier's Round Midnight
Bertrand Tavernier's film Round Midnignt, about the French jazz clubs of the 1950s
05 Dec 1986,28 mins
The Last Waltz
A review of Gillian Richmond's play about army wives, The Last Waltz
02 Dec 1986,28 mins
30th London Film Festival
Highlights 30th London Film Festival which comes to an end this week
28 Nov 1986,28 mins
The Singing Detective
A review of the new TV drama The Singing Detective by Dennis Potter
25 Nov 1986,28 mins
Fellini's Ginger and Fred
Fellini's Ginger and Fred starring Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroinni
21 Nov 1986,28 mins
Jenufa by Leos Janacek
New production of opera Jenufa by Leos Janacek by exiled Russian director Yuri Lyubimov
21 Nov 1986,28 mins
The Boyle Family art collective
The Earth Beneath our Feet by art collective Boyle Family
18 Nov 1986,28 mins
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - the opera
Composer Michael Nyman on his opera The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
14 Nov 1986,28 mins
Runaway success of Athletics Novels
The new literary genre of athletics novels including Lovelock by James McNeish
12 Nov 1986,28 mins
The life and work of Auguste Rodin
Special on the greatest French sculptor of the 19th Century, Auguste Rodin
11 Nov 1986,26 mins
Michael Powell - A Life in Movie
Special on British film director Michael Powell, including interview Emeric Pressburger
04 Nov 1986,28 mins
Plays by Harold Pinter and Stephen Spender
New play by Harold Pinter, Mountain Language, plus interview with Pinter
29 Oct 1986,28 mins
George Gershwin
The work of US composer George Gershwin discussed with conductor Brian Wright
28 Oct 1986,28 mins
Roland Joffe's The Mission
Film review of The Mission directed by Roland Joffe
24 Oct 1986,28 mins
Kingsley Amis wins Booker Prize for fiction
Kingsley Amis wins the 1986 Booker Prize for Fiction with The Old Devils
23 Oct 1986,28 mins
Ibsen's Ghost with Vanessa Redgrave
Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts opens in London starring Vanessa Redgrave and Tom Wilkinson
21 Oct 1986,28 mins
Celebrating VS Pritchett
Grahame Greene, Paul Theroux, Steven Spender, Janet Adam Smith on VS Pritchett
18 Oct 1986,29 mins
The Phantom of the Opera opens in London
Interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber as The Phantom of the Opera opens in London
14 Oct 1986,28 mins
George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance
Director John Caird on George Bernard Shaw's play Misalliance starring Brian Cox
10 Oct 1986,28 mins
Ben Kingsley in A Betrothal
Oscar-winning actor Ben Kingsley on stage in A Betrothal by Lanford Wilson
03 Oct 1986,28 mins
Interview with writer Vaclav Havel
Interview with Czech writer Vaclav Havel on his release from prison
30 Sep 1986,28 mins