Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Tribute to Sir Robert Helpmann, plus the paintings of Rabindranath Tagore
30 Sep 1986,·28 mins
Alan Bennett's play Kafka's Dick, plus the effects of war through cinema and television
26 Sep 1986,·28 mins
Old Devils by Kingsley Amis and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
24 Sep 1986,·28 mins
Belgian director Marion Hansel's film Dust plus actor John Matshikiza
23 Sep 1986,·28 mins
Franco Zeffirelli's film of opera Otello, starring Placido Domingo
19 Sep 1986,·28 mins
Life and work of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso
18 Sep 1986,·27 mins
Nuria Espert on directing The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca
16 Sep 1986,·28 mins
English playwright David Hare on his one act plays The Bay at Nice and Wrecked Eggs
12 Sep 1986,·29 mins
Special programme about youth theatre in Britain
11 Sep 1986,·28 mins
Director Neil Jordan on his film Mona Lisa, plus the Tokyo Ballet arrive in Britain
09 Sep 1986,·28 mins
Profile of American theatrical producer and director Hal Prince
05 Sep 1986,·28 mins
Tribute to British sculptor Henry Moore including archive interviews
02 Sep 1986,·28 mins
Report on world theatre including the Toho Company's production of Euripides' Medea
29 Aug 1986,·29 mins
Includes director Jane Campion's Two Friends and writer John McGrath's Blood Red Roses
22 Aug 1986,·28 mins
Exploring the history of the Oxford English Dictionary
20 Aug 1986,·28 mins
Andrzej Wajda's adaptation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
19 Aug 1986,·29 mins
Includes theatre director Frank Dunlop and Douglas, a blank verse tragedy by John Home
15 Aug 1986,·28 mins
Profile of British author and television playwright Malcolm Bradbury
13 Aug 1986,·27 mins
Jonathan Miller directs Jack Lemmon in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night
12 Aug 1986,·28 mins
Writer Norman Murphy on PG Wodehouse and In Search of Blandings
06 Aug 1986,·28 mins
The Saxon Shore by David Rudkin, actress Anna Massey on Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac
Theatre director John Dexter on reviving TS Eliot's play The Cocktail Party
05 Aug 1986,·28 mins
Actor Barry McGovern on performing Samuel Beckett's I'll Go On
01 Aug 1986,·28 mins
Writer-director Woody Allen's film Hannah and her Sisters
29 Jul 1986,·28 mins
Review of Alex Cox's film about British punk Sid Vicious, Sid and Nancy
25 Jul 1986,·28 mins
Artists withdraw from The Edinburgh Commonwealth Arts Festival
24 Jul 1986,·28 mins
With artists Dr Isaiah James Boodhoo, Kenwyn Crichlow and Mallica “Kapo” Reynolds
22 Jul 1986,·29 mins
American director's Robert Altman's film Fool For Love starring Sam Shepard
18 Jul 1986,·29 mins
American writer Alice Walker on her novel The Color Purple
15 Jul 1986,·28 mins
On the set of movie Lady Jane starring Helena Bonham Carter and directed by Trevor Nunn
11 Jul 1986,·28 mins
