Meridian

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

World Service,2413 episodes

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The Art of Narrative
The art of narrative, or story telling, is featured
20 Dec 1983,28 mins
National Theatre's Cinderella
The National Theatre's first pantomime - Cinderella
16 Dec 1983,28 mins
James Bond and other cultural survivors
James Bond returns in new film 'Never Say Never Again', featuring Sean Connery
15 Dec 1983,28 mins
Pioneers of stage and screen
A look at the work of three influential people considered to be pioneers
09 Dec 1983,28 mins
Life's a Dream
An adaptation of the Pedro Calderon de la Barca novel Life's A Dream
08 Dec 1983,28 mins
Jacques Tati - film season
A screening of Jacques Tati films at the Barbican
06 Dec 1983,28 mins
Jean Seberg - the musical
A musical about Jean Seberg, the actress who played St Joan
02 Dec 1983,28 mins
Shohei Imamura - The Ballad of Narayama
The Ballad of Narayama by director Shohei Imamura
29 Nov 1983,28 mins
Venice - a Celebration
A look at Venice in the 16th Century, its so-called golden age
25 Nov 1983,28 mins
David Cox - exhibition
Bicentennial exhibition of paintings by British artist David Cox
22 Nov 1983,28 mins
Kate's House - Harriet Waugh
The novel Kate's House by Harriet Waugh
15 Nov 1983,28 mins
The Grand Union Company - Strange Migration
The Grand Union Company's acclaimed show Strange Migration, comes to London
14 Nov 1983,28 mins
Trisha Brown talks theatre
Choreographer Trisha Brown talks about her work, and her move into theatre
11 Nov 1983,28 mins
The Neverending story - Michael Ende
How the Neverending story by Michael Ende has become a cult novel
10 Nov 1983,28 mins
St Francis of Assisi
A new play by Julian Mitchell about St Francis of Assisi
08 Nov 1983,28 mins
Brian Moore's Cold Heaven
Brian Moore's latest novel Cold Heaven
03 Nov 1983,28 mins
Love is Dancing
A new production of Charles Dyer's Love is Dancing in London
01 Nov 1983,28 mins
1983 Booker-McConnell Prize for Fiction
With the winner, South African novelist JM Coetzee for The Life & Times of Michael K
28 Oct 1983,28 mins
Wexford Festival of Opera
Artistic director Elaine Padmore, architect Kevin Roach and author JP Donleavy
27 Oct 1983,29 mins
Maureen Duffy's Londoners
Interviews with writer Maureen Duffy, playwright David Edgar, and tenor Nigel Douglas
25 Oct 1983,28 mins
Molly Keane interview
Irish author Molly Keane, US author Paul Theroux, and the Burrell Collection in Glasgow
21 Oct 1983,28 mins
Waterland by Graham Swift
Author Graham Swift, Franco Zeffirelli's La Traviata, and stage director Jules Wright
20 Oct 1983,28 mins
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
William Feaver on French artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska plus Italian film Blow to the Heart
18 Oct 1983,28 mins
Henry Livings' Pennines Tales
English playwrights Henry Livings and Howard Barker, plus film director David Jones
12 Oct 1983,28 mins
JM Coetzee - Life & Times of Michael K
J M Coetzee's novel, German conductor Klaus Tennstedt, and RSC director Bill Alexander
07 Oct 1983,28 mins
William Golding
Discussion of author William Golding, Woody Allen on writing satire and his new film Zelig
06 Oct 1983,28 mins
John Guare's Gardenia
John Guare's play Gardenia, Shona Mbira musicians, and Shiva Naipaul's novel A Hot Country
04 Oct 1983,28 mins
David Thomson's Dandiprat's Days
Author David Thomson, Francis Bacon exhibition, plus Wagner's opera Rienzi
30 Sep 1983,28 mins
Luchino Visconti's The Leopard
Visconti's The Leopard, Bertolt Brech biography, German painter Georg Baselitz
29 Sep 1983,28 mins
Danton - the film
A review of of Andrzej Wajda's film Danton, about the French Revolution
27 Sep 1983,28 mins