Meridian

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

World Service,2413 episodes

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Swiss writer Max Frisch
Max Frisch on his latest novel Bluebeard, James Mason on his role in US film The Verdict
25 Sep 1983,29 mins
We of the Never Never by Jeannie Gunn
US playwright David Mamet and director Bill Bryden on world premier of Glengarry Glen Ross
23 Sep 1983,28 mins
Hanif Kureshi - Birds of Passage
Dramatist Hanif Kureshi, Art of the Avant-garde in Russia, choreographer David Bintley
22 Sep 1983,28 mins
Howard Brenton's Genius
Playwright Howard Brenton, artist Sir Matthew Smith, and novelist William Cooper
15 Sep 1983,28 mins
Edinburgh Jazz, Film and Book Festival
South African play Poppie Nongena plus The Postman Always Rings Twice - the opera
08 Sep 1983,28 mins
The Twilight Zone
A review of the film version of The Twilight Zone by Joe Dante
06 Sep 1983,28 mins
Edinburgh International Festival
With festival director John Drummond, and A Florentine Tragedy by Alexander von Zemlinsky
01 Sep 1983,28 mins
Toni Bentley and the New York City Ballet
Dancer Toni Bentley, the NYC Ballet's Glass Pieces, Marcovaldo by writer Italo Calvino
30 Aug 1983,28 mins
Kazakhstani novelist Chinghiz Aitmatov
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, artist Peter Layton, and director Nagisa Oshima
25 Aug 1983,28 mins
London International Festival of Theatre
London's two-week International Festival of Theatre
23 Aug 1983,28 mins
Act of Darkness
Writer Francis King, Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega, Russian stage director Yuri Lyubimov
20 Aug 1983,28 mins
The Makioka Sisters
Novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, The Sculpture Show '83, new musical Bashville
17 Aug 1983,28 mins
Alan Bates in A Patriot for Me
Director Ronald Eyre, Australian composer David Lumsdaine and opera singer Eilene Hannan
16 Aug 1983,28 mins
Death of Sir Ralph Richardson
With John Gielgud, Peter Hall and excerpts from Peer Gynt and David Copperfield
11 Aug 1983,28 mins
The Comedy of Errors
Director by Adrian Noble, Paul Klee exhibition, and the Children's Book of the Year Show
11 Aug 1983,28 mins
Fade to Black
Horror film Fade to Black, British set designer Carl Toms and You Can't Take it With You
09 Aug 1983,28 mins
Tribute to Luis Bunuel
Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel, director Charles Sturridge on new film Runners
04 Aug 1983,28 mins
Derek Jacobi is Cyrano de Bergerac
Actor Derek Jacobi, the poetry of Stevie Smith, plus portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh
02 Aug 1983,28 mins
The Art of Design
With design correspondent Peta Levi and designers Kenneth Grange and Sir Terence Conran
29 Jul 1983,28 mins
Twentieth Century Polly
John Gay's 18th Century opera Polly adapted for modern audiences
28 Jul 1983,28 mins
Snoo Wilson's Loving Reno
Actor Simon Callow on directing Snoo Wilson's play, Loving Reno, plus writer Clive James
26 Jul 1983,28 mins
WOMAD Festival
Special edition dedicated to the WOMAD festival (World of Music Arts and Dance) in London
21 Jul 1983,28 mins
The Arts in China - 2
Includes Xie Jin, director of Legend of Tianyun Mountain
15 Jul 1983,28 mins
The National Theatre's Fawn
Stage director Giles Block, British potter Michael Cardew, and writer Hilda Bernstein
15 Jul 1983,28 mins
Nina Bawden and The Ice House
With author Nina Bawden, choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton and writer/actor Richard Crane
10 Jul 1983,29 mins
Australian author Morris West
Morris West's The World is Made of Glass, plus Neville Mariner's The Barber of Seville
08 Jul 1983,28 mins
The Arts in China - 1
The arts in modern day China with actor Ying Ruocheng and comedian Hou Baolin
08 Jul 1983,28 mins
Portrait Miniatures at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Exhibition of 16th Century English portrait miniatures, plus the Houston Ballet
07 Jul 1983,28 mins
Franz Liszt
Liszt biographer Alan Walker, theatre director William Gaskill and film Pauline a la Plage
05 Jul 1983,28 mins
Andre Previn
Brian Matthew talks to the musician, composer, and Oscar winner in a 1983 interview
01 Jul 1983,28 mins