Meridian

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

World Service,2413 episodes

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Light Dimensions in Bath
An exhibition of holograms in Bath, England, plus American director Francis Ford Coppola
01 Jul 1983,28 mins
Edouard Manet at the Grand Palais
Presenter Waldemar Januszczak reports on the French art scene
30 Jun 1983,28 mins
Buried Inside Extra - Joe Papp
American stage director Jo Papp, art critic Marina Vaizey, Dutch author Jona Oberski
28 Jun 1983,28 mins
Katharine Hepburn
The life and career of American actress Katharine Hepburn
25 Jun 1983,28 mins
The 36th Aldeburgh Festival
Revival of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, plus L'Argent by French director Robert Bresson
23 Jun 1983,28 mins
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Author Joanna Richardson, plus Percy Mtwa and Mbongeni Ngema in Woza Albert!
21 Jun 1983,28 mins
NF Simpson translates Eduardo de Filippo
English writer NF Simpson, British commercial art, and harpsichordist Heather Slade-Lipkin
17 Jun 1983,28 mins
Henry VIII with John Thaw
Director Howard Davies, The Year of Living Dangerously, and zoologist Desmond Morris
16 Jun 1983,28 mins
Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings
Norman Mailer's new novel, animation in Annecy, and German artist Anselm Kiefer
14 Jun 1983,28 mins
The Handy Man - Penelope Mortimer
A review of The Handy Man by Penelope Mortimer
10 Jun 1983,28 mins
The Dining Room by AR Gurney
Stage director Alan Strachan discusses The Dining Room, plus new book by Leonard Bernstein
09 Jun 1983,29 mins
David Bowie's World Tour
David Bowie's Serious Moonlight '83 world tour and Tony Scott's feature debut The Hunger
07 Jun 1983,28 mins
Philip Langridge is Idomeneo
Tenor Philip Langridge, plus The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire by Doris Lessing
31 May 1983,29 mins
William Least Heat-Moon talks
Interviews with US author William Least Heat-Moon and British writer Ian McEwan
27 May 1983,28 mins
Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa interviewed
Puccini, African artist John Muafangejo, and Tony Parker's People of Providence
26 May 1983,28 mins
Elia Kazan Interview
Film director Elia Kazan, musician Munir Bashir, and British ceramicist Henry Pim
24 May 1983,29 mins
Composer Sir Lennox Berkeley's 80th
Music critic Edward Greenfield, carpets in galleries, and American playwright Beth Henley
19 May 1983,28 mins
Steven Berkoff on Impossible Events
Also, Peter Ackroyd on JIM Stewart, historian MRD Foot, and Abdel-Halim Caracalla
12 May 1983,28 mins
Remembering author John Masters
Prabhu Guptara, Zimbabwean playwright Nicholas Ellenbogen, Swiss writer Adolf Muschg
10 May 1983,28 mins
Lina Wertmuller's Head of Alvise
Lina Wertmuller's first novel, Brahms' sonatas, director Nicholas Roeg on Eureka
06 May 1983,28 mins
The Chester Mystery Plays
Medieval street theatre, American soprano Elise Ross, British painter Tim Jones
05 May 1983,28 mins
Ben Kingsley Interview
Extended interview with actor Ben Kingsley about his Oscar winning performance in Gandhi
04 May 1983,28 mins
Nick Darke's Body
Playwright Nick Darke, Gore Vidal's novel Duluth, playwright Bernard Kops
03 May 1983,28 mins
Dario Fo - Mistero Buffo
Italian satirist Dario Fo's one man show at London's Riverside Studios
29 Apr 1983,28 mins
Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie
Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie: Ghanaian illustrator Meshack Asare's The Canoe Story
28 Apr 1983,28 mins
Writer-artist Raymond Briggs
Raymond Briggs on his stage adaptation of his graphic novel When the Wind Blows
26 Apr 1983,28 mins
Richard Sheridan's Rivals
Stage director Peter Wood, plus Ntozake Shange's novel Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
21 Apr 1983,28 mins
Sir Angus Wilson Interviewed
Special on Sir Angus Wilson, famed for the satirical novel Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
20 Apr 1983,28 mins
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Interview with Peter Ackroyd about his novel The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
19 Apr 1983,29 mins
Willy Russell's Blood Brothers
New British musical by Willy Russell, plus the Joyce Trisler Danscompany from New York
15 Apr 1983,29 mins