Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice, directed by Alan J. Pakula; An exciting record which is the collaboration between brass players in France and Britain, conducted by Richard Harvey; new novel by Ruth Prawer, In Search of Love and Beauty.
14 Apr 1983,·28 mins
Yehudi Menuhin on his International Violin Competition plus winner Leland Chen
12 Apr 1983,·28 mins
British stage comedy The Messiah plus David Wheldon's first novel The Viaduct
08 Apr 1983,·28 mins
Michael Elliot on directing Laurence Olivier in King Lear for British television
07 Apr 1983,·28 mins
Michael Billington, Waldemar Januszczak, and Tim Radford - report on their visit to Moscow
05 Apr 1983,·28 mins
Review of John le Carre's The Little Drummer Girl, plus British sculptor Anthony Caro
29 Mar 1983,·28 mins
Author Russell Hoban, plus critic Marina Vaizey on Polish artist Gershon Iskowitz
25 Mar 1983,·28 mins
The diaries of Siegfried Sassoon and British war correspondent Michael Nicholson
22 Mar 1983,·28 mins
Tribute to Dame Rebecca West, Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset at the National Theatre
17 Mar 1983,·28 mins
Behind the scenes of Alfred de Musset's play Lorenzaccio directed by Michael Bogdanov
15 Mar 1983,·28 mins
Publisher Granta 7 teams up with Penguin to showcase young British novelists
10 Mar 1983,·28 mins
The Moscow Art Theatre's first London performance in 19 years, Uncle Vanya
03 Mar 1983,·29 mins
No Place on Earth and A Model Childhood, two books by East German writer Christa Wolf
03 Mar 1983,·28 mins
Includes interviews with directors Judit Elek, Zsolt Kezdi-Kovacs and Miklos Jancso
01 Mar 1983,·28 mins
Director Richard Benjamin on film My Favorite Year, writer Douglas Harman on Kurt Weill
Review of Scorsese's The King of Comedy and feminist author Sara Maitland's short stories
India's performing arts and culture and the work of the Sangeet Natak Akademi
23 Feb 1983,·28 mins
English translation of Milan Kundera's modern Czechoslovakian novel The Joke
22 Feb 1983,·28 mins
Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman
18 Feb 1983,·28 mins
Musician Laurie Anderson, actress Jane Lapotaire, and writer Kurt Vonnegut
17 Feb 1983,·28 mins
The Tempest directed by Paul Mazursky, and 18th Century Irish painter James Barry
15 Feb 1983,·28 mins
The first women to elected to the Academie Francaise, Marguerite Yourcenar
11 Feb 1983,·28 mins
Novelist Bernard MacLaverty's Cal, and an exhibition of British pop artist Peter Blake
10 Feb 1983,·28 mins
English painter Wyndham Lewis, plus Cologne Opera's The Secret Marriage by Cimarosa
08 Feb 1983,·28 mins
Includes director Robert Knights, writer/director Mike Leigh and actress Marion Bailey
04 Feb 1983,·28 mins
Writer Stanley Middleton, Italian furniture exhibition, German film director Wim Wenders
03 Feb 1983,·28 mins
Film director James Ivory and critic Prabhu Guptara, plus French pianist Cecile Ousset
01 Feb 1983,·28 mins
Franz Lehar's operetta, plus actor Roshan Seth on A Map of the World by David Hare
28 Jan 1983,·29 mins
PD James on Patricia Highsmith, travel writer Eric Newby, and The Battle of Algiers
27 Jan 1983,·28 mins
Director David Pountney on his production of The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky
25 Jan 1983,·28 mins
