Meridian

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

World Service,2413 episodes

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Delhi Film Festival
With Chidananda Dasgupta and directors Utpalendu Chakrabarty, Shekhar Kapur, Sai Paranjpye
21 Jan 1983,28 mins
JM Coetzee's Dustlands
Impact Theatre Co-operative's Useful Vices, Frank Zappa on his album The Man From Utopia
20 Jan 1983,28 mins
Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Baroque painter Bartolome Murillo, organist Jennifer Bate, film director Yilmaz Guney
18 Jan 1983,28 mins
Wise Virgin
AN Wilson's novel Wise Virgin, choreographer Frederick Ashton on new ballet Pas de Legumes
11 Jan 1983,28 mins
British Sculptor Raymond Mason
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Black Music, director Ken Loach's film Looks and Smiles
06 Jan 1983,28 mins
The Best Thrillers of 1982
Among them are The Skull Beneath the Skin by PD James and Banker by Dick Francis
04 Jan 1983,28 mins
A Look Back at 1982
Reviewing the arts of 1982 including the opening of the Barbican Centre in London
31 Dec 1982,29 mins
Julie Andrews
The life and work of singer Julie Andrews including an extensive interview with the star
29 Dec 1982,28 mins
Trail of the Pink Panther
Film director Blake Edwards, musical Jack Shepherd's Back, writer-composer Charles Strouse
23 Dec 1982,28 mins
Arthur Rubinstein
Classical pianist Arthur Rubinstein, plus Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend from The Who
21 Dec 1982,28 mins
Children's Books Special
Studio discussion with bookseller Fiona Walters and author and teacher Chris Harling
18 Dec 1982,28 mins
Martin Sherman's Messiah
Playwright Martin Sherman, landscape designer Humphrey Repton, musician Alistair Anderson
16 Dec 1982,29 mins
Graham Reed's Sweet Sixteen
Playwright Graham Reed, Edward Gordon Craig exhibition, and director Jayne Loader
14 Dec 1982,28 mins
Nella Bielski in the studio
Ukrainian author Nella Bielski on her novel Oranges for the Son of Alexander Levy
10 Dec 1982,29 mins
The Royal Opera House Centenary
With conductor Bruno Walter, singer Lotte Lehmann and dancer Tamara Karsavina
09 Dec 1982,28 mins
Cartoon Culture
With British artists Gerald Scarfe, Posy Simmonds, Michael Heath, and Geoffrey Dickinson
07 Dec 1982,28 mins
Gandhi, the film
Correspondent Mark Tully and director Richard Attenborough on Gandhi's reception in India
03 Dec 1982,28 mins
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bill Bryden
Stage director Bill Bryden, sculptor Henry Moore, and musician Eddy Grant
02 Dec 1982,28 mins
Robert Graves Special
Includes interviews with Graves, biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, and multiple excerpts
30 Nov 1982,28 mins
The Three Travels of Aladin
The Three Travels of Aladin With the Magic Lamp by American playwright Elizabeth Swados
30 Nov 1982,28 mins
Polish film Vabank
London Film Festival, violinist Anthony Ritchie, Alan Bennett's Objects of Affection
26 Nov 1982,28 mins
French actress Sarah Bernhardt
Dorothy Tutin and Russell Hunter on their roles in Ronald Harwood's play After the Lions
23 Nov 1982,32 mins
Yakety-Yak - Leiber and Stoller
New 50s musical, plus interviews with writer Stephen Spender and artist David Hockney
19 Nov 1982,28 mins
Neil Jordan's Angel
Irish writer/director Neil Jordan on his film Angel, starring Stephen Rea
18 Nov 1982,28 mins
The Best of Sci-fi Writing
Stage director Mike Ockrent, composer Michael Nyman and director Peter Greenaway
16 Nov 1982,28 mins
Dance Umbrella in London
Interviews with Bill T Jones, Geoffrey Burgon, and Emilyn Claid
12 Nov 1982,30 mins
A Borstal Girl
Writer/director Mai Zetterling, Indian author RK Narayan, new stage-play Hard Feelings
11 Nov 1982,28 mins
Channel 4 launch special
Report on the launch of new British national TV network Channel 4
09 Nov 1982,28 mins
Anthony Burgess talks - and sings!
Writer Anthony Burgess on his novel The End of the World News
04 Nov 1982,28 mins
The Hard Shoulder
New play by Stephen Fagan, Jordanian artists Princess Wijdan Ali and Muhanna Durra
02 Nov 1982,28 mins