Meridian

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

World Service,2413 episodes

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Fred Zinnemann's Five Days One Summer
Five Days One Summer, novelist Rosamond Lehman, pianists Katia and Marielle Labeque
29 Oct 1982,28 mins
Philip Glass interview
Composer Philip Glass, film director Karl Francis, poet John Clare
28 Oct 1982,28 mins
Paul Theroux's The London Embassy
Wrier Paul Theroux, US film director Steven Lisberger, the music of Heinrich Schutz
26 Oct 1982,28 mins
Anthony Grey's Saigon
Writers Anthony Grey and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and singers Pete Seeger and The Weavers
22 Oct 1982,28 mins
L'Os by Birago Diop
Seneglese writer Birago Diop's play L'Os, Thomas Keneally on his novel Schindler's Ark
21 Oct 1982,28 mins
Schindler's Ark
With writer Thomas Keneally, actress Janet Suzman and artist Philip Castle
19 Oct 1982,28 mins
Constance, or, Solitary Practises
Lawrence Durrell's new novel, pianist Geoffrey Parsons and film director Martin Rosen
15 Oct 1982,29 mins
Alan Ayckbourn's Way Up Stream
Alan Ayckbourn's new play at The National plus a new biography of actor Ralph Richardson
14 Oct 1982,28 mins
PD James - The Skull Beneath the Skin
PD James talks about her new detective novel and Nicolas Nabokov celebrates Stravinsky
12 Oct 1982,28 mins
The World According to Garp
The film of John Irving's novel, plus Lent by Michael Wilcox and Bonchi by Toyoko Yamasaki
11 Oct 1982,29 mins
The Dublin Theatre Festival
With artistic director Michael Colgan, writer Hugh Leonard, and director Garry Hynes
08 Oct 1982,28 mins
John Fowles Interview
Author John Fowles, the Jubilee Art Competition, and Peter Nichol's musical play Poppy
07 Oct 1982,28 mins
On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin's On the Black Hill, plus Brian Smithies and director Peter Yates
05 Oct 1982,28 mins
William Burroughs Interview
Author William Burroughs, director Mike Figgis, and The London Sinfonietta
01 Oct 1982,28 mins
John le Carré special
First broadcast in 1982. The author discusses his life, work and characters
30 Sep 1982,28 mins
Estelle Parsons in Miss Margarida's Way
American actress Estelle Parsons, author Alan Sillitoe, and art critic Geeta Kapoor
28 Sep 1982,28 mins
Maeve Binchy Lights a Penny Candle
Author Maeve Binchy talks about her first novel Light a Penny Candle
23 Sep 1982,28 mins
New Zealand film Pictures
Pictures from New Zealand, Judi Dench, and An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
21 Sep 1982,29 mins
Cuban poet Heberto Padilla
Heberto Padilla, actors Peter Egan and John Alderton, critic and author Marina Vaizey
17 Sep 1982,28 mins
Graham Greene Talks
Graham Greene on his novel Monsignor Quixote, director Jerzy Skolimowski on Moonlighting
16 Sep 1982,28 mins
Brimstone and Treacle
Dennis Potter, Joan Plowright, Carol Churchill, and Graham Payn on Noel Coward
14 Sep 1982,28 mins
The Venice Film Festival
The State of Things by Wim Wenders, and Imperative by Krzysztof Zanussi
10 Sep 1982,29 mins
Peter Ustinov and Mussorgsky
Peter Ustinov in Mussorgsky's The Marriage, The Antonio Gades Company's Blood Wedding
09 Sep 1982,28 mins
Ivor Novello
Ivor Novello and co-star Mary Ellis, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and painter Glenn Sujo
03 Sep 1982,28 mins
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
Also, choreographer David Bintley's Swan of Tuonela and Samuel Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said
02 Sep 1982,28 mins
Remembering Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman, modern Spanish painting, a biography of singer Victoria de los Angeles
02 Sep 1982,28 mins
Edinburgh International Festival
La Compagnia Colla's Prometheus and Pietro Metastasio's opera Olympiad
31 Aug 1982,28 mins
Who Dares Wins
Film Who Dares Wins, Swiss oboist Heinz Holliger, and German satirical artist George Grosz
26 Aug 1982,28 mins
Hamlet - Post-Freudian Prince
Actor Anton Lesser, Burning an Illusion, The Blue-Eyed Shan by Stephen D Becker
20 Aug 1982,28 mins
Conan the Barbarian
Swords and sorcery as explained by John Milius who directed the film
19 Aug 1982,28 mins