Meridian

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

World Service,2413 episodes

Episodes

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The Tempest with Mark Rylance
Director Ron Daniels, Mark Rylance sings, and violin concertos by Anne-Sophie Mutter
17 Aug 1982,28 mins
Tribute to Henry Fonda
Tribute Henry Fonda with director Lindsay Anderson and writer and critic Clancy Sigal
14 Aug 1982,28 mins
Vittorio Gassman in Avignon
Interviews with Italian actor Vittorio Gassman and US theatre director Lee Breuer
10 Aug 1982,28 mins
Patrick White
Australian author and Nobel Prize winner, Patrick White, talks about his life and work
09 Aug 1982,28 mins
Cathy Berberian and the Sound of Women
Cathy Berberian and Giovanna Marini discuss their choice of songs
06 Aug 1982,28 mins
Oh What a Paradise it Seems
Nina Bawden reviews John Cheever, plus the work of American composer Dave Grusin
05 Aug 1982,29 mins
The Paris Opera Ballet
Choreographer Pierre Lacotte talks about his recreation of La Sylphide
03 Aug 1982,29 mins
Linda Kitson war-artist
War-artist Linda Kitson on her experience in the Falklands war
30 Jul 1982,28 mins
The Method of Zoltan Kodaly
The work of Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly and interview with artist Zsuzsi Roboz
29 Jul 1982,28 mins
Capital Jazz Festival
With Chico Freeman, Wynton Marsalis, music from Sippie Wallace and the Modern Jazz Quartet
27 Jul 1982,28 mins
The Wall by Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd's rock album The Wall becomes a film and divides critics
20 Jul 1982,28 mins
Hector Berlioz's The Trojans
Opera singer Jessye Norman, and Pan Tianshou at the Royal Academy in London
17 Jul 1982,28 mins
Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo
Film Fitzcarraldo, actor Kenneth Moore, playwright Terry Johnson, pianist Peter Donohoe
15 Jul 1982,30 mins
Sir Christopher Wren
Looking at the three careers of Sir Christopher Wren: astronomer, politician, architect
13 Jul 1982,28 mins
Annie - the movie
Private Dick by Richard Maher and Roger Michell, Douglas Fairbanks Jr on Duke Ellington
09 Jul 1982,28 mins
Intrepid Women - Mary Kingsley and Isabella Bird
Mary Kingsley and Isabella Bird
08 Jul 1982,28 mins
The Royal Shakespeare Company - the book
Sally Bowman's book, Peter Hall and Vanessa Redgrave, Adrian Noble on Henrik Ibsen
02 Jul 1982,28 mins
Two King Lears
Directors Adrian Noble and Barry Kyle on Shakespeare's and Edward Bond's King Lear
01 Jul 1982,28 mins
Tribute to Rainer Fassbinder
Tribute to late German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder with actor Dieter Schidor
29 Jun 1982,28 mins
Rudolf Nureyev
Interviews with Rudolf Nureyev, author David Storey, and playwright Pam Gems
25 Jun 1982,28 mins
Don Quixote by Keith Dewhurst
Playwright Keith Dewhurst, author Tamas Aczel's Illuminations, and composer John Mayer
24 Jun 1982,28 mins
Berenice by Jean Racine
Sheila Gish, The National Theatre in Athens, French musician Jacques Loussie
22 Jun 1982,28 mins
Dreyfus by Jean-Claude Grumberg
Theatre director Nancy Meckler, choreographer Jonathan Taylor, director Christopher Monger
18 Jun 1982,29 mins
Dame Marie Rambert
The Venice Biennale, British film Remembrance, and new ballet by Kenneth Macmillan
15 Jun 1982,28 mins
Hollywood Makes Love
Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o and playwright Peter Flannery on Our Friends in the North
12 Jun 1982,28 mins
Brazilian TV in London
Trevor Griffiths on his TV play Oi For England and short stories by John Buchan
11 Jun 1982,29 mins
Tomorrow's Warrior
Director Michael Papas, illustrator Tom Phillips, Trevor Nunn and Patrick Stewart
10 Jun 1982,28 mins
The Man Who Could Not Keep His Mouth Shut
Guyanese writer Roy Heath, The Treasures of Ancient Nigeria, and A Woman Called Golda
05 Jun 1982,28 mins
The Essays of William Golding
The photographs of Bill Brandt and Britannia Hospital by director Lindsay Anderson
04 Jun 1982,28 mins
Shoot the Moon
Programme includes director Alan Parker, singer Robyn Archer and novelist Malcolm Bradbury
03 Jun 1982,28 mins