Meridian

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

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Biography of Luchino Visconti
Also, Prokofiev's Love Of Three Oranges, and Pope John Paul's The Jeweller's Shop
01 Jun 1982,28 mins
35th Cannes Film Festival.
With directors Yilmaz Guney, Karoly Makk, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Ken Cameron
28 May 1982,28 mins
Costa-Gavras' Missing
Costa-Gavras, poet Andrew Motion and Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance
27 May 1982,28 mins
Murder at the Red October
Playwright Melissa Murray, composer Gara Garayev and writer Dennis Potter
25 May 1982,28 mins
Macbeth - King Hereafter
Interviews with author Dorothy Dunnett, pianist Mitsuko Uchida and actor Jack Lemmon
21 May 1982,28 mins
The Malvern Festival
Interviews with director Clifford Williams, and composer Antony Hopkins
20 May 1982,28 mins
Ralph Steadman on Hunter S Thompson
Interviews with Ralph Steadman, Richard Pankhurst and Peter Maxwell Davies
13 May 1982,28 mins
Festival - Women Live
German director Helma Sanders-Brahms talking about her film No Mercy No Future
11 May 1982,28 mins
Bernard MacLaverty - A Time to Dance
Writer Bernard MacLaverty, Christ Stopped at Eboli, and Jean Michel Jarre
06 May 1982,28 mins
Pavarotti in Verdi
Luciano Pavarotti's London Gala Concert and Pip Simmons Theatre Group's Can't Sit Still
04 May 1982,28 mins
The Grass is Singing
Director Michael Raeburn talks about his film version of Doris Lessing's book
30 Apr 1982,31 mins
Irish feminist film Maeve
New film by Pat Murphy and John Davies plus Ralph Manheim, Gunter Grass's translator
29 Apr 1982,28 mins
The Joke Collector
Playwright Michael Beckham, Dame Celia Johnson, Young Musician of the Year Anna Markland
27 Apr 1982,28 mins
Derek Jacobi Talks About Nothing
Derek Jacobi, Robert Nye and Schlondorff's film Circle of Deceit
22 Apr 1982,28 mins
Felicity Palmer as Agrippina
Felicity Palmer in Handel, Thomas Mann biography and Julian Lloyd Webber's Cello Man
20 Apr 1982,28 mins
Japanese Butoh Dance Company
Plus, Julian Barnes' Before She Met Me and CP Taylor's Bring Me Sunshine, Bring Me Smiles
16 Apr 1982,28 mins
Das Boot - Jurgen Prochnow
German war film Das Boot, Trinidadian playwright Mustapha Matura
13 Apr 1982,28 mins
Marina Warner Interview
Interview with Marina Warner about her new novel The Skating Party
08 Apr 1982,28 mins
Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria
Plus, an exhibition of paintings by Edward Burra, and novel Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord
06 Apr 1982,28 mins
New production of Macbeth
Macbeth, directed by Howard Davis, with Bob Peck and Sara Kestelman,
02 Apr 1982,28 mins
In the Image of Man
AS Byatt reviews Celeste plus Jonathan Spence talks about The Gate of Heavenly Peace
01 Apr 1982,28 mins
Philoctetes by Sophocles
Review of Philoctetes by Sophocles at Saul Bellow's new novel The Dean's December
30 Mar 1982,28 mins
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Brian Clark discusses the screen adaptation of his play Whose Life Is It Anyway
26 Mar 1982,28 mins
Jonathan Miller
Special edition on satirist, writer, director, and scientist Dr Jonathan Miller
25 Mar 1982,28 mins
Edna O'Brien
Irish novelist Edna O'Brien and a discussion of artists Tina Modotti and Frida Kahlo
23 Mar 1982,28 mins
The Festival of India
Singer MS Subbulakshmi, musician Ravi Shankar and English illustrator Raymond Briggs
23 Mar 1982,28 mins
South Korean Special
Film director Lee Doo-yon, leading writer Yi Mun-yol and the Korean National Theatre
18 Mar 1982,29 mins
Cannes Film Festival
Turkish film director Yılmaz Guney, plus the work of British artist Graham Sutherland
18 Mar 1982,28 mins
The Adelaide Festival
Featuring artistic director Jim Sharman and former premier of South Australia Don Dunstan
18 Mar 1982,30 mins
Ballet Rambert, Berlin Requiem
Choreographer Christopher Bruce plus the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch company
16 Mar 1982,28 mins