Meridian

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

World Service,2413 episodes

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Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian artist Vladimir Mayakovsky and The National Theatre's Guys and Dolls
11 Mar 1982,28 mins
The Adelaide Festival of Arts
Signal Driver by Patrick White and A Map of the World by David Hare
09 Mar 1982,28 mins
On Golden Pond
Director Mark Rydell, Peter Maxwell Davies, and novel Helliconia Spring by Brian Aldiss
05 Mar 1982,28 mins
The Opening of the Barbican
With actor Ian McKellen, oboist Anthony Camden, and art critic Richard Cork
04 Mar 1982,28 mins
Warren Beatty and Reds
Warren Beatty's Reds and Ian Carr's book about Miles Davis
02 Mar 1982,28 mins
Absence of Malice
Sydney Pollack's Absence of Malice and Daniel Day-Lewis in How Many Miles to Babylon?
26 Feb 1982,28 mins
The 32nd Berlin Film Festival
Prokofiev's film scores, German artist Kathe Kollwitz, and novelist Robert McCrum
25 Feb 1982,28 mins
Christopher Hampton with Adolf Hitler
Christopher Hampton talks about The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.
23 Feb 1982,28 mins
Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills
Kazuo Ishiguro talks about his debut novel
19 Feb 1982,29 mins
Hong Kong International Arts Festival
The Phoenix Calling on Mount Qi by the Shanghai Dance Company is discussed
18 Feb 1982,28 mins
Centenary of James Joyce
Celebration of James Joyce and Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs by Irina Nijinska
16 Feb 1982,29 mins
Coco Chanel in Chanel Solitaire
New film Chanel Solitaire about Parisian fashion designer Coco Chanel
12 Feb 1982,28 mins
Operation Bad Apple
Operation Bad Apple by G F Newman at the Royal Court and Sir Edwin Landseer at The Tate
11 Feb 1982,28 mins
Skirmishes by Catherine Hayes
A play, Skirmishes by Catherine Hayes, plus the novel Angel of Light by Joyce Carol Oates
09 Feb 1982,28 mins
David Plant is in The Woods
Writer David Plant, Mozart's unfinished opera Zaide, plus English painter Ivon Hitchens
04 Feb 1982,28 mins
Mazes and Monsters
Mazes and Monsters by Rona Jaffe, the film Ticket to Heaven, and music from Fela Kuti
02 Feb 1982,28 mins
Dame Rebecca West
Celebrating the life and work of British-Irish writer and feminist Dame Rebecca West
31 Jan 1982,28 mins
Edward Bond's Summer
Edward Bond's play Summer, James Thurber's letters, and Cutter's Way with Jeff Bridges
29 Jan 1982,28 mins
The Standard West End Theatre Awards
London Standard theatre awards, playwright Peter Nichols, and pianist Bernard d'Ascoli
28 Jan 1982,28 mins
Carel Weight in the Studio
Painter Carel Weight, composer John Duarte and Philemon es Baucis (dir by Karoly Makk)
26 Jan 1982,28 mins
The Woman Next Door by Francois Truffaut
La Femme d'a Cote by Francois Truffaut, and Down to the Boilerhouse at the V&A
22 Jan 1982,28 mins
Guy Woolfenden - Alarums and Excursions
RSC musical director Guy Woolfenden, Art and the Sea at the ICA, and Dancing England
21 Jan 1982,28 mins
To the Honourable Miss S... and Other Stories
Ret Marut aka B Traven, Manuel Felguerez, and Body Heat by Lawrence Kasdan
19 Jan 1982,28 mins
Interview with Jean-Pierre Lefebvre
Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, John Updike, and Scottish Opera with Francesco Cavalli
15 Jan 1982,28 mins
George Cukor - Rich and Famous
Jacqueline Bisset, The Academy of Ancient Music, and Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare
14 Jan 1982,28 mins
Camera Buff by Krzysztof Kieslowski
The Camera Buff, and Genetha, the final novel in Roy Heath's The Georgetown Trilogy
12 Jan 1982,28 mins
Lili Marleen - The Song That Became a Legend
Film Lili Marleen by Fassbinder and novel The Bleaching Yard by Tarjei Vesaas
08 Jan 1982,28 mins
The Proud Ones by Claude Chabrol
Le Cheval d'Orgueil, Talley's Folly and Barbara Trapido's Brother of the More Famous Jack
08 Jan 1982,28 mins
Opera Factory
Harrison Birtwistle's Punch and Judy, Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fe, Peter Weir's Gallipoli
07 Jan 1982,28 mins
Swan's Down to Heavy Metal
Playwright Bille Brown discusses The Swan Down Gloves, and the poems of Odysseus Elytis
05 Jan 1982,28 mins