Meridian

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

World Service,2413 episodes

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Manganinnie - The First Tasmanian Feature Film
Sheridan Morley reviews Manganinnie about an Aboriginal woman searching for her tribe
01 Jan 1982,28 mins
A Look Back at 1981
From Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927) to Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children
01 Jan 1982,28 mins
Pantomime Time
A new version of Aladdin, John Inman's Mother Goose, and Captain Beaky by Jeremy Lloyd
24 Dec 1981,28 mins
Crime, Punishment and the Thriller
Crime writer Ed McBain, the film Eye of the Needle, and the letters of Raymond Chandler
22 Dec 1981,28 mins
Sir Frederic Ashton – Illuminations
Sir Frederic Ashton, Twiggy's Eliza Doolittle and Richard Bonynge's The Beggar's Opera
21 Dec 1981,28 mins
Lady in the Dark – Psychiatric Musical
A revival of the 1940s musical Lady in the Dark is reviewed by Sheridan Morely
18 Dec 1981,28 mins
Thirty Years of British Sculpture
Art critic Marina Vaizey discusses recent trends in British sculpture
17 Dec 1981,28 mins
Sam Shepard's True West
Bob Hoskins and Anthony Sher in Shepard's True West, plus violinist Manuk Parikian
15 Dec 1981,28 mins
Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City
Director Sidney Lumet, and United Kingdom, a television play by Jim Allan
11 Dec 1981,28 mins
Bertolucci's La Tragedia Di Un Uomo Ridicolo
Bernardo Bertolucci, Anouk Aimee, and the short stories of Stefan Zweig
10 Dec 1981,28 mins
Society of West End Theatre Awards
Wins include Michael Crawford, Mark Medoff and film director John Schlesinger
08 Dec 1981,28 mins
Terry Johnson's Days Here So Dark
Plus James Joyce's Odyssey by Frank Delaney, and World Service by Anthony Moore
04 Dec 1981,28 mins
Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens
Architect Edwin Lutyens, talking with Elisabeth Lutyens, plus a new book by Alan Paton
03 Dec 1981,28 mins
Dame Janet Baker - Final Curtain
Dame Janet Baker in Gluck's Alceste, Glauber Rocha, and a tribute to Lottie Lenya
01 Dec 1981,28 mins
Playing The Game by Jeffrey Thomas
Playing The Game by Jeffrey Thomas and the ENO's Debussy's Pelleas and Melisande
27 Nov 1981,29 mins
The Art of Caricature
Nicholas Garland, Brian Glover interviewed and the work of US composer Aaron Copland.
26 Nov 1981,28 mins
25th London Film Festival
Composer Carl Davis, Swiss director Alain Tanner, and Hong Kong director Allen Fong
24 Nov 1981,28 mins
De Niro, Duvall and True Confessions
True Confessions, writer Hector Monroe ('Saki'), and Dame Peggy Ashcroft
20 Nov 1981,28 mins
Julian Mitchell - Another Country
Julian Mitchell, Bengali art, plus the songs of Rimsky-Korsakov with Galina Vishnevskaya
17 Nov 1981,28 mins
Brideshead Revisited – on TV
Jeremy Irons on Brideshead Revisited and a new novel by Maureen Duffy
12 Nov 1981,28 mins
Hanif Kureishi's Borderline
Hanif Kureishi's play Borderline, Placido Domingo sings pop music
10 Nov 1981,28 mins
Stephen Poliakoff's Favourite Nights
Stephen Poliakoff, Kingsley Amis, and a new album by oboist Malcolm Messiter
06 Nov 1981,28 mins
Arthur Miller - All My Sons
Arthur Miller's All My Sons, playwright John Osborne, and an exhibition of Nicolas Poussin
05 Nov 1981,28 mins
Asian Arts in Hong Kong
Asian Festival of the Arts, The Orchestra Conductor, and Sardines by Nuruddin Farah
03 Nov 1981,28 mins
Kipling's India
Kipling's India, Juan Martin, AN Wilson, and the paintings of Patrick Caulfield
30 Oct 1981,28 mins
Japanese Cultural Festival in London
Novelist Francis King reviews the The Great Japan Exhibition at the Royal Academy
29 Oct 1981,29 mins
The Whitbread Awards
Maurice Leitch's Silver City and Jane Gardam's The Hollow Land are both Whitebread winners
27 Oct 1981,28 mins
Shared Experience and The Seagull
Shared Experience's The Seagull by Chekhov is reviewed by Robert Cushman
23 Oct 1981,28 mins
Rushdie Wins Booker Prize
Midnight's Children wins the Booker Prize and its author Salman Rushdie is interviewed
22 Oct 1981,28 mins
Martin Sherman's Cracks
Michael Coveney reviews two plays: Martin Sherman's Cracks and Ellen Dryden's Harvest
20 Oct 1981,28 mins