Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
The painters and poets of Wales, and the thrilling sounds of the Royal National Eisteddfod
04 Aug 1981,·28 mins
Zimbabwe sculptures, and sculptor Joseph Ndandarika, arrive in London
31 Jul 1981,·28 mins
Actors Robert Lindsay and Ron Cooke discuss their parts in How I Got That Story
28 Jul 1981,·28 mins
Radical playwright and comic moralist Edward Bond on Restoration, his musical play
27 Jul 1981,·30 mins
A special edition on the Romantics Festival on London's South Bank
23 Jul 1981,·28 mins
Howard Brenton on the life and work of Georg Buchner
22 Jul 1981,·28 mins
Handel sonatas in historic buildings by English Heritage
21 Jul 1981,·29 mins
Alec McCowen turns a two-hour Bible reading into a gripping one-man show
17 Jul 1981,·28 mins
Cool documentary-style photos hang next to wild experimental colour
16 Jul 1981,·28 mins
Peter Schaffer's Amadeus has not only been around the world but to Broadway – and back
14 Jul 1981,·28 mins
The Mermaid Theatre reopens, rebuilt along with swathes of the London skyline
10 Jul 1981,·28 mins
Heroics or melodrama? Terry Hands' RSC production of Troilus and Cressida reviewed
09 Jul 1981,·28 mins
Artists in Norwich weave modern narratives using an ancient art
07 Jul 1981,·29 mins
David Hockney on his contribution to the Artist's Eye series at the National Gallery
02 Jul 1981,·28 mins
Dilip Hiro reviews And Quiet Rolls the Dawn by director Mrinal Sen
26 Jun 1981,·29 mins
The measures taken to make James Bond appeal to younger viewers
25 Jun 1981,·28 mins
Sheridan Morley reviews a bawdy comedy by Shakespeare contemporary Thomas Dekker
23 Jun 1981,·28 mins
Pink Floyd concerts in London, playwright Edward Bond's new play The Worlds, Zen Buddhist one man show at the Almeida. Presenter: Jim Hiley.
19 Jun 1981,·29 mins
International theatre companies join German ones in Cologne for Theater der Welt '81
18 Jun 1981,·29 mins
Ghouls, giants, goblins and fairies populate the pages of a new book of English folk tales
16 Jun 1981,·28 mins
"There's a sucker born every minute," sings Michael Crawford as the showman P.T.Barnum
12 Jun 1981,·28 mins
Love and rivallry play out in The Competition, a film about finalists in a piano contest
11 Jun 1981,·28 mins
Amadeus and Piaf bag top Tony Awards in New York
09 Jun 1981,·28 mins
The Swashbuckler portrayed a romantic, cinematic world of witty gallantry and honour
06 Jun 1981,·29 mins
Science poetry not science fiction is one critic's description of JG Ballard's new novel
05 Jun 1981,·28 mins
The suffering of Russian Jews under the Nazis shocked Russian readers of Heavy Sand
04 Jun 1981,·28 mins
The aristocratic outlaw returns to Nottingham in a new, immersive production
02 Jun 1981,·29 mins
Should Western museums return important cultural objects to their countries of origin?
01 Jun 1981,·28 mins
On Stage '81, the first Toronto theatre festival is the biggest ever held in North America
29 May 1981,·29 mins
Events and attractions of the 1981 Bath Festival
26 May 1981,·31 mins
