Meridian

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

World Service,2413 episodes

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Lindsay Anderson directs Hamlet on stage in London
Lindsay Anderson applauds Hamlet's "extraordinary modernity of feeling and thought"
21 May 1981,29 mins
The City of Gold's Fatal Call
The Hungry Earth
20 May 1981,28 mins
William Saroyan – His Life and Times
Literary giant, writer of 'poetic shouts', novels and plays, William Saroyan, has died
20 May 1981,30 mins
Poet or criminal? How should we remember Ezra Pound?
How should Ezra Pound's fascist politics affect our appreciation of his poetry?
15 May 1981,29 mins
The World of Reggae on stage in London
The fruits of success are not all sweet for reggae star Errol in Matura's One Rule
14 May 1981,28 mins
Why the Postman always Rang Twice
News of Jack Nicholson's new film, a tribute to the late Bob Marley, the opening of Cats
12 May 1981,28 mins
The Concert Hank Williams Never Gave
Plays about Hank Williams, mystery, and miners. Plus, Robert Rauschenberg's retrospective
08 May 1981,28 mins
New Zealand Film Season
Punk-cult, political, occasionally banned, New Zealand films arrive in London
07 May 1981,28 mins
Dancing Isadora Duncan's story
A biographical ballet about radical dancer Isadora Duncan opens
05 May 1981,28 mins
Peter Ustinov is Meridian's first guest
Peter Ustinov talks about Hercule Poirot and Overheard, his play about a diplomatic affair
01 May 1981,28 mins
Black Star – Another British curtain call for Ira Aldridge
Portrait of the son of a slave who took European theatre by storm
17 Mar 1981,28 mins
Elizabeth Taylor in Little Foxes on the London stage
Will film star Elizabeth Taylor shine on the London stage in The Little Foxes?
12 Mar 1981,28 mins
The Black House by Patricia Highsmith
Interview with American novelist and short-story writer Patricia Highsmith
08 Aug 1980,28 mins