Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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International Film Festival of India
How Hydrabad played host to the festival which featured a film market for the first time
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Berlin's Holocaust Memorial
The architect Peter Eisenman talks about a new plan for the memorial
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Samuel Shem's Mount Misery
A psychiatrist and a writer reviews the American writer and psychiatrist's novel
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Indian International Film Festival
Film critic Lalit Joshi reports from the wide-ranging festival in Hyderabad
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Northern Irish novelist Brian Moore
Professor Bob Welsh from the Univeristy of Ulster talks about the Irish author
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European Capital of Culture 1999: Weimar, Germany
Gabriele Gerecke talks about why the German city has been chosen
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John Updike's novel Bech at Bay
The author and critic Stephen Amidon talks about the American writer's work
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How do art thieves get away with it?
How are thieves able to sell on famous paintings?
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The London Book Fair
A report from the annual international fair attended by 45 countries
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Jane Smiley - Pulitzer prize winner
A feature-length programme on the novelist Jane Smiley
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Alvin Ailey
A documentary on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Golden Globe nominations
Hollywood's Golden Globe film nominations are announced
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Review of the year - 1998
A look back at the arts that provided the backdrop to the 12 months that was 1998
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Interview with screenwriter and author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Alice Monro - The Love of a Good Woman
A review of Alice Monro's The Love of a Good Woman
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Nicole Kidman in The Blue Room
Nicole Kidman makes her Broadway debut in The Blue Room
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Lillibullero
A special feature on the music Lilliburllero', a 17th-century English political song
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Chris Ofili - winner of the Turner Prize
This year's Turner Prize winner is announced
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Japanese film in Korea
A Japanese movie showing in Korean theatres for the first time
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Rudolf Nureyev biography
First full length biography on ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev is published
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Antoni Gaudi
Documentary on Antoni Gaudi a Spanish Catalan architect, one of the most noted in Spain
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The War of the Worlds
Feature on The War Of The Worlds by H. G Wells
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C.S Lewis - centenary
A celebration of 100 years since the death of C.S Lewis
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Censorship in music
Music banning debate at the first international conference on music and censorship
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Tom Wolfe - A Man in Full
Review of new novel A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
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The Colour Purple
A review of the making of The Colour Purple, adapted from the novel by Alice Walker
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The Art of the Essay
How are essays defined?
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African and Oceanic art
A sale of African and Oceanic art in London is discussed
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Lorrie Moore
US writer Lorrie Moore talks about her collection of short stories - Birds of America
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French Literary prize winner
The winner of a French literary prize
