Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa was a prominent Japanese filmmaker, film producer, and screenwriter
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V.S. Naipaul and Arthur Koestler
Attacks on the reputation of two giants
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Charles Dickens - Hard Times
Discussing Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times
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Booker Prize for Fiction
Nick Rankin reports from the Booker Prize for Fiction ceremony
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The 30th Booker Prize
The winner of the 30th Booker Prize for Fiction, Ian McEwan
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Magnus Mills - The Restraint of Beasts
Magnus Mills talks about his first novel The Restraint of Beasts
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Antony and Cleopatra analysed
A look at Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra
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George Bernard 's Pygmalion
A look at the life of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion
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Aga Khan Award - architecture
Winners announced for The Aga Khan Award for architecture
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Iris Murdoch
The husband of writer Iris Murdoch chronicles her descent into dementia
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Iraq arts festival
A report on an arts festival in Iraq
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Jose Saramago - winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
An interview with the translator of Portuguese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Censorship and the Thai film industry
As the first Thai film festival ends, a look at the subject of censorship in Thailand
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Penelope Fitzgerald
This programme examines Penelope Fitzgerald, who was an English poet, novelist and biographer
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Steven Spielberg
A documentary on Steven Spielberg
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Country music
How country music is taking the charts and silver screen by storm
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How to write
How do novelists physically write?
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Octavio Paz
A tribute to the Mexican writer Octavio Paz
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Ben Elton - Blast from the Past
A review of Ben Elton's novel Blast From the Past
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A week of awards - Venice, Emmy and MTV MVA
A week of awards
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Stephen King
Profile of author Stephen Edwin King
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Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger was an American Academy Award-winning actor known for his intense performances
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Turandot staged in China
A review of a spectacular production of Puccini's opera in Beijing's Forbidden City
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Jonathan Swift
Victoria Glendinning talks about her biography of the author of Gulliver's Travels
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Ben Okri interview
An in-depth conversation with the Nigerian writer who won the Booker Prize aged 32
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Amit Chaudhuri interview
The Indian writer talks about Freedom Song, plus Stephen King and Sebastian Faulks
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Shanghai's Grand Theatre
A review of Shanghai's new venue which seats 1800 people
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Douglas Kennedy interview
The American writer talks about his novel The Job, which follows a unemployed salesman
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London's Notting Hill Carnival
The history of the annual event which has become Europe's biggest largest public gathering
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David Williamson: a profile
The life and work of one of Australia's most popular playwrights
