Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Waiting for Love in Commmunist China
Prize-winning novelist Ha Jin talks about writing in English about love and life in China
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Waiting For Godot
A celebration of Samuel Beckett’s revolutionary play, 50 years after it was first performe
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Wagner starring Richard Burton
New film about composer Richard Wagner directed by Tony Palmer and starring Richard Burton
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Wagner and a family history
How controversy has dogged the Bayreuth festival, which celebrates the work of Wagner
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VS Naipaul's Finding The Centre
Interview with writer VS Naipaul about his latest novel Finding The Centre
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Voices of contemporary Turkish Fiction
What contemporary Turkish novelists are writing about
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Vocal cords
The art of singing, including avant garde singer Linda Hurst
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Vladimir Spivakov – A Life Devoted to Music
Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conducto talks about his career and vision
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Vladimir Nabokov
A celebration of the world-class Russian-American writer
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Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian artist Vladimir Mayakovsky and The National Theatre's Guys and Dolls
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Vladimir Ashkenazy interview
The life and work of the Russian born conductor and virtuoso pianist
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Vittorio Gassman in Avignon
Interviews with Italian actor Vittorio Gassman and US theatre director Lee Breuer
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Violence in Films
Discussion on violence in films. Is there a case for regulation and censorship?
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Vincenzo Bellini's The Capulets and the Montagues
Review of Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi at London's Royal Opera House
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Vikram Seth interview
The Indian author talks about his novel An Equal Music
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View from the Eye of Desert Storm
Maj Gen Patrick Cordingley talks about his Gulf War diaries
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Vietnam War Films in London
The London Film Festival's first season of films devoted to the Vietnam War
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Vienna
A special programme on Vienna
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Video games
How the video game industry is threatening traditional entertainment such as cinema and TV
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Verna Herzog and Sir Peter Hall
Interviews with Sir Peter Hall and Verna Herzog
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Verdi's opera Attila
English conductor Edward Downes on his new production of Verdi's opera Attila
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Verdi's Life in Love and Politics
Politics, love affairs and music – the later years and work of composer Giuseppe Verdi
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Verdi floats on success at Bregenz Festival
Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera takes place on a fantastical floating stage
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Venice Biennale
A report from contemporary art exhibition Venice Biennale
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Venice Biennale
With German designer and painter Hans Hacker and English painter Richard Hamilton
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Venice - a Celebration
A look at Venice in the 16th Century, its so-called golden age
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Vanessa Redgrave interview
British actress Vanessa Redgrave on inviting the Russian Vakhtangov Theatre to London
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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
What makes Vincent Van Gogh’s much-loved still life a masterpiece?
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Van Dyck exhibition
A step back in time to the 17th century
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Vaclav Havel and the fall of communism
What role did the arts play in the downfall of communism in Czechoslovakia?