Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Portrait Miniatures at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Exhibition of 16th Century English portrait miniatures, plus the Houston Ballet
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Franz Liszt
Liszt biographer Alan Walker, theatre director William Gaskill and film Pauline a la Plage
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Light Dimensions in Bath
An exhibition of holograms in Bath, England, plus American director Francis Ford Coppola
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Andre Previn
Brian Matthew talks to the musician, composer, and Oscar winner in a 1983 interview
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Edouard Manet at the Grand Palais
Presenter Waldemar Januszczak reports on the French art scene
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Buried Inside Extra - Joe Papp
American stage director Jo Papp, art critic Marina Vaizey, Dutch author Jona Oberski
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Katharine Hepburn
The life and career of American actress Katharine Hepburn
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The 36th Aldeburgh Festival
Revival of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, plus L'Argent by French director Robert Bresson
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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Author Joanna Richardson, plus Percy Mtwa and Mbongeni Ngema in Woza Albert!
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NF Simpson translates Eduardo de Filippo
English writer NF Simpson, British commercial art, and harpsichordist Heather Slade-Lipkin
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Henry VIII with John Thaw
Director Howard Davies, The Year of Living Dangerously, and zoologist Desmond Morris
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Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings
Norman Mailer's new novel, animation in Annecy, and German artist Anselm Kiefer
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The Handy Man - Penelope Mortimer
A review of The Handy Man by Penelope Mortimer
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The Dining Room by AR Gurney
Stage director Alan Strachan discusses The Dining Room, plus new book by Leonard Bernstein
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David Bowie's World Tour
David Bowie's Serious Moonlight '83 world tour and Tony Scott's feature debut The Hunger
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Philip Langridge is Idomeneo
Tenor Philip Langridge, plus The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire by Doris Lessing
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William Least Heat-Moon talks
Interviews with US author William Least Heat-Moon and British writer Ian McEwan
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Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa interviewed
Puccini, African artist John Muafangejo, and Tony Parker's People of Providence
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Elia Kazan Interview
Film director Elia Kazan, musician Munir Bashir, and British ceramicist Henry Pim
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Composer Sir Lennox Berkeley's 80th
Music critic Edward Greenfield, carpets in galleries, and American playwright Beth Henley
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Steven Berkoff on Impossible Events
Also, Peter Ackroyd on JIM Stewart, historian MRD Foot, and Abdel-Halim Caracalla
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Remembering author John Masters
Prabhu Guptara, Zimbabwean playwright Nicholas Ellenbogen, Swiss writer Adolf Muschg
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Lina Wertmuller's Head of Alvise
Lina Wertmuller's first novel, Brahms' sonatas, director Nicholas Roeg on Eureka
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The Chester Mystery Plays
Medieval street theatre, American soprano Elise Ross, British painter Tim Jones
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Ben Kingsley Interview
Extended interview with actor Ben Kingsley about his Oscar winning performance in Gandhi
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Nick Darke's Body
Playwright Nick Darke, Gore Vidal's novel Duluth, playwright Bernard Kops
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Dario Fo - Mistero Buffo
Italian satirist Dario Fo's one man show at London's Riverside Studios
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Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie
Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie: Ghanaian illustrator Meshack Asare's The Canoe Story
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Writer-artist Raymond Briggs
Raymond Briggs on his stage adaptation of his graphic novel When the Wind Blows
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Richard Sheridan's Rivals
Stage director Peter Wood, plus Ntozake Shange's novel Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo