Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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The Count of Luxembourg
Franz Lehar's operetta, plus actor Roshan Seth on A Map of the World by David Hare
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Partricia Highsmith - People Who Knock on the Door
PD James on Patricia Highsmith, travel writer Eric Newby, and The Battle of Algiers
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The Queen of Spades
Director David Pountney on his production of The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky
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Delhi Film Festival
With Chidananda Dasgupta and directors Utpalendu Chakrabarty, Shekhar Kapur, Sai Paranjpye
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JM Coetzee's Dustlands
Impact Theatre Co-operative's Useful Vices, Frank Zappa on his album The Man From Utopia
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Bartolome Esteban Murillo
Baroque painter Bartolome Murillo, organist Jennifer Bate, film director Yilmaz Guney
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Wise Virgin
AN Wilson's novel Wise Virgin, choreographer Frederick Ashton on new ballet Pas de Legumes
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British Sculptor Raymond Mason
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Black Music, director Ken Loach's film Looks and Smiles
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The Best Thrillers of 1982
Among them are The Skull Beneath the Skin by PD James and Banker by Dick Francis
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A Look Back at 1982
Reviewing the arts of 1982 including the opening of the Barbican Centre in London
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Julie Andrews
The life and work of singer Julie Andrews including an extensive interview with the star
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Trail of the Pink Panther
Film director Blake Edwards, musical Jack Shepherd's Back, writer-composer Charles Strouse
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Arthur Rubinstein
Classical pianist Arthur Rubinstein, plus Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend from The Who
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Children's Books Special
Studio discussion with bookseller Fiona Walters and author and teacher Chris Harling
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Martin Sherman's Messiah
Playwright Martin Sherman, landscape designer Humphrey Repton, musician Alistair Anderson
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Graham Reed's Sweet Sixteen
Playwright Graham Reed, Edward Gordon Craig exhibition, and director Jayne Loader
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Nella Bielski in the studio
Ukrainian author Nella Bielski on her novel Oranges for the Son of Alexander Levy
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The Royal Opera House Centenary
With conductor Bruno Walter, singer Lotte Lehmann and dancer Tamara Karsavina
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Cartoon Culture
With British artists Gerald Scarfe, Posy Simmonds, Michael Heath, and Geoffrey Dickinson
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Gandhi, the film
Correspondent Mark Tully and director Richard Attenborough on Gandhi's reception in India
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A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bill Bryden
Stage director Bill Bryden, sculptor Henry Moore, and musician Eddy Grant
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Robert Graves Special
Includes interviews with Graves, biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, and multiple excerpts
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The Three Travels of Aladin
The Three Travels of Aladin With the Magic Lamp by American playwright Elizabeth Swados
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Polish film Vabank
London Film Festival, violinist Anthony Ritchie, Alan Bennett's Objects of Affection
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French actress Sarah Bernhardt
Dorothy Tutin and Russell Hunter on their roles in Ronald Harwood's play After the Lions
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Yakety-Yak - Leiber and Stoller
New 50s musical, plus interviews with writer Stephen Spender and artist David Hockney
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Neil Jordan's Angel
Irish writer/director Neil Jordan on his film Angel, starring Stephen Rea
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The Best of Sci-fi Writing
Stage director Mike Ockrent, composer Michael Nyman and director Peter Greenaway
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Dance Umbrella in London
Interviews with Bill T Jones, Geoffrey Burgon, and Emilyn Claid
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A Borstal Girl
Writer/director Mai Zetterling, Indian author RK Narayan, new stage-play Hard Feelings
