Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Channel 4 launch special
Report on the launch of new British national TV network Channel 4
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Anthony Burgess talks - and sings!
Writer Anthony Burgess on his novel The End of the World News
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The Hard Shoulder
New play by Stephen Fagan, Jordanian artists Princess Wijdan Ali and Muhanna Durra
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Fred Zinnemann's Five Days One Summer
Five Days One Summer, novelist Rosamond Lehman, pianists Katia and Marielle Labeque
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Philip Glass interview
Composer Philip Glass, film director Karl Francis, poet John Clare
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Paul Theroux's The London Embassy
Wrier Paul Theroux, US film director Steven Lisberger, the music of Heinrich Schutz
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Anthony Grey's Saigon
Writers Anthony Grey and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and singers Pete Seeger and The Weavers
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L'Os by Birago Diop
Seneglese writer Birago Diop's play L'Os, Thomas Keneally on his novel Schindler's Ark
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Schindler's Ark
With writer Thomas Keneally, actress Janet Suzman and artist Philip Castle
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Constance, or, Solitary Practises
Lawrence Durrell's new novel, pianist Geoffrey Parsons and film director Martin Rosen
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Alan Ayckbourn's Way Up Stream
Alan Ayckbourn's new play at The National plus a new biography of actor Ralph Richardson
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PD James - The Skull Beneath the Skin
PD James talks about her new detective novel and Nicolas Nabokov celebrates Stravinsky
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The World According to Garp
The film of John Irving's novel, plus Lent by Michael Wilcox and Bonchi by Toyoko Yamasaki
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The Dublin Theatre Festival
With artistic director Michael Colgan, writer Hugh Leonard, and director Garry Hynes
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John Fowles Interview
Author John Fowles, the Jubilee Art Competition, and Peter Nichol's musical play Poppy
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On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin's On the Black Hill, plus Brian Smithies and director Peter Yates
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William Burroughs Interview
Author William Burroughs, director Mike Figgis, and The London Sinfonietta
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John le Carré special
First broadcast in 1982. The author discusses his life, work and characters
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Estelle Parsons in Miss Margarida's Way
American actress Estelle Parsons, author Alan Sillitoe, and art critic Geeta Kapoor
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Maeve Binchy Lights a Penny Candle
Author Maeve Binchy talks about her first novel Light a Penny Candle
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New Zealand film Pictures
Pictures from New Zealand, Judi Dench, and An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
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Cuban poet Heberto Padilla
Heberto Padilla, actors Peter Egan and John Alderton, critic and author Marina Vaizey
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Graham Greene Talks
Graham Greene on his novel Monsignor Quixote, director Jerzy Skolimowski on Moonlighting
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Brimstone and Treacle
Dennis Potter, Joan Plowright, Carol Churchill, and Graham Payn on Noel Coward
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The Venice Film Festival
The State of Things by Wim Wenders, and Imperative by Krzysztof Zanussi
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Peter Ustinov and Mussorgsky
Peter Ustinov in Mussorgsky's The Marriage, The Antonio Gades Company's Blood Wedding
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Ivor Novello
Ivor Novello and co-star Mary Ellis, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and painter Glenn Sujo
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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
Also, choreographer David Bintley's Swan of Tuonela and Samuel Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said
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Remembering Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman, modern Spanish painting, a biography of singer Victoria de los Angeles
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Edinburgh International Festival
La Compagnia Colla's Prometheus and Pietro Metastasio's opera Olympiad