Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Bahrain's Film Festival with a different Mission
Bahrain's first film festival has no new films but it may launch a Gulf film industry
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Bahaa Taher interview
The Egyptian novelist talks about his novel Aunt Safiyya and the Monastery
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Backstage with director Peter Hall
Influential British theatre director Peter Hall interviewed on the opening of The Bacchae
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Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Was this most famous piece of organ music really written by Bach?
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Bach's St Matthew Passion
A review of a recording of Bach's choral work, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Azerbaijani author Lev Nussimbaum
An exploration of Nussimbaum's novel Ali and Nino: A Love Story
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Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business
A Small Family Business, starring Michael Gambon at the National Theatre
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Ay, Carmela!
Director Tessa Schneideman on Spanish play Ay, Carmela! by Jose Sanchis Sinisterra
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Awakenings
A review of the film Awakenings starring Robert DeNiro
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Avignon Festival
In depth look at the music and the people of the Festival d'Avignon
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Authors USA
Authors USA, a group of American novelists, is visiting London in a promotional campaign
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Author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice, directed by Alan J. Pakula; An exciting record which is the collaboration between brass players in France and Britain, conducted by Richard Harvey; new novel by Ruth Prawer, In Search of Love and Beauty.
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Austrian baritone Wolfgang Holzmair
"I never could be without Schubert." The singer talks about his love of the composer
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Austrian artists' protest against the far right
How over 2000 Austrian artists are responding to the right-wing Freedom party
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Australian author Morris West
Morris West's The World is Made of Glass, plus Neville Mariner's The Barber of Seville
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Australia's history
The novelists Alexis Wright, Nikki Gemmell and Kate Grenville discuss Australian identity
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Augusto Boal - using drama to help the oppressed
A special Programme which takes an in-depth look at Augusto Boal
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August Wilson interview
The Pulitzer prize-winning playwright talks about his drama Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
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Attenborough's Shadowlands
A review of Sir Richard Attenborough's Shadowlands
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Athol Fugard's Playland
South African playwright Athol Fugard's Playland opens in Johannesburg
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Athol Fugard
Interview with playwright Athol Fugard
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Athol Fugard
A special on South African playwright,Athol Fugard, author of Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
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Athol Fugard
South African playwright Athol Fugard talks about his new play
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Athol Fugard
Special edition devoted to Athol Fugard, South African playwright and actor
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Argentine director Hector Babenco on his new film At Play in the Fields of the Lord
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Aspects of Love by Andrew Lloyd Webber
New musical Aspects of Love by Andrew Lloyd Webber opens in London
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Asian-American Writers
This programme explores the growing number and popularity of Asian-American writers
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Asian Arts in Hong Kong
Asian Festival of the Arts, The Orchestra Conductor, and Sardines by Nuruddin Farah
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Arundhati Roy
Author special
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Arts in Russia
Michael Billington, Waldemar Januszczak, and Tim Radford - report on their visit to Moscow