Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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African Literature
A special edition reviewing new literature from or about Africa
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African art at Tate Liverpool
An exhibition of 20th Century African art at Tate Liverpool
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African and Oceanic art
A sale of African and Oceanic art in London is discussed
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Africa 95
Nigerian sculptor and what African sculpture means to her
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Adventures of an Imperial Babe
Gorgeous Zuleika is the heroine of Bernadine Evaristo's verse-novel, The Emperor's Babe
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Adventures in Wonderland
A review of Christopher Hampton's interpretation of Adventures in Wonderland
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Adventures in Poetry – The Owl and the Pussycat
Why Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat is such an enduring favourite
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Adventures in Poetry – Remember Christina Rossetti
Why we remember still the poem Remember by Christina Rossetti
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Adventures in Poetry – John Donne
Is the poem The Sunne Rising by John Donne the sexiest poem in English?
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Adapting Novels For The Stage
Exploring stage adaptations of novels Pamela and Bleak House
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Adapting books for the screen
From Adaptation to Gone to the Wind, the relationship between Hollywood and novels
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Act of Darkness
Writer Francis King, Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega, Russian stage director Yuri Lyubimov
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Across From the Garden of Allah
A review of Charles Wood's play starring Glenda Jackson and Nigel Hawthorn
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Academy of Ancient Music
A visit to a rehearsal of the British period orchestra
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Absence of Malice
Sydney Pollack's Absence of Malice and Daniel Day-Lewis in How Many Miles to Babylon?
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Aaron Copland
A review of a recording of the American composers' three great ballet scores
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A.S. Byatt – the Novelist in pursuit of the Biographer
"Human beings always escape their biographers," says novelist A.S.Byatt in this interview
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A. J. Ayer
The death of the English philosopher A. J. Ayer
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A. A Milne
Why A. A Milne was more than just a children's writer
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A week of awards - Venice, Emmy and MTV MVA
A week of awards
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A Walk in the Woods
Sir Alec Guinness in the West End play A Walk in the Woods
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A tribute to Yehudi Menuhin
Tribute to violinist and conductor Lord Yehudi Menuhin; Sri Lankan film 'Death On A Full Moon Day'; Curator Anthony Shelton talks about exhibition 'African Worlds'; Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamin dies.
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A tribute to Trevor Howard
A tribute to Trevor Howard
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A tribute to Kathy Acker
A special tribute to the late novelist Kathy Acker
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A Theatrical Fairy Tale - RSC
A theatrical fairy tale, the RSC in Stratford-Upon-Avon gets a new theatre
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A Streetcar Named Desire - reviewed
A look at a London revival of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
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A Streetcar Named Desire
A half century since Streetcar Named Desire by American playwright, Tennessee Williams
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A Scots Quair
Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon's trilogy A Scots Quair
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A Room with a View
A review of James Ivory's film version of A Room with a View
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A Night in Peking
Exporing the cultural life of the city of Peking in northern China