Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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A Bach Pilgrimage: Part 2
The life and work of composer J S Bach, from 1703 when he was an organist at Arnstadt
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84 Charing Cross Road
Bookshops, advertising, Nazi Germany and finance, all feature in this week's programme
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50 years of India's independence
Celebration of 50 years of India's independence
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40th International Edinburgh Film Festival
Includes director Jane Campion's Two Friends and writer John McGrath's Blood Red Roses
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35th Cannes Film Festival.
With directors Yilmaz Guney, Karoly Makk, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Ken Cameron
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30th London Film Festival
Highlights 30th London Film Festival which comes to an end this week
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25th London Film Festival
Composer Carl Davis, Swiss director Alain Tanner, and Hong Kong director Allen Fong
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1989 Booker Prize for Fiction
Christopher Bigsby reports from the 1989 Booker Prize for fiction
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1984 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
New play, Up and Under, by the Hull Truck Theatre Company, and US comedian Rita Rudner
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1983 Booker-McConnell Prize for Fiction
With the winner, South African novelist JM Coetzee for The Life & Times of Michael K
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1900: Art at the Crossroads
An exhibition in London which looks back at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris
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"Crocodile" Dundee is back
The return of "Crocodile" Dundee with review by Australian literary scholar Peter Nicholls
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John Ford, directed by Alan Ayckbourn at the National Theatre
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'One breath away from death': growing up in Zimbabwe
Alexandra Fuller talks about her book, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
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'Making it real' – A History of Film Music
Music helps audiences to forget it's not real… A history of music in film with Carl Davis
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'J'accuse....!'
The story behind Emile Zola's open letter, used in the famous newspaper headline J'accuse'