Meridian Episodes Available now
Brimstone and Treacle
Dennis Potter, Joan Plowright, Carol Churchill, and Graham Payn on Noel Coward
The Venice Film Festival
The State of Things by Wim Wenders, and Imperative by Krzysztof Zanussi
Peter Ustinov and Mussorgsky
Peter Ustinov in Mussorgsky's The Marriage, The Antonio Gades Company's Blood Wedding
Ivor Novello
Ivor Novello and co-star Mary Ellis, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and painter Glenn Sujo
Remembering Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman, modern Spanish painting, a biography of singer Victoria de los Angeles
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
Edinburgh International Festival
La Compagnia Colla's Prometheus and Pietro Metastasio's opera Olympiad
Who Dares Wins
Film Who Dares Wins, Swiss oboist Heinz Holliger, and German satirical artist George Grosz
Hamlet - Post-Freudian Prince
Actor Anton Lesser, Burning an Illusion, The Blue-Eyed Shan by Stephen D Becker
Conan the Barbarian
Swords and sorcery as explained by John Milius who directed the film
