Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,路2413 episodes
Playwright Michael Beckham, Dame Celia Johnson, Young Musician of the Year Anna Markland
New film by Pat Murphy and John Davies plus Ralph Manheim, Gunter Grass's translator
Director Michael Raeburn talks about his film version of Doris Lessing's book
Luciano Pavarotti's London Gala Concert and Pip Simmons Theatre Group's Can't Sit Still
Writer Bernard MacLaverty, Christ Stopped at Eboli, and Jean Michel Jarre
German director Helma Sanders-Brahms talking about her film No Mercy No Future
Interviews with Ralph Steadman, Richard Pankhurst and Peter Maxwell Davies
Interviews with director Clifford Williams, and composer Antony Hopkins
Interviews with author Dorothy Dunnett, pianist Mitsuko Uchida and actor Jack Lemmon
Playwright Melissa Murray, composer Gara Garayev and writer Dennis Potter
Costa-Gavras, poet Andrew Motion and Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance
With directors Yilmaz Guney, Karoly Makk, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Ken Cameron
Also, Prokofiev's Love Of Three Oranges, and Pope John Paul's The Jeweller's Shop
Programme includes director Alan Parker, singer Robyn Archer and novelist Malcolm Bradbury
The photographs of Bill Brandt and Britannia Hospital by director Lindsay Anderson
Guyanese writer Roy Heath, The Treasures of Ancient Nigeria, and A Woman Called Golda
Director Michael Papas, illustrator Tom Phillips, Trevor Nunn and Patrick Stewart
Trevor Griffiths on his TV play Oi For England and short stories by John Buchan
Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o and playwright Peter Flannery on Our Friends in the North
The Venice Biennale, British film Remembrance, and new ballet by Kenneth Macmillan
Theatre director Nancy Meckler, choreographer Jonathan Taylor, director Christopher Monger
Sheila Gish, The National Theatre in Athens, French musician Jacques Loussie
Playwright Keith Dewhurst, author Tamas Aczel's Illuminations, and composer John Mayer
Interviews with Rudolf Nureyev, author David Storey, and playwright Pam Gems
Tribute to late German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder with actor Dieter Schidor
Directors Adrian Noble and Barry Kyle on Shakespeare's and Edward Bond's King Lear
Sally Bowman's book, Peter Hall and Vanessa Redgrave, Adrian Noble on Henrik Ibsen
Mary Kingsley and Isabella Bird
Private Dick by Richard Maher and Roger Michell, Douglas Fairbanks Jr on Duke Ellington
Looking at the three careers of Sir Christopher Wren: astronomer, politician, architect