Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,路2413 episodes
Film Fitzcarraldo, actor Kenneth Moore, playwright Terry Johnson, pianist Peter Donohoe
Opera singer Jessye Norman, and Pan Tianshou at the Royal Academy in London
Pink Floyd's rock album The Wall becomes a film and divides critics
With Chico Freeman, Wynton Marsalis, music from Sippie Wallace and the Modern Jazz Quartet
The work of Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly and interview with artist Zsuzsi Roboz
War-artist Linda Kitson on her experience in the Falklands war
Choreographer Pierre Lacotte talks about his recreation of La Sylphide
Nina Bawden reviews John Cheever, plus the work of American composer Dave Grusin
Cathy Berberian and Giovanna Marini discuss their choice of songs
Australian author and Nobel Prize winner, Patrick White, talks about his life and work
Interviews with Italian actor Vittorio Gassman and US theatre director Lee Breuer
Tribute Henry Fonda with director Lindsay Anderson and writer and critic Clancy Sigal
Director Ron Daniels, Mark Rylance sings, and violin concertos by Anne-Sophie Mutter
Swords and sorcery as explained by John Milius who directed the film
Actor Anton Lesser, Burning an Illusion, The Blue-Eyed Shan by Stephen D Becker
Film Who Dares Wins, Swiss oboist Heinz Holliger, and German satirical artist George Grosz
La Compagnia Colla's Prometheus and Pietro Metastasio's opera Olympiad
Ingrid Bergman, modern Spanish painting, a biography of singer Victoria de los Angeles
Also, choreographer David Bintley's Swan of Tuonela and Samuel Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said
Ivor Novello and co-star Mary Ellis, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and painter Glenn Sujo
Peter Ustinov in Mussorgsky's The Marriage, The Antonio Gades Company's Blood Wedding
The State of Things by Wim Wenders, and Imperative by Krzysztof Zanussi
Dennis Potter, Joan Plowright, Carol Churchill, and Graham Payn on Noel Coward
Graham Greene on his novel Monsignor Quixote, director Jerzy Skolimowski on Moonlighting
Heberto Padilla, actors Peter Egan and John Alderton, critic and author Marina Vaizey
Pictures from New Zealand, Judi Dench, and An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
Author Maeve Binchy talks about her first novel Light a Penny Candle
American actress Estelle Parsons, author Alan Sillitoe, and art critic Geeta Kapoor
First broadcast in 1982. The author discusses his life, work and characters
Author William Burroughs, director Mike Figgis, and The London Sinfonietta