Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,路2413 episodes
Bruce Chatwin's On the Black Hill, plus Brian Smithies and director Peter Yates
Author John Fowles, the Jubilee Art Competition, and Peter Nichol's musical play Poppy
With artistic director Michael Colgan, writer Hugh Leonard, and director Garry Hynes
The film of John Irving's novel, plus Lent by Michael Wilcox and Bonchi by Toyoko Yamasaki
PD James talks about her new detective novel and Nicolas Nabokov celebrates Stravinsky
Alan Ayckbourn's new play at The National plus a new biography of actor Ralph Richardson
Lawrence Durrell's new novel, pianist Geoffrey Parsons and film director Martin Rosen
With writer Thomas Keneally, actress Janet Suzman and artist Philip Castle
Seneglese writer Birago Diop's play L'Os, Thomas Keneally on his novel Schindler's Ark
Writers Anthony Grey and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and singers Pete Seeger and The Weavers
Wrier Paul Theroux, US film director Steven Lisberger, the music of Heinrich Schutz
Composer Philip Glass, film director Karl Francis, poet John Clare
Five Days One Summer, novelist Rosamond Lehman, pianists Katia and Marielle Labeque
New play by Stephen Fagan, Jordanian artists Princess Wijdan Ali and Muhanna Durra
Writer Anthony Burgess on his novel The End of the World News
Report on the launch of new British national TV network Channel 4
Writer/director Mai Zetterling, Indian author RK Narayan, new stage-play Hard Feelings
Interviews with Bill T Jones, Geoffrey Burgon, and Emilyn Claid
Stage director Mike Ockrent, composer Michael Nyman and director Peter Greenaway
Irish writer/director Neil Jordan on his film Angel, starring Stephen Rea
New 50s musical, plus interviews with writer Stephen Spender and artist David Hockney
Dorothy Tutin and Russell Hunter on their roles in Ronald Harwood's play After the Lions
London Film Festival, violinist Anthony Ritchie, Alan Bennett's Objects of Affection
The Three Travels of Aladin With the Magic Lamp by American playwright Elizabeth Swados
Includes interviews with Graves, biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, and multiple excerpts
Stage director Bill Bryden, sculptor Henry Moore, and musician Eddy Grant
Correspondent Mark Tully and director Richard Attenborough on Gandhi's reception in India
With British artists Gerald Scarfe, Posy Simmonds, Michael Heath, and Geoffrey Dickinson
With conductor Bruno Walter, singer Lotte Lehmann and dancer Tamara Karsavina
Ukrainian author Nella Bielski on her novel Oranges for the Son of Alexander Levy