Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Two new Operas in Munich
Two new operas have their premieres at the Munich Biennale
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Sound of the first Keyboard Instrument
The sound of the hydraulis, the earliest known keyboard instrument, is brought to life
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Who will carry off the Master Prize for composition?
Everyone can vote in the Master Prize for composers, worth £30,000 to the winner
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In the Studio with Paula Rego
An interview with the Portuguese painter Paula Rego – a "supreme artist-storyteller"
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Michael Burleigh: Demystifying the Nazis
Michael Burleigh talks about his prize-winning book, The Third Reich: A New History
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Peter Carey on the appeal of Ned Kelly
Peter Carey talks about his book True History of the Kelly Gang
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Nightwalking with Dr Johnson and Mr Savage
In the footsteps of Samuel Johnson and Richard Savage, with biographer Richard Holmes
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Reading modern History's Maps
As History Today magazine turns 50, a look at how history writing has evolved
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Voices of contemporary Turkish Fiction
What contemporary Turkish novelists are writing about
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Stanley Spencer's Village Visions
The life and work of visionary English painter Stanley Spencer
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Sibongile Khumalo's South African life in Song
South African singing star, Sibongile Khumalo, talks about her life and art
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Ryszard Kapuściński's African Years
Ryszard Kapuściński on his new book about his half-century reporting from Africa
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Primo Levi's Literary Companions
Poet Peter Forbes talks about his English translation of Primo Levi's last book
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Adventures of an Imperial Babe
Gorgeous Zuleika is the heroine of Bernadine Evaristo's verse-novel, The Emperor's Babe
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Prehistoric Art discovered in a French Cave
Large prehistoric human and animal figures discovered engraved on a cave wall in France
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Protecting Intellectual Property in the Digital Age
Protecting creators' rights to their artistic and literary works in a new digital age
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´óÏó´«Ã½ Cardiff Singer of the World Competition
Marius Brenciu is the first tenor to win the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Cardiff Singer of the World Competition
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Where Do Plays Come From?
Three playwrights talk about why they choose to write plays and film scripts
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Seamus Heaney and Irish literature
The Irish poet talks about his collection, Electric Light
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´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms 2001
A look ahead to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms season with the conductor Leonard Slatkin
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Schoenberg Festival
Ensemble Organum perform Franciscan chant; Tribute to Arnold Schoenberg.
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Iain Sinclair interview
The British writer and 'psychogeographer' talks about his novel Landor's Tower
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Opening Nights: Evita
The first performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical about Eva Peron.
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How do artists use colour?
The abstract artists Terry Frost, John Hoyland and Yuko Shirai discuss how they use colour
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Opening Nights: West Side Story
The American musical's first performance in 1957, remembered by the cast.
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Displaced authors
The Lebanese Hanan Al-Sheikh and two other writers talk about being separated from home
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Wigmore Hall
The history behind Wigmore Hall and the artists who have performed there
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The Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta
Egytpian novelist Ahdaf Soueif talks about the accounts of the 14th-century traveller
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The Ta'ziyeh in Iran
An exploration of the annual religious event in Iran, a kind of passion play.
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Carlos Fuentes
The celebrated Mexican writer talks about losing a child and his book The Years With Laura