Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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The Man Who Could Not Keep His Mouth Shut
Guyanese writer Roy Heath, The Treasures of Ancient Nigeria, and A Woman Called Golda
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The Essays of William Golding
The photographs of Bill Brandt and Britannia Hospital by director Lindsay Anderson
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Shoot the Moon
Programme includes director Alan Parker, singer Robyn Archer and novelist Malcolm Bradbury
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Biography of Luchino Visconti
Also, Prokofiev's Love Of Three Oranges, and Pope John Paul's The Jeweller's Shop
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35th Cannes Film Festival.
With directors Yilmaz Guney, Karoly Makk, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Ken Cameron
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Costa-Gavras' Missing
Costa-Gavras, poet Andrew Motion and Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance
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Murder at the Red October
Playwright Melissa Murray, composer Gara Garayev and writer Dennis Potter
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Macbeth - King Hereafter
Interviews with author Dorothy Dunnett, pianist Mitsuko Uchida and actor Jack Lemmon
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The Malvern Festival
Interviews with director Clifford Williams, and composer Antony Hopkins
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Ralph Steadman on Hunter S Thompson
Interviews with Ralph Steadman, Richard Pankhurst and Peter Maxwell Davies
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Festival - Women Live
German director Helma Sanders-Brahms talking about her film No Mercy No Future
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Bernard MacLaverty - A Time to Dance
Writer Bernard MacLaverty, Christ Stopped at Eboli, and Jean Michel Jarre
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Pavarotti in Verdi
Luciano Pavarotti's London Gala Concert and Pip Simmons Theatre Group's Can't Sit Still
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The Grass is Singing
Director Michael Raeburn talks about his film version of Doris Lessing's book
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Irish feminist film Maeve
New film by Pat Murphy and John Davies plus Ralph Manheim, Gunter Grass's translator
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The Joke Collector
Playwright Michael Beckham, Dame Celia Johnson, Young Musician of the Year Anna Markland
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Derek Jacobi Talks About Nothing
Derek Jacobi, Robert Nye and Schlondorff's film Circle of Deceit
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Felicity Palmer as Agrippina
Felicity Palmer in Handel, Thomas Mann biography and Julian Lloyd Webber's Cello Man
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Japanese Butoh Dance Company
Plus, Julian Barnes' Before She Met Me and CP Taylor's Bring Me Sunshine, Bring Me Smiles
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Das Boot - Jurgen Prochnow
German war film Das Boot, Trinidadian playwright Mustapha Matura
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Marina Warner Interview
Interview with Marina Warner about her new novel The Skating Party
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Julie Andrews in Victor/Victoria
Plus, an exhibition of paintings by Edward Burra, and novel Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord
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New production of Macbeth
Macbeth, directed by Howard Davis, with Bob Peck and Sara Kestelman,
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In the Image of Man
AS Byatt reviews Celeste plus Jonathan Spence talks about The Gate of Heavenly Peace
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Philoctetes by Sophocles
Review of Philoctetes by Sophocles at Saul Bellow's new novel The Dean's December
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Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Brian Clark discusses the screen adaptation of his play Whose Life Is It Anyway
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Jonathan Miller
Special edition on satirist, writer, director, and scientist Dr Jonathan Miller
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The Festival of India
Singer MS Subbulakshmi, musician Ravi Shankar and English illustrator Raymond Briggs
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Edna O'Brien
Irish novelist Edna O'Brien and a discussion of artists Tina Modotti and Frida Kahlo
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South Korean Special
Film director Lee Doo-yon, leading writer Yi Mun-yol and the Korean National Theatre