Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Lili Marleen - The Song That Became a Legend
Film Lili Marleen by Fassbinder and novel The Bleaching Yard by Tarjei Vesaas
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Opera Factory
Harrison Birtwistle's Punch and Judy, Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fe, Peter Weir's Gallipoli
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Swan's Down to Heavy Metal
Playwright Bille Brown discusses The Swan Down Gloves, and the poems of Odysseus Elytis
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A Look Back at 1981
From Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927) to Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children
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Manganinnie - The First Tasmanian Feature Film
Sheridan Morley reviews Manganinnie about an Aboriginal woman searching for her tribe
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Pantomime Time
A new version of Aladdin, John Inman's Mother Goose, and Captain Beaky by Jeremy Lloyd
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Crime, Punishment and the Thriller
Crime writer Ed McBain, the film Eye of the Needle, and the letters of Raymond Chandler
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Sir Frederic Ashton 鈥� Illuminations
Sir Frederic Ashton, Twiggy's Eliza Doolittle and Richard Bonynge's The Beggar's Opera
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Lady in the Dark 鈥� Psychiatric Musical
A revival of the 1940s musical Lady in the Dark is reviewed by Sheridan Morely
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Thirty Years of British Sculpture
Art critic Marina Vaizey discusses recent trends in British sculpture
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Sam Shepard's True West
Bob Hoskins and Anthony Sher in Shepard's True West, plus violinist Manuk Parikian
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Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City
Director Sidney Lumet, and United Kingdom, a television play by Jim Allan
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Bertolucci's La Tragedia Di Un Uomo Ridicolo
Bernardo Bertolucci, Anouk Aimee, and the short stories of Stefan Zweig
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Society of West End Theatre Awards
Wins include Michael Crawford, Mark Medoff and film director John Schlesinger
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Terry Johnson's Days Here So Dark
Plus James Joyce's Odyssey by Frank Delaney, and World Service by Anthony Moore
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Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens
Architect Edwin Lutyens, talking with Elisabeth Lutyens, plus a new book by Alan Paton
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Dame Janet Baker - Final Curtain
Dame Janet Baker in Gluck's Alceste, Glauber Rocha, and a tribute to Lottie Lenya
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Playing The Game by Jeffrey Thomas
Playing The Game by Jeffrey Thomas and the ENO's Debussy's Pelleas and Melisande
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The Art of Caricature
Nicholas Garland, Brian Glover interviewed and the work of US composer Aaron Copland.
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25th London Film Festival
Composer Carl Davis, Swiss director Alain Tanner, and Hong Kong director Allen Fong
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De Niro, Duvall and True Confessions
True Confessions, writer Hector Monroe ('Saki'), and Dame Peggy Ashcroft
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Julian Mitchell - Another Country
Julian Mitchell, Bengali art, plus the songs of Rimsky-Korsakov with Galina Vishnevskaya
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Brideshead Revisited 鈥� on TV
Jeremy Irons on Brideshead Revisited and a new novel by Maureen Duffy
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Hanif Kureishi's Borderline
Hanif Kureishi's play Borderline, Placido Domingo sings pop music
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Stephen Poliakoff's Favourite Nights
Stephen Poliakoff, Kingsley Amis, and a new album by oboist Malcolm Messiter
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Arthur Miller - All My Sons
Arthur Miller's All My Sons, playwright John Osborne, and an exhibition of Nicolas Poussin
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Asian Arts in Hong Kong
Asian Festival of the Arts, The Orchestra Conductor, and Sardines by Nuruddin Farah
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Kipling's India
Kipling's India, Juan Martin, AN Wilson, and the paintings of Patrick Caulfield
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Japanese Cultural Festival in London
Novelist Francis King reviews the The Great Japan Exhibition at the Royal Academy
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The Whitbread Awards
Maurice Leitch's Silver City and Jane Gardam's The Hollow Land are both Whitebread winners
