Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Shared Experience and The Seagull
Shared Experience's The Seagull by Chekhov is reviewed by Robert Cushman
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Rushdie Wins Booker Prize
Midnight's Children wins the Booker Prize and its author Salman Rushdie is interviewed
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Martin Sherman's Cracks
Michael Coveney reviews two plays: Martin Sherman's Cracks and Ellen Dryden's Harvest
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The Art of Kurt Schwitters
Report on an exhibition of the revolutionary German artist's work
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Roll on Four O'Clock
Colin Welland's play Roll on Four O' Clock is reviewed by Benedict Nightingale
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Sculpture you can touch
Sculpture for the Blind at the Tate Gallery, London, plus Cartiass by Arnold Wesker
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The Sound of a Serpent
Sounds of early instruments, plus an interview with JP Donleavy
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Samson and Delilah – the opera
Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saens and Tibetan Inroads by Stephen Lowe
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Gwen John, an Artist Alone
Welsh artist Gwen John, Oblomov by Nikita Mikhalk and Murray Perahia's Bela Bartok
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John Cage – For the Birds
For the Birds: John Cage in Conversation with Daniel Charles
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Tom Stoppard's On the Razzle
Interview with Tom Stoppard about his play On the Razzle
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From El Greco to Goya
Heaven's Gate directed by Michael Cimino and Tattoo You by The Rolling Stones
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Falstaff on the Fringe
David Buck as Falstaff, Loose Ends by Michael Weller, and In Dreams by Adam Williams
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What does it mean to be Good?
What it means to be "good" is the subject of C. P. Taylor's new play set in Nazi Germany
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On the moral High Ground at the Venice Film Festival
Films with a high moral tone were in favour at the Venice Film Festival this year
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Chronicle of a Showbusiness Dynasty
How the Winogradsky brothers became the Grades and transformed showbusiness
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Shakespeare double bill at Stratford
Titus Andronicus and Two Gentlemen of Verona make a Shakespeare double bill at Stratford
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Satire on stage and page in Edinburgh
A new production of The Beggar's Opera and prints and paintings by Honoré Daumier
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The Price of political Protest in Schneider's November
Rolf Schneider's heroine's life is not the same after she protests, in his novel November
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Reviving P. G. Wodehouse, the playwright
Bertie Wooster's creator also wrote plays and one is revived by the Bristol Old Vic
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John Huston directs Under the Volcano at last
Will the film Under the Volcano enjoy the same following as Malcolm Lowry's cult novel?
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How Children of a Lesser God became a landmark for the Deaf
Playwright Mark Medoff on writing Children of a Lesser God for a deaf friend
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Highlights of Edinburgh Festival's Fringe
Some of the nearly 500 shows making up the Fringe at the Edinburgh International Festival
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Mistress of Dialogue and Satire: novelist Christina Stead
Time to reappraise novelist Christina Stead, a writer capable of "devastating satire"
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Sean O'Casey's Gunman echoes down the years
The new resonance of Sean O' Casey's 1923 play The Shadow of a Gunman
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Edinburgh Festival Special
Bach's St Matthew's Passion, Jean Racine's Britannicus, and jazz legend Oscar Peterson
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There's Much Ado before the Happy Ending
The new production of Much Ado doesn't ignore the play's darker undertones
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A Bequest of Old Masters on Show
The Old Masters left to the nation by a Count are now on show at the Courtauld Institute
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Love and Death – on Stage and Page
Tristran and Isolde is the first of the tragic romances reviewed this week
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Cecil B. DeMille – a Director of Epic Proportions
Cecil B.DeMille, master of the silver-screen epic, was born 100 years ago