Meridian Episodes Available now

The Dining Room by AR Gurney
Stage director Alan Strachan discusses The Dining Room, plus new book by Leonard Bernstein

David Bowie's World Tour
David Bowie's Serious Moonlight '83 world tour and Tony Scott's feature debut The Hunger

Philip Langridge is Idomeneo
Tenor Philip Langridge, plus The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire by Doris Lessing

William Least Heat-Moon talks
Interviews with US author William Least Heat-Moon and British writer Ian McEwan

Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa interviewed
Puccini, African artist John Muafangejo, and Tony Parker's People of Providence

Elia Kazan Interview
Film director Elia Kazan, musician Munir Bashir, and British ceramicist Henry Pim

Composer Sir Lennox Berkeley's 80th
Music critic Edward Greenfield, carpets in galleries, and American playwright Beth Henley

Steven Berkoff on Impossible Events
Also, Peter Ackroyd on JIM Stewart, historian MRD Foot, and Abdel-Halim Caracalla

Remembering author John Masters
Prabhu Guptara, Zimbabwean playwright Nicholas Ellenbogen, Swiss writer Adolf Muschg

Lina Wertmuller's Head of Alvise
Lina Wertmuller's first novel, Brahms' sonatas, director Nicholas Roeg on Eureka