Meridian Episodes Available now

The Tempest by Paul Mazursky
The Tempest directed by Paul Mazursky, and 18th Century Irish painter James Barry

Marguerite Yourcenar - A Coin in Nine Hands
The first women to elected to the Academie Francaise, Marguerite Yourcenar

Cal by Bernard MacLaverty
Novelist Bernard MacLaverty's Cal, and an exhibition of British pop artist Peter Blake

The Unlikely Genius of Wyndham Lewis
English painter Wyndham Lewis, plus Cologne Opera's The Secret Marriage by Cimarosa

Antony Sher
Includes director Robert Knights, writer/director Mike Leigh and actress Marion Bailey

Stanley Middleton's Entry into Jerusalem
Writer Stanley Middleton, Italian furniture exhibition, German film director Wim Wenders

James Ivory - Heat and Dust
Film director James Ivory and critic Prabhu Guptara, plus French pianist Cecile Ousset

The Count of Luxembourg
Franz Lehar's operetta, plus actor Roshan Seth on A Map of the World by David Hare

Partricia Highsmith - People Who Knock on the Door
PD James on Patricia Highsmith, travel writer Eric Newby, and The Battle of Algiers

The Queen of Spades
Director David Pountney on his production of The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky