Meridian Episodes Available now

Manganinnie - The First Tasmanian Feature Film
Sheridan Morley reviews Manganinnie about an Aboriginal woman searching for her tribe

A Look Back at 1981
From Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927) to Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children

Pantomime Time
A new version of Aladdin, John Inman's Mother Goose, and Captain Beaky by Jeremy Lloyd

Crime, Punishment and the Thriller
Crime writer Ed McBain, the film Eye of the Needle, and the letters of Raymond Chandler

Sir Frederic Ashton – Illuminations
Sir Frederic Ashton, Twiggy's Eliza Doolittle and Richard Bonynge's The Beggar's Opera

Lady in the Dark – Psychiatric Musical
A revival of the 1940s musical Lady in the Dark is reviewed by Sheridan Morely

Thirty Years of British Sculpture
Art critic Marina Vaizey discusses recent trends in British sculpture

Sam Shepard's True West
Bob Hoskins and Anthony Sher in Shepard's True West, plus violinist Manuk Parikian

Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City
Director Sidney Lumet, and United Kingdom, a television play by Jim Allan

Bertolucci's La Tragedia Di Un Uomo Ridicolo
Bernardo Bertolucci, Anouk Aimee, and the short stories of Stefan Zweig