Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Interview with American novelist and short-story writer Patricia Highsmith
08 Aug 1980,·28 mins
Will film star Elizabeth Taylor shine on the London stage in The Little Foxes?
12 Mar 1981,·28 mins
Portrait of the son of a slave who took European theatre by storm
17 Mar 1981,·28 mins
Peter Ustinov talks about Hercule Poirot and Overheard, his play about a diplomatic affair
01 May 1981,·28 mins
A biographical ballet about radical dancer Isadora Duncan opens
05 May 1981,·28 mins
Punk-cult, political, occasionally banned, New Zealand films arrive in London
07 May 1981,·28 mins
Plays about Hank Williams, mystery, and miners. Plus, Robert Rauschenberg's retrospective
08 May 1981,·28 mins
News of Jack Nicholson's new film, a tribute to the late Bob Marley, the opening of Cats
12 May 1981,·28 mins
The fruits of success are not all sweet for reggae star Errol in Matura's One Rule
14 May 1981,·28 mins
How should Ezra Pound's fascist politics affect our appreciation of his poetry?
15 May 1981,·29 mins
Literary giant, writer of 'poetic shouts', novels and plays, William Saroyan, has died
20 May 1981,·30 mins
The Hungry Earth
20 May 1981,·28 mins
Lindsay Anderson applauds Hamlet's "extraordinary modernity of feeling and thought"
21 May 1981,·29 mins
Events and attractions of the 1981 Bath Festival
26 May 1981,·31 mins
On Stage '81, the first Toronto theatre festival is the biggest ever held in North America
29 May 1981,·29 mins
Should Western museums return important cultural objects to their countries of origin?
01 Jun 1981,·28 mins
The aristocratic outlaw returns to Nottingham in a new, immersive production
02 Jun 1981,·29 mins
The suffering of Russian Jews under the Nazis shocked Russian readers of Heavy Sand
04 Jun 1981,·28 mins
Science poetry not science fiction is one critic's description of JG Ballard's new novel
05 Jun 1981,·28 mins
The Swashbuckler portrayed a romantic, cinematic world of witty gallantry and honour
06 Jun 1981,·29 mins
Amadeus and Piaf bag top Tony Awards in New York
09 Jun 1981,·28 mins
Love and rivallry play out in The Competition, a film about finalists in a piano contest
11 Jun 1981,·28 mins
"There's a sucker born every minute," sings Michael Crawford as the showman P.T.Barnum
12 Jun 1981,·28 mins
Ghouls, giants, goblins and fairies populate the pages of a new book of English folk tales
16 Jun 1981,·28 mins
International theatre companies join German ones in Cologne for Theater der Welt '81
18 Jun 1981,·29 mins
Pink Floyd concerts in London, playwright Edward Bond's new play The Worlds, Zen Buddhist one man show at the Almeida. Presenter: Jim Hiley.
19 Jun 1981,·29 mins
Sheridan Morley reviews a bawdy comedy by Shakespeare contemporary Thomas Dekker
23 Jun 1981,·28 mins
The measures taken to make James Bond appeal to younger viewers
25 Jun 1981,·28 mins
Dilip Hiro reviews And Quiet Rolls the Dawn by director Mrinal Sen
26 Jun 1981,·29 mins
David Hockney on his contribution to the Artist's Eye series at the National Gallery
02 Jul 1981,·28 mins
