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In Search of Blandings
Writer Norman Murphy on PG Wodehouse and In Search of Blandings
The Saxon Shore
The Saxon Shore by David Rudkin, actress Anna Massey on Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac
Jonathan Miller directs Jack Lemmon
Jonathan Miller directs Jack Lemmon in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night
Malcolm Bradbury
Profile of British author and television playwright Malcolm Bradbury
The 40th Arts Festival of Edinburgh
Includes theatre director Frank Dunlop and Douglas, a blank verse tragedy by John Home
Edinburgh Arts Festival - Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda's adaptation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment
The Oxford English Dictionary
Exploring the history of the Oxford English Dictionary
40th International Edinburgh Film Festival
Includes director Jane Campion's Two Friends and writer John McGrath's Blood Red Roses
Edinburgh International Festival
Report on world theatre including the Toho Company's production of Euripides' Medea
Remembering sculptor Henry Moore
Tribute to British sculptor Henry Moore including archive interviews
Hal Prince
Profile of American theatrical producer and director Hal Prince
Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa
Director Neil Jordan on his film Mona Lisa, plus the Tokyo Ballet arrive in Britain
Broken Ground
Special programme about youth theatre in Britain
The Bay at Nice and Wrecked Eggs
English playwright David Hare on his one act plays The Bay at Nice and Wrecked Eggs
The House of Bernarda Alba
Nuria Espert on directing The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca
Picasso
Life and work of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso
Zeffirelli's Otello
Franco Zeffirelli's film of opera Otello, starring Placido Domingo
Marion Hansel's film Dust
Belgian director Marion Hansel's film Dust plus actor John Matshikiza
Booker Prize Shortlist
Old Devils by Kingsley Amis and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
Kafka's Dick
Alan Bennett's play Kafka's Dick, plus the effects of war through cinema and television
Tribute to dancer Sir Robert Helpmann
Tribute to Sir Robert Helpmann, plus the paintings of Rabindranath Tagore
Interview with writer Vaclav Havel
Interview with Czech writer Vaclav Havel on his release from prison
Ben Kingsley in A Betrothal
Oscar-winning actor Ben Kingsley on stage in A Betrothal by Lanford Wilson
George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance
Director John Caird on George Bernard Shaw's play Misalliance starring Brian Cox
The Phantom of the Opera opens in London
Interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber as The Phantom of the Opera opens in London
Celebrating VS Pritchett
Grahame Greene, Paul Theroux, Steven Spender, Janet Adam Smith on VS Pritchett
Ibsen's Ghost with Vanessa Redgrave
Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts opens in London starring Vanessa Redgrave and Tom Wilkinson
Kingsley Amis wins Booker Prize for fiction
Kingsley Amis wins the 1986 Booker Prize for Fiction with The Old Devils
Roland Joffe's The Mission
Film review of The Mission directed by Roland Joffe
George Gershwin
The work of US composer George Gershwin discussed with conductor Brian Wright
Plays by Harold Pinter and Stephen Spender
New play by Harold Pinter, Mountain Language, plus interview with Pinter