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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
Michael Powell - A Life in Movie
Special on British film director Michael Powell, including interview Emeric Pressburger
The life and work of Auguste Rodin
Special on the greatest French sculptor of the 19th Century, Auguste Rodin
Runaway success of Athletics Novels
The new literary genre of athletics novels including Lovelock by James McNeish
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - the opera
Composer Michael Nyman on his opera The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
The Boyle Family art collective
The Earth Beneath our Feet by art collective Boyle Family
Fellini's Ginger and Fred
Fellini's Ginger and Fred starring Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroinni
Jenufa by Leos Janacek
New production of opera Jenufa by Leos Janacek by exiled Russian director Yuri Lyubimov
The Singing Detective
A review of the new TV drama The Singing Detective by Dennis Potter
30th London Film Festival
Highlights 30th London Film Festival which comes to an end this week
The Last Waltz
A review of Gillian Richmond's play about army wives, The Last Waltz
Bertrand Tavernier's Round Midnight
Bertrand Tavernier's film Round Midnignt, about the French jazz clubs of the 1950s
Eat the Peach
Peter Ormrod's new film Eat the Peach is reviewed