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Opera 80

The British touring company taking opera to places that don't normally have access

• 29 mins

Empire of the Sun

Steven Spielberg's film Empire of the Sun, including interview with writer JG Ballard

• 28 mins

Sherlock Holmes Special

Arthur Conan Doyle's greatest creation and one of literature's greatest detective

• 28 mins

Nicholas Hytner's Magic Flute

Director Nicholas Hytner on his production of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute

• 29 mins

Taj Mahal

Special on the Taj Mahal, a mausoleum born of grief in Agra, India

• 28 mins

The life and work of Primo Levi

The life and work of Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi

• 28 mins

Young Playwright Festival

Report from the week long Young Playwright Festival at the Theatre Royal, London

• 29 mins

Remembering Alan Paton

Remembering South African author and anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton

• 28 mins

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Daniel Day-Lewis

• 28 mins

Peter Levi on Shakespeare

Celebrating Shakespeare with Professor of Poetry at Oxford University Peter Levi

• 28 mins

Tokyo Special

Includes Kabuki theatre Chushingura with Nakamura Kichiemon

• 29 mins

Michael Douglas in Wall Street

Wall Street with Michael Douglas plus Cheek by Jowl's A Family Affair

• 28 mins

D'Oyly Carte

Special on the company devoted to performing the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan

• 29 mins

The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian

Bluebeard: The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988) by Kurt Vonnegut

• 28 mins

Jim Allen's Perdition

Playwright Jim Allen on his controversial play Perdition at the Conway Hall

• 29 mins

Mayfest with Bill Burdett-Coutts

Report on Glasgow's international arts festival Mayfest with Bill Burdett-Coutts

• 28 mins

The Silk Road

Report on Japan's Silk Road Exhibition in Nara celebrating the great trade route

• 28 mins

Who Killed Palomino Molero?

Review of Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa

• 28 mins

Ironweed

US film Ironweed starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep directed by Hector Babenco

• 28 mins

Biography special

Biographies of writer Leo Tolstoy, composer George Gershwin and actor Laurence Olivier

• 29 mins

Sir Peter Hall on Shakespeare

Reviews of National Theatre productions of Cymbeline, A Winter's Tale and The Tempest

• 28 mins

Women Writers

With Canadian writer Kate Pullinger and Russian dissident and writer Irina Ratushinskay

• 28 mins

Remembering Raj Kapoor

Remembering Indian film actor, producer and director Raj Kapoor

• 28 mins

Leonard Bernstein's Candide

Special edition on Scottish Opera's revival of Bernstein's operetta

• 28 mins

The future of Turkish theatre with Yildiz Kenter

The uncertain future of theatre in Turkey with actress Yildiz Kenter

• 28 mins

A Handful of Dust

Director Charles Sturridge on his film A Handful of Dust

• 28 mins

The Taverner Consort and Players

Special edition on the period instrument ensemble founded by Andrew Parrott in 1973

• 29 mins

"Crocodile" Dundee is back

The return of "Crocodile" Dundee with review by Australian literary scholar Peter Nicholls

• 28 mins

Elia Kazan

The life and work of the controversial award-winning film and theatre director

• 28 mins

Werner Herzog

The life and work of the German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director

• 28 mins