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Stallone's Cliffhanger
Reviewing the movie Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone
French artist Henri Matisse
Are his paintings merely pleasing wallpaper or did he possess a revolutionary quality?
Jurassic Park and Dinosaurs
Special on the cultural depictions of dinosaurs since the word dinosaur was coined in 1842
Contemporary Russian Art
A report into the current state of contemporary art in Russia
William Golding obituary
Remembering William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies
Venice Biennale
With German designer and painter Hans Hacker and English painter Richard Hamilton
Song of Songs
Why have centuries of composers been inspired by the Song of Songs from the Hebrew Bible?
Drama and the Dramatist
Programme about the craft, joy, and hardship of modern day playwriting
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Documentary film-maker Marc Cousins visits Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay
A Scots Quair
Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon's trilogy A Scots Quair
Art in the new South African
What price freedom? The challenge facing writers and musicians in the new South Africa
Talking with Garrison Keillor
Interview with American humorist and radio personality, Garrison Keillor
Portraits
Exploring the history of portraiture with National Portrait Gallery curator Robin Gibson
talking with Tom Stoppard
Extended interview with British playwright Tom Stoppard
Amos Oz's latest novel Fima
Meridian book special with Israeli writer Amos Oz on his latest novel Fima
Harold Pinter's Moonlight
"I am deeply sick and tired of hearing the name Harold Pinter"
Derek Jarman's Blue
Derek Jarman's film Blue, plus an exhibition of portraits by Lucian Freud
Consider Your Verdict
Exploring the formula of the courtroom drama on stage and film
Japanese Designers
The rise of Japanese fashion designers, Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo
Chilean Artists in Exile
The brutal repression writers, artists and actors experienced under the Pinochet regime
Chicago Architecture
Special report with John Szarkowski of the Chicago Arts Institute
The Waking Dream
The Waking Dream, an exhibition on the first 100 years of photography
Michael Nyman
Interview with British composer Michael Nyman
Wynton Marsalis
Talking with Wynton Marsalis: an American trumpeter with many styles
Robert de Niro's A Bronx Tale
Robert de Niro challenges the glamour of the gangster
The Booker Prize for Fiction
Special discussing the Booker Prize shortlist
Remembering Federico Fellini
Remembering Federico Fellini, one of the most influential filmmakers of all time
Treading the Boards
Actors who trained at the Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol reflect on their experiences
The Louvre - 200 years
Two hundred years of The Louvre, the Mona Lisa celebrates its bi-centenary
Perestroika - the play
A review of the premiere of 'Perestroika by Tony Kushner at the National Theatre
The House of the Spirits
The Chilean-American novelist, Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits is now a film