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Meridian Episodes

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    David Hare on turning Politics into a Drama

    British playwright and director David Hare talks about screenwriting

  2. Masterpiece – The Great Wave

    Why The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai still has the power to thrill

  3. Meridian Short Story Competition announced

    Meridian launches its own Short Story Competition

  4. Ibn Sina, Philosopher of the Persian Golden Age

    The life and achievements of Ibn Sina, the great 11th-century Persian scientist and writer

  5. Masterpiece – the Mona Lisa

    Why has Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa mystified and intrigued for 500 years?

  6. Maya Angelou on the Power of Words

    Interview with American poet, academic and campaigner, Maya Angelou

  7. Music Review – Tone Poems by Sibelius

    The month's top CDs include Sibelius's Tone Poems recorded by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra

  8. John Steinbeck – Voice of the Dust Bowl Refugees

    The life and works of American author John Steinbeck, born 100 years ago

  9. What's in the Method for actors?

    Finding out about The Method, the most famous approach to acting in the world

  10. Vladimir Spivakov – A Life Devoted to Music

    Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conducto talks about his career and vision

  11. Edna O'Brien – Murder in a Dark Landscape

    Irish novelist Edna O'Brien talks about her new book, based on a triple murder

  12. The Wild World of Peter Matthiessen

    Peter Matthiessen talks about his work as novelist, naturalist and campaigner

  13. Writing for the US President

    Speechwriters who craft the big set-pieces delived by presidents and captains of industry

  14. New Oriana collection for the Golden Jubilee

    New choral works will celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee

  15. Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat

    A review of the Peruvian Nobel laureate’s novel about dictator Rafael Trujillo

  16. Nawal El Saadawi – Egypt's 'unputdownable' Campaigner

    Interview with Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian novelist and campaigner for women's rights

  17. 'Making it real' – A History of Film Music

    Music helps audiences to forget it's not real… A history of music in film with Carl Davis

  18. To Turkey, with love from NΓΆzim Hikmet

    A new selected works by Turkish poet NΓΆzim Hikmet, who was born100 years ago

  19. Rohinton Mistry, chronicler of Bombay

    Rohinton Mistry talks about his third novel and his own Bombay and Parsi background

  20. Carmina Burana – from medieval Poetry to modern Classic

    The medieval manuscript, Carmina Burana, that inspired Carl Orff's 20th-century cantata

  21. Dangerous memories at Heaven's Edge

    To remember or forget? – that's the question at the heart of Romesh Gunesekera's new novel

  22. Backstage with director Peter Hall

    Influential British theatre director Peter Hall interviewed on the opening of The Bacchae

  23. Cuba's private Libraries open to All

    Cuba's book shortage has led to individuals opening up their own collections as libraries

  24. Alexandria, the city as Literary Muse

    How the Egyptian port of Alexandria has been a muse for great writers from many countries

  25. Memory Palace of Alexandria

    The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a major new library and cultural centre in Egypt

  26. Claudia Roden on Food and Cultural Identity

    The dishes of childhood remain part of every exile's identity, explains Claudia Roden

  27. Rostropovich – a Life in Music

    Mstislav Rostropovich, combining ancient Persian literature, Iranian folk music & western classical music. Presenter: unknown.

  28. Chadha's perfect Pitch – Football and Marriage

    Bend It Like Beckham tells the story of a British Sikh girl's footballing ambition

  29. Tom Paulin's poetic new War History

    Tom Paulin's new poetry book The Invasion Handbook about World War Two.

  30. On the record – 80 years of Gramophone magazine

    Celebrating 80 years of the record industry and of Gramophone Magazine

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