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World Service,Β·2413 episodes
Interview with American novelist and short-story writer Patricia Highsmith
Will film star Elizabeth Taylor shine on the London stage in The Little Foxes?
Portrait of the son of a slave who took European theatre by storm
Peter Ustinov talks about Hercule Poirot and Overheard, his play about a diplomatic affair
A biographical ballet about radical dancer Isadora Duncan opens
Punk-cult, political, occasionally banned, New Zealand films arrive in London
Plays about Hank Williams, mystery, and miners. Plus, Robert Rauschenberg's retrospective
News of Jack Nicholson's new film, a tribute to the late Bob Marley, the opening of Cats
The fruits of success are not all sweet for reggae star Errol in Matura's One Rule
How should Ezra Pound's fascist politics affect our appreciation of his poetry?
Literary giant, writer of 'poetic shouts', novels and plays, William Saroyan, has died
The Hungry Earth
Lindsay Anderson applauds Hamlet's "extraordinary modernity of feeling and thought"
Events and attractions of the 1981 Bath Festival
On Stage '81, the first Toronto theatre festival is the biggest ever held in North America
Should Western museums return important cultural objects to their countries of origin?
The aristocratic outlaw returns to Nottingham in a new, immersive production
The suffering of Russian Jews under the Nazis shocked Russian readers of Heavy Sand
Science poetry not science fiction is one critic's description of JG Ballard's new novel
The Swashbuckler portrayed a romantic, cinematic world of witty gallantry and honour
Amadeus and Piaf bag top Tony Awards in New York
Love and rivallry play out in The Competition, a film about finalists in a piano contest
"There's a sucker born every minute," sings Michael Crawford as the showman P.T.Barnum
Ghouls, giants, goblins and fairies populate the pages of a new book of English folk tales
International theatre companies join German ones in Cologne for Theater der Welt '81
Pink Floyd concerts in London, playwright Edward Bond's new play The Worlds, Zen Buddhist one man show at the Almeida. Presenter: Jim Hiley.
Sheridan Morley reviews a bawdy comedy by Shakespeare contemporary Thomas Dekker
The measures taken to make James Bond appeal to younger viewers
Dilip Hiro reviews And Quiet Rolls the Dawn by director Mrinal Sen
David Hockney on his contribution to the Artist's Eye series at the National Gallery
