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How the Winogradsky brothers became the Grades and transformed showbusiness

Films with a high moral tone were in favour at the Venice Film Festival this year

What it means to be "good" is the subject of C. P. Taylor's new play set in Nazi Germany

David Buck as Falstaff, Loose Ends by Michael Weller, and In Dreams by Adam Williams

Heaven's Gate directed by Michael Cimino and Tattoo You by The Rolling Stones

Interview with Tom Stoppard about his play On the Razzle

For the Birds: John Cage in Conversation with Daniel Charles

Welsh artist Gwen John, Oblomov by Nikita Mikhalk and Murray Perahia's Bela Bartok

Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saens and Tibetan Inroads by Stephen Lowe

Sounds of early instruments, plus an interview with JP Donleavy

Sculpture for the Blind at the Tate Gallery, London, plus Cartiass by Arnold Wesker

Colin Welland's play Roll on Four O' Clock is reviewed by Benedict Nightingale

Report on an exhibition of the revolutionary German artist's work

Michael Coveney reviews two plays: Martin Sherman's Cracks and Ellen Dryden's Harvest

Midnight's Children wins the Booker Prize and its author Salman Rushdie is interviewed

Shared Experience's The Seagull by Chekhov is reviewed by Robert Cushman

Maurice Leitch's Silver City and Jane Gardam's The Hollow Land are both Whitebread winners

Novelist Francis King reviews the The Great Japan Exhibition at the Royal Academy

Kipling's India, Juan Martin, AN Wilson, and the paintings of Patrick Caulfield

Asian Festival of the Arts, The Orchestra Conductor, and Sardines by Nuruddin Farah

Arthur Miller's All My Sons, playwright John Osborne, and an exhibition of Nicolas Poussin

Stephen Poliakoff, Kingsley Amis, and a new album by oboist Malcolm Messiter

Hanif Kureishi's play Borderline, Placido Domingo sings pop music

Jeremy Irons on Brideshead Revisited and a new novel by Maureen Duffy

Julian Mitchell, Bengali art, plus the songs of Rimsky-Korsakov with Galina Vishnevskaya

True Confessions, writer Hector Monroe ('Saki'), and Dame Peggy Ashcroft

Composer Carl Davis, Swiss director Alain Tanner, and Hong Kong director Allen Fong

Nicholas Garland, Brian Glover interviewed and the work of US composer Aaron Copland.

Playing The Game by Jeffrey Thomas and the ENO's Debussy's Pelleas and Melisande

Dame Janet Baker in Gluck's Alceste, Glauber Rocha, and a tribute to Lottie Lenya