Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,Β·2413 episodes
Architect Edwin Lutyens, talking with Elisabeth Lutyens, plus a new book by Alan Paton
Plus James Joyce's Odyssey by Frank Delaney, and World Service by Anthony Moore
Wins include Michael Crawford, Mark Medoff and film director John Schlesinger
Bernardo Bertolucci, Anouk Aimee, and the short stories of Stefan Zweig
Director Sidney Lumet, and United Kingdom, a television play by Jim Allan
Bob Hoskins and Anthony Sher in Shepard's True West, plus violinist Manuk Parikian
Art critic Marina Vaizey discusses recent trends in British sculpture
A revival of the 1940s musical Lady in the Dark is reviewed by Sheridan Morely
Sir Frederic Ashton, Twiggy's Eliza Doolittle and Richard Bonynge's The Beggar's Opera
Crime writer Ed McBain, the film Eye of the Needle, and the letters of Raymond Chandler
A new version of Aladdin, John Inman's Mother Goose, and Captain Beaky by Jeremy Lloyd
Sheridan Morley reviews Manganinnie about an Aboriginal woman searching for her tribe
From Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927) to Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children
Playwright Bille Brown discusses The Swan Down Gloves, and the poems of Odysseus Elytis
Harrison Birtwistle's Punch and Judy, Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fe, Peter Weir's Gallipoli
Film Lili Marleen by Fassbinder and novel The Bleaching Yard by Tarjei Vesaas
Le Cheval d'Orgueil, Talley's Folly and Barbara Trapido's Brother of the More Famous Jack
The Camera Buff, and Genetha, the final novel in Roy Heath's The Georgetown Trilogy
Jacqueline Bisset, The Academy of Ancient Music, and Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare
Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, John Updike, and Scottish Opera with Francesco Cavalli
Ret Marut aka B Traven, Manuel Felguerez, and Body Heat by Lawrence Kasdan
RSC musical director Guy Woolfenden, Art and the Sea at the ICA, and Dancing England
La Femme d'a Cote by Francois Truffaut, and Down to the Boilerhouse at the V&A
Painter Carel Weight, composer John Duarte and Philemon es Baucis (dir by Karoly Makk)
London Standard theatre awards, playwright Peter Nichols, and pianist Bernard d'Ascoli
Edward Bond's play Summer, James Thurber's letters, and Cutter's Way with Jeff Bridges
Celebrating the life and work of British-Irish writer and feminist Dame Rebecca West
Mazes and Monsters by Rona Jaffe, the film Ticket to Heaven, and music from Fela Kuti
Writer David Plant, Mozart's unfinished opera Zaide, plus English painter Ivon Hitchens
A play, Skirmishes by Catherine Hayes, plus the novel Angel of Light by Joyce Carol Oates
