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Laurence Olivier's Lear

Michael Elliot on directing Laurence Olivier in King Lear for British television

• 28 mins

The National Theatre of Brent

British stage comedy The Messiah plus David Wheldon's first novel The Viaduct

• 28 mins

Yehudi Menuhin's Violin Competition

Yehudi Menuhin on his International Violin Competition plus winner Leland Chen

• 28 mins

Author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice, directed by Alan J. Pakula; An exciting record which is the collaboration between brass players in France and Britain, conducted by Richard Harvey; new novel by Ruth Prawer, In Search of Love and Beauty.

• 28 mins

Willy Russell's Blood Brothers

New British musical by Willy Russell, plus the Joyce Trisler Danscompany from New York

• 29 mins

The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

Interview with Peter Ackroyd about his novel The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

• 29 mins

Sir Angus Wilson Interviewed

Special on Sir Angus Wilson, famed for the satirical novel Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

• 28 mins

Richard Sheridan's Rivals

Stage director Peter Wood, plus Ntozake Shange's novel Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

• 28 mins

Writer-artist Raymond Briggs

Raymond Briggs on his stage adaptation of his graphic novel When the Wind Blows

• 28 mins

Dustin Hoffman - Tootsie

Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie: Ghanaian illustrator Meshack Asare's The Canoe Story

• 28 mins

Dario Fo - Mistero Buffo

Italian satirist Dario Fo's one man show at London's Riverside Studios

• 28 mins

Nick Darke's Body

Playwright Nick Darke, Gore Vidal's novel Duluth, playwright Bernard Kops

• 28 mins

Ben Kingsley Interview

Extended interview with actor Ben Kingsley about his Oscar winning performance in Gandhi

• 28 mins

The Chester Mystery Plays

Medieval street theatre, American soprano Elise Ross, British painter Tim Jones

• 28 mins

Lina Wertmuller's Head of Alvise

Lina Wertmuller's first novel, Brahms' sonatas, director Nicholas Roeg on Eureka

• 28 mins

Remembering author John Masters

Prabhu Guptara, Zimbabwean playwright Nicholas Ellenbogen, Swiss writer Adolf Muschg

• 28 mins

Steven Berkoff on Impossible Events

Also, Peter Ackroyd on JIM Stewart, historian MRD Foot, and Abdel-Halim Caracalla

• 28 mins

Composer Sir Lennox Berkeley's 80th

Music critic Edward Greenfield, carpets in galleries, and American playwright Beth Henley

• 28 mins

Elia Kazan Interview

Film director Elia Kazan, musician Munir Bashir, and British ceramicist Henry Pim

• 29 mins

Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa interviewed

Puccini, African artist John Muafangejo, and Tony Parker's People of Providence

• 28 mins

William Least Heat-Moon talks

Interviews with US author William Least Heat-Moon and British writer Ian McEwan

• 28 mins

Philip Langridge is Idomeneo

Tenor Philip Langridge, plus The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire by Doris Lessing

• 29 mins

David Bowie's World Tour

David Bowie's Serious Moonlight '83 world tour and Tony Scott's feature debut The Hunger

• 28 mins

The Dining Room by AR Gurney

Stage director Alan Strachan discusses The Dining Room, plus new book by Leonard Bernstein

• 29 mins

The Handy Man - Penelope Mortimer

A review of The Handy Man by Penelope Mortimer

• 28 mins

Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings

Norman Mailer's new novel, animation in Annecy, and German artist Anselm Kiefer

• 28 mins

Henry VIII with John Thaw

Director Howard Davies, The Year of Living Dangerously, and zoologist Desmond Morris

• 28 mins

NF Simpson translates Eduardo de Filippo

English writer NF Simpson, British commercial art, and harpsichordist Heather Slade-Lipkin

• 28 mins

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Author Joanna Richardson, plus Percy Mtwa and Mbongeni Ngema in Woza Albert!

• 28 mins

The 36th Aldeburgh Festival

Revival of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, plus L'Argent by French director Robert Bresson

• 28 mins