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Anita Brookner's A Friend From England

Review of Anita Brookner's novel A Friend From England

• 28 mins

The 40th Edinburgh Festival - week two

News from the Edinburgh Jazz Festival including a Benny Goodman tribute band

• 28 mins

The 40th Edinburgh Festival - week three

Eithne Hannigan, Andrew Brown, Marshall Turkin and Jenny Killick discuss the festival

• 28 mins

The Art of St Ives

Meridian special on St Ives in Cornwall and the artists who have immortalised its views

• 28 mins

The 40th Edinburgh Festival - final weekend

Includes Perrier Award winners Arnold Brown, Barb Jungr and Michael Parker

• 29 mins

The Art of Story Telling

Meridian special. With Irish storyteller John Campbell about storytelling as an art

• 28 mins

Ismail Merchant interview

Interview with the film producer and longtime partner of director James Ivory

• 28 mins

The 45th World Science Fiction Convention

With English writers Doris Lessing and Ian Watson and US writers Ben Bova and Larry Niven

• 28 mins

Opera News

British opera news, including a new production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures

• 28 mins

Vietnam War Films in London

The London Film Festival's first season of films devoted to the Vietnam War

• 28 mins

Fay Weldon, Peter Ackroyd and Thomas Keneally

Interviews with three successful writers about their new novels

• 28 mins

The Untouchables

American film The Untouchables, plus new material from Maria Callas, The Unknown Callas

• 28 mins

Manuel Puig's Pubis Angelical

Acclaimed Argentine novelist Manuel Puig's novel Pubis Angelical

• 28 mins

South Africa's first black Othello

Talking to the first black actor to play Othello in South Africa, John Carney

• 28 mins

Workshop Negative by Cont Mhlanga

Discussion of controversial Zimbabwean play Workshop Negative by Cont Mhlanga

• 28 mins

Maeve Binchy's Firefly Summer

Maeve Binchy on her novel Firefly Summer plus Dick Francis' on his 26th novel Hot Money

• 28 mins

Dublin Theatre Festival

Report from the 28th Dublin Theatre Festival and exhibition of late sculptor Henry Moore

• 28 mins

Too Many Orchestras?

Does London have too many orchestras?

• 29 mins

William Boyd's New Confessions

Novelist William Boyd on his latest book The New Confessions

• 28 mins

The Electrification of the Soviet Union

New British opera The Electrification of the Soviet Union by Nigel Osborne

• 29 mins

Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe

Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe on his novel Anthills of the Savannah

• 28 mins

Peter Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect

English director Peter Greenaway on his film The Belly of an Architect

• 28 mins

Amsterdam special

A special show looking at the 1987 cultural capital of Europe, Amsterdam

• 28 mins

Remembering Jacqueline du Pre

A special obituary show of the late English cello player Jacqueline du Pre

• 28 mins

A Cup of Coffee with My Interrogator

A Cup of Coffee with My Interrogator by Czech dissident Ludvik Vaculik

• 28 mins

Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Brodsky

Interview with Nobel Prize Winner for Literature Russian poet Joseph Brodsky.

• 28 mins

Penelope Lively - Moon Tiger

The 1987 Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively on her book Moon Tiger

• 28 mins

The life and work of L.S. Lowry

The life and work of artist L.S. Lowry

• 28 mins

Paco's Story

Review of the new Larry Heinemann novel Paco's Story

• 28 mins

Maurice

Review of the new Merchant Ivory film Maurice

• 29 mins