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Theatre in Pakistan

Documentary on the challenges facing writers, directors and performers in Lahore, Pakistan

• 28 mins

Bombay

Exploring the cultural life of Bombay. With director of Maya Memsaab, Ketan Mehta

• 29 mins

Cowboy Poetry

Meridian explores one of the great icons of the modern world - the cowboy

• 27 mins

talking to Arthur Miller

"I have always felt the real public issues are the ones that are most private"

• 27 mins

Tom Stoppard and Arcadia

Talking with dramatist Tom Stoppard about the roots of his latest play Arcadia

• 28 mins

sculptor and printmaker Elisabeth Frink

"I think that is the job of artists, to comment on what is going on"

• 28 mins

Billy Crystal is Mr Saturday Night

New film Mr Saturday Night by American comedian Billy Crystal

• 27 mins

Another Kettle of Fish

Another Kettle of Fish by South African dramatist Susan Pam-Grant

• 28 mins

How Much Violence is Enough?

Big screen violence can be thrilling and spectacular. But is there too much of it?

• 28 mins

film in post-communist Russia

Given the choice, what do Russian audiences want to watch - realism or escapism?

• 26 mins

The Cannes Film Festival

With New Zealand director Jane Campion and Bengali director Goutam Ghose

• 28 mins

Stallone's Cliffhanger

Reviewing the movie Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone

• 29 mins

French artist Henri Matisse

Are his paintings merely pleasing wallpaper or did he possess a revolutionary quality?

• 29 mins

Jurassic Park and Dinosaurs

Special on the cultural depictions of dinosaurs since the word dinosaur was coined in 1842

• 28 mins

Contemporary Russian Art

A report into the current state of contemporary art in Russia

• 27 mins

William Golding obituary

Remembering William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies

• 28 mins

Venice Biennale

With German designer and painter Hans Hacker and English painter Richard Hamilton

• 29 mins

Song of Songs

Why have centuries of composers been inspired by the Song of Songs from the Hebrew Bible?

• 29 mins

Drama and the Dramatist

Programme about the craft, joy, and hardship of modern day playwriting

• 26 mins

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Documentary film-maker Marc Cousins visits Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay

• 26 mins

A Scots Quair

Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon's trilogy A Scots Quair

• 28 mins

Art in the new South African

What price freedom? The challenge facing writers and musicians in the new South Africa

• 29 mins

Talking with Garrison Keillor

Interview with American humorist and radio personality, Garrison Keillor

• 28 mins

Portraits

Exploring the history of portraiture with National Portrait Gallery curator Robin Gibson

• 27 mins

talking with Tom Stoppard

Extended interview with British playwright Tom Stoppard

• 28 mins

Amos Oz's latest novel Fima

Meridian book special with Israeli writer Amos Oz on his latest novel Fima

• 28 mins

Harold Pinter's Moonlight

"I am deeply sick and tired of hearing the name Harold Pinter"

• 28 mins

Derek Jarman's Blue

Derek Jarman's film Blue, plus an exhibition of portraits by Lucian Freud

• 29 mins

Consider Your Verdict

Exploring the formula of the courtroom drama on stage and film

• 28 mins

Japanese Designers

The rise of Japanese fashion designers, Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo

• 29 mins