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Review of the year - 1997

Special edition of Meridian looking back at the past twelve months

• 28 mins

Degenerate Art

A documentary about the Berlin cabaret scene

• 29 mins

Tribute to Juzo Itami

A special tribute to the late Japanese director Juzo Itami

• 28 mins

Children's literature

Children's literature - a look at what today's youngsters are reading

• 28 mins

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

A documentary about the children's classic - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

• 28 mins

International Arts Festival in Venice

News on the International Arts Festival in Venice

• 28 mins

The Exorcist

First broadcast in 1998. Mark Kermode on the late William Friedkin's classic horror film

• 28 mins

Hermann Nitsch

Controversy over an exhibition involving the slaughter of animals by Hermann Nitsch

• 27 mins

Max Ernst

The life and work of surrealist painter Max Ernst.

• 28 mins

The rebirth of American musical theatre

Celebrating the rebirth of American musical theatre from Broadway, New York

• 29 mins

Who writes history - the victors or the losers?

Is there any truth in the statement 'history is written by the victors'?

• 28 mins

Death of Klaus Tennstedt

A tribute to the German composer Klaus Tennstedt

• 29 mins

'J'accuse....!'

The story behind Emile Zola's open letter, used in the famous newspaper headline J'accuse'

• 28 mins

Kendall Geers and guilt

South African artist Kendall Geers and Guilty, a work of art on the legacy of Apartheid

• 29 mins

Fay Weldon

The social upheaval caused by feminism captured by writer Faye Weldon

• 28 mins

Don DeLillo

A documentary about the American writer Don DeLillo

• 28 mins

Marie Antoinette - the opera

World premiere of the opera Marie Antoinette

• 28 mins

Francis Bacon by George Melly

Number 4 Dean Street, Soho home of The Colony Room and a familiar haunt of Francis Bacon

• 28 mins

Bertolt Brecht

A documentary on the work and life of Bertolt Brecht

• 28 mins

War Primer - poems by Brecht

A review of Brecht's War Primer poems translated and published

• 28 mins

Julian Lloyd Webber

Julian Lloyd Webber attacks lack of interest in classical music in the West

• 28 mins

Robert Redford

Interview with Robert Redford, an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor

• 28 mins

Barcelona in literature

A documentary on how Barcelona's transformation has been echoed in literature

• 28 mins

Calcutta Book Fair

A report from this year's Calcutta Book Fair which attracted a record number of visitors

• 29 mins

Oscar nominations 1998

News of this year's Oscar nominations

• 31 mins

The Big Chill

A look at how the world's most extreme weather has inspired writing

• 28 mins

Paradise by Toni Morrison

Review of Paradise by Toni Morrison

• 28 mins

Berlin film festival

A review of the Berlin film festival, in its opening week

• 28 mins

Are we what they say we are? Book special

Today's books explores the saying 'we are what other people we say we are'

• 28 mins

New Zealand arts festival

A report from New Zealand on the international arts festival

• 29 mins