Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Time for Museums to Return their Treasures?
Should Western museums return important cultural objects to their countries of origin?
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Canada's Theatrical Soul on Show in Toronto
On Stage '81, the first Toronto theatre festival is the biggest ever held in North America
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Immersed in the Arts in Bath
Events and attractions of the 1981 Bath Festival
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Lindsay Anderson directs Hamlet on stage in London
Lindsay Anderson applauds Hamlet's "extraordinary modernity of feeling and thought"
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The City of Gold's Fatal Call
The Hungry Earth
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William Saroyan – His Life and Times
Literary giant, writer of 'poetic shouts', novels and plays, William Saroyan, has died
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Poet or criminal? How should we remember Ezra Pound?
How should Ezra Pound's fascist politics affect our appreciation of his poetry?
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The World of Reggae on stage in London
The fruits of success are not all sweet for reggae star Errol in Matura's One Rule
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Why the Postman always Rang Twice
News of Jack Nicholson's new film, a tribute to the late Bob Marley, the opening of Cats
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The Concert Hank Williams Never Gave
Plays about Hank Williams, mystery, and miners. Plus, Robert Rauschenberg's retrospective
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New Zealand Film Season
Punk-cult, political, occasionally banned, New Zealand films arrive in London
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Dancing Isadora Duncan's story
A biographical ballet about radical dancer Isadora Duncan opens
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Peter Ustinov is Meridian's first guest
Peter Ustinov talks about Hercule Poirot and Overheard, his play about a diplomatic affair
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Black Star – Another British curtain call for Ira Aldridge
Portrait of the son of a slave who took European theatre by storm
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Elizabeth Taylor in Little Foxes on the London stage
Will film star Elizabeth Taylor shine on the London stage in The Little Foxes?
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The Black House by Patricia Highsmith
Interview with American novelist and short-story writer Patricia Highsmith