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Sir Frederic Ashton – Illuminations

Sir Frederic Ashton, Twiggy's Eliza Doolittle and Richard Bonynge's The Beggar's Opera

• 28 mins

Crime, Punishment and the Thriller

Crime writer Ed McBain, the film Eye of the Needle, and the letters of Raymond Chandler

• 28 mins

Pantomime Time

A new version of Aladdin, John Inman's Mother Goose, and Captain Beaky by Jeremy Lloyd

• 28 mins

Manganinnie - The First Tasmanian Feature Film

Sheridan Morley reviews Manganinnie about an Aboriginal woman searching for her tribe

• 28 mins

A Look Back at 1981

From Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927) to Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children

• 28 mins

Swan's Down to Heavy Metal

Playwright Bille Brown discusses The Swan Down Gloves, and the poems of Odysseus Elytis

• 28 mins

Opera Factory

Harrison Birtwistle's Punch and Judy, Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fe, Peter Weir's Gallipoli

• 28 mins

Lili Marleen - The Song That Became a Legend

Film Lili Marleen by Fassbinder and novel The Bleaching Yard by Tarjei Vesaas

• 28 mins

The Proud Ones by Claude Chabrol

Le Cheval d'Orgueil, Talley's Folly and Barbara Trapido's Brother of the More Famous Jack

• 28 mins

Camera Buff by Krzysztof Kieslowski

The Camera Buff, and Genetha, the final novel in Roy Heath's The Georgetown Trilogy

• 28 mins

George Cukor - Rich and Famous

Jacqueline Bisset, The Academy of Ancient Music, and Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare

• 28 mins

Interview with Jean-Pierre Lefebvre

Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, John Updike, and Scottish Opera with Francesco Cavalli

• 28 mins

To the Honourable Miss S... and Other Stories

Ret Marut aka B Traven, Manuel Felguerez, and Body Heat by Lawrence Kasdan

• 28 mins

Guy Woolfenden - Alarums and Excursions

RSC musical director Guy Woolfenden, Art and the Sea at the ICA, and Dancing England

• 28 mins

The Woman Next Door by Francois Truffaut

La Femme d'a Cote by Francois Truffaut, and Down to the Boilerhouse at the V&A

• 28 mins

Carel Weight in the Studio

Painter Carel Weight, composer John Duarte and Philemon es Baucis (dir by Karoly Makk)

• 28 mins

The Standard West End Theatre Awards

London Standard theatre awards, playwright Peter Nichols, and pianist Bernard d'Ascoli

• 28 mins

Edward Bond's Summer

Edward Bond's play Summer, James Thurber's letters, and Cutter's Way with Jeff Bridges

• 28 mins

Dame Rebecca West

Celebrating the life and work of British-Irish writer and feminist Dame Rebecca West

• 28 mins

Mazes and Monsters

Mazes and Monsters by Rona Jaffe, the film Ticket to Heaven, and music from Fela Kuti

• 28 mins

David Plant is in The Woods

Writer David Plant, Mozart's unfinished opera Zaide, plus English painter Ivon Hitchens

• 28 mins

Skirmishes by Catherine Hayes

A play, Skirmishes by Catherine Hayes, plus the novel Angel of Light by Joyce Carol Oates

• 28 mins

Operation Bad Apple

Operation Bad Apple by G F Newman at the Royal Court and Sir Edwin Landseer at The Tate

• 28 mins

Coco Chanel in Chanel Solitaire

New film Chanel Solitaire about Parisian fashion designer Coco Chanel

• 28 mins

Centenary of James Joyce

Celebration of James Joyce and Bronislava Nijinska: Early Memoirs by Irina Nijinska

• 29 mins

Hong Kong International Arts Festival

The Phoenix Calling on Mount Qi by the Shanghai Dance Company is discussed

• 28 mins

Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro talks about his debut novel

• 29 mins

Christopher Hampton with Adolf Hitler

Christopher Hampton talks about The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.

• 28 mins

The 32nd Berlin Film Festival

Prokofiev's film scores, German artist Kathe Kollwitz, and novelist Robert McCrum

• 28 mins

Absence of Malice

Sydney Pollack's Absence of Malice and Daniel Day-Lewis in How Many Miles to Babylon?

• 28 mins