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The Best of Sci-fi Writing

Stage director Mike Ockrent, composer Michael Nyman and director Peter Greenaway

• 28 mins

Neil Jordan's Angel

Irish writer/director Neil Jordan on his film Angel, starring Stephen Rea

• 28 mins

Yakety-Yak - Leiber and Stoller

New 50s musical, plus interviews with writer Stephen Spender and artist David Hockney

• 28 mins

French actress Sarah Bernhardt

Dorothy Tutin and Russell Hunter on their roles in Ronald Harwood's play After the Lions

• 32 mins

Polish film Vabank

London Film Festival, violinist Anthony Ritchie, Alan Bennett's Objects of Affection

• 28 mins

The Three Travels of Aladin

The Three Travels of Aladin With the Magic Lamp by American playwright Elizabeth Swados

• 28 mins

Robert Graves Special

Includes interviews with Graves, biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, and multiple excerpts

• 28 mins

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bill Bryden

Stage director Bill Bryden, sculptor Henry Moore, and musician Eddy Grant

• 28 mins

Gandhi, the film

Correspondent Mark Tully and director Richard Attenborough on Gandhi's reception in India

• 28 mins

Cartoon Culture

With British artists Gerald Scarfe, Posy Simmonds, Michael Heath, and Geoffrey Dickinson

• 28 mins

The Royal Opera House Centenary

With conductor Bruno Walter, singer Lotte Lehmann and dancer Tamara Karsavina

• 28 mins

Nella Bielski in the studio

Ukrainian author Nella Bielski on her novel Oranges for the Son of Alexander Levy

• 29 mins

Graham Reed's Sweet Sixteen

Playwright Graham Reed, Edward Gordon Craig exhibition, and director Jayne Loader

• 28 mins

Martin Sherman's Messiah

Playwright Martin Sherman, landscape designer Humphrey Repton, musician Alistair Anderson

• 29 mins

Children's Books Special

Studio discussion with bookseller Fiona Walters and author and teacher Chris Harling

• 28 mins

Arthur Rubinstein

Classical pianist Arthur Rubinstein, plus Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend from The Who

• 28 mins

Trail of the Pink Panther

Film director Blake Edwards, musical Jack Shepherd's Back, writer-composer Charles Strouse

• 28 mins

Julie Andrews

The life and work of singer Julie Andrews including an extensive interview with the star

• 28 mins

A Look Back at 1982

Reviewing the arts of 1982 including the opening of the Barbican Centre in London

• 29 mins

The Best Thrillers of 1982

Among them are The Skull Beneath the Skin by PD James and Banker by Dick Francis

• 28 mins

British Sculptor Raymond Mason

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Black Music, director Ken Loach's film Looks and Smiles

• 28 mins

Wise Virgin

AN Wilson's novel Wise Virgin, choreographer Frederick Ashton on new ballet Pas de Legumes

• 28 mins

Bartolome Esteban Murillo

Baroque painter Bartolome Murillo, organist Jennifer Bate, film director Yilmaz Guney

• 28 mins

JM Coetzee's Dustlands

Impact Theatre Co-operative's Useful Vices, Frank Zappa on his album The Man From Utopia

• 28 mins

Delhi Film Festival

With Chidananda Dasgupta and directors Utpalendu Chakrabarty, Shekhar Kapur, Sai Paranjpye

• 28 mins

The Queen of Spades

Director David Pountney on his production of The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky

• 28 mins

Partricia Highsmith - People Who Knock on the Door

PD James on Patricia Highsmith, travel writer Eric Newby, and The Battle of Algiers

• 28 mins

The Count of Luxembourg

Franz Lehar's operetta, plus actor Roshan Seth on A Map of the World by David Hare

• 29 mins

James Ivory - Heat and Dust

Film director James Ivory and critic Prabhu Guptara, plus French pianist Cecile Ousset

• 28 mins

Stanley Middleton's Entry into Jerusalem

Writer Stanley Middleton, Italian furniture exhibition, German film director Wim Wenders

• 28 mins