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Katharine Hepburn
The life and career of American actress Katharine Hepburn
Buried Inside Extra - Joe Papp
American stage director Jo Papp, art critic Marina Vaizey, Dutch author Jona Oberski
Edouard Manet at the Grand Palais
Presenter Waldemar Januszczak reports on the French art scene
Andre Previn
Brian Matthew talks to the musician, composer, and Oscar winner in a 1983 interview
Light Dimensions in Bath
An exhibition of holograms in Bath, England, plus American director Francis Ford Coppola
Franz Liszt
Liszt biographer Alan Walker, theatre director William Gaskill and film Pauline a la Plage
Portrait Miniatures at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Exhibition of 16th Century English portrait miniatures, plus the Houston Ballet
The Arts in China - 1
The arts in modern day China with actor Ying Ruocheng and comedian Hou Baolin
Australian author Morris West
Morris West's The World is Made of Glass, plus Neville Mariner's The Barber of Seville
Nina Bawden and The Ice House
With author Nina Bawden, choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton and writer/actor Richard Crane
The National Theatre's Fawn
Stage director Giles Block, British potter Michael Cardew, and writer Hilda Bernstein
The Arts in China - 2
Includes Xie Jin, director of Legend of Tianyun Mountain
WOMAD Festival
Special edition dedicated to the WOMAD festival (World of Music Arts and Dance) in London
Snoo Wilson's Loving Reno
Actor Simon Callow on directing Snoo Wilson's play, Loving Reno, plus writer Clive James
Twentieth Century Polly
John Gay's 18th Century opera Polly adapted for modern audiences
The Art of Design
With design correspondent Peta Levi and designers Kenneth Grange and Sir Terence Conran
Derek Jacobi is Cyrano de Bergerac
Actor Derek Jacobi, the poetry of Stevie Smith, plus portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh
Tribute to Luis Bunuel
Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel, director Charles Sturridge on new film Runners
Fade to Black
Horror film Fade to Black, British set designer Carl Toms and You Can't Take it With You
The Comedy of Errors
Director by Adrian Noble, Paul Klee exhibition, and the Children's Book of the Year Show
Death of Sir Ralph Richardson
With John Gielgud, Peter Hall and excerpts from Peer Gynt and David Copperfield
Alan Bates in A Patriot for Me
Director Ronald Eyre, Australian composer David Lumsdaine and opera singer Eilene Hannan
The Makioka Sisters
Novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, The Sculpture Show '83, new musical Bashville
Act of Darkness
Writer Francis King, Fuenteovejuna by Lope de Vega, Russian stage director Yuri Lyubimov
London International Festival of Theatre
London's two-week International Festival of Theatre
Kazakhstani novelist Chinghiz Aitmatov
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, artist Peter Layton, and director Nagisa Oshima
Toni Bentley and the New York City Ballet
Dancer Toni Bentley, the NYC Ballet's Glass Pieces, Marcovaldo by writer Italo Calvino
Edinburgh International Festival
With festival director John Drummond, and A Florentine Tragedy by Alexander von Zemlinsky
The Twilight Zone
A review of the film version of The Twilight Zone by Joe Dante
Edinburgh Jazz, Film and Book Festival
South African play Poppie Nongena plus The Postman Always Rings Twice - the opera
Howard Brenton's Genius
Playwright Howard Brenton, artist Sir Matthew Smith, and novelist William Cooper