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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
Hanif Kureshi - Birds of Passage
Dramatist Hanif Kureshi, Art of the Avant-garde in Russia, choreographer David Bintley
We of the Never Never by Jeannie Gunn
US playwright David Mamet and director Bill Bryden on world premier of Glengarry Glen Ross
Swiss writer Max Frisch
Max Frisch on his latest novel Bluebeard, James Mason on his role in US film The Verdict
Danton - the film
A review of of Andrzej Wajda's film Danton, about the French Revolution
Luchino Visconti's The Leopard
Visconti's The Leopard, Bertolt Brech biography, German painter Georg Baselitz
David Thomson's Dandiprat's Days
Author David Thomson, Francis Bacon exhibition, plus Wagner's opera Rienzi
John Guare's Gardenia
John Guare's play Gardenia, Shona Mbira musicians, and Shiva Naipaul's novel A Hot Country
William Golding
Discussion of author William Golding, Woody Allen on writing satire and his new film Zelig
JM Coetzee - Life & Times of Michael K
J M Coetzee's novel, German conductor Klaus Tennstedt, and RSC director Bill Alexander
Henry Livings' Pennines Tales
English playwrights Henry Livings and Howard Barker, plus film director David Jones
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
William Feaver on French artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska plus Italian film Blow to the Heart