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Pierre de Marivaux
The 18th Century French playwright Pierre de Marivaux
Carousel
How internationally significant is Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel?
Jeff Goldblum on Deep Cover
Talking with actor Jeff Goldblum about film Deep Cover with Larry Fishburne
Tom Wilkinson as Lear
Director Max Stafford Clark's King Lear starring Tom Wilkinson
Caribbean Theatre
With playwrights Alwin Bully and Patricia Cumper and director Earl Warner
Louis Malle's Damage
Report on Louis Malle's film Damage starring Jeremy Irons
Art in Jamaica
Includes sculptors Edna Manley and Patrona Morrison, and novelist Lawrence Scott
Indian cinema today
Exploring the state of Indian cinema since the death of director Satyajit Ray
talking with Tom Courtenay
Interview with actor Tom Courtenay about his one-man show Moscow Stations
A Future For Their Past
Talking to South African writers Mike Nicol and Damon Galgut and Maishe Maponya
Eddie Izzard in the studio
Talking with comedian Eddie Izzard and reviewing film drama Lorenzo's Oil
Theatre in Pakistan
Documentary on the challenges facing writers, directors and performers in Lahore, Pakistan
Bombay
Exploring the cultural life of Bombay. With director of Maya Memsaab, Ketan Mehta
Cowboy Poetry
Meridian explores one of the great icons of the modern world - the cowboy
talking to Arthur Miller
"I have always felt the real public issues are the ones that are most private"
Tom Stoppard and Arcadia
Talking with dramatist Tom Stoppard about the roots of his latest play Arcadia
sculptor and printmaker Elisabeth Frink
"I think that is the job of artists, to comment on what is going on"
Billy Crystal is Mr Saturday Night
New film Mr Saturday Night by American comedian Billy Crystal
Another Kettle of Fish
Another Kettle of Fish by South African dramatist Susan Pam-Grant
How Much Violence is Enough?
Big screen violence can be thrilling and spectacular. But is there too much of it?
film in post-communist Russia
Given the choice, what do Russian audiences want to watch - realism or escapism?
The Cannes Film Festival
With New Zealand director Jane Campion and Bengali director Goutam Ghose
Stallone's Cliffhanger
Reviewing the movie Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone
French artist Henri Matisse
Are his paintings merely pleasing wallpaper or did he possess a revolutionary quality?
Jurassic Park and Dinosaurs
Special on the cultural depictions of dinosaurs since the word dinosaur was coined in 1842
Contemporary Russian Art
A report into the current state of contemporary art in Russia
William Golding obituary
Remembering William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies
Venice Biennale
With German designer and painter Hans Hacker and English painter Richard Hamilton
Song of Songs
Why have centuries of composers been inspired by the Song of Songs from the Hebrew Bible?
Drama and the Dramatist
Programme about the craft, joy, and hardship of modern day playwriting
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Documentary film-maker Marc Cousins visits Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay