Meridian Episodes Available now
The Dining Room by AR Gurney
Stage director Alan Strachan discusses The Dining Room, plus new book by Leonard Bernstein
David Bowie's World Tour
David Bowie's Serious Moonlight '83 world tour and Tony Scott's feature debut The Hunger
Philip Langridge is Idomeneo
Tenor Philip Langridge, plus The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire by Doris Lessing
William Least Heat-Moon talks
Interviews with US author William Least Heat-Moon and British writer Ian McEwan
Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa interviewed
Puccini, African artist John Muafangejo, and Tony Parker's People of Providence
Elia Kazan Interview
Film director Elia Kazan, musician Munir Bashir, and British ceramicist Henry Pim
Composer Sir Lennox Berkeley's 80th
Music critic Edward Greenfield, carpets in galleries, and American playwright Beth Henley
Steven Berkoff on Impossible Events
Also, Peter Ackroyd on JIM Stewart, historian MRD Foot, and Abdel-Halim Caracalla
Remembering author John Masters
Prabhu Guptara, Zimbabwean playwright Nicholas Ellenbogen, Swiss writer Adolf Muschg
Lina Wertmuller's Head of Alvise
Lina Wertmuller's first novel, Brahms' sonatas, director Nicholas Roeg on Eureka