Meridian Episodes Available now
Author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice, directed by Alan J. Pakula; An exciting record which is the collaboration between brass players in France and Britain, conducted by Richard Harvey; new novel by Ruth Prawer, In Search of Love and Beauty.
Yehudi Menuhin's Violin Competition
Yehudi Menuhin on his International Violin Competition plus winner Leland Chen
The National Theatre of Brent
British stage comedy The Messiah plus David Wheldon's first novel The Viaduct
Laurence Olivier's Lear
Michael Elliot on directing Laurence Olivier in King Lear for British television
Arts in Russia
Michael Billington, Waldemar Januszczak, and Tim Radford - report on their visit to Moscow
John le Carre - The Little Drummer Girl
Review of John le Carre's The Little Drummer Girl, plus British sculptor Anthony Caro
Russell Hoban's Pilgermann
Author Russell Hoban, plus critic Marina Vaizey on Polish artist Gershon Iskowitz
Artists at War
The diaries of Siegfried Sassoon and British war correspondent Michael Nicholson
Remembering Dame Rebecca West
Tribute to Dame Rebecca West, Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset at the National Theatre
Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre
Behind the scenes of Alfred de Musset's play Lorenzaccio directed by Michael Bogdanov