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Orpheus Descending with Vanessa Redgrave

Director Sir Peter Hall on Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending with Vanessa Redgrave

• 28 mins

African music in Britain

Includes interviews with Jonah Moyo and Devera Ngwena Jazz Band, both from Zimbabwe

• 29 mins

Book review of the year

Favourite books include Nora by Brenda Maddox and Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child

• 28 mins

Writing for children

Trends in children's writing from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Matilda

• 28 mins

Vanessa Redgrave interview

British actress Vanessa Redgrave on inviting the Russian Vakhtangov Theatre to London

• 28 mins

Sophocles Electra with Fiona Shaw

Sophocles' Greek tragedy Electra directed by Deborah Warner

• 28 mins

Roald Dahl - interview

Special programme talking to Britain's most popular children's writer, Roald Dahl

• 28 mins

Dustin Hoffman as Shylock

Director Sir Peter Hall on casting US film star Dustin Hoffman in The Merchant of Venice

• 28 mins

The Satanic Verses

Writer Salman Rushdie on the controversy surrounding his new book The Satanic Verses

• 28 mins

Turmoil at Opera de la Bastille

French Opera de la Bastille sack conductor Daniel Barenboim

• 28 mins

Stradivari's Secret

Special on the Stradivarius, a stringed instrument built by the Stradivari family

• 28 mins

The Making of India

MJ Akbar on his biography of Jawaharlal Nehru, The Making of India

• 28 mins

Arthur Miller's Two Way Mirror

Arthur Miller play Two Way Mirror opens at London's Young Vic, plus excerpt with Bob Peck

• 29 mins

David Cronenberg - interview

Interview with the Canadian originator of body horror or venereal horror films

• 28 mins

Gorillas in the Mist

Gorillas in the Mist, directed by Michael Apted and starring Sigourney Weaver

• 28 mins

William Butler Yeats

Author Norman Jeffers on his biography of Irish poet WB Yeats

• 28 mins

Mike Newell's Soursweet

New film Soursweet by British director Mike Newell

• 29 mins

Contemporary Architecture

With architects Terry Farrell, Richard Rogers and James Stirling

• 29 mins

Anton Chekhov

Exploring the Russian writer with VS Pritchett, author of Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free

• 28 mins

Samuel Beckett

Special exploring the Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet

• 27 mins

Vaclav Havel - imprisoned

Theatre director Roger Michell on the recently imprisoned Czech writer Vaclav Havel

• 28 mins

The Guitar

Guitar documentary. Includes work by Andres Segovia and Joe Pass

• 28 mins

The Ian St James Awards

Announcement of the Ian St James Awards for unpublished writers

• 29 mins

Scandal

British film Scandal directed by Michael Caton-Jones with John Hurt

• 28 mins

William Wordsworth: A Life

Writer Stephen Gill on his new biography of the English poet William Wordsworth: A Life

• 28 mins

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Director Terry Gilliam on his fantasy comedy The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

• 28 mins

World Service Photographic Competition of 1989

The judging and winners of the World Service photographic competition of 1989

• 28 mins

Writing and Directing Films

Who is more powerful, the writer or director, and should one person do both?

• 28 mins

The Arts in Toronto

Special from Toronto, Canada, exploring its contemporary art scene

• 29 mins

Oscar Awards

The results of Oscar prize-giving week in Hollywood

• 28 mins