.sc-c-sounds-nav { position: relative; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__menu-button { display: none; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__items { max-height: 500px; visibility: visible; position: static; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__overlay { display: none; } @media screen and (max-width: 659px) { .sc-c-sounds-nav__wrapper { padding-bottom: 0px; } .sc-c-sounds-nav__wordmark-link { padding-bottom: 18px; } }

Home
Music
Podcasts
My Sounds

Meridian - Black Star – Another British curtain call for Ira Aldridge - BBC Sounds

Meridian

Black Star – Another British curtain call for Ira AldridgeBlack Star – Another British curtain call for Ira Aldridge

Released On: 17 Mar 1981

Available for over a year

Portrait of the son of a slave who took European theatre by storm

More episodes

Programme Website

Coming Up Next

now playing
Meridian
Black Star – Another British curtain call for Ira Aldridge
Portrait of the son of a slave who took European theatre by storm
28 mins
Meridian
Peter Ustinov is Meridian's first guest
Peter Ustinov talks about Hercule Poirot and Overheard, his play about a diplomatic affair
28 mins
Meridian
Dancing Isadora Duncan's story
A biographical ballet about radical dancer Isadora Duncan opens
28 mins
Meridian
New Zealand Film Season
Punk-cult, political, occasionally banned, New Zealand films arrive in London
28 mins
Meridian
The Concert Hank Williams Never Gave
Plays about Hank Williams, mystery, and miners. Plus, Robert Rauschenberg's retrospective
28 mins
Meridian
Why the Postman always Rang Twice
News of Jack Nicholson's new film, a tribute to the late Bob Marley, the opening of Cats
28 mins
Meridian
The World of Reggae on stage in London
The fruits of success are not all sweet for reggae star Errol in Matura's One Rule
28 mins
Meridian
Poet or criminal? How should we remember Ezra Pound?
How should Ezra Pound's fascist politics affect our appreciation of his poetry?
29 mins
Meridian
William Saroyan – His Life and Times
Literary giant, writer of 'poetic shouts', novels and plays, William Saroyan, has died
30 mins
Meridian
The City of Gold's Fatal Call
The Hungry Earth
28 mins
Meridian
Lindsay Anderson directs Hamlet on stage in London
Lindsay Anderson applauds Hamlet's "extraordinary modernity of feeling and thought"
29 mins
Meridian
Immersed in the Arts in Bath
Events and attractions of the 1981 Bath Festival
31 mins
Meridian
Canada's Theatrical Soul on Show in Toronto
On Stage '81, the first Toronto theatre festival is the biggest ever held in North America
29 mins
Meridian
Time for Museums to Return their Treasures?
Should Western museums return important cultural objects to their countries of origin?
28 mins
Meridian
Robin Hood Rides Again
The aristocratic outlaw returns to Nottingham in a new, immersive production
29 mins
Meridian
The story of Russian Jews told through one Family
The suffering of Russian Jews under the Nazis shocked Russian readers of Heavy Sand
28 mins
Meridian
JG Ballard's New Vision of America
Science poetry not science fiction is one critic's description of JG Ballard's new novel
28 mins
Meridian
Swashbucklers: Defending Honour with Rapiers and Wit
The Swashbuckler portrayed a romantic, cinematic world of witty gallantry and honour
29 mins
Meridian
British Theatre on a Winning Streak in New York
Amadeus and Piaf bag top Tony Awards in New York
28 mins
Meridian
Finalists line up in The Comptition
Love and rivallry play out in The Competition, a film about finalists in a piano contest
28 mins
Meridian
Barnum – a Musical Life of the Great Showman
"There's a sucker born every minute," sings Michael Crawford as the showman P.T.Barnum
28 mins
Meridian
The enduring Appeal of Fairies and the Uncanny
Ghouls, giants, goblins and fairies populate the pages of a new book of English folk tales
28 mins
Meridian
Theater der Welt '81 in Cologne
International theatre companies join German ones in Cologne for Theater der Welt '81
29 mins
Meridian
Edward Bond's new view of two Worlds
Pink Floyd concerts in London, playwright Edward Bond's new play The Worlds, Zen Buddhist one man show at the Almeida. Presenter: Jim Hiley.
29 mins
Meridian
The Shoemaker's Holiday and the spirit of London
Sheridan Morley reviews a bawdy comedy by Shakespeare contemporary Thomas Dekker
28 mins
Meridian
For Your Eyes Only – Bond Returns
The measures taken to make James Bond appeal to younger viewers
28 mins
Meridian
Mrinal Sen's And Quiet Rolls the Dawn
Dilip Hiro reviews And Quiet Rolls the Dawn by director Mrinal Sen
29 mins
Meridian
David Hockney on 'the Pleasure of Looking'
David Hockney on his contribution to the Artist's Eye series at the National Gallery
28 mins
Meridian
Weaving as a very Contemporary Art
Artists in Norwich weave modern narratives using an ancient art
29 mins
Meridian
Time to reappraise Troilus and Cressida?
Heroics or melodrama? Terry Hands' RSC production of Troilus and Cressida reviewed
28 mins
Meridian
Eastward Ho! Towards a new London?
The Mermaid Theatre reopens, rebuilt along with swathes of the London skyline
28 mins

Cymraeg
Gaeilge
Gàidhlig

BBC Sounds Help
Contacts, Privacy and Information
Help with Signing In
Newsletter