Shared Experience and The Seagull

Shared Experience's The Seagull by Chekhov is reviewed by Robert Cushman

• 28 mins

The Whitbread Awards

Maurice Leitch's Silver City and Jane Gardam's The Hollow Land are both Whitebread winners

• 28 mins

Japanese Cultural Festival in London

Novelist Francis King reviews the The Great Japan Exhibition at the Royal Academy

• 29 mins

Kipling's India

Kipling's India, Juan Martin, AN Wilson, and the paintings of Patrick Caulfield

• 28 mins

Asian Arts in Hong Kong

Asian Festival of the Arts, The Orchestra Conductor, and Sardines by Nuruddin Farah

• 28 mins

Arthur Miller - All My Sons

Arthur Miller's All My Sons, playwright John Osborne, and an exhibition of Nicolas Poussin

• 28 mins

Stephen Poliakoff's Favourite Nights

Stephen Poliakoff, Kingsley Amis, and a new album by oboist Malcolm Messiter

• 28 mins

Hanif Kureishi's Borderline

Hanif Kureishi's play Borderline, Placido Domingo sings pop music

• 28 mins

Brideshead Revisited – on TV

Jeremy Irons on Brideshead Revisited and a new novel by Maureen Duffy

• 28 mins

Julian Mitchell - Another Country

Julian Mitchell, Bengali art, plus the songs of Rimsky-Korsakov with Galina Vishnevskaya

• 28 mins

De Niro, Duvall and True Confessions

True Confessions, writer Hector Monroe ('Saki'), and Dame Peggy Ashcroft

• 28 mins

25th London Film Festival

Composer Carl Davis, Swiss director Alain Tanner, and Hong Kong director Allen Fong

• 28 mins

The Art of Caricature

Nicholas Garland, Brian Glover interviewed and the work of US composer Aaron Copland.

• 28 mins

Playing The Game by Jeffrey Thomas

Playing The Game by Jeffrey Thomas and the ENO's Debussy's Pelleas and Melisande

• 29 mins

Dame Janet Baker - Final Curtain

Dame Janet Baker in Gluck's Alceste, Glauber Rocha, and a tribute to Lottie Lenya

• 28 mins

Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens

Architect Edwin Lutyens, talking with Elisabeth Lutyens, plus a new book by Alan Paton

• 28 mins

Terry Johnson's Days Here So Dark

Plus James Joyce's Odyssey by Frank Delaney, and World Service by Anthony Moore

• 28 mins

Society of West End Theatre Awards

Wins include Michael Crawford, Mark Medoff and film director John Schlesinger

• 28 mins

Bertolucci's La Tragedia Di Un Uomo Ridicolo

Bernardo Bertolucci, Anouk Aimee, and the short stories of Stefan Zweig

• 28 mins

Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City

Director Sidney Lumet, and United Kingdom, a television play by Jim Allan

• 28 mins

Sam Shepard's True West

Bob Hoskins and Anthony Sher in Shepard's True West, plus violinist Manuk Parikian

• 28 mins

Thirty Years of British Sculpture

Art critic Marina Vaizey discusses recent trends in British sculpture

• 28 mins

Lady in the Dark – Psychiatric Musical

A revival of the 1940s musical Lady in the Dark is reviewed by Sheridan Morely

• 28 mins

Sir Frederic Ashton – Illuminations

Sir Frederic Ashton, Twiggy's Eliza Doolittle and Richard Bonynge's The Beggar's Opera

• 28 mins

Crime, Punishment and the Thriller

Crime writer Ed McBain, the film Eye of the Needle, and the letters of Raymond Chandler

• 28 mins

Pantomime Time

A new version of Aladdin, John Inman's Mother Goose, and Captain Beaky by Jeremy Lloyd

• 28 mins

Manganinnie - The First Tasmanian Feature Film

Sheridan Morley reviews Manganinnie about an Aboriginal woman searching for her tribe

• 28 mins

A Look Back at 1981

From Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927) to Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children

• 28 mins

Swan's Down to Heavy Metal

Playwright Bille Brown discusses The Swan Down Gloves, and the poems of Odysseus Elytis

• 28 mins

Opera Factory

Harrison Birtwistle's Punch and Judy, Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fe, Peter Weir's Gallipoli

• 28 mins