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The Wall by Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd's rock album The Wall becomes a film and divides critics
Capital Jazz Festival
With Chico Freeman, Wynton Marsalis, music from Sippie Wallace and the Modern Jazz Quartet
The Method of Zoltan Kodaly
The work of Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly and interview with artist Zsuzsi Roboz
Linda Kitson war-artist
War-artist Linda Kitson on her experience in the Falklands war
The Paris Opera Ballet
Choreographer Pierre Lacotte talks about his recreation of La Sylphide
Oh What a Paradise it Seems
Nina Bawden reviews John Cheever, plus the work of American composer Dave Grusin
Cathy Berberian and the Sound of Women
Cathy Berberian and Giovanna Marini discuss their choice of songs
Patrick White
Australian author and Nobel Prize winner, Patrick White, talks about his life and work
Vittorio Gassman in Avignon
Interviews with Italian actor Vittorio Gassman and US theatre director Lee Breuer
Tribute to Henry Fonda
Tribute Henry Fonda with director Lindsay Anderson and writer and critic Clancy Sigal
The Tempest with Mark Rylance
Director Ron Daniels, Mark Rylance sings, and violin concertos by Anne-Sophie Mutter
Conan the Barbarian
Swords and sorcery as explained by John Milius who directed the film
Hamlet - Post-Freudian Prince
Actor Anton Lesser, Burning an Illusion, The Blue-Eyed Shan by Stephen D Becker
Who Dares Wins
Film Who Dares Wins, Swiss oboist Heinz Holliger, and German satirical artist George Grosz
Edinburgh International Festival
La Compagnia Colla's Prometheus and Pietro Metastasio's opera Olympiad
Remembering Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman, modern Spanish painting, a biography of singer Victoria de los Angeles
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
Also, choreographer David Bintley's Swan of Tuonela and Samuel Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said
Ivor Novello
Ivor Novello and co-star Mary Ellis, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and painter Glenn Sujo
Peter Ustinov and Mussorgsky
Peter Ustinov in Mussorgsky's The Marriage, The Antonio Gades Company's Blood Wedding
The Venice Film Festival
The State of Things by Wim Wenders, and Imperative by Krzysztof Zanussi
Brimstone and Treacle
Dennis Potter, Joan Plowright, Carol Churchill, and Graham Payn on Noel Coward
Graham Greene Talks
Graham Greene on his novel Monsignor Quixote, director Jerzy Skolimowski on Moonlighting
Cuban poet Heberto Padilla
Heberto Padilla, actors Peter Egan and John Alderton, critic and author Marina Vaizey
New Zealand film Pictures
Pictures from New Zealand, Judi Dench, and An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
Maeve Binchy Lights a Penny Candle
Author Maeve Binchy talks about her first novel Light a Penny Candle
Estelle Parsons in Miss Margarida's Way
American actress Estelle Parsons, author Alan Sillitoe, and art critic Geeta Kapoor
John le Carré special
First broadcast in 1982. The author discusses his life, work and characters
William Burroughs Interview
Author William Burroughs, director Mike Figgis, and The London Sinfonietta
On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin's On the Black Hill, plus Brian Smithies and director Peter Yates
John Fowles Interview
Author John Fowles, the Jubilee Art Competition, and Peter Nichol's musical play Poppy
The Dublin Theatre Festival
With artistic director Michael Colgan, writer Hugh Leonard, and director Garry Hynes