The Best Thrillers of 1982

Among them are The Skull Beneath the Skin by PD James and Banker by Dick Francis

• 28 mins

British Sculptor Raymond Mason

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Black Music, director Ken Loach's film Looks and Smiles

• 28 mins

Wise Virgin

AN Wilson's novel Wise Virgin, choreographer Frederick Ashton on new ballet Pas de Legumes

• 28 mins

Bartolome Esteban Murillo

Baroque painter Bartolome Murillo, organist Jennifer Bate, film director Yilmaz Guney

• 28 mins

JM Coetzee's Dustlands

Impact Theatre Co-operative's Useful Vices, Frank Zappa on his album The Man From Utopia

• 28 mins

Delhi Film Festival

With Chidananda Dasgupta and directors Utpalendu Chakrabarty, Shekhar Kapur, Sai Paranjpye

• 28 mins

The Queen of Spades

Director David Pountney on his production of The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky

• 28 mins

Partricia Highsmith - People Who Knock on the Door

PD James on Patricia Highsmith, travel writer Eric Newby, and The Battle of Algiers

• 28 mins

The Count of Luxembourg

Franz Lehar's operetta, plus actor Roshan Seth on A Map of the World by David Hare

• 29 mins

James Ivory - Heat and Dust

Film director James Ivory and critic Prabhu Guptara, plus French pianist Cecile Ousset

• 28 mins

Stanley Middleton's Entry into Jerusalem

Writer Stanley Middleton, Italian furniture exhibition, German film director Wim Wenders

• 28 mins

Antony Sher

Includes director Robert Knights, writer/director Mike Leigh and actress Marion Bailey

• 28 mins

The Unlikely Genius of Wyndham Lewis

English painter Wyndham Lewis, plus Cologne Opera's The Secret Marriage by Cimarosa

• 28 mins

Cal by Bernard MacLaverty

Novelist Bernard MacLaverty's Cal, and an exhibition of British pop artist Peter Blake

• 28 mins

Marguerite Yourcenar - A Coin in Nine Hands

The first women to elected to the Academie Francaise, Marguerite Yourcenar

• 28 mins

The Tempest by Paul Mazursky

The Tempest directed by Paul Mazursky, and 18th Century Irish painter James Barry

• 28 mins

Laurie Anderson - United States 1-4

Musician Laurie Anderson, actress Jane Lapotaire, and writer Kurt Vonnegut

• 28 mins

Identification of a Woman

Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman

• 28 mins

Milan Kundera's Joke

English translation of Milan Kundera's modern Czechoslovakian novel The Joke

• 28 mins

The Arts in India

India's performing arts and culture and the work of the Sangeet Natak Akademi

• 28 mins

Martin Scorsese's King of Comedy

Review of Scorsese's The King of Comedy and feminist author Sara Maitland's short stories

• 28 mins

Hungarian Film Industry

Includes interviews with directors Judit Elek, Zsolt Kezdi-Kovacs and Miklos Jancso

• 28 mins

Peter O'Toole - My Favorite Year

Director Richard Benjamin on film My Favorite Year, writer Douglas Harman on Kurt Weill

• 28 mins

Moscow Art Theatre - Uncle Vanya

The Moscow Art Theatre's first London performance in 19 years, Uncle Vanya

• 29 mins

Christa Wolf - A Model Childhood

No Place on Earth and A Model Childhood, two books by East German writer Christa Wolf

• 28 mins

Granta 7

Publisher Granta 7 teams up with Penguin to showcase young British novelists

• 28 mins

Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre

Behind the scenes of Alfred de Musset's play Lorenzaccio directed by Michael Bogdanov

• 28 mins

Remembering Dame Rebecca West

Tribute to Dame Rebecca West, Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset at the National Theatre

• 28 mins

Artists at War

The diaries of Siegfried Sassoon and British war correspondent Michael Nicholson

• 28 mins

Russell Hoban's Pilgermann

Author Russell Hoban, plus critic Marina Vaizey on Polish artist Gershon Iskowitz

• 28 mins