Ben Kingsley Interview

Extended interview with actor Ben Kingsley about his Oscar winning performance in Gandhi

• 28 mins

The Chester Mystery Plays

Medieval street theatre, American soprano Elise Ross, British painter Tim Jones

• 28 mins

Lina Wertmuller's Head of Alvise

Lina Wertmuller's first novel, Brahms' sonatas, director Nicholas Roeg on Eureka

• 28 mins

Remembering author John Masters

Prabhu Guptara, Zimbabwean playwright Nicholas Ellenbogen, Swiss writer Adolf Muschg

• 28 mins

Steven Berkoff on Impossible Events

Also, Peter Ackroyd on JIM Stewart, historian MRD Foot, and Abdel-Halim Caracalla

• 28 mins

Composer Sir Lennox Berkeley's 80th

Music critic Edward Greenfield, carpets in galleries, and American playwright Beth Henley

• 28 mins

Elia Kazan Interview

Film director Elia Kazan, musician Munir Bashir, and British ceramicist Henry Pim

• 29 mins

Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa interviewed

Puccini, African artist John Muafangejo, and Tony Parker's People of Providence

• 28 mins

William Least Heat-Moon talks

Interviews with US author William Least Heat-Moon and British writer Ian McEwan

• 28 mins

Philip Langridge is Idomeneo

Tenor Philip Langridge, plus The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire by Doris Lessing

• 29 mins

David Bowie's World Tour

David Bowie's Serious Moonlight '83 world tour and Tony Scott's feature debut The Hunger

• 28 mins

The Dining Room by AR Gurney

Stage director Alan Strachan discusses The Dining Room, plus new book by Leonard Bernstein

• 29 mins

The Handy Man - Penelope Mortimer

A review of The Handy Man by Penelope Mortimer

• 28 mins

Norman Mailer's Ancient Evenings

Norman Mailer's new novel, animation in Annecy, and German artist Anselm Kiefer

• 28 mins

Henry VIII with John Thaw

Director Howard Davies, The Year of Living Dangerously, and zoologist Desmond Morris

• 28 mins

NF Simpson translates Eduardo de Filippo

English writer NF Simpson, British commercial art, and harpsichordist Heather Slade-Lipkin

• 28 mins

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Author Joanna Richardson, plus Percy Mtwa and Mbongeni Ngema in Woza Albert!

• 28 mins

The 36th Aldeburgh Festival

Revival of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, plus L'Argent by French director Robert Bresson

• 28 mins

Katharine Hepburn

The life and career of American actress Katharine Hepburn

• 28 mins

Buried Inside Extra - Joe Papp

American stage director Jo Papp, art critic Marina Vaizey, Dutch author Jona Oberski

• 28 mins

Edouard Manet at the Grand Palais

Presenter Waldemar Januszczak reports on the French art scene

• 28 mins

Andre Previn

Brian Matthew talks to the musician, composer, and Oscar winner in a 1983 interview

• 28 mins

Light Dimensions in Bath

An exhibition of holograms in Bath, England, plus American director Francis Ford Coppola

• 28 mins

Franz Liszt

Liszt biographer Alan Walker, theatre director William Gaskill and film Pauline a la Plage

• 28 mins

Portrait Miniatures at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Exhibition of 16th Century English portrait miniatures, plus the Houston Ballet

• 28 mins

The Arts in China - 1

The arts in modern day China with actor Ying Ruocheng and comedian Hou Baolin

• 28 mins

Australian author Morris West

Morris West's The World is Made of Glass, plus Neville Mariner's The Barber of Seville

• 28 mins

Nina Bawden and The Ice House

With author Nina Bawden, choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton and writer/actor Richard Crane

• 29 mins

The National Theatre's Fawn

Stage director Giles Block, British potter Michael Cardew, and writer Hilda Bernstein

• 28 mins

The Arts in China - 2

Includes Xie Jin, director of Legend of Tianyun Mountain

• 28 mins