In Search of Blandings

Writer Norman Murphy on PG Wodehouse and In Search of Blandings

• 28 mins

The Saxon Shore

The Saxon Shore by David Rudkin, actress Anna Massey on Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac

• 28 mins

Jonathan Miller directs Jack Lemmon

Jonathan Miller directs Jack Lemmon in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night

• 28 mins

Malcolm Bradbury

Profile of British author and television playwright Malcolm Bradbury

• 27 mins

The 40th Arts Festival of Edinburgh

Includes theatre director Frank Dunlop and Douglas, a blank verse tragedy by John Home

• 28 mins

Edinburgh Arts Festival - Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Wajda's adaptation of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

• 29 mins

The Oxford English Dictionary

Exploring the history of the Oxford English Dictionary

• 28 mins

40th International Edinburgh Film Festival

Includes director Jane Campion's Two Friends and writer John McGrath's Blood Red Roses

• 28 mins

Edinburgh International Festival

Report on world theatre including the Toho Company's production of Euripides' Medea

• 29 mins

Remembering sculptor Henry Moore

Tribute to British sculptor Henry Moore including archive interviews

• 28 mins

Hal Prince

Profile of American theatrical producer and director Hal Prince

• 28 mins

Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa

Director Neil Jordan on his film Mona Lisa, plus the Tokyo Ballet arrive in Britain

• 28 mins

Broken Ground

Special programme about youth theatre in Britain

• 28 mins

The Bay at Nice and Wrecked Eggs

English playwright David Hare on his one act plays The Bay at Nice and Wrecked Eggs

• 29 mins

The House of Bernarda Alba

Nuria Espert on directing The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca

• 28 mins

Picasso

Life and work of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso

• 27 mins

Zeffirelli's Otello

Franco Zeffirelli's film of opera Otello, starring Placido Domingo

• 28 mins

Marion Hansel's film Dust

Belgian director Marion Hansel's film Dust plus actor John Matshikiza

• 28 mins

Booker Prize Shortlist

Old Devils by Kingsley Amis and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

• 28 mins

Kafka's Dick

Alan Bennett's play Kafka's Dick, plus the effects of war through cinema and television

• 28 mins

Tribute to dancer Sir Robert Helpmann

Tribute to Sir Robert Helpmann, plus the paintings of Rabindranath Tagore

• 28 mins

Interview with writer Vaclav Havel

Interview with Czech writer Vaclav Havel on his release from prison

• 28 mins

Ben Kingsley in A Betrothal

Oscar-winning actor Ben Kingsley on stage in A Betrothal by Lanford Wilson

• 28 mins

George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance

Director John Caird on George Bernard Shaw's play Misalliance starring Brian Cox

• 28 mins

The Phantom of the Opera opens in London

Interview with Andrew Lloyd Webber as The Phantom of the Opera opens in London

• 28 mins

Celebrating VS Pritchett

Grahame Greene, Paul Theroux, Steven Spender, Janet Adam Smith on VS Pritchett

• 29 mins

Ibsen's Ghost with Vanessa Redgrave

Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts opens in London starring Vanessa Redgrave and Tom Wilkinson

• 28 mins

Kingsley Amis wins Booker Prize for fiction

Kingsley Amis wins the 1986 Booker Prize for Fiction with The Old Devils

• 28 mins

Roland Joffe's The Mission

Film review of The Mission directed by Roland Joffe

• 28 mins

George Gershwin

The work of US composer George Gershwin discussed with conductor Brian Wright

• 28 mins