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Toni Morrison The Trespasser (film) Don Juan in Hell poetry workshop Martin Scorsese Elizabeth Taylor / John Hubbard Bob Fosse Robert Redford / Martin Amis Verity Bargate / Howard Hodgkin At the Haunted End of the Day: the... Gore Vidal The Roots of the Tree (Ermanno Olmi) Colin Welland Christopher Logue / Phillip King Lulu's Last Act (Berg opera) Dame Ninette De Valois / David... Clive James / Craig Raine Soviet Art Rhythm and Blues (The Blues Band, Dr.... Music for a City: Venice The French Lieutenant's Woman Elvis Costello Old Glory: the Journey and the Book Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield A Talent to Vex: John Osborne Mama Lu Parks Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th... Milos Forman Germaine Greer Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The... Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie... Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre) Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash Peter Maxwell-Davies Saul Bellow Indian wallpainting Stravinski (1) Stravinski (2) Julian Lloyd-Webber Miles Davis / Robert Nye Caught in the Act: Pillar to Post at... Joseph Papp / James Galway Werner Herzog Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by... Phillip Larkin Laurence Olivier, a Life (1) Laurence Olivier, a Life (2) Peter Gabriel Bruce Chatwin Patricia Highsmith Steven Spielberg Gospel at Colonus Simone De Beauvoir Barry Flannigan / Seamus Heaney David Hare Agnes De Mille Handel's Semele (by the Royal Opera... Sam Fuller Local Hero (film) R.K. Narayan Ivo Pogorelich John Le Carré Choirs and Places Where They Sing William Trevor Gene Hackman Keith Waterhouse Robert Lowell / Benjamin Britten's... Cowboy Art Jiri Kylian Producing Don Giovanni Ken Russell's View of The Planets Piper's Way Yuri Lyubimov Peter Brook Jack Lemmon David Hockney Catherine Cookson Lillian Gish/Glen Baxter Alberto Moravia Ian Hamilton Finlay/Lord Gowrie Barry Tuckwell: Master of the Horn Trevor Griffiths Weather Report Claudio Arrau Kathy Acker Ralph Vaughan Williams Sir Ernst Gombrich Michael Frayn Ed McBain David Bintley: New Ballet at Sadler's... Stephen Sondheim Elisabeth Vellacott / DeCocoa, Hot... adaptation of Ivy Compton Burnett's... Kipling (one-man play with Alec McGowen) Anthony Caro Alan Bennett McCartney's Broad Street The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix... Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Norman Nicholson Joseph Heller Mstislav Rostropovich Max Wall Malcolm McLaren Alan Bleasdale Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence Electronic Music Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex Marc Chagall David Lean: a Life in Film Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's... Little Richard George Malcolm on Scarlatti Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance... David Mamet Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith The Cotton Club (night club) Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young) Francis Bacon George Steiner on Vienna at the turn... Sir Alec Guinness Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year Theatre of Comedy workshop Pete Townshend: After the Fire Sir Stephen Spender Marguerite Duras Karole Armitage Peter Shaffer John Cleese Vladimir Ashkenazy Paul Schrader Purcell's Dido and Aenaes Patrick Heron Blue Note Records Michala Petri Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Absolute Beginners (film) Arthur Boyd Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical British Soap Operas Hull Truck Theatre Company Velvet Underground Al Jolson John Mortimer Itzhak Perlman Roald Dahl: Fe-Fi-Fo-fum Michael Powell Truman Capote Fay Godwin The Andrew Lloyd-Webber Story Agatha Christie, How Did She Do It? The Dream is Over (Christopher Bruce... Arts Review '86 Anthony Hopkins / David Hare Philip Glass Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Anthony Green: RA, a Love Story birth of Frankenstein and Dracula Thomas Allen The Wooster Group The London Underground in art V.S. Naipaul Barbara Dickson Penguin Cafe Orchestra Turner at the Tate George V. Higgins Peter York lecture The Aida File: The Making of the... The Aida File: Aida Performance (2) Maria Callas Toni Morrison The Smiths Andy Warhol Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega Sir Terence Conran Gore Vidal African music / Russian theatre Sir George Solti Eric Clapton Arts Review '87 The Last Emperor (1988 film) Australian Aboriginies South Bank Boogie - A Left Hand Like God The Golden Age of Television George Barker Jackson Pollack Lenny Henry Peter Dickinson A Day on The Grand Canal with the... Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans Ken Russell's ABC of British Music Paul Bowles Doris Lessing Sir Peter Hall's last National... The Art of Walt Disney Bernard Shaw Under Milk Wood Toulouse-Lautrec David Puttnam David Hockney Two Women in Three Dimensions (Wendy... Bristol WWII bombing raids reenactment Raymond Chandler Neil Jordan John Houseman David Bailey Derek Walcott Patrick Leigh Fermor National Training Orchestra Christopher Hampton Istvan Szabo Robert Redford Tony Palmer on the concerto Ben Elton John Burnett Put Blood in the Music John Ogdon Sir William Golding Martin Amis Dustin Hoffman, Sir Peter Hall Jimi Hendrix Tom Keneally in Eritrea Ken Russell Steven Berkoff Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fitzrovia Dame Edna Everage Evelyn Glennie Peter Brook Arts Review '89 Boris Pasternak Sir David Lean, Robert Bolt Christopher Hogwood Chinua Achebe Hans Werner Henze Jock Tamson's Bairns (Gerry Mulgrew,... Yuri Bashmet DV8 Physical Theatre Mark Morris: the Hidden Soul of Harmony Carl Davis, Temba Vivienne Westwood Hindemith Robert Altman George Michael Peter Ackroyd on Dickens Spike Lee Salman Rushdie Roy Lichtenstein Ken Russell on Anton Bruckner Clear Cool Crystal Streams (Irish... John Updike East German writers Alan Parker Cameron Mackintosh Spitting Image The Talis Scholars Stan Laurel August Wilson Oscar Marzaroli Anne-Sophie Mutter Bonfire of the Vanities (1991 film) Willard White The Five Blind Boys of Alabama / R.S.... Steve Martin Rudolph Nureyev Kiri Te Kanawa Private Eye David Lodge Terry Gilliam Neil Simon Heinrich Schiff Seamus Heaney John Osborne Dame Britain (Vera Lynn) Arthur Miller Jose Carreras, a Life Story Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Arts Review '91 Douglas Adams Lenny Henry Hunts the Funk Hakan Hardenberger Cecilia Bartoli Les Murray Colin Thubron Pet Shop Boys Paula Rego Noel Coward Anthony Hopkins Terence Davis Making Naked Lunch The Making of Sgt. Pepper Billy Connolly Alice Walker Peter O'Toole Two Royal Ballet Dancers (Darcey... Robert Zemeckis George Formby Sir Richard Attenborough The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax The World of Jeff Koons Jimi Hendrix Dracula Monserrat Caballe Annie Leibowitz Guggenheim Museum Dmitri and Sasha Sitkovetsky Jean Genet I, Berlioz Richard Price John Banville Henryk Gorecki's 3rd symphony Dudley Moore Frink, 1930-1993 (Dame Elisabeth Frink) Benny Goodman, the King of Swing Paul Simon Norman Wisdom Sydney Pollack Willy Russell Ken Loach Margaret Atwood John Lee Hooker Stevie Wonder Sylvie Guillem Tim Rice Lynda La Plante John Williams John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (1) John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (2) Woody Allen Bheki Mseleku Darker Than Me Jean-Claude Carriere Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool Looking for the Perfect Beat: Rap Larry Adler Plays Gershwin Kiri's 50th Birthday Concert Clive Barker Dawn French Christian Boltanski Eric Newby John Steinbeck Kenneth Williams Marilyn Horne New Generation Poets Vanessa Redgrave David Mamet The Shearing Touch (George Shearing) Alan Ayckbourn Frankenstein Thora Hird The Glory of Gershwin P.J. O'Rourke Lionel Bart Carl Orff Classic Widows Jonathan Miller Flags of the Fante Coast Catherine Bailey, the Lady is a Tramp... Edward Albee Jodie Foster Martin Amis Country Music Miriam Makeba Nora Ephron Clint Eastwood Ackroyd's Blake Tom Sharpe kd lang Pavarotti at 60 Jimmy Nail Dame Judi Dench Coronation Street Dame Barbara Cartland Jonathan Raban: Badlands / Wynton... Elaine Page Special Sting Albert Finney Marlene Dietrich John Eliot Gardiner Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence Claes Oldenburg Baaba Maal Maxine Peake / Wynton Marsalis in New... Alan Ayckbourn Workshop Victoria Wood Sir John Mills Michael Crawford Norman Mailer on Picasso Michael Collins Chanson Bryn Terfel Howard Hodgkin Jimmy McGovern Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid Maggi Hambling John Galliano The US and Us (1) The US and Us (2) Gilbert and George (1) Gilbert and George (2) Valery Gergiev Paganini David Helfgott Paul Auster Young Directors (Preya Lal, Alexander... Scarfe on Hercules Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance Kay Mellor Björk Iain Banks Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion... Steven Bochco Simon Raven Franco Zeffirelli Saul Zaentz Gillian Wearing / Gary Hume Marks and Gran Hail Bop: a Portrait of John Adams Nigel Kennedy Gary Oldman Body Art John Tavener The Bee Gees Will Self Afro-Cuban Allstars This is Not an Exit: the Fictional... Wayne Sleep Ossie Clarke (1) Ossie Clarke (2) Lesley Garrett Harold Pinter Maxine Peake/Les Ballets Trockadero... Walter Mosley Petula Clark Warren Beatty John Tomlinson Javier du Frutos UB40 Anish Kapoor New South African Artists Lucy Gannon Tony Harrison Dolly Parton Paul Merton Frank McCourt Howard Jacobson Jose Cura James Galway The Lion King (stage play based on... Joan Collins Blur Yoko Ono Cher Countertenors Bing Crosby Shakespeare Millennium Dome Sam Mendes Michael Douglas Chuck Close Emir Kusturica Amis on Amis (composing classical music) (1) Simon Holt's Sunrise, Yellow Noise (2) Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton Santana Joyce [Carol Oates] on Marilyn [Monroe] Carmen Mark Morris Dance Group George MacDonald Fraser Courtney Pine Ron Howard Dame Gillian Weir [Marlene] Dumas and [Jemima] Stehli Mark Quinn Tom Jones Ken Russell Shirin Neshat Russell Watson Amos Oz Greta Garbo Elvis Costello with Annie Sofie von... Bill Bryson Ian Rankin Ian Bostridge Edmund White Steve Coogan Ravi Shankar Tracey Emin High and Low Culture in the Age of... (highlights) Rachel Whiteread Norman Foster Dr. John Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Renée... The Sopranos Leif Ove Andsnes Night Mail 2 Why the Novel Matters Meera Syal Johnnie Ray Mario Vargas Llosa Fay Weldon R.E.M. Neil LaBute Cinema of Fire (Iranian cinema) Moby Bernie Taupin Mike Leigh Akram Khan Graham Vick: Beethoven in the Big Top Craig David Andrew Davies Joan Rivers Willie Nelson James MacMillan Irek Mukhamedov Gerhard Richter Hanif Kureishi How to Get Rich: Felix Dennis Philip Pullman Caryl Phillips Conor McPherson Herbie Hancock Caetano Veloso Ang Lee The Real George Orwell Juan Diego Florez Nick Cave Albert Camus Robert Harris Takes on Rome Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Full Picture Ewan McGregor Germaine Greer: The Boy Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern... TV Stories (1) TV Stories (2) Jamie Cullum The Wilson Twins John Lennon's Jukebox Jack Vettriano The Dance Theatre of Harlem Jeanette Winterson Johnny Hallyday Othello A Year in the Life of Ian McKellen Street Music Stories Ronnie Wood Willie Nelson Malcolm Arnold (1) Malcolm Arnold (2) Robert Frank Michael Frayn The Darkness Iggy Pop Ruth Rendell Howard Goodall Pete 'n' Dud, The Lost Shows Ian McEwan Going Sane Khaled and Rachid Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg The Garden of Cosmic Speculation John Boorman Red Priest National Theatre's production of... The Secret Art of War Paul Abbott Margot Fonteyn (1) Margot Fonteyn (2) Sophie Calle Karl Jenkins Eric Sykes Maxim Vengerov Alan Bennett Pablo Trapero, Lucrecia Martel,... The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy Peter Hall (1) Peter Hall (2) Little Britain Armando Iannucci Manga Mania Jacqueline Wilson John Rutter P.D. James Dusty Springfield Seu Jorge Romeo and Juliet Bill Bryson J.G. Ballard Robbie Coltrane Irving Welsh Monty Python's Spamalot Claire Tomalin on Thomas Hardy Sue Townsend Lorenzo Da Ponte George Michael: I'm Your Man Peter Blake Nick Park and Aardman Animation Steve Reich Grayson Perry W.H. Auden Victoria Wood Humphrey Lyttelton Isabel Allende Shane Meadows Jarvis Cocker: Running the World Michael Sheen on Playing It Real Marianne Faithful: A Life in Song Zaha Hadid Macbeth Ian McMillan: Bard of Barnsley Emma Kirkby: The Unsung Heroine Joan Didion Ken Follett The Mersey Sound The Last Laugh: John Bird and John... Annie Lennox Eric Clapton The Making of Viva la Diva Kevin Spacey at The Old Vic Tim Burton Lang Lang David McVicar's Salome: A Work in... Revolution 68 Liza Minnelli The Damned United Gore Vidal Sarah Waters Tasmin Little Billy Joel The Streets Bond Sam Taylor-Wood The Mariinsky Theatre Beyond the Footlights The Tempest Will Young Messiah William Goldman Out of Nigeria (1) Out of Nigeria (2) Peter Kosminsky