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Black Star – Another British curtain call for Ira Aldridge

Portrait of the son of a slave who took European theatre by storm

• 28 mins

Peter Ustinov is Meridian's first guest

Peter Ustinov talks about Hercule Poirot and Overheard, his play about a diplomatic affair

• 28 mins

Dancing Isadora Duncan's story

A biographical ballet about radical dancer Isadora Duncan opens

• 28 mins

New Zealand Film Season

Punk-cult, political, occasionally banned, New Zealand films arrive in London

• 28 mins

The Concert Hank Williams Never Gave

Plays about Hank Williams, mystery, and miners. Plus, Robert Rauschenberg's retrospective

• 28 mins

Why the Postman always Rang Twice

News of Jack Nicholson's new film, a tribute to the late Bob Marley, the opening of Cats

• 28 mins

The World of Reggae on stage in London

The fruits of success are not all sweet for reggae star Errol in Matura's One Rule

• 28 mins

Poet or criminal? How should we remember Ezra Pound?

How should Ezra Pound's fascist politics affect our appreciation of his poetry?

• 29 mins

William Saroyan – His Life and Times

Literary giant, writer of 'poetic shouts', novels and plays, William Saroyan, has died

• 30 mins

The City of Gold's Fatal Call

The Hungry Earth

• 28 mins

Lindsay Anderson directs Hamlet on stage in London

Lindsay Anderson applauds Hamlet's "extraordinary modernity of feeling and thought"

• 29 mins

Immersed in the Arts in Bath

Events and attractions of the 1981 Bath Festival

• 31 mins

Canada's Theatrical Soul on Show in Toronto

On Stage '81, the first Toronto theatre festival is the biggest ever held in North America

• 29 mins

Time for Museums to Return their Treasures?

Should Western museums return important cultural objects to their countries of origin?

• 28 mins

Robin Hood Rides Again

The aristocratic outlaw returns to Nottingham in a new, immersive production

• 29 mins

The story of Russian Jews told through one Family

The suffering of Russian Jews under the Nazis shocked Russian readers of Heavy Sand

• 28 mins

JG Ballard's New Vision of America

Science poetry not science fiction is one critic's description of JG Ballard's new novel

• 28 mins

Swashbucklers: Defending Honour with Rapiers and Wit

The Swashbuckler portrayed a romantic, cinematic world of witty gallantry and honour

• 29 mins

British Theatre on a Winning Streak in New York

Amadeus and Piaf bag top Tony Awards in New York

• 28 mins

Finalists line up in The Comptition

Love and rivallry play out in The Competition, a film about finalists in a piano contest

• 28 mins

Barnum – a Musical Life of the Great Showman

"There's a sucker born every minute," sings Michael Crawford as the showman P.T.Barnum

• 28 mins

The enduring Appeal of Fairies and the Uncanny

Ghouls, giants, goblins and fairies populate the pages of a new book of English folk tales

• 28 mins

Theater der Welt '81 in Cologne

International theatre companies join German ones in Cologne for Theater der Welt '81

• 29 mins

Edward Bond's new view of two Worlds

Pink Floyd concerts in London, playwright Edward Bond's new play The Worlds, Zen Buddhist one man show at the Almeida. Presenter: Jim Hiley.

• 29 mins

The Shoemaker's Holiday and the spirit of London

Sheridan Morley reviews a bawdy comedy by Shakespeare contemporary Thomas Dekker

• 28 mins

For Your Eyes Only – Bond Returns

The measures taken to make James Bond appeal to younger viewers

• 28 mins

Mrinal Sen's And Quiet Rolls the Dawn

Dilip Hiro reviews And Quiet Rolls the Dawn by director Mrinal Sen

• 29 mins

David Hockney on 'the Pleasure of Looking'

David Hockney on his contribution to the Artist's Eye series at the National Gallery

• 28 mins

Weaving as a very Contemporary Art

Artists in Norwich weave modern narratives using an ancient art

• 29 mins

Time to reappraise Troilus and Cressida?

Heroics or melodrama? Terry Hands' RSC production of Troilus and Cressida reviewed

• 28 mins