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                            Original
  Episode #     Prod #      Air Date   Subjects
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Season 1

  1.   1- 1                14 Jan 75   Paul McCartney/surrealist exhibition
  2.   1- 2                21 Jan 78   Paganini Superstar
  3.   1- 3                28 Jan 78   Roy Minton
  4.   1- 4                 4 Feb 78   David Hockney
  5.   1- 5                11 Feb 78   Dennis Potter
  6.   1- 6                18 Feb 78   John Peel/Jane Glover
  7.   1- 7                25 Feb 78   Arabian Days (Edna O'Brien)/Quentin Crisp
  8.   1- 8                 4 Mar 78   Jacques Loussier
  9.   1- 9                11 Mar 78   Ken Dodd
 10.   1-10                18 Mar 78   Georges Simenon
 11.   1-11                25 Mar 78   Horowitz at the White House
 12.   1-12                 1 Apr 78   Carl Perkins/Morgan horses
 13.   1-13                 8 Apr 78   Carry On with Paul Morissey (Carry On ... films)
 14.   1-14                15 Apr 78   Search for Shaw
 15.   1-15                22 Apr 78   Harold Pinter
 16.   1-16                30 Apr 78   Satyajit Ray/John Williams/Ralph McTell
 17.   1-17                 6 May 78   Portrait of a Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan
 18.   1-18                13 May 78   Freddie Young
 19.   1-19                20 May 78   Frank Auerbach
 20.   1-20                17 Jun 78   Mayerling Ballet
 21.   1-21                 1 Jul 78   John Osborne on Wardle's book on Devine/Pearl (radio play)
 22.   1-22                 8 Jul 78   Ingmar Bergman at 60
 23.   1-23                15 Jul 78   Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (1)
 24.   1-24                22 Jul 78   Hullabaloo over George and Bonnie's Pictures (2)

Season 2

 25.   2- 1                26 Nov 78   Tom Stoppard
 26.   2- 2                 3 Dec 78   Grace Under Pressure (Anthony Burgess on Hemingway)
 27.   2- 3                10 Dec 78   Woody Allen
 28.   2- 4                17 Dec 78   Anatomy of an Opera: Jonathan Miller's Figaro
 29.   2- 5                14 Jan 79   Rhythm of Resistance (South African music)
 30.   2- 6                21 Jan 79   Harmony of the Spheres (Neil Ardley)
 31.   2- 7                28 Jan 79   Circus Clowns/Schubert recital by Richter
 32.   2- 8                 4 Feb 79   Royal Shakespeare Company on tour
 33.   2- 9                11 Feb 79   Brimstone & Treacle (Dennis Potter) / John McLaughlin, a Musical Journey
 34.   2-10                18 Feb 79   The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Edward Gorey / Gunter Grass
 35.   2-11                25 Feb 79   Michael Cimino / Alan Bennett, Stephen Frears
 36.   2-12                 4 Mar 79   Gordon Williams, Alan Sharp, Eddie Boyd
 37.   2-13                11 Mar 79   Derek Boshier / Ingrid Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
 38.   2-14                18 Mar 79   Neil Simon
 39.   2-15                25 Mar 79   Beryl Cook / Cloud Nine rehearsals
 40.   2-16                 1 Apr 79   Graham Sutherland
 41.   2-17                22 Apr 79   Darryl Way / Howard Brenton
 42.   2-18                29 Apr 79   The Europeans (film) / Joseph Heller
 43.   2-19                 6 May 79   Asian Arts festival
 44.   2-20                13 May 79   Billy Connolly
 45.   2-21                20 May 79   Jessye Norman
 46.   2-22                27 May 79   Rough Trade (record label) / Allen Jones
 47.   2-23                17 Jun 79   Scum (film) / Keith Jarrett
 48.   2-24                24 Jun 79   Michael Tippett (90 min.)

Season 3

 49.   3- 1                 2 Dec 79   Francis Ford Coppola
 50.   3- 2                 9 Dec 79   Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (1)
 51.   3- 3                16 Dec 79   Royal Shakespeare Company masterclass (2)
 52.   3- 4                23 Dec 79   Talking Heads
 53.   3- 5                17 Feb 80   Love and the Ice-Cream Vendor
 54.   3- 6                24 Feb 80   Fay Weldon / Richard Hogart on Northern Ireland in drama
 55.   3- 7                 2 Mar 80   Merce Cunningham
 56.   3- 8                 9 Mar 80   Elegies for the Deaths of Three Spanish Poets
 57.   3- 9                 6 Apr 80   A Time There was ... (Benjamin Britten)
 58.   3-10                13 Apr 80   The Greene Adaptations (Graham Greene films)
 59.   3-11                27 Apr 80   Salsa (Puerto Rican music)
 60.   3-12                 4 May 80   The Worlds of Edward Bond
 61.   3-13                11 May 80   Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli / Kinglsey Amis
 62.   3-14                18 May 80   new British rock films / The Tin Drum (film)
 63.   3-15                25 May 80   Roman Polanski
 64.   3-16                 1 Jun 80   Tom Wolfe
 65.   3-17                 8 Jun 80   Andrew Wyeth
 66.   3-18                29 Jun 80   Angus Wilson
 67.   3-19                 6 Jul 80   Jane Austen (film)

Season 4

 68.   4- 1                 9 Nov 80   Arthur Miller
 69.   4- 2                16 Nov 80   William Golding
 70.   4- 3                23 Nov 80   Akira Kurosawa
 71.   4- 4                30 Nov 80   Stravinsky's The Firebird
 72.   4- 5                 7 Dec 80   No Need to Lie
 73.   4- 6                14 Dec 80   The Passion (National Theatre's updating of medieval plays)
 74.   4- 7                18 Jan 81   Toni Morrison
 75.   4- 8                25 Jan 81   The Trespasser (film)
 76.   4- 9                 8 Feb 81   Don Juan in Hell
 77.   4-10                15 Feb 81   poetry workshop
 78.   4-11                22 Feb 81   Martin Scorsese
 79.   4-12                 1 Mar 81   Elizabeth Taylor / John Hubbard
 80.   4-13                 8 Mar 81   Bob Fosse
 81.   4-14                15 Mar 81   Robert Redford / Martin Amis
 82.   4-15                29 Mar 81   Verity Bargate / Howard Hodgkin
 83.   4-16                19 Apr 81   At the Haunted End of the Day: the Life of Sir William Walton
 84.   4-17                26 Apr 81   Gore Vidal
 85.   4-18                 3 May 81   The Roots of the Tree (Ermanno Olmi)
 86.   4-19                10 May 81   Colin Welland
 87.   4-20                17 May 81   Christopher Logue / Phillip King
 88.   4-21                24 May 81   Lulu's Last Act (Berg opera)
 89.   4-22                31 May 81   Dame Ninette De Valois / David Hockney on Picasso
 90.   4-23                 7 Jun 81   Clive James / Craig Raine
 91.   4-24                14 Jun 81   Soviet Art
 92.   4-25                21 Jun 81   Rhythm and Blues (The Blues Band, Dr. Feelgood, Nine Below Zero, Paul Jones)
 93.   4-26                28 Jun 81   Music for a City: Venice

Season 5

 94.   5- 1                 1 Nov 81   The French Lieutenant's Woman
 95.   5- 2                 8 Nov 81   Elvis Costello
 96.   5- 3                15 Nov 81   Old Glory: the Journey and the Book
 97.   5- 4                22 Nov 81   Ian McKellan / Ian McEwan
 98.   5- 5                29 Nov 81   Brian Moore / Patrick Caulfield
 99.   5- 6                 6 Dec 81   A Talent to Vex: John Osborne
100.   5- 7                17 Jan 82   Mama Lu Parks
101.   5- 8                24 Jan 82   Bernard D'Ascoli / Theatre of the 8th Day
102.   5- 9                31 Jan 82   Milos Forman
103.   5-10                 7 Feb 82   Germaine Greer
104.   5-11                14 Feb 82   Pauline Kael / George Steiner's The Portage to San Cristobal of AH
105.   5-12                21 Feb 82   Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller
106.   5-13                28 Feb 82   Blacck Theatre Cooperative / Laurie Anderson
107.   5-14                 7 Mar 82   Guys and Dolls (at the National Theatre)
108.   5-15                14 Mar 82   Richard Alston's Bellezza Flash
109.   5-16                21 Mar 82   Peter Maxwell-Davies
110.   5-17                28 Mar 82   Saul Bellow
111.   5-18                 4 Apr 82   Indian wallpainting
112.   5-19                 9 Apr 82   Stravinski (1)
113.   5-20                10 Apr 82   Stravinski (2)
114.   5-21                18 Apr 82   Julian Lloyd-Webber
115.   5-22                25 Apr 82   Miles Davis / Robert Nye
116.   5-23                 2 May 82   Caught in the Act: Pillar to Post at Wormwood Scrubs
117.   5-24                 9 May 82   Joseph Papp / James Galway
118.   5-25                16 May 82   Werner Herzog
119.   5-26                23 May 82   Why Don't I Love Opera Anymore (by Stephen Oliver)
120.   5-27                30 May 82   Phillip Larkin

Season 6

121.   6- 1                17 Oct 82   Laurence Olivier, a Life (1)
122.   6- 2                24 Oct 82   Laurence Olivier, a Life (2)
123.   6- 3                31 Oct 82   Peter Gabriel
124.   6- 4                 7 Nov 82   Bruce Chatwin
125.   6- 5                14 Nov 82   Patricia Highsmith
126.   6- 6                21 Nov 82   Steven Spielberg
127.   6- 7                28 Nov 82   Gospel at Colonus
128.   6- 8                 9 Jan 83   Simone De Beauvoir
129.   6- 9                23 Jan 83   Barry Flannigan / Seamus Heaney
130.   6-10                30 Jan 83   David Hare
131.   6-11                 6 Feb 83   Agnes De Mille
132.   6-12                13 Feb 83   Handel's Semele (by the Royal Opera House)
133.   6-13                20 Feb 83   Sam Fuller
134.   6-14                27 Feb 83   Local Hero (film)
135.   6-15                13 Mar 83   R.K. Narayan
136.   6-16                20 Mar 83   Ivo Pogorelich
137.   6-17                27 Mar 83   John Le Carré
138.   6-18                 3 Apr 83   Choirs and Places Where They Sing
139.   6-19                24 Apr 83   William Trevor
140.   6-20                 1 May 83   Gene Hackman
141.   6-21                 8 May 83   Keith Waterhouse
142.   6-22                15 May 83   Robert Lowell / Benjamin Britten's Quartettino
143.   6-23                22 May 83   Cowboy Art
144.   6-24                29 May 83   Jiri Kylian
145.   6-25                 5 Jun 83   Producing Don Giovanni
146.   6-26                12 Jun 83   Ken Russell's View of The Planets

Season 7

147.   7- 1                16 Oct 83   Piper's Way
148.   7- 2                23 Oct 83   Yuri Lyubimov
149.   7- 3                30 Oct 83   Peter Brook
150.   7- 4                 6 Nov 83   Jack Lemmon
151.   7- 5                13 Nov 83   David Hockney
152.   7- 5                20 Nov 83   Catherine Cookson
153.   7- 6                27 Nov 83   Lillian Gish/Glen Baxter
154.   7- 7                 4 Dec 83   Alberto Moravia
155.   7- 8                11 Dec 83   Ian Hamilton Finlay/Lord Gowrie
156.   7- 9                19 Feb 84   Barry Tuckwell: Master of the Horn
157.   7-10                26 Feb 84   Trevor Griffiths
158.   7-11                11 Mar 84   Weather Report
159.   7-12                18 Mar 84   Claudio Arrau
160.   7-13                 1 Apr 84   Kathy Acker
161.   7-14                 8 Apr 84   Ralph Vaughan Williams
162.   7-15                15 Apr 84   Sir Ernst Gombrich
163.   7-16                29 Apr 84   Michael Frayn
164.   7-17                 6 May 84   Ed McBain
165.   7-18                13 May 84   David Bintley: New Ballet at Sadler's Wells
166.   7-19                20 May 84   Stephen Sondheim
167.   7-20                27 May 84   Elisabeth Vellacott / DeCocoa, Hot Chocolate
168.   7-21                 3 Jun 84   adaptation of Ivy Compton Burnett's Elders and Betters
169.   7-22                10 Jun 84   Kipling (one-man play with Alec McGowen)
170.   7-23                24 Jun 84   Anthony Caro

Season 8

171.   8- 1                 7 Oct 84   Alan Bennett
172.   8- 2                14 Oct 84   McCartney's Broad Street
173.   8- 3                21 Oct 84   The Forming of the Phoenix (Phoenix Dance Company)
174.   8- 4                28 Oct 84   Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
175.   8- 5                 4 Nov 84   Norman Nicholson
176.   8- 6                11 Nov 84   Joseph Heller
177.   8- 7                18 Nov 84   Mstislav Rostropovich
178.   8- 8                25 Nov 84   Max Wall
179.   8- 9                 2 Dec 84   Malcolm McLaren
180.   8-10                13 Jan 85   Alan Bleasdale
181.   8-11                20 Jan 85   Anthony Burgess on D.H. Lawrence
182.   8-12                27 Jan 85   Electronic Music
183.   8-13                 3 Feb 85   Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex
184.   8-14                10 Feb 85   Marc Chagall
185.   8-15                17 Feb 85   David Lean: a Life in Film
186.   8-16                24 Feb 85   Simon Rattle / finale of Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony
187.   8-17                 3 Mar 85   Little Richard
188.   8-18                10 Mar 85   George Malcolm on Scarlatti
189.   8-19                17 Mar 85   Silent Partners: Second Stride Dance Company
190.   8-20                31 Mar 85   Michael Crawford/Billy Bragg
190.   8-21                24 Mar 85   David Mamet
191.   8-22                 5 Apr 85   Olivier Messiaen: The Music of Faith
192.   8-23                26 May 85   The Cotton Club (night club)
193.   8-24                 2 Jun 85   Prez (jazz opera about Lester Young)
194.   8-25                 9 Jun 85   Francis Bacon
195.   8-26                16 Jun 85   George Steiner on Vienna at the turn of the century

Season 9

196.   9- 1                 6 Oct 85   Sir Alec Guinness
197.   9- 2                13 Oct 85   Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor
198.   9- 3                20 Oct 85   Ian McKellen, Diary of a Year
199.   9- 4                27 Oct 85   Theatre of Comedy workshop
200.   9- 5                 3 Nov 85   Pete Townshend: After the Fire
201.   9- 6                10 Nov 85   Sir Stephen Spender
202.   9- 7                17 Nov 85   Marguerite Duras
203.   9- 8                24 Nov 85   Karole Armitage
204.   9- 9                 1 Dec 85   Peter Shaffer
205.   9-10                12 Jan 86   John Cleese
206.   9-11                19 Jan 86   Vladimir Ashkenazy
207.   9-12                26 Jan 86   Paul Schrader
208.   9-13                 2 Feb 86   Purcell's Dido and Aenaes
209.   9-14                 9 Feb 86   Patrick Heron
210.   9-15                16 Feb 86   Blue Note Records
211.   9-16                23 Feb 86   Michala Petri
212.   9-17                 2 Mar 86   Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
213.   9-18                 9 Mar 86   Absolute Beginners (film)
214.   9-19                23 Mar 86   Arthur Boyd
215.   9-20                 6 Apr 86   Hal Prince: Rethinking the Musical
216.   9-21                13 Apr 86   British Soap Operas
217.   9-22                20 Apr 86   Hull Truck Theatre Company
218.   9-23                27 Apr 86   Velvet Underground
219.   9-24                 4 May 86   Al Jolson

Season 10

220.  10- 1                 5 Oct 86   John Mortimer
221.  10- 2                12 Oct 86   Itzhak Perlman
222.  10- 3                19 Oct 86   Roald Dahl: Fe-Fi-Fo-fum
223.  10- 4                26 Oct 86   Michael Powell
224.  10- 5                 2 Nov 86   Truman Capote
225.  10- 6                 9 Nov 86   Fay Godwin
226.  10- 7                15 Nov 86   The Andrew Lloyd-Webber Story
227.  10- 8                23 Nov 86   Agatha Christie, How Did She Do It?
228.  10- 9                30 Nov 86   The Dream is Over (Christopher Bruce ballet on John Lennon)
229.  10-10                14 Dec 86   Arts Review '86
230.  10-11                11 Jan 87   Anthony Hopkins / David Hare
231.  10-12                18 Jan 87   Philip Glass
232.  10-13                25 Jan 87   Alvin Ailey Dance Theater
233.  10-14                 1 Feb 87   Anthony Green: RA, a Love Story
234.  10-15                 8 Feb 87   birth of Frankenstein and Dracula
235.  10-16                15 Feb 87   Thomas Allen
236.  10-17                22 Feb 87   The Wooster Group
237.  10-18                 1 Mar 87   The London Underground in art
238.  10-19                 8 Mar 87   V.S. Naipaul
239.  10-20                15 Mar 87   Barbara Dickson
240.  10-21                22 Mar 87   Penguin Cafe Orchestra
241.  10-22                29 Mar 87   Turner at the Tate
242.  10-23                 5 Apr 87   George V. Higgins
243.  10-24                12 Apr 87   Peter York lecture
244.  10-25                18 Apr 87   The Aida File: The Making of the Opera (1)
245.  10-26                19 Apr 87   The Aida File: Aida Performance (2)

Season 11

246.  11- 1                 4 Oct 87   Maria Callas
247.  11- 2                11 Oct 87   Toni Morrison
248.  11- 3                18 Oct 87   The Smiths
249.  11- 4                25 Oct 87   Andy Warhol
250.  11- 5                 1 Nov 87   Frank Rich / Suzanne Vega
251.  11- 6                 8 Nov 87   Sir Terence Conran
252.  11- 7                15 Nov 87   Gore Vidal
253.  11- 8                22 Nov 87   African music / Russian theatre
254.  11- 9                29 Nov 87   Sir George Solti
255.  11-10                 6 Dec 87   Eric Clapton
256.  11-11                20 Dec 87   Arts Review '87
257.  11-12                17 Jan 88   The Last Emperor (1988 film)
258.  11-13                24 Jan 88   Australian Aboriginies
259.  11-14                31 Jan 88   Boogie Woogie Music
260.  11-15                14 Feb 88   The Golden Age of Television
261.  11-16                21 Feb 88   George Barker
262.  11-17                28 Feb 88   Jackson Pollack
263.  11-18                 6 Mar 88   Lenny Henry
264.  11-19                13 Mar 88   Peter Dickinson
265.  11-20                20 Mar 88   A Day on The Grand Canal with the Emperor of China
266.  11-21                27 Mar 88   Nicuragua: Poets as Politicans
267.  11-22                 2 Apr 88   Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
268.  11-23                10 Apr 88   Paul Bowles
269.  11-24                17 Apr 88   Doris Lessing
270.  11-25                24 Apr 88   Sir Peter Hall's last National Theatre production

Season 12

271.  12- 1                25 Sep 88   The Art of Walt Disney
272.  12- 2                 2 Oct 88   Bernard Shaw
273.  12- 3                 9 Oct 88   Under Milk Wood
274.  12- 4                16 Oct 88   Toulouse-Lautrec
275.  12- 5                23 Oct 88   David Puttnam
276.  12- 6                30 Oct 88   David Hockney
277.  12- 7                13 Nov 88   Two Women in Three Dimensions (Wendy Taylor, Nicola Hicks)
278.  12- 8                20 Nov 88   Bristol WWII bombing raids reenactment
279.  12- 9                27 Nov 88   Raymond Chandler
280.  12-10                 4 Dec 88   Neil Jordan
281.  12-11                11 Dec 88   John Houseman
282.  12-12                18 Dec 88   David Bailey
283.  12-13                15 Jan 89   Derek Walcott
284.  12-14                22 Jan 89   Patrick Leigh Fermor
285.  12-15                29 Jan 89   National Training Orchestra
286.  12-16                 5 Feb 89   Christopher Hampton
287.  12-17                12 Feb 89   Istvan Szabo
288.  12-18                19 Feb 89   Robert Redford
289.  12-19                26 Feb 89   Tony Palmer on the concerto
290.  12-20                 5 Mar 89   Ben Elton

Special

       S-21                10 Mar 89   John Burnett

Season 12

292.  12-22                12 Mar 89   Put Blood in the Music
293.  12-23                19 Mar 89   John Ogdon
294.  12-24                24 Mar 89   Sir William Golding

Season 13

295.  13- 1                17 Sep 89   Martin Amis
296.  13- 2                24 Sep 89   Dustin Hoffman, Sir Peter Hall
297.  13- 3                 1 Oct 89   Jimi Hendrix
298.  13- 4                 8 Oct 89   Tom Keneally in Eritrea
299.  13- 5                15 Oct 89   Ken Russell
300.  13- 6                22 Oct 89   Steven Berkoff
301.  13- 7                29 Oct 89   Gabriel Garcia Marquez
302.  13- 8                12 Nov 89   Fitzrovia
303.  13- 9                19 Nov 89   Dame Edna Everage
304.  13-10                26 Nov 89   Evelyn Glennie
305.  13-11                 3 Dec 89   Peter Brook
306.  13-12                29 Dec 89   Arts Review '89
307.  13-13                 7 Jan 90   Boris Pasternak
308.  13-14                21 Jan 90   Sir David Lean, Robert Bolt
309.  13-15                28 Jan 90   Christopher Hogwood
310.  13-16                 4 Feb 90   Chinua Achebe
311.  13-17                11 Feb 90   Hans Werner Henze
312.  13-18                18 Feb 90   Jock Tamson's Bairns (Gerry Mulgrew, Liz Lochhead)
313.  13-19                 4 Mar 90   Yuri Bashmet
314.  13-20                11 Mar 90   DV8 Physical Theatre
315.  13-21                25 Mar 90   Mark Morris: the Hidden Soul of Harmony
316.  13-22                 1 Apr 90   Carl Davis, Temba
317.  13-23                 8 Apr 90   Vivienne Westwood
318.  13-24                15 Apr 90   Hindemith
319.  13-25                22 Apr 90   Robert Altman

Season 14

320.  14- 1                 2 Sep 90   George Michael
321.  14- 2                 9 Sep 90   Peter Ackroyd on Dickens
322.  14- 3                23 Sep 90   Spike Lee
323.  14- 4                30 Sep 90   Salman Rushdie
324.  14- 5                 7 Oct 90   Roy Lichtenstein
325.  14- 6                14 Oct 90   Ken Russell on Anton Bruckner
326.  14- 7                21 Oct 90   Clear Cool Crystal Streams (Irish rock music)
327.  14- 8                28 Oct 90   John Updike
328.  14- 9                 4 Nov 90   East German writers
329.  14-10                25 Nov 90   Alan Parker
330.  14-11                 2 Dec 90   Cameron Mackintosh
331.  14-12                 9 Dec 90   Spitting Image
332.  14-13                30 Dec 90   The Talis Scholars
333.  14-14                 6 Jan 91   Stan Laurel
334.  14-15                13 Jan 91   August Wilson
335.  14-16                20 Jan 91   Oscar Marzaroli
336.  14-17                27 Jan 91   Anne-Sophie Mutter
337.  14-18                 3 Feb 91   Bonfire of the Vanities (1991 film)
338.  14-19                10 Feb 91   Willard White
339.  14-20                17 Feb 91   The Five Blind Boys of Alabama / R.S. Thomas
340.  14-21                24 Feb 91   Steve Martin
341.  14-22                 3 Mar 91   Rudolph Nureyev
342.  14-23                29 Mar 91   Kiri Te Kanawa

Season 15

343.  15- 1                15 Sep 91   Private Eye
344.  15- 2                29 Sep 91   David Lodge
345.  15- 3                 6 Oct 91   Terry Gilliam
346.  15- 4                13 Oct 91   Neil Simon
347.  15- 5                20 Oct 91   Heinrich Schiff
348.  15- 6                27 Oct 91   Seamus Heaney
349.  15- 7                 3 Nov 91   John Osborne
350.  15- 8                10 Nov 91   Dame Britain (Vera Lynn)
351.  15- 9                17 Nov 91   Arthur Miller
352.  15-10                24 Nov 91   Jose Carreras, a Life Story
353.  15-11                22 Dec 91   Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
354.  15-12                29 Dec 91   Arts Review '91
355.  15-13                 5 Jan 92   Douglas Adams
356.  15-14                12 Jan 92   Lenny Henry Hunts the Funk
357.  15-15                19 Jan 92   Hakan Hardenberger
358.  15-16                28 Nov 99   Cecilia Bartoli
359.  15-17                 2 Feb 92   Les Murray
360.  15-18                 9 Feb 92   Colin Thubron
361.  15-19                16 Feb 92   Pet Shop Boys
362.  15-20                23 Feb 92   Paula Rego
363.  15-21                 1 Mar 92   Noel Coward
364.  15-22                29 Mar 92   Anthony Hopkins
365.  15-23                 5 Apr 92   Terence Davis
366.  15-24                12 Apr 92   Making Naked Lunch
367.  15-25                14 Jun 92   The Making of Sgt. Pepper

Season 16

368.  16- 1                 4 Oct 92   Billy Connolly
369.  16- 2                11 Oct 92   Alice Walker
370.  16- 3                18 Oct 92   Peter O'Toole
371.  16- 4                25 Oct 92   Two Royal Ballet Dancers (Darcey Bussell, Viviana Durante)
372.  16- 5                 1 Nov 92   Robert Zemeckis
373.  16- 6                 8 Nov 92   George Formby
374.  16- 7                15 Nov 92   Sir Richard Attenborough
375.  16- 8                 6 Dec 92   The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax
376.  16- 9                13 Dec 92   The World of Jeff Koons
377.  16-10                20 Dec 92   Jimi Hendrix
378.  16-11                24 Jan 93   Dracula
379.  16-12                31 Jan 93   Monserrat Caballe
380.  16-13                 7 Feb 93   Annie Leibowitz
381.  16-14                14 Feb 93   Guggenheim Museum
382.  16-15                21 Feb 93   Dmitri and Sasha Sitkovetsky
383.  16-16                28 Feb 93   Jean Genet
384.  16-17                 7 Mar 93   I, Berlioz
385.  16-18                14 Mar 93   Richard Price
386.  16-19                21 Mar 93   John Banville
387.  16-20                 4 Apr 93   Henryk Gorecki's 3rd symphony
388.  16-21                13 Jun 93   Dudley Moore
389.  16-22                20 Jun 93   Frink, 1930-1993 (Dame Elisabeth Frink)
390.  16-23                 4 Jul 93   Benny Goodman, the King of Swing
391.  16-24                15 Aug 93   Paul Simon
392.  16-25                22 Aug 93   Norman Wisdom

Season 17

393.  17- 1                12 Sep 93   Sydney Pollack
394.  17- 2                19 Sep 93   Willy Russell
395.  17- 3                 3 Oct 93   Ken Loach
396.  17- 4                10 Oct 93   Margaret Atwood
397.  17- 5                17 Oct 93   John Lee Hooker
398.  17- 6                24 Oct 93   Stevie Wonder
399.  17- 7                31 Oct 93   Sylvie Guillem
400.  17- 8                 7 Nov 93   Tim Rice
401.  17- 9                14 Nov 93   Lynda La Plante
402.  17-10                21 Nov 93   John Williams
403.  17-11                28 Nov 93   John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (1)
404.  17-12                 5 Dec 93   John Lloyd's A-Z of Comedy (2)
405.  17-13                16 Jan 94   Woody Allen
406.  17-14                23 Jan 94   Bheki Mseleku
407.  17-15                 6 Feb 94   Darker Than Me
408.  17-16                13 Feb 94   Jean-Claude Carriere
409.  17-17                20 Feb 94   Danny Kaye: Nobody's Fool
410.  17-18                27 Feb 94   Looking for the Perfect Beat: Rap
411.  17-19                 6 Mar 94   Larry Adler Plays Gershwin
412.  17-20                13 Mar 94   Kiri's 50th Birthday Concert
413.  17-21                10 Apr 94   Clive Barker
414.  17-22                17 Apr 94   Dawn French
415.  17-23                15 May 94   Christian Boltanski
416.  17-24                22 May 94   Eric Newby
417.  17-25                29 May 94   John Steinbeck

Season 18

418.  18- 1                18 Sep 94   Kenneth Williams
419.  18- 2                25 Sep 94   Marilyn Horne
420.  18- 3                 2 Oct 94   New Generation Poets
421.  18- 4                 9 Oct 94   Vanessa Redgrave
422.  18- 5                16 Oct 94   David Mamet
423.  18- 6                23 Oct 94   The Shearing Touch (George Shearing)
424.  18- 7                30 Oct 94   Alan Ayckbourn
425.  18- 8                 6 Nov 94   Frankenstein
426.  18- 9                13 Nov 94   Thora Hird
427.  18-10                20 Nov 94   The Glory of Gershwin
428.  18-11                27 Nov 94   P.J. O'Rourke
429.  18-12                11 Dec 94   Lionel Bart
430.  18-13                29 Jan 95   Carl Orff
431.  18-14                 5 Feb 95   Classic Widows
432.  18-15                12 Feb 95   Jonathan Miller
433.  18-16                19 Feb 95   Flags of the Fante Coast
434.  18-17                26 Feb 95   Catherine Bailey, the Lady is a Tramp / Roger Ballen
435.  18-18                 5 Mar 95   Edward Albee
436.  18-19                12 Mar 95   Jodie Foster
437.  18-20                19 Mar 95   Martin Amis
438.  18-21                 2 Apr 95   Country Music
439.  18-22                 9 Apr 95   Miriam Makeba
440.  18-23                25 Jun 95   Nora Ephron

Season 19

441.  19- 1                10 Sep 95   Clint Eastwwod
442.  19- 2                17 Sep 95   Ackroyd's Blake
443.  19- 3                24 Sep 95   Tom Sharpe
444.  19- 4                 1 Oct 95   kd lang
445.  19- 5                 8 Oct 95   Pavarotti at 60
446.  19- 6                15 Oct 95   Jimmy Nail
447.  19- 7                29 Oct 95   Dame Judi Dench
448.  19- 8                 5 Nov 95   Coronation Street
449.  19- 9                12 Nov 95   Dame Barbara Cartland
450.  19-10                19 Nov 95   Jonathan Raban: Badlands / Wynton Marsalis
451.  19-11                 7 Apr 96   Elaine Page Special
452.  19-12                14 Apr 96   Sting
453.  19-13                28 Apr 96   Albert Finney
454.  19-14                 5 May 96   Marlene Dietrich
455.  19-15                12 May 96   John Eliot Gardiner
456.  19-16                19 May 96   Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence
457.  19-17                26 May 96   Claes Oldenburg
458.  19-18                 2 Jun 96   Baaba Maal
459.  19-19                21 Jul 96   Maxine Peake / Wynton Marsalis in New Orleans
460.  19-20                28 Jul 96   Alan Ayckbourn Workshop

Season 20

461.  20- 1                15 Sep 96   Victoria Wood
462.  20- 2                22 Sep 96   Sir John Mills
463.  20- 3                29 Sep 96   Michael Crawford
464.  20- 4                 6 Oct 96   Norman Mailer on Picasso
465.  20- 5                13 Oct 96   Chanson
465.  20- 6                27 Oct 96   Michael Collins
467.  20- 7                 3 Nov 96   Bryn Terfel
468.  20- 8                10 Nov 96   Howard Hodgkin
469.  20- 9                17 Nov 96   Jimmy McGovern
470.  20-10                 5 Jan 97   Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
471.  20-11                12 Jan 97   Maggi Hambling
472.  20-12                19 Jan 97   John Galliano
473.  20-13                26 Jan 97   The US and Us (1)
474.  20-14                 2 Feb 97   The US and Us (2)
475.  20-15                 9 Feb 97   Gilbert and George (1)
476.  20-16                16 Feb 97   Gilbert and George (2)
477.  20-17                23 Feb 97   Valery Gergiev
478.  20-18                 4 May 97   Paganini
479.  20-19                22 Jun 97   David Helfgott
480.  20-20                 6 Jul 97   Paul Auster
481.  20-21                20 Jul 97   Young Directors (Preya Lal, Alexander Kelly, Franca Cereghini, Chris Dooks)

Season 21

482.  21- 1                 5 Oct 97   Scarfe on Hercules
483.  21- 2                26 Oct 97   Michael Flatley: Lord of the Dance
484.  21- 3                 2 Nov 97   Kay Mellor
485.  21- 4                 9 Nov 97   Björk
486.  21- 5                16 Nov 97   Iain Banks
487.  21- 6                23 Nov 97   Matthew Bourne's Adventures in Motion Pictures
488.  21- 7                30 Nov 97   Steven Bochco
489.  21- 8                14 Dec 97   Simon Raven
490.  21- 9                21 Dec 97   Franco Zeffirelli
491.  21-10                11 Jan 98   Saul Zaentz
492.  21-11                18 Jan 98   Gillian Wearing / Gary Hume
493.  21-12                 1 Feb 98   Marks and Gran
494.  21-13                 8 Feb 98   Hail Bop: a Portrait of John Adams
495.  21-14                15 Feb 98   Nigel Kennedy
496.  21-15                15 Mar 98   Gary Oldman
497.  21-16                 5 Apr 98   Body Art
498.  21-17                12 Apr 98   John Tavener
499.  21-18                 7 Jun 98   The Bee Gees
500.  21-19                 5 Jul 98   Will Self
501.  21-20                19 Jul 98   Afro-Cuban Allstars
502.  21-21                23 Aug 98   This is Not an Exit: the Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis
503.  21-22                30 Aug 98   Wayne Sleep

Season 22

504.  22- 1                 8 Nov 98   Ossie Clarke (1)
505.  22- 2                15 Nov 98   Ossie Clarke (2)
506.  22- 3                22 Nov 98   Lesley Garrett
507.  22- 4                29 Nov 98   Harold Pinter
508.  22- 5                 6 Dec 98   Maxine Peake/Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
509.  22- 6                13 Dec 98   Walter Mosley
510.  22- 7                20 Dec 98   Petula Clark
511.  22- 8                30 Dec 98   Warren Beatty
512.  22- 9                10 Jan 99   John Tomlinson
513.  22-10                31 Jan 99   Javier du Frutos
514.  22-11                 7 Feb 99   UB40
515.  22-12                21 Feb 99   Anish Kapoor
516.  22-13                28 Feb 99   New South African Artists
517.  22-14                14 Mar 99   Lucy Gannon
518.  22-15                28 Mar 99   Tony Harrison
519.  22-16                 9 Apr 99   Dolly Parton

Season 23

520.  23- 1                26 Sep 99   Paul Merton
521.  23- 2                 3 Oct 99   Frank McCourt
522.  23- 3                10 Oct 99   Howard Jacobson
523.  23- 4                17 Oct 99   Jose Cura
524.  23- 5                24 Oct 99   James Galway
525.  23- 6                31 Oct 99   The Lion King (stage play based on the film)
526.  23- 7                14 Nov 99   Joan Collins
527.  23- 8                21 Nov 99   Blur
529.  23- 9                 5 Dec 99   Yoko Ono
530.  23-10                11 Dec 99   Cher
531.  23-11                19 Dec 99   Countertenors
532.  23-12                26 Dec 99   Bing Crosby
533.  23-13                23 Jan 00   Shakespeare
534.  23-14                 7 Feb 00   Millennium Dome
535.  23-15                14 Feb 00   Sam Mendes
536.  23-16                21 Feb 00   Michael Douglas
537.  23-17                 5 Mar 00   Chuck Close
538.  23-18                12 Mar 00   Emir Kusturica
540.  23-19                18 Jun 00   Amis on Amis
541.  23-20                25 Jun 00   (composing classical music) (1)
542.  23-21                 2 Jul 00   Simon Holt's Sunrise, Yellow Noise (2)

Season 24

543.  24- 1                 1 Oct 00   Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton
544.  24- 2                 8 Oct 00   Santana
545.  24- 3                15 Oct 00   Joyce [Carol Oates] on Marilyn [Monroe]
546.  24- 4                22 Oct 00   Carmen
547.  24- 5                29 Oct 00   Mark Morris Dance Group
548.  24- 6                12 Nov 00   George MacDonald Fraser
549.  24- 7                19 Nov 00   Courtney Pine
550.  24- 8                26 Nov 00   Ron Howard
551.  24- 9                 3 Dec 00   Dame Gillian Weir
552.  24-10                10 Dec 00   [Marlene] Dumas and [Jemima] Stehli
553.  24-11                17 Dec 00   Mark Quinn
554.  24-12                24 Dec 00   Tom Jones
555.  24-13                11 Feb 01   Ken Russell
556.  24-14                18 Feb 01   Shirin Neshat
557.  24-15                25 Feb 01   Russell Watson
558.  24-16                 4 Mar 01   Amos Oz
559.  24-17                11 Mar 01   Greta Garbo
560.  24-18                18 Mar 01   Elvis Costello with Annie Sofie von Otter
561.  24-19                25 Mar 01   Bill Bryson
562.  24-20                 1 Jul 01   Ian Rankin
563.  24-21                 8 Jul 01   Ian Bostridge
564.  24-22                22 Jul 01   Edmund White
565.  24-23                 5 Aug 01   Steve Coogan
566.  24-24                12 Aug 01   Ravi Shankar
567.  24-25                19 Aug 01   Tracey Emin

Season 25

568.  25- 1                 7 Oct 01   High and Low Culture in the Age of Television
569.  25- 2                14 Oct 01   (highlights)
570.  25- 3                28 Oct 01   Rachel Whiteread
571.  25- 4                11 Nov 01   Norman Foster
572.  25- 5                18 Nov 01   Dr. John
573.  25- 6                16 Dec 01   Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
574.  25- 7                 3 Feb 02   Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
575.  25- 8                10 Feb 02   The Sopranos
576.  25- 9                10 Mar 02   Night Mail 2
576.  25- 9                24 Feb 02   Leif Ove Andsnes
577.  25-10                17 Mar 02   Why the Novel Matters
578.  25-11                24 Mar 02   Meera Syal
579.  25-12                31 Mar 02   Johnnie Ray
580.  25-13                21 Apr 02   Mario Vargas Llosa
581.  25-14                 5 May 02   Fay Weldon
582.  25-15                 9 May 02   R.E.M.
583.  25-16                23 Jun 02   Neil LaBute
584.  25-17                30 Jun 02   Cinema of Fire (Iranian cinema)
585.  25-18                 7 Jul 02   Moby
586.  25-19                 4 Aug 02   Bernie Taupin

Season 26

587.  26- 1                13 Oct 02   Mike Leigh
588.  26- 2                20 Oct 02   Akram Khan
589.  26- 3                27 Oct 02   Graham Vick: Beethoven in the Big Top
590.  26- 4                10 Nov 02   Craig David
591.  26- 5                17 Nov 02   Andrew Davies
592.  26- 6                24 Nov 02   Joan Rivers
593.  26- 7                12 Jan 03   Willie Nelson
594.  26- 8                 5 Jan 03   James MacMillan
595.  26- 9                19 Jan 03   Irek Mukhamedov
596.  26-10                 2 Feb 03   Gerhard Richter
597.  26-11                 9 Feb 03   Hanif Kureishi
598.  26-12                16 Feb 03   How to Get Rich: Felix Dennis
599.  26-13                 9 Mar 03   Philip Pullman
600.  26-14                13 Apr 03   Caryl Phillips
601.  26-15                18 May 03   Conor McPherson
602.  26-16                29 Jun 03   Herbie Hancock
603.  26-17                 6 Jul 03   Caetano Veloso
604.  26-18                13 Jul 03   Ang Lee
605.  26-19                27 Jul 03   The Real George Orwell
606.  26-20                 3 Aug 03   Juan Diego Florez
607.  26-21                10 Aug 03   Nick Cave
608.  26-22                31 Aug 03   Albert Camus
609.  26-23                 7 Sep 03   Robert Harris Takes on Rome
610.  26-24                19 Sep 03   Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Full Picture
611.  26-25                21 Sep 03   Ewan McGregor

Season 27

612.  27- 1                19 Oct 03   Germaine Greer: The Boy
613.  27- 2                 7 Dec 03   Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
614.  27- 3                 1 Feb 04   TV Stories (1)
615.  27- 4                 8 Feb 04   TV Stories (2)
616.  27- 5                22 Feb 04   Jamie Cullum
617.  27- 6                 7 Mar 04   The Wilson Twins
618.  27- 7                14 Mar 04   John Lennon's Jukebox
619.  27- 8                21 Mar 04   Jack Vettriano
620.  27- 9                 4 Apr 04   The Dance Theatre of Harlem
621.  27-10                 2 May 04   Jeanette Winterson
622.  27-11                 9 May 04   Johnny Hallyday
623.  27-12                16 May 04   Othello
624.  27-13                29 Jun 04   A Year in the Life of Ian McKellen

Season 28

625.  28- 1                22 Aug 04   Street Music Stories
626.  28- 2                 5 Sep 04   Ronnie Wood
627.  28- 3                19 Sep 04   Willie Nelson
628.  28- 4                26 Sep 04   Malcolm Arnold (1)
629.  28- 5                 3 Oct 04   Malcolm Arnold (2)
630.  28- 6                17 Oct 04   Robert Frank
632.  28- 7                14 Nov 04   Michael Frayn
633.  28- 8                21 Nov 04   The Darkness
634.  28- 9                 5 Dec 04   Iggy Pop
635.  28-10                12 Dec 04   Ruth Rendell
636.  28-11                19 Dec 04   Howard Goodall
637.  28-12                 1 Jan 05   Pete 'n' Dud, The Lost Shows
638.  28-13                20 Feb 05   Ian McEwan
639.  28-14                 6 Mar 05   Going Sane
640.  28-15                13 Mar 05   Khaled and Rachid
641.  28-16                27 Mar 05   Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg
642.  28-17                 3 Apr 05   The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
643.  28-18                10 Apr 05   John Boorman
644.  28-19                24 Apr 05   Red Priest
645.  28-20                 1 May 05   National Theatre's production of Henry IV
646.  28-21                 8 May 05   The Secret Art of War
647.  28-22                15 May 05   Paul Abbott

Season 29

648.  29- 1                 7 Aug 05   Margot Fonteyn (1)
649.  29- 2                14 Aug 05   Margot Fonteyn (2)
650.  29- 3                21 Aug 05   Sophie Calle
651.  29- 4                11 Sep 05   Karl Jenkins
652.  29- 5                18 Sep 05   Eric Sykes
653.  29- 6                 2 Oct 05   Maxim Vengerov
654.  29- 7                 9 Oct 05   Alan Bennett
655.  29- 8                16 Oct 05   Pablo Trapero, Lucrecia Martel, Daniel Burman
656.  29- 9                23 Oct 05   The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy
657.  29-10                30 Oct 05   Peter Hall (1)
658.  29-11                 6 Nov 05   Peter Hall (2)
659.  29-12                25 Dec 05   Little Britain
660.  29-13                12 Feb 06   Armando Iannucci
661.  29-14                19 Feb 06   Manga Mania
662.  29-15                 5 Mar 06   Jacqueline Wilson
663.  29-16                12 Mar 06   John Rutter
664.  29-17                26 Mar 06   P.D. James
665.  29-18                 9 Apr 06   Dusty Springfield
666.  29-19                 4 Jun 06   Seu Jorge
667.  29-20                11 Jun 06   Romeo and Juliet

Season 30

668.  30- 1                10 Sep 06   Bill Bryson
669.  30- 2                17 Sep 06   J.G. Ballard
670.  30- 3                24 Sep 06   Robbie Coltrane
671.  30- 4                 1 Oct 06   Irving Welsh
672.  30- 5                15 Oct 06   Monty Python's Spamalot
673.  30- 6                22 Oct 06   Claire Tomalin on Thomas Hardy
674.  30- 7                29 Oct 06   Sue Townsend
675.  30- 8                 5 Nov 06   Lorenzo Da Ponte
676.  30- 9                17 Nov 06   George Michael: I'm Your Man
677.  30-10                19 Nov 06   Peter Blake
678.  30-11                26 Nov 06   Nick Park and Aardman Animation
679.  30-12                10 Dec 06   Steve Reich
680.  30-13                17 Dec 06   Grayson Perry
681.  30-14                18 Feb 07   W.H. Auden
682.  30-15                11 Mar 07   Victoria Wood
683.  30-16                25 Mar 07   Humphrey Lyttelton
684.  30-17                22 Apr 07   Isabel Allende
685.  30-18                29 Apr 07   Shane Meadows
686.  30-19                10 Jun 07   Jarvis Cocker: Running the World
687.  30-20                17 Jun 07   Michael Sheen on Playing It Real
688.  30-21                24 Jun 07   Marianne Faithful: A Life in Song
689.  30-22                 1 Jul 07   Zaha Hadid
690.  30-23                 8 Jul 07   Macbeth
691.  30-24                15 Jul 07   Ian McMillan: Bard of Barnsley
692.  30-25                22 Jul 07   Emma Kirkby: The Unsung Heroine

Season 31

693.  31- 1                23 Sep 07   Joan Didion
694.  31- 2                30 Sep 07   Ken Follett
695.  31- 3                 7 Oct 07   The Mersey Sound
696.  31- 4                14 Oct 07   The Last Laugh: John Bird and John Fortune
697.  31- 5                25 Nov 07   Annie Lennox
698.  31- 6                 2 Dec 07   Eric Clapton
699.  31- 7                 9 Dec 07   The Making of Viva la Diva
700.  31- 8                 6 Jan 08   Kevin Spacey at The Old Vic
701.  31- 9                20 Jan 08   Tim Burton
702.  31-10                10 Feb 08   Lang Lang
703.  31-11                 9 Mar 08   David McVicar's Salome: A Work in Progress
704.  31-12                16 Mar 08   Revolution 68
705.  31-12                 4 May 08   Liza Minnelli
706.  31-14                11 May 08   The Damned United
707.  31-15                18 May 08   Gore Vidal
708.  31-16                 8 Jun 08   Sarah Waters
709.  31-17                15 Jun 08   Tasmin Little
710.  31-18                13 Jul 08   Billy Joel

Season 32

711.  32- 1                21 Sep 08   The Streets

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