The John Tusa Interview

His guest today is sculptor Anthony Caro, whose large steel abstract sculptures have earned him acclaim internationally.

He was recently awarded the Order of Merit for the piece he created in response to the war in the Balkans.

John Tusa, managing director of London's Barbican Centre, presents the second of nine monthly programmes in which he talks to leading creative figures about their work.

Today he talks to American composer ELLIOTT CARTER, who at 91 is increasing his output at a prodigious rate and has just had his first opera performed.

John Tusa, managing director of London's Barbican Centre, presents the third of nine monthly programmes in which he talks to leading creative figures about their work.

Today he talks to American composer Elliott Carter, who at 91 is increasing his output at a prodigious rate and has just had his first opera performed.

In this edition, he meets historian Norman Davies, whose publications include surveys of Poland, Europe and, most recently, the British Isles.

John Tusa presents a series in which he talks to leading creative figures about their work.

In this edition, he meets American photographer Eve Arnold, who in the 1950s became one of the first women to join the celebrated Magnum photo agency.

John Tusa presents a series in which he talks to leading creative figures about their work.

In this edition, he meets celebrated art critic and curator David Sylvester.

John Tusa presents a series in which he talks to leading creative figures about their work.

John Tusa meets the architect Nicholas Grimshaw, whose high-profile projects include the Waterloo Channel Tunnel Terminal and Cornwall's Eden Project.

'John Tusa meets the architect Nicholas Grimshaw, whose high-profile projects include the Waterloo Channel Tunnel Terminal and Cornwall's Eden Project.'

In this edition, he meets the great Hungarian composer GYORGY LIGETI, who talks about his early experiences under Nazism and Communism, his involvement with the European avant-garde, and the place of the composer in society today.

John Tusa talks to leading creative figures about their work.

In this edition, he meets the great Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who talks about his early experiences under Nazism and Communism, his involvement with the European avant-garde, and the place of the composer in society today.

In this edition, he talks to director Deborah Warner, whose work encompasses classical drama, opera, poetry, oratorio and song, and who has just made her first foray into film.

John Tusa talks to leading creative figures about their work.

In this edition, he meets the Portuguese painter Paula Rego, who has lived in London for many years and built up an international reputation as a figurative artist.

Rego's work forms a powerful critique of contemporary life, drawing on such diverse sources as family relationships, Disney films and life under the Salazar regime in her native Portugal.

John Tusa talks to leading creative figures about their work.

In this edition, he is joined by the composer HARRISON BIRTWISTLE, whose music eschews the popularist gestures of minimalism for an uncompromisingly modernist path that provides a vital link between the English pastoral tradition and the European avant-garde.

In recent years, his output has been considerable, and his current Work In Progress includes an orchestral piece for the Cleveland Orchestra and an opera for Covent Garden.

John Tusa talks to leading creative figures about their work.

John Tusa, managing director of London's Barbican Centre, talks to a creative artist about their work and career.

'John Tusa, managing director of London's Barbican Centre, talks to a creative artist about their work and career.'

John Tusa, managing director of London's Barbican Centre, talks to photographer Don McCullin.

'John Tusa, managing director of London's Barbican Centre, talks to photographer Don McCullin.'

With John Tusa

This week he meets the sculptor Anthony Gormley.

This week he meets leading British playwright David Hare

The John Tusa Interview: John Tusa continues his series of conversations with some of the world's greatest artistic originators. This week he meets leading British playwright David Hare.

This week, he meets David Hockney

This week, John meets leading British potter Edmund De Waal.

Here he meets playwright EDWARD BOND, who has said, `I think that what concerns me most is the inhuman', but whose plays deal with some of the most profound questions of human existence.

John Tusa talks to leading creative figures about their work.

Here he meets playwright Edward Bond, who has said, `I think that what concerns me most is the inhuman', but whose plays deal with some of the most profound questions of human existence.

JOHN TUSA talks to artist Frank Auerbach who, in a rare interview, discusses life and work in his adopted country of England.

They discuss the development of their work and the controversy surrounding it.

JOHN TUSA talks to arts duo Gilbert and George.

His guest today is the English painter Howard Hodgkin, who has described his paintings as `representational pictures of emotional situations'.

John Tusa, managing director of London's Barbican Centre, presents the first of nine monthly programmes in which he talks to leading creative figures about their work.

In this edition, he talks to the Czech-born film director Milos Forman, who left his homeland following the 1968 Soviet invasion, having already received international acclaim for his films `Loves of a Blonde' and `Fireman's Ball'.

He settled in America and his subsequent films have included the critical and popular successes `One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest' and `Amadeus'.

John Tusa talks to leading creative figures about their work.

John Tusa talks to acclaimed fiction writer Dame Muriel Spark, who is in her eighties and still writing.

'John Tusa talks to acclaimed fiction writer Dame Muriel Spark, who is in her eighties and still writing.'

This week, he meets the eminent Irish poet and Oxford Professor of Poetry, Paul Muldoon.

This week he meets the architect Renzo Piano.

John Tusa talks to leading creative figures about their work, and today is in discussion with poet Tony Harrison, whose printed, stage and film work aims to be `a public poetry'.

'John Tusa talks to leading creative figures about their work, and today is in discussion with poet Tony Harrison, whose printed, stage and film work aims to be `a public poetry'.'