The Levin Interviews

Bernard Levin talks to Russian dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, now living and studying in Britain.

' If the person questioned is a self-possessed, controlled individual, then the questions may have to be provocative to make him " give ".' (ROBIN DAY, 1975) In the second of this series of conversations, Bernard Levin talks to one of the more redoubtable figures in broadcasting. Twenty-five years of current affairs broadcasting, a formidable knowledge of politics, strong views on television's political role, an incisive mind and swift tongue, uniquely fit Robin Day for the hot seat, though he has been most reluctant to take it in the past. In a recent interview he granted to a young boy on Jim'll Fix It, we learned why he wears a bow tie; today we learn about the man behind it as he talks about his personal and professional philosophy.

Arthur Rubinstein now aged 93, is Bernard Levin 's guest in the third of this series of eight

Dennis Potter is widely considered the most distinctive playwright yet to have emerged from television. Frequently his work has expressed a sense of moral and philosophical anguish. Lately he has been moving towards 'a new and, for me, startling but exhilarating trust in the order of things'.

Tonight, in the fifth of this series of eight conversations, he talks to Bernard Levin about the challenges and pitfalls of working in this uniquely American medium.

Bernard Levin talks to Friedrich Hayek , who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1974. Born in Vienna at the turn of the century, he became a naturalised British citizen in 1938, and now lives in West Germany. Throughout his life he has been the scourge of those who advocate a planned ' society.

Sir Michael Tippett , 75 this year, talks of his own creative processes, and of the obligations of the creative artist to his fellow men in a time 'where there are questions and no answers'.

Ram Dass, formerly Dr Richard Alpert of the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, talks to Bernard Levin about his search for enlightenment in the last of this series of eight conversations. The search took him to India, where he found a Guru. Now back in America, he himself is regarded by many as a Guru of alternative ways of living.