A weekly survey of the arts Presented by Robin Ray This week:
A comparison of the treatment of anti-semitism in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice - Terry Hands 's production for the Rsc at the Aldwych Theatre, London - and Vittorio De Sica 's study of the Italian-Jewish community under Mussolini in his Academy award-winning film The Garden of the Finzi Continis , based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani . Producers MIRIAM rapp and MICHAEL HEFFERNAN