Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Radio 4,·4289 episodes
With Kirsty Lang. Danny Robins offers some tips for a cultural detox.
06 Jan 2009,·30 mins
With Mark Lawson. Including the announcement of the winners in the Costa Book Awards.
05 Jan 2009,·30 mins
Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Screenwriters Special.
02 Jan 2009,·30 mins
John Wilson reports on how musicians respond to working in the shadow of past success.
31 Dec 2008,·30 mins
A special edition in tribute to the Nobel prizewinning playwright Harold Pinter.
26 Dec 2008,·30 mins
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who meets dramatist Tracy Letts.
26 Nov 2008,·30 mins
With Mark Lawson. Seamus Heaney discusses the inspiration for his poetry.
14 Nov 2008,·30 mins
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson who meets American writer John Updike.
31 Oct 2008,·30 mins
Mark Lawson meets the writer John le Carre.
22 Sep 2008,·30 mins
Mark Lawson asks whether female dramatists are now finding their place in the spotlight.
18 Jul 2008,·30 mins
John Wilson reports from the opening night of Yasmina Reza's play The God of Carnage.
26 Mar 2008,·30 mins
Mark Lawson examines why the works of Shakespeare continue to inspire so many books.
21 Mar 2008,·30 mins
Philip Roth, regarded by many as America's finest living novelist, talks to Mark Lawson.
02 Oct 2007,·30 mins
Mark Lawson talks to Margaret Atwood about her life and work.
27 Jul 2007,·30 mins
In a special programme, Mark Lawson profiles the dramatist Tom Stoppard.
02 Jul 2007,·30 mins
News and reviews with Mark Lawson. Guests are Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg.
26 Jun 2007,·30 mins
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with American dramatist Edward Albee.
26 Feb 2007,·30 mins
Arts and cultural discussion. Mark Lawson talks to American writer, Norman Mailer.
02 Feb 2007,·30 mins
Mark Lawson interviews the writer Kurt Vonnegut at the age of 83.
06 Feb 2006,·30 mins
Mark Lawson interviews David Attenborough about his series on invertebrates.
15 Nov 2005,·30 mins
In a rare interview, musician Kate Bush talks about her work to John Wilson.
01 Nov 2005,·60 mins
The writer Alan Bennett talks about his life and his new book Untold Stories.
04 Oct 2005,·28 mins
In conversation with John Wilson, Paul McCartney reveals how he writes songs.
29 Aug 2005,·30 mins
In an extended interview, Mark Lawson talks to novelist Muriel Spark.
26 Feb 2004,·28 mins
Sue Townsend and Francine Stock discuss The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
19 Sep 2003,·28 mins
Mark Lawson talks to writer Ian McEwan about his work in a programme from 2001.
21 Sep 2001,·30 mins
Sir Paul McCartney talks about the lyrics to some of the Beatles' most famous songs.
07 May 2001,·30 mins
Mark Lawson talks to author Margaret Atwood about winning the Booker Prize for Fiction.
08 Nov 2000,·28 mins
Stephen King, the world's best-selling author, talks about a life of horror in 1998
28 Dec 1998,·30 mins
