Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Interview with Martín Espada, Latino poet, about his politically-charged work
26 Apr 2000,·24 mins
Interview with the French composer, conductor, writer and activist, Pierre Boulez
04 Apr 2000,·24 mins
Bahrain's first film festival has no new films but it may launch a Gulf film industry
28 Mar 2000,·28 mins
How relevant are the ideas and Existentialist philiosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre today?
23 Mar 2000,·23 mins
Edmund White talks about his latest semi-autobiographical novel, The Married Man
21 Mar 2000,·28 mins
Why some New Yorkers are up in arms at Hans Haacke's work for the Whitney Biennial
A critical storm is brewing over Marlene, a German biopic of Marlene Dietrich
14 Mar 2000,·28 mins
Why Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel, When We Were Orphans, is so "intriguing and compulsive"
13 Mar 2000,·29 mins
Furore over proposal putting Palestinians on the Israeli curriculum
08 Mar 2000,·28 mins
Hans Ulrich Treichel talks about how his own childhood influenced his new novel
07 Mar 2000,·28 mins
Profile of Indian musician Zakir Hussain, the great tabla player
03 Mar 2000,·26 mins
Julia Lee's novel tracks a mysterious hunter on the trail of the last Tasmanian tiger
29 Feb 2000,·28 mins
List of 350 artworks in UK museums with wartime gaps in their provenances
How the arts in Serbia are helping to renew the country's culture
26 Feb 2000,·26 mins
Hey Ram, about the assassination of Gandhi, is the first Indian film to address Partition
22 Feb 2000,·27 mins
Andrew Motion explains why he wrote Wainewright the Poisoner, a highly unusal biography
22 Feb 2000,·28 mins
How over 2000 Austrian artists are responding to the right-wing Freedom party
17 Feb 2000,·28 mins
The American writer talks about his ambitious novel, The New City, set in an utopian town
15 Feb 2000,·28 mins
The English composer talks about how he created his opera The Silver Tassie
12 Feb 2000,·28 mins
A report from Varanasi, after Hindu extremists destroyed Mehta's film set
08 Feb 2000,·28 mins
The British playwright talks about his remarkable career and his play Virtual Reality
08 Feb 2000,·27 mins
Joanna Trollope talks about her latest novel; 'A History of Reading' by Alberto Manguel. Neil Bissoondath novel.
The writers Pat Cumper and Jim Crace discuss the fundamental element of storytelling
The young British novelist talks about her much-hyped debut novel White Teeth
07 Feb 2000,·28 mins
Kenneth Turan on the films which shared the big prize at the independent film festival
01 Feb 2000,·28 mins
The critic Kenneth Turan talks about the festival's highlights including Girlfight
25 Jan 2000,·28 mins
A reassessment of one of the great twentieth century writers
An exhibition in London which looks back at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris
18 Jan 2000,·28 mins
How the internet provider's purchase of the entertainment company will change the industry
11 Jan 2000,·28 mins
The director of American Beauty discusses his successful transition from stage to screen
04 Jan 2000,·28 mins
