Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
The English author talks about his novel Being Dead
21 Sep 1999,·28 mins
A review of Roddy Doyle's latest fiction A Star Called Henry
14 Sep 1999,·28 mins
How Ally McBeal has become appointment TV
12 Sep 1999,·28 mins
Profile of English crime novelist Ruth Rendell
10 Sep 1999,·28 mins
A review of the Toronto and Venice film festivals
07 Sep 1999,·28 mins
Review of an English translation of Winter in Lisbon by Antonio Molina
31 Aug 1999,·28 mins
Interview with American composer John Adams who is about to conduct his latest work
25 Aug 1999,·28 mins
The Festival of Classical and Folk Permformance in India has developed a political edge
24 Aug 1999,·28 mins
The life and work of great European writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Profile of Jorge Luis Borges, the great Latin American novelist and poet
19 Aug 1999,·28 mins
East European writers discuss their experiences of censorship and writing under Communism
18 Aug 1999,·28 mins
Highlights of the first week of the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe
17 Aug 1999,·28 mins
Michael Frayn talks about his new novel, Headlong
16 Aug 1999,·28 mins
Iain Banks talks about his latest novel, The Business
10 Aug 1999,·28 mins
Thulani Davis on how there are currently very few black women playwrights
American Rita Dove talks about her work, including the poem On the Bus with Rosa Parks
03 Aug 1999,·28 mins
What spell does John Reddy Heart cast over the girls and women of Willowsville?
After 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci's proposal for a giant bronze horse becomes reality
Meet the master of suspense, British film director Alfred Hitchcock,
29 Jul 1999,·28 mins
Ruri Pilgrim's characters swim through life in her novel Fish of the Seto Inland Sea
27 Jul 1999,·28 mins
The suburban visions of Australian painter Howard Arkley, who has died aged 48
How Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee addresses sex and politics in post-Apartheid South Africa
20 Jul 1999,·28 mins
Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera takes place on a fantastical floating stage
In the centenary year of his birth, the life and work of American writer Ernest Hemingway
15 Jul 1999,·27 mins
At last, what Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise were up to in Stanley Kubrick's last film
13 Jul 1999,·28 mins
Bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford talks about her novel, A Sudden Change of Heart
13 Jul 1999,·27 mins
Marie Darrieussecq talks about her second bestseller, My Phantom Husband,
06 Jul 1999,·29 mins
Tribute to Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather, who has died aged 78
06 Jul 1999,·28 mins
Doris Lessing talks about her latest novel, and about the experiences that fed into it
05 Jul 1999,·28 mins
Sex and technology are the forces propelling The Great Disruption by Francis Fukuyama
29 Jun 1999,·28 mins
