Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Film critic Lalit Joshi reports from the wide-ranging festival in Hyderabad
12 Jan 1999,·28 mins
Professor Bob Welsh from the Univeristy of Ulster talks about the Irish author
Gabriele Gerecke talks about why the German city has been chosen
05 Jan 1999,·29 mins
The author and critic Stephen Amidon talks about the American writer's work
05 Jan 1999,·28 mins
How are thieves able to sell on famous paintings?
01 Jan 1999,·28 mins
A report from the annual international fair attended by 45 countries
A feature-length programme on the novelist Jane Smiley
29 Dec 1998,·28 mins
A documentary on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
23 Dec 1998,·28 mins
Hollywood's Golden Globe film nominations are announced
22 Dec 1998,·28 mins
A look back at the arts that provided the backdrop to the 12 months that was 1998
18 Dec 1998,·28 mins
Interview with screenwriter and author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
17 Dec 1998,·28 mins
A review of Alice Monro's The Love of a Good Woman
15 Dec 1998,·28 mins
Nicole Kidman makes her Broadway debut in The Blue Room
A special feature on the music Lilliburllero', a 17th-century English political song
12 Dec 1998,·28 mins
This year's Turner Prize winner is announced
09 Dec 1998,·28 mins
A Japanese movie showing in Korean theatres for the first time
08 Dec 1998,·28 mins
First full length biography on ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev is published
Documentary on Antoni Gaudi a Spanish Catalan architect, one of the most noted in Spain
04 Dec 1998,·28 mins
Feature on The War Of The Worlds by H. G Wells
03 Dec 1998,·28 mins
A celebration of 100 years since the death of C.S Lewis
01 Dec 1998,·28 mins
Music banning debate at the first international conference on music and censorship
24 Nov 1998,·28 mins
Review of new novel A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
A review of the making of The Colour Purple, adapted from the novel by Alice Walker
19 Nov 1998,·28 mins
How are essays defined?
17 Nov 1998,·28 mins
A sale of African and Oceanic art in London is discussed
16 Nov 1998,·28 mins
US writer Lorrie Moore talks about her collection of short stories - Birds of America
10 Nov 1998,·28 mins
The winner of a French literary prize
Akira Kurosawa was a prominent Japanese filmmaker, film producer, and screenwriter
05 Nov 1998,·27 mins
Attacks on the reputation of two giants
03 Nov 1998,·28 mins
Discussing Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times
30 Oct 1998,·28 mins
