Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Nick Rankin reports from the Booker Prize for Fiction ceremony
27 Oct 1998,·28 mins
The winner of the 30th Booker Prize for Fiction, Ian McEwan
Magnus Mills talks about his first novel The Restraint of Beasts
20 Oct 1998,·28 mins
A look at Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra
A look at the life of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion
17 Oct 1998,·28 mins
Winners announced for The Aga Khan Award for architecture
13 Oct 1998,·28 mins
The husband of writer Iris Murdoch chronicles her descent into dementia
A report on an arts festival in Iraq
06 Oct 1998,·28 mins
An interview with the translator of Portuguese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
As the first Thai film festival ends, a look at the subject of censorship in Thailand
29 Sep 1998,·28 mins
This programme examines Penelope Fitzgerald, who was an English poet, novelist and biographer
25 Sep 1998,·31 mins
A documentary on Steven Spielberg
24 Sep 1998,·28 mins
How country music is taking the charts and silver screen by storm
22 Sep 1998,·28 mins
How do novelists physically write?
A tribute to the Mexican writer Octavio Paz
21 Sep 1998,·28 mins
A week of awards
15 Sep 1998,·28 mins
A review of Ben Elton's novel Blast From the Past
Profile of author Stephen Edwin King
12 Sep 1998,·28 mins
Rod Steiger was an American Academy Award-winning actor known for his intense performances
Victoria Glendinning talks about her biography of the author of Gulliver's Travels
08 Sep 1998,·28 mins
A review of a spectacular production of Puccini's opera in Beijing's Forbidden City
08 Sep 1998,·29 mins
An in-depth conversation with the Nigerian writer who won the Booker Prize aged 32
02 Sep 1998,·28 mins
A review of Shanghai's new venue which seats 1800 people
01 Sep 1998,·28 mins
The Indian writer talks about Freedom Song, plus Stephen King and Sebastian Faulks
01 Sep 1998,·27 mins
The American writer talks about his novel The Job, which follows a unemployed salesman
25 Aug 1998,·28 mins
The history of the annual event which has become Europe's biggest largest public gathering
The life and work of one of Australia's most popular playwrights
21 Aug 1998,·28 mins
An exploration of the different forms of storytelling in the American South
19 Aug 1998,·28 mins
The legacy of the American author who wrote in French and has died aged 97
18 Aug 1998,·28 mins
Highlights from the festival fringe, including a play by Zimbabwean Stephen Chifunyise
