Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
The poet talks about a collection of poems about the death of his 18-year-old son
12 Nov 2002,·23 mins
The French writer talks about his novel Platform
The Nigerian playwright and poet talks about his poem In the Small Hours
04 Nov 2002,·23 mins
The sculptor talks about his work for the vast turbine hall at the Tate Modern, London
23 Oct 2002,·23 mins
The Life of Pi author talks about winning 2002’s Man Booker Prize
22 Oct 2002,·23 mins
The continuing impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel
17 Oct 2002,·23 mins
Who is that wants to ban plays, and who resists them?
13 Oct 2002,·23 mins
The British writer takes a walk around the perimeter of London
10 Oct 2002,·23 mins
An exploration of John Newton's hymn, which was inspired by a near-death experience at sea
08 Oct 2002,·23 mins
The impact of Ludwig van Beethoven’s famous 9th Symphony
08 Oct 2002,·22 mins
An exploration of one of the world’s most popular Christmas carols
How the treatment of Native Americans in Hollywood westerns shifted in the 1970s
06 Oct 2002,·23 mins
The American thriller writer and author of Gorky Park talks about his novel set in Japan
03 Oct 2002,·22 mins
How the American westerns of the late 60s and 70s reflected the revolutionary times
29 Sep 2002,·23 mins
The British novelist talks about her second novel
26 Sep 2002,·23 mins
How the Italian director Sergio Leone took on the American genre of the western
22 Sep 2002,·23 mins
The author talks about his novel set during the Trojan War
17 Sep 2002,·23 mins
How the American film genre, the Western, was invented in late 19th-century America
15 Sep 2002,·23 mins
The Gattaca and Dead Poets Society actor talks about his second novel Ash Wednesday
10 Sep 2002,·23 mins
Are books and slow symphonies on their way out in the age of the fast forward button?
04 Sep 2002,·22 mins
The American novelist and author of The Ice Storm talks about his memoirs
02 Sep 2002,·23 mins
The concept of ‘branding’ has become ubiquitous. But what does it really mean?
01 Sep 2002,·23 mins
What makes Stephen King not only the master of horror but much more than that?
27 Aug 2002,·23 mins
A profile of the medieval Andalusian scholar
25 Aug 2002,·23 mins
The Jewish philosopher who was also one of the finest scholars of the Arabic world
18 Aug 2002,·23 mins
War reporter and novelist Jeffrey Lee and an atom bomb survivor turned poet
15 Aug 2002,·23 mins
The novelist from New York talks about the book he started writing when he was 17
13 Aug 2002,·23 mins
How Jamaican culture threw off the shackles of colonial rule after independence
01 Aug 2002,·23 mins
British playwright and director David Hare talks about screenwriting
29 Jul 2002,·22 mins
Why The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai still has the power to thrill
21 Jul 2002,·23 mins
