Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Australian writers, poets and musicians talk about their nation's cultural heritage
27 Feb 1998,·28 mins
A report from New Zealand on the international arts festival
24 Feb 1998,·29 mins
Today's books explores the saying 'we are what other people we say we are'
24 Feb 1998,·28 mins
Review of Paradise by Toni Morrison
17 Feb 1998,·28 mins
A review of the Berlin film festival, in its opening week
A look at how the world's most extreme weather has inspired writing
11 Feb 1998,·28 mins
News of this year's Oscar nominations
10 Feb 1998,·31 mins
A report from this year's Calcutta Book Fair which attracted a record number of visitors
10 Feb 1998,·29 mins
A documentary on how Barcelona's transformation has been echoed in literature
07 Feb 1998,·28 mins
A 1998 interview with cinema icon Robert Redford, who has died aged 89
04 Feb 1998,·28 mins
A review of Brecht's War Primer poems translated and published
03 Feb 1998,·28 mins
Julian Lloyd Webber attacks lack of interest in classical music in the West
A documentary on the work and life of Bertolt Brecht
29 Jan 1998,·28 mins
Number 4 Dean Street, Soho home of The Colony Room and a familiar haunt of Francis Bacon
World premiere of the opera Marie Antoinette
27 Jan 1998,·28 mins
A documentary about the American writer Don DeLillo
23 Jan 1998,·28 mins
The social upheaval caused by feminism captured by writer Faye Weldon
20 Jan 1998,·28 mins
South African artist Kendall Geers and Guilty, a work of art on the legacy of Apartheid
20 Jan 1998,·29 mins
A tribute to the German composer Klaus Tennstedt
13 Jan 1998,·29 mins
The story behind Emile Zola's open letter, used in the famous newspaper headline J'accuse'
13 Jan 1998,·28 mins
Celebrating the rebirth of American musical theatre from Broadway, New York
06 Jan 1998,·29 mins
Is there any truth in the statement 'history is written by the victors'?
06 Jan 1998,·28 mins
First broadcast in 1998. Mark Kermode on the late William Friedkin's classic horror film
01 Jan 1998,·28 mins
The life and work of surrealist painter Max Ernst.
Controversy over an exhibition involving the slaughter of animals by Hermann Nitsch
01 Jan 1998,·27 mins
News on the International Arts Festival in Venice
30 Dec 1997,·28 mins
A documentary about the children's classic - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Children's literature - a look at what today's youngsters are reading
23 Dec 1997,·28 mins
A special tribute to the late Japanese director Juzo Itami
22 Dec 1997,·28 mins
A documentary about the Berlin cabaret scene
16 Dec 1997,·29 mins
