Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Meridian launches its own Short Story Competition
18 Jul 2002,·22 mins
The life and achievements of Ibn Sina, the great 11th-century Persian scientist and writer
11 Jul 2002,·22 mins
Why has Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa mystified and intrigued for 500 years?
10 Jul 2002,·23 mins
The month's top CDs include Sibelius's Tone Poems recorded by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra
04 Jul 2002,·28 mins
Interview with American poet, academic and campaigner, Maya Angelou
04 Jul 2002,·23 mins
The life and works of American author John Steinbeck, born 100 years ago
01 Jul 2002,·22 mins
Finding out about The Method, the most famous approach to acting in the world
29 Jun 2002,·23 mins
Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conducto talks about his career and vision
29 Jun 2002,·28 mins
Irish novelist Edna O'Brien talks about her new book, based on a triple murder
23 Jun 2002,·23 mins
Peter Matthiessen talks about his work as novelist, naturalist and campaigner
12 Jun 2002,·23 mins
Speechwriters who craft the big set-pieces delived by presidents and captains of industry
04 Jun 2002,·23 mins
New choral works will celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee
31 May 2002,·28 mins
Interview with Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian novelist and campaigner for women's rights
16 May 2002,·23 mins
Music helps audiences to forget it's not real… A history of music in film with Carl Davis
12 May 2002,·22 mins
A new selected works by Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet, who was born100 years ago
09 May 2002,·23 mins
Rohinton Mistry talks about his third novel and his own Bombay and Parsi background
07 May 2002,·23 mins
The medieval manuscript, Carmina Burana, that inspired Carl Orff's 20th-century cantata
02 May 2002,·23 mins
To remember or forget? – that's the question at the heart of Romesh Gunesekera's new novel
Influential British theatre director Peter Hall interviewed on the opening of The Bacchae
02 May 2002,·22 mins
Cuba's book shortage has led to individuals opening up their own collections as libraries
25 Apr 2002,·23 mins
How the Egyptian port of Alexandria has been a muse for great writers from many countries
23 Apr 2002,·24 mins
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a major new library and cultural centre in Egypt
18 Apr 2002,·24 mins
The dishes of childhood remain part of every exile's identity, explains Claudia Roden
Mstislav Rostropovich, combining ancient Persian literature, Iranian folk music & western classical music. Presenter: unknown.
10 Apr 2002,·28 mins
Bend It Like Beckham tells the story of a British Sikh girl's footballing ambition
05 Apr 2002,·24 mins
Tom Paulin's new poetry book The Invasion Handbook about World War Two.
04 Apr 2002,·24 mins
Celebrating 80 years of the record industry and of Gramophone Magazine
04 Apr 2002,·28 mins
Greta Scacchi stars as Mata Hari, femme fatale and World War One spy, on stage in London
28 Mar 2002,·24 mins
Fabulously dysfunctional family life in Wes Anderson's new film, The Royal Tenenbaums
Celebration of the winners of the World Service poetry competition at London's Poetry Café
27 Mar 2002,·24 mins
