Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Composer Mark-Anthony Turnage talks about writing Blood on the Floor, premiered this week
30 May 1996,·28 mins
The Railway Man is Eric Lomax's prize-winning memoir of being a PoW on the Burma railway
28 May 1996,·28 mins
Peter Whelan's play about Shakespeare's daughter Susanna Hall who was accused of adultery
24 May 1996,·28 mins
Why French fans are claiming Sherlock Holmes as one of their own
21 May 1996,·28 mins
What is the purpose of museums now – and how should we remember the painful past?
20 May 1996,·28 mins
Simon Gray explains why he has brought Simon Hinch back to life, 25 years on
17 May 1996,·28 mins
Highlights of the Birmingham Festival in the UK
15 May 1996,·28 mins
Kenneth MacMillan's ballet Anastasia is performed again by the Royal Ballet after 18 years
03 May 1996,·28 mins
Kay Redfield Jameson on her new book about mental illness, a tribute to Israeli writer, Emile Habibi, Seamus Heaney, we'll be finding out how to get a book published, John Updike's new novel In the Beauty of the Lilies.
02 May 1996,·28 mins
How do you put history on to the modern stage?
01 May 1996,·28 mins
Life and legacy of William Morris, English designer, writer and social activist
Critics are divided over Milan Kundera's novel Slowness, his first book written in French
30 Apr 1996,·28 mins
Can the Royal Shakespeare Company be trusted with the Bard?
26 Apr 1996,·28 mins
What happens when artists are Spellbound – an exhibition marking 100 years of cinema
22 Apr 1996,·26 mins
Martin Sherman talks about his new play, Some Sunny Day, and why it's set in Cairo in 1942
19 Apr 1996,·28 mins
Ben Okri talks about why he set his new book, Dangerous Love, in 1970s Lagos
16 Apr 1996,·28 mins
Divine Right is a new play about the future of the British Royal Family
12 Apr 1996,·28 mins
Interview with Steven Berkoff, controversial British actor, writer and director
10 Apr 1996,·28 mins
The new Globe theatre – built to an Elizabethan design – is almost ready to open in London
04 Apr 1996,·28 mins
Indian playright Mahesh Dattani talks about his first play to be performed in England
29 Mar 1996,·28 mins
What made Francisco Goya the greatest Spanish painter and printmaker of his period?
27 Mar 1996,·28 mins
Interview with Judith Weir – "a composer of endless surprises"
26 Mar 1996,·28 mins
French film star Isabelle Huppert and English actress Anna Massey talk about their roles
22 Mar 1996,·28 mins
Richard Holmes shines a new light on the Romantic English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
20 Mar 1996,·28 mins
A play which explores the troubles in Northern Ireland
15 Mar 1996,·26 mins
A documentary on the writer PG Wodehouse
14 Mar 1996,·28 mins
Fame and downfall, desert island, culture and clapping
08 Mar 1996,·28 mins
The playwright and social anthropolgist David Lan talks about his new play
01 Mar 1996,·28 mins
A look at the life and work of the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky
26 Feb 1996,·28 mins
Moliere's play The Misanthrope at the Young Vic in London
23 Feb 1996,·28 mins
