Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Caryl Phillips talks about his new book abouy the fluidity of contemporary identity
07 Nov 2001,·24 mins
How the ancient Greeks still influence our lives today. This week, lots of English words
01 Nov 2001,·24 mins
Claire Tomalin talks about her biography of the great diarist Samuel Pepys
30 Oct 2001,·24 mins
How the ancient Greeks still influence our lives. This week, Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles
25 Oct 2001,·23 mins
New York Slam poets receive an enthusiastic welcome in Johannesburg
23 Oct 2001,·24 mins
How the ancient Greeks still influence our lives today. This week, political thinking
19 Oct 2001,·24 mins
Report from the Booker Prize awards ceremony in London
17 Oct 2001,·24 mins
Profile of operatic tenor Jon Vickers at 75, whose first performances were for prisoners
16 Oct 2001,·24 mins
The Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to V.S. Naipaul
12 Oct 2001,·24 mins
The Silk Road Project is a cultural exchange involving traditional and contemporary musics
05 Oct 2001,·24 mins
Novelist Ian McEwan on viewing events through the prism of childish misunderstanding
02 Oct 2001,·23 mins
Woody Allen talks about the impact of 9/ll on New York, and also about his latest film
01 Oct 2001,·23 mins
Interview with John Adams, composer of the opera Nixon in China
28 Sep 2001,·24 mins
New releases include a "rip-roaring reading" of Beethoven's 5th Symphony
26 Sep 2001,·24 mins
Superheroes are only half the story of comic books – there serious adult literature, too
26 Sep 2001,·23 mins
Jim Crace talks about his book The Devil's Larder, a sequence of meditations around food
25 Sep 2001,·24 mins
C L R JAMES, 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
18 Sep 2001,·24 mins
At work with great sound designers and editors Skip Lievsay, Alan Splet and Ann Kroeber
15 Sep 2001,·23 mins
Music in the time of Vermeer, plus an interview with American soprano Barbara Bonney
14 Sep 2001,·23 mins
Jan Morris interviewed at home in Criccieth about her relationship with Wales
14 Sep 2001,·24 mins
The YOA is the latest venture for Venezuela's pioneering network of youth orchestras
Scottish poet Douglas Dunn interviewed on the spot where he set Early Hours in Dairsie
Walter Murch talks about designing sound tracks for movies including American Graffiti
12 Sep 2001,·23 mins
Nadine Gordimer talks about her new novel, The Pickup, set in post-Apartheid South Africa
04 Sep 2001,·24 mins
The Fringe may have finished but the main Edinburgh Festival is still in full swing
30 Aug 2001,·23 mins
Report from the second week of this year's Edinburgh International Festival
24 Aug 2001,·24 mins
Gerard Mortier talks about the development of a remarkable internet initiative
22 Aug 2001,·24 mins
Two new operas have their premieres at the Munich Biennale
16 Aug 2001,·28 mins
The sound of the hydraulis, the earliest known keyboard instrument, is brought to life
14 Aug 2001,·24 mins
Everyone can vote in the Master Prize for composers, worth £30,000 to the winner
10 Aug 2001,·24 mins
