Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
An interview with the Portuguese painter Paula Rego – a "supreme artist-storyteller"
02 Aug 2001,·24 mins
Michael Burleigh talks about his prize-winning book, The Third Reich: A New History
01 Aug 2001,·23 mins
Peter Carey talks about his book True History of the Kelly Gang
In the footsteps of Samuel Johnson and Richard Savage, with biographer Richard Holmes
25 Jul 2001,·23 mins
As History Today magazine turns 50, a look at how history writing has evolved
24 Jul 2001,·24 mins
What contemporary Turkish novelists are writing about
21 Jul 2001,·24 mins
The life and work of visionary English painter Stanley Spencer
18 Jul 2001,·23 mins
South African singing star, Sibongile Khumalo, talks about her life and art
13 Jul 2001,·24 mins
Ryszard Kapuściński on his new book about his half-century reporting from Africa
12 Jul 2001,·23 mins
Poet Peter Forbes talks about his English translation of Primo Levi's last book
10 Jul 2001,·24 mins
Gorgeous Zuleika is the heroine of Bernadine Evaristo's verse-novel, The Emperor's Babe
08 Jul 2001,·24 mins
Large prehistoric human and animal figures discovered engraved on a cave wall in France
05 Jul 2001,·26 mins
Protecting creators' rights to their artistic and literary works in a new digital age
04 Jul 2001,·23 mins
Marius Brenciu is the first tenor to win the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition
29 Jun 2001,·24 mins
Three playwrights talk about why they choose to write plays and film scripts
27 Jun 2001,·23 mins
The Irish poet talks about his collection, Electric Light
19 Jun 2001,·24 mins
A look ahead to the BBC Proms season with the conductor Leonard Slatkin
14 Jun 2001,·24 mins
The British writer and 'psychogeographer' talks about his novel Landor's Tower
12 Jun 2001,·23 mins
Ensemble Organum perform Franciscan chant; Tribute to Arnold Schoenberg.
12 Jun 2001,·24 mins
The first performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical about Eva Peron.
10 Jun 2001,·24 mins
The abstract artists Terry Frost, John Hoyland and Yuko Shirai discuss how they use colour
07 Jun 2001,·24 mins
The American musical's first performance in 1957, remembered by the cast.
06 Jun 2001,·23 mins
The Lebanese Hanan Al-Sheikh and two other writers talk about being separated from home
04 Jun 2001,·24 mins
The history behind Wigmore Hall and the artists who have performed there
29 May 2001,·25 mins
An exploration of the annual religious event in Iran, a kind of passion play.
24 May 2001,·23 mins
Egytpian novelist Ahdaf Soueif talks about the accounts of the 14th-century traveller
24 May 2001,·24 mins
The celebrated Mexican writer talks about losing a child and his book The Years With Laura
22 May 2001,·23 mins
The history and impact of the London music venue which opened in 1901
22 May 2001,·24 mins
A tribute to the Indian writer, with contributions from Mark Tully and archive interviews.
19 May 2001,·24 mins
Discussing the operatic soprano's life in Athens from 1937 to 1945
18 May 2001,·24 mins
