Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
World Service,·2413 episodes
Is Chinese music being preserved intact? Or is it embracing western traditions?
23 Feb 2001,·24 mins
How the landmark animated film was made
22 Feb 2001,·14 mins
Should we think of Casanova as hero or villain?
14 Feb 2001,·23 mins
Discussing Picasso's masterpiece of 1907, Les Mademoiselles d'Avignon
12 Feb 2001,·13 mins
The online version of Grove Dictionary reviewed, plus Evelyn Glennie's cymbals
09 Feb 2001,·24 mins
Dava Savel on being lead writer on the sitcom Ellen when Ellen DeGeneres came out on air
01 Feb 2001,·23 mins
Why Le Corbusier was the most influential and most maligned architect of the 20th century
01 Feb 2001,·14 mins
Writer Hanif Kureishi on south London and how it has influenced his writing
29 Jan 2001,·23 mins
Is the poem The Sunne Rising by John Donne the sexiest poem in English?
29 Jan 2001,·24 mins
Why we remember still the poem Remember by Christina Rossetti
Why Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat is such an enduring favourite
Henry Moore and his work, starting from his bronze Atom Piece
26 Jan 2001,·14 mins
How sitcom writer Rob Long cut his writing teeth on Cheers with Dan Staley
25 Jan 2001,·23 mins
How Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata was a total flop at its premiere in Venice
23 Jan 2001,·24 mins
Appreciation of director Satyjit Ray's masterpiece of Indian rural life, Pather Panchali
22 Jan 2001,·14 mins
Exploring the contemporary cultural explosions in Tokyo and Bombay/Mumbai
21 Jan 2001,·23 mins
Writer Larry David talks about how he and Jerry Seinfeld created the sitcom Seinfeld
18 Jan 2001,·24 mins
Exploring the cultural explosions of the 1950s and 1960s in Rio de Janeiro and Lagos
18 Jan 2001,·23 mins
"I was born to be behind the camera," says Liv Ullman, distinguished actress and director
17 Jan 2001,·24 mins
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion talks about Keats and reads his own poem written in response
15 Jan 2001,·24 mins
Juliet Barker biographer of William Wordsworth visits the places he knew and loved
12 Jan 2001,·24 mins
Politics, love affairs and music – the later years and work of composer Giuseppe Verdi
11 Jan 2001,·24 mins
How are invstigative journalists adapting to globalisation and instant communication?
11 Jan 2001,·23 mins
Conflict journalists are now becoming part of the story, targets of bullets and propaganda
10 Jan 2001,·23 mins
An appreciation of Yasujiro Ozu (1903-63), the great Japanese film director
09 Jan 2001,·14 mins
Salvador Dalí's life and art, as seen through his painting The Burning Giraffe
04 Jan 2001,·14 mins
Richard Tognetti talks about the rich programme of the Australian Chamber Orchestra
01 Jan 2001,·24 mins
Diane English, top American comedy writer, reflects on her creation Murphy Brown
Meet the "father of the American sitcom", producer and screenwriter James L. Brooks
01 Jan 2001,·23 mins
Novelist Margaret Atwood talks about Iris, the central figure in The Blind Assassin
