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Meridian Episodes

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    Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings

    What Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe paintings say about the US pop artist

  2. Soul Music: Abide With Me

    Why the hymn has so much significance to so many people

  3. Michel Houellebecq interview

    The French writer talks about his novel Platform

  4. Michael Rosen interview

    The poet talks about a collection of poems about the death of his 18-year-old son

  5. Wole Soyinka

    The Nigerian playwright and poet talks about his poem In the Small Hours

  6. Anish Kapoor

    The sculptor talks about his work for the vast turbine hall at the Tate Modern, London

  7. Yann Martel

    The Life of Pi author talks about winning 2002’s Man Booker Prize

  8. Uncle Tom's Cabin

    The continuing impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel

  9. Censorship In Theatre

    Who is that wants to ban plays, and who resists them?

  10. Iain Sinclair’s London Orbital

    The British writer takes a walk around the perimeter of London

  11. Soul Music: Amazing Grace

    An exploration of John Newton's hymn, which was inspired by a near-death experience at sea

  12. Soul Music: Silent Night

    An exploration of one of the world’s most popular Christmas carols

  13. Ode to Joy

    The impact of Ludwig van Beethoven’s famous 9th Symphony

  14. How the West was Shot: Part 4

    How the treatment of Native Americans in Hollywood westerns shifted in the 1970s

  15. Martin Cruz Smith’s Tokyo Station

    The American thriller writer and author of Gorky Park talks about his novel set in Japan

  16. How the West was Shot: Part 3

    How the American westerns of the late 60s and 70s reflected the revolutionary times

  17. Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man

    The British novelist talks about her second novel

  18. How the West was Shot: Part 2

    How the Italian director Sergio Leone took on the American genre of the western

  19. Barry Unsworth’s The Songs of the Kings

    The author talks about his novel set during the Trojan War

  20. How the West was Shot: Part 1

    How the American film genre, the Western, was invented in late 19th-century America

  21. Ethan Hawke interview

    The Gattaca and Dead Poets Society actor talks about his second novel Ash Wednesday

  22. Culture in the age of speed

    Are books and slow symphonies on their way out in the age of the fast forward button?

  23. Rick Moody

    The American novelist and author of The Ice Storm talks about his memoirs

  24. The age of the brand

    The concept of ‘branding’ has become ubiquitous. But what does it really mean?

  25. Stephen King

    What makes Stephen King not only the master of horror but much more than that?

  26. Three Wise Men: Averroes

    A profile of the medieval Andalusian scholar

  27. Three Wise Men: Moses Maimonides

    The Jewish philosopher who was also one of the finest scholars of the Arabic world

  28. Writing about war

    War reporter and novelist Jeffrey Lee and an atom bomb survivor turned poet

  29. Nick McDonnell’s Twelve

    The novelist from New York talks about the book he started writing when he was 17

  30. Out Of Many, One Voice

    How Jamaican culture threw off the shackles of colonial rule after independence

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