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Bram Stoker

Roger Luckhurst

Professor Roger Luckhurst explores Stoker's Egyptian horror The Jewel of Seven Stars.

• 15 mins

Bram Stoker

Jarlath Killeen

Dr Jarlath Killeen explores Bram Stoker's last novel, The Lair of the White Worm.

• 15 mins

Shakespeare and Love

Margaret Drabble

Writer Margaret Drabble explores how Shakespeare has deepened our concept of love.

• 15 mins

Shakespeare and Love

Stanley Wells

Stanley Wells argues that Shakespeare's many portrayals of love reflect his own life.

• 15 mins

Shakespeare and Love

Samuel West

Actor and director Samuel West talks of his own passion for Shakespearean love.

• 15 mins

Shakespeare and Love

Helen Hackett

Helen Hackett argues that Shakespeare used sonnets to speak a higher truth about love.

• 15 mins

Shakespeare and Love

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Writer and journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown examines interracial love in Shakespeare.

• 15 mins

Here's Looking at Me

Akram Khan

Dancer Akram Khan on Darvish Fakhr's nine-panel portrait by which captures him in action.

• 15 mins

Shakespeare Around the Globe

Poonam Trivedi

Poonam Trivedi explains how Bollywood helped to make Shakespeare's reputation in India.

• 15 mins

Shakespeare Around the Globe

Narguess Farzad

Narguess Farzad explores how Iranians fell under the spell of Shakespeare.

• 15 mins

Shakespeare Around the Globe

Eldred Jones

Eldred Jones explores the mutual attraction between Shakespeare and Africa.

• 15 mins

Shakespeare Around the Globe

Aimara Resende

Aimara Resende focuses on the power and influence of Shakespeare in Latin America.

• 15 mins

Shakespeare Around the Globe

Yong Li Lan

Yong Li Lan describes how popular Shakespeare remains in China and south east Asia.

• 15 mins

Strange Justice

Episode 1

South African lawyer Albie Sachs reflects on the momentous changes in his country.

• 15 mins

Strange Justice

Episode 2

Albie Sachs reflects on his time as a justice of South Africa's Constitutional Court.

• 15 mins

Strange Justice

Episode 3

Lawyer Albie Sachs considers the issue of equality in the new South Africa.

• 15 mins

Strange Justice

Episode 4

Lawyer Albie Sachs on cases involving religion in South Africa's courts.

• 15 mins

Strange Justice

Episode 5

Lawyer Albie Sachs discusses issues about social and economic rights in South Africa.

• 15 mins

A Sporting Lexicon

Challenge

Writer Colin Thubron on how we have to 'challenge' to achieve in the sporting world.

• 15 mins

A Sporting Lexicon

Guile

Writer Kamila Shamsie considers sportspeople who have always used 'guile'.

• 15 mins

A Sporting Lexicon

Grace

Geoff Dyer celebrates sporting competitors who have shown 'grace'.

• 15 mins

A Sporting Lexicon

Luck

Matthew Syed explores how 'luck' is a big factor in winning and losing in sport.

• 15 mins

A Sporting Lexicon

Fourth

Gillian Slovo considers the nobility of mising the podium and coming 'fourth' in sport.

• 15 mins

It Talks

Cows and Shells

Keith Hart on the origins of money as part of an economy of living persons and things.

• 15 mins

It Talks

Standards

Exploring the creation of the first international and cross-boundary standards for money.

• 15 mins

It Talks

Paper Money

Dr Helen Wang discusses the development of paper money.

• 15 mins

Dark Arcadias

Colin Burrow on Fantasies for Children

Critic Colin Burrow discusses fantasies in the childrens' stories of Diana Wynne Jones.

• 15 mins

Dark Arcadias

Robert Burns and Scottish Arcadia

Literary critic Nigel Leask discusses Robert Burns and Arcadia.

• 15 mins

Dark Arcadias

Alexandra Harris on Country-House Dreams of Arcadia

Literary critic Alexandra Harris explores the country-house dreams of the 20th century.

• 15 mins

InterRail Postcards

Adam Thorpe

Adam Thorpe on the sense of arrival into adulthood which the InterRail pass signified.

• 15 mins