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Community Theatre

Exploring plays where ordinary people produce and participate in an original work

• 28 mins

Big Bands

With music from the Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw

• 28 mins

Literary Prize-fighting in France

The winner of The Prix Goncourt, Un Grand pas vers le Bon Dieu by Jean Herman

• 28 mins

The Good Person of Szechwan

Director Deborah Warner's The Good Person of Szechwan with Fiona Shaw

• 28 mins

Writers in Education Movement.

The writers in education movement, where authors visit local schools

• 28 mins

Vaclav Havel and the fall of communism

What role did the arts play in the downfall of communism in Czechoslovakia?

• 28 mins

Blue Note Records

Exploring Blue Note Records the jazz label established by Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff

• 28 mins

Violence in Films

Discussion on violence in films. Is there a case for regulation and censorship?

• 27 mins

The Pleasure of Diaries

Each Returning Day: Pleasure of Diaries by Dr Ronald Blythe

• 28 mins

Jonathan Miller and The Liar

Director Jonathan Miller on his production of The Liar by Pierre Corneille

• 28 mins

Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye

Books about films, featuring directors Satyajit Ray, Andrei Tarkovsky and David Lean

• 29 mins

Experimental Theatre in Britain

Is it simply new theatre, and how much of a challenge does it offer to the mainstream?

• 28 mins

John Updike interview

A special programme on American novelist John Updike and his 'Rabbit' saga

• 28 mins

Georgia special

The music, poetry and theatre of the Soviet republic of Georgia

• 28 mins

Argentinian Theatre special

Exploring the state of Argentinian theatre amid the closure of 22 independent theatres

• 28 mins

Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson as Galactica in Howard Barker's Scenes from an Execution

• 28 mins

Chronicling the Crusades

Malcolm Billings reviews two new books about the Crusades

• 28 mins

A look back at the 1890s

A look back at the 1890s, a decade of social upheaval in Britain

• 28 mins

The Whitbread book of the year

Review of Richard Holmes biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• 28 mins

remembering Barbara Stanwyck and Ava Gardner

Tributes to late American actresses Barbara Stanwyck and Ava Gardner

• 29 mins

Jesus of Montreal

Canadian film director Denys Arcand on his film Jesus of Montreal

• 28 mins

David Grossman's See Under: Love

Talking with David Grossman about his Holocaust novel See Under: Love

• 29 mins

Salman Rushdie interview

Interview with author Salman Rushdie on the first anniversary of the fatwa against him

• 28 mins

A Clockwork Orange - on stage

Phil Daniels in controversial play A Clockwork Orange at the Barbican Theatre

• 28 mins

Women directors in Hollywood

Talking to directors Lee Grant, Susan Seidelman, Amy Heckerling, and Mary Lambert

• 28 mins

CS Lewis - a new biography

New biography of provocative writer CS Lewis by AN Wilson (with interview of Lewis)

• 28 mins

Tribute to Norman Parkinson

Tribute to late photographer Norman Parkinson

• 28 mins

Don Giovanni and the state of opera

A look at the damning reviews of David Freeman's production of Don Giovanni

• 27 mins

Havel - the playwright turned president

How New York honoured Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright and now president

• 28 mins

Jazz-only radio

A series of jazz concerts to mark the launch of London's first jazz-only radio station

• 28 mins