The History of Film Music

With work from Sergei Prokofiev, William Walton, Dmitri Shostakovich and Bernard Herrmann

• 28 mins

1989 Booker Prize for Fiction

Christopher Bigsby reports from the 1989 Booker Prize for fiction

• 28 mins

Dance Umbrella

Dance Umbrella opens in London, plus remembering actor Sir Anthony Quayle

• 28 mins

Don Webb on his new play Mindrape

Don Webb on his new play Mindrape about notorious experiments on British servicemen

• 28 mins

Glasgow Print and Sculpture Studios

Backstage at the Glasgow Print and Sculpture Studios with Scottish artist Ken Currie

• 29 mins

Bristol Animation Festival

With Canadian Oscar winner Frederic Back and Japanese animator Kihachiro Kawamoto

• 28 mins

Talking to Alice Walker

Profile of US author Alice Walker, the first black woman to ever win the Pulitzer prize

• 28 mins

Animal at the ICA

Animal at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, written and starring artist Gary Stevens

• 28 mins

Hungarian Culture Festival

Special from the Barbican's Magyarok Festival celebrating Hungary's art, music, and dance

• 31 mins

Paul Mellon and the price of Art

The sale of works from American financier and philanthropist Paul Mellon's art collection

• 26 mins

Art in a time of Change

How artists and writers have responded to changes in Eastern Europe

• 28 mins

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