The 13th Annual Birmingham Readers and Writers Festival.

A special programme which comes live from Birmingham

• 28 mins

Beauty and The Beast

We look at Disney fairytale Beauty and the Beast transformed from screen to stage

• 28 mins

The Cannes Film Festival - part 2

Second in a two-part series on the Cannes Film Festival

• 28 mins

Edmund White's The Farewell Symphony

A review of Edmund White's The Farewell Symphony

• 28 mins

George Bernard Shaw

Why George Bernard Shaw is the subject of an annual Shaw festival in Canada

• 28 mins

Index on Censorship - 25th anniversary

A look at the widely respected human rights magazine Index on Censorship

• 28 mins

Evita Bezuidenhout

The South African politician Evita Bezuidenhout and Peter-Dirk Uys

• 28 mins

Looking for William Bligh

The story of Captain William Bligh and his descendants on Pitcairn Island

• 29 mins

Writers that push buttons

A programme which takes a look at writers with the art of creating controversy

• 28 mins

The Tony Awards

Patrick Marber's new play Closer and the annual Tony Awards in New York

• 28 mins

Harlem Renaissance

A special programme which takes an in depth look at Harlem

• 28 mins

The Globe Theatre re opens

The revival of the Globe Theatre

• 29 mins

Arundhati Roy

Author special

• 28 mins

Venice Biennale

A report from contemporary art exhibition Venice Biennale

• 28 mins

The Rhone-Poulenc Prize for science books.

An in depth look at the announcement of the Rhone-Poulenc Prize for science books

• 28 mins

Frank Sinatra - in private

Donald Clarke talks about his biography of Frank Sinatra

• 28 mins

Thierry Noir

Thierry Noir attempts to recoup some financial reward for his life enhancing murals

• 28 mins

Men in Black

Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and why it is so important

• 28 mins

Publishing politics

The programme looks at recent controversy surrounding US publishing house Harper Collins

• 28 mins

Stephane Grappelli

Tribute to the late French jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli

• 29 mins

Fears over fake Vincent van Gogh paintings

A report following the news that thousands of Vincent van Gogh paintings may be fake

• 28 mins

Frank McCourt on Angela's Ashes

Interview with Frank McCourt and his groundbreaking book Angela's Ashes

• 28 mins

Kenneth Brannagh in Hamlet

A review of Kenneth Brannagh's version of Hamlet

• 27 mins

Spike Lee on segregation

A look at Spike Lee's documentary feature in New York

• 28 mins

Gabrielle Garcia Marquez

A surprise new novel from Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• 28 mins

Tate Gallery - 100 years

A special programme which celebrates the centenary of the Tate Gallery

• 28 mins

John Schlesinger

A special programme which takes an in depth look at the work of John Schlesinger

• 29 mins

Mordechai Vanunu

A documentary of the Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu

• 28 mins

Wang Shuo - Playing For Thrills

Review of the latest novel by Chinese novelist Wang Shuo, Playing For Thrills

• 28 mins

Cold Mountain

A review of Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain about the American civil war

• 28 mins