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25/01/2012
The surge of art from islamic lands.
26/01/2012
Le Monde cartoonist Plantu on drawing for the Algeria Liberte newspaper.
28/01/2012
Julie Otsuka with stories of the first generation of Japanese women immigrants to the US.
30/01/2012
We look at the highlights and lowlights, of this year's Sundance Film Festival.
31/01/2012
Polish film director Agnieszka Holland on her latest Oscar-nominated film, In Darkness.
01/02/2012
A report from the first ever Macau Literary Festival
02/02/2012
Eva Hoffman celebrates the life of Nobel prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska.
04/02/2012
The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day.
06/02/2012
Stephen Daldry discusses his Oscar-nominated 9/11 film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
07/02/2012
As the Berlin Film Festival opens we look at new films from the Arab World and Scandinavia
08/02/2012
Award-winning Australian author Kate Grenville talks about her new book, Sarah Thornhill.
09/02/2012
We talk to this year's winner of RIBA's Royal Gold Medal for architecture
11/02/2012
We talk to Lee Blessing and Nicholas Kent about a season of plays about the nuclear bomb.
13/02/2012
Norwegian Morten Traavik on his collaboration with North Korean musicians and artists.
14/02/2012
Sao Paulo gears up to mark the 90th anniversary of the city's Semana de Arte Moderna.
15/02/2012
The lesser known highlights from this year's Spanish-language cinema at the Goya Awards.
16/02/2012
A special Strand programme looking at the global city and its housing needs.
18/02/2012
We discuss a new stage adaption of Jung Chang's international bestseller Wild Swans.
20/02/2012
Alexa Dvorson reports on this year's Berlin International Film Festival.
21/02/2012
We continue discovering this year's Oscar-nominated foreign films; Today In Darkness.
22/02/2012
The Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky stars in the rarely performed Ernani by Verdi.
23/02/2012
Film critic Inge Shelstraeta gives us the lowdown on Belgium's Oscar offering.
25/02/2012
The Strand reports from a snowbound and bomb damaged Afghan National Theatre.
27/02/2012
How writers from 4 countries will work around the clock to create an entire novel in a day
28/02/2012
On the eve of the presidential election, the new wave of challenging Russian film and tv.
Tommy Emmanuel - Australian fingerstyle Guitarist
The guitar wizard, Tommy Emmanuel talks about his extraordinary virtuosity and plays live.
29/02/2012
A special live show with William Orbit, Lionel Shriver, Anoushka Shankar and many more.
01/03/2012
A film about two boys killed by police in Ecuador in 1988 is being used for training .
03/03/2012
Natacha Butler reports on a new initiative to put Indian design on the global map.
05/03/2012
Art critic Louisa Buck tells us about the latest incarnation of the Marrakesh Biennale.
06/03/2012
Bruce Springsteen is back with a new CD Wrecking Ball and we go to meet The Boss in Paris.
