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Sibongile Khumalo's South African life in Song

South African singing star, Sibongile Khumalo, talks about her life and art

• 24 mins

Stanley Spencer's Village Visions

The life and work of visionary English painter Stanley Spencer

• 23 mins

Voices of contemporary Turkish Fiction

What contemporary Turkish novelists are writing about

• 24 mins

Reading modern History's Maps

As History Today magazine turns 50, a look at how history writing has evolved

• 24 mins

Nightwalking with Dr Johnson and Mr Savage

In the footsteps of Samuel Johnson and Richard Savage, with biographer Richard Holmes

• 23 mins

Peter Carey on the appeal of Ned Kelly

Peter Carey talks about his book True History of the Kelly Gang

• 23 mins

Michael Burleigh: Demystifying the Nazis

Michael Burleigh talks about his prize-winning book, The Third Reich: A New History

• 23 mins

In the Studio with Paula Rego

An interview with the Portuguese painter Paula Rego – a "supreme artist-storyteller"

• 24 mins

Who will carry off the Master Prize for composition?

Everyone can vote in the Master Prize for composers, worth £30,000 to the winner

• 24 mins

Sound of the first Keyboard Instrument

The sound of the hydraulis, the earliest known keyboard instrument, is brought to life

• 24 mins

Two new Operas in Munich

Two new operas have their premieres at the Munich Biennale

• 28 mins

Salzburg Festival on the Internet

Gerard Mortier talks about the development of a remarkable internet initiative

• 24 mins

Box-office Success for the Edinburgh Festival

Report from the second week of this year's Edinburgh International Festival

• 24 mins

The Edinburgh Festival – after the Fringe

The Fringe may have finished but the main Edinburgh Festival is still in full swing

• 23 mins

Nadine Gordimer on her post-political Heroine

Nadine Gordimer talks about her new novel, The Pickup, set in post-Apartheid South Africa

• 24 mins

Film Sound – with Walter Murch

Walter Murch talks about designing sound tracks for movies including American Graffiti

• 23 mins

Listening with Vermeer

Music in the time of Vermeer, plus an interview with American soprano Barbara Bonney

• 23 mins

North meets South in the Youth Orchestra of Americas

The YOA is the latest venture for Venezuela's pioneering network of youth orchestras

• 24 mins

Writers on Location – Jan Morris in Wales

Jan Morris interviewed at home in Criccieth about her relationship with Wales

• 24 mins

Writers on Location – Douglas Dunn

Scottish poet Douglas Dunn interviewed on the spot where he set Early Hours in Dairsie

• 23 mins

Film Sound – with Skip Lievsay and Alan Splet

At work with great sound designers and editors Skip Lievsay, Alan Splet and Ann Kroeber

• 23 mins

Beryl Bainbridge takes on Samuel Johnson

C L R JAMES, 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.

• 24 mins

The Devil's well-stocked Larder

Jim Crace talks about his book The Devil's Larder, a sequence of meditations around food

• 24 mins

Round-up of new Releases –Ìýa rip-roaring Beethoven Fifth Symphony

New releases include a "rip-roaring reading" of Beethoven's 5th Symphony

• 24 mins

Comics – more than Superheroes

Superheroes are only half the story of comic books – there serious adult literature, too

• 23 mins

Composer John Adams – beyond Minimalism

Interview with John Adams, composer of the opera Nixon in China

• 24 mins

Woody Allen – New York will Survive 9/11

Woody Allen talks about the impact of 9/ll on New York, and also about his latest film

• 23 mins

Ian McEwan on 'Atonement'

Novelist Ian McEwan on viewing events through the prism of childish misunderstanding

• 23 mins

The Silk Road Project – a musical Exchange

The Silk Road Project is a cultural exchange involving traditional and contemporary musics

• 24 mins

V.S. Naipaul – Narrator of the post-colonial World

The Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to V.S. Naipaul

• 24 mins