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Film Sound 鈥� 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 鈥� Jan Morris in Wales

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

• 24 mins

Writers on Location 鈥� Douglas Dunn

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

• 23 mins

Film Sound 鈥� 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 鈥撎齛 rip-roaring Beethoven Fifth Symphony

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

• 24 mins

Comics 鈥� more than Superheroes

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

• 23 mins

Composer John Adams 鈥� beyond Minimalism

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

• 24 mins

Woody Allen 鈥� 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 鈥� a musical Exchange

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

• 24 mins

V.S. Naipaul 鈥� Narrator of the post-colonial World

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

• 24 mins

Jon Vickers' 75th Birthday

Profile of operatic tenor Jon Vickers at 75, whose first performances were for prisoners

• 24 mins

Peter Carey wins the 2001 Booker Prize

Report from the Booker Prize awards ceremony in London

• 24 mins

Greek Gifts 鈥� the White House

How the ancient Greeks still influence our lives today. This week, political thinking

• 24 mins

Taking slam Poetry to South Africa

New York Slam poets receive an enthusiastic welcome in Johannesburg

• 24 mins

Greek Gifts 鈥� Oedipus Tyrannus

How the ancient Greeks still influence our lives. This week, Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles

• 23 mins

Samuel Pepys 鈥� the Great Diarist

Claire Tomalin talks about her biography of the great diarist Samuel Pepys

• 24 mins

Greek Gifts 鈥� Lots of English words

How the ancient Greeks still influence our lives today. This week, lots of English words

• 24 mins

Caryl Phillips and his new World Order

Caryl Phillips talks about his new book abouy the fluidity of contemporary identity

• 24 mins

Poems on the Underground

How an American writer came up with the idea to bring poetry to a wider audience

• 24 mins

Muriel Spark interview

A rare interview with the Scottish novelist about her life and work

• 24 mins

Elton John interview

The British singer and songwriter talks about his album Song from the West Coast

• 23 mins

Lyric Opera of Chicago

How the opera has become one of America鈥檚 most respected and successful companies

• 24 mins

The Catcher in the Rye

JD Salinger鈥檚 revolutionary novel discussed by writers, including Kurt Vonnegut

• 24 mins

Opera in Latin America

Exploring the region鈥檚 rich operatic tradition and talent 鈥� and its uncertain future

• 24 mins

The Art of Conducting: Part 1

When and why conducting as we know it began. A history up to the 20th century

• 24 mins