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Following his examination of the countryside through paintings, DAVID DIMBLEBY has now turned his critical eye to buildings. In conjunction with a new ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV series, David Dimbleby's latest book, How We Built Britain, tells the dramatic story of the nation's architecture. He talks about his travels around the British Isles and the extraordinary buildings that have defined a nation and which grew out of the experiences and beliefs of the British people. How We Built Britain is published by Bloomsbury and the six-part series on ´óÏó´«Ã½1 starts on Sunday 3 June at 9.00pm.

With more than a hundred sketches on the faces and places that shaped the twentieth century, from Sartre to Wittgenstein and Tony Curtis to the Viennese Café Society, the critic, poet and novelist CLIVE JAMES discusses his latest book, Cultural Amnesia, which has been some forty years in the making. It is a celebration of truth over hypocrisy, literature over totalitarianism, and he argues that the civilized society is not the natural order of things and must be defended at all times. Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time is published by Macmillan.

This year Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza reaches its fortieth anniversary. The eminent writer and thinker JACQUELINE ROSE discusses Freud and Zionism, psychoanalysis and the power of literature to subvert the spirit of a time. The Last Resistance is published by Verso.

JAMES KENT, director of the BAFTA-winning film Holocaust: A Musical Memorial Film From Auschwitz, talks about his new film, War Oratorio, and describes how the project came about and the difficulties of filming and recording music in war-zones. The specially composed piece documents a day in the life of three people caught up in conflict in Afghanistan, Kashmir and Uganda. War Oratorio – A Day at War in Five Movements will be shown on More4 on Monday 4 June.