Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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David Hare on turning Politics into a Drama
British playwright and director David Hare talks about screenwriting
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Masterpiece 鈥� The Great Wave
Why The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai still has the power to thrill
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Meridian Short Story Competition announced
Meridian launches its own Short Story Competition
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Ibn Sina, Philosopher of the Persian Golden Age
The life and achievements of Ibn Sina, the great 11th-century Persian scientist and writer
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Masterpiece 鈥� the Mona Lisa
Why has Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa mystified and intrigued for 500 years?
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Maya Angelou on the Power of Words
Interview with American poet, academic and campaigner, Maya Angelou
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Music Review 鈥� Tone Poems by Sibelius
The month's top CDs include Sibelius's Tone Poems recorded by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra
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John Steinbeck 鈥� Voice of the Dust Bowl Refugees
The life and works of American author John Steinbeck, born 100 years ago
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What's in the Method for actors?
Finding out about The Method, the most famous approach to acting in the world
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Vladimir Spivakov 鈥� A Life Devoted to Music
Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conducto talks about his career and vision
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Edna O'Brien 鈥� Murder in a Dark Landscape
Irish novelist Edna O'Brien talks about her new book, based on a triple murder
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The Wild World of Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen talks about his work as novelist, naturalist and campaigner
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Writing for the US President
Speechwriters who craft the big set-pieces delived by presidents and captains of industry
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New Oriana collection for the Golden Jubilee
New choral works will celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee
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Mario Vargas Llosa鈥檚 The Feast of the Goat
A review of the Peruvian Nobel laureate鈥檚 novel about dictator Rafael Trujillo
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Nawal El Saadawi 鈥� Egypt's 'unputdownable' Campaigner
Interview with Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian novelist and campaigner for women's rights
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'Making it real' 鈥� A History of Film Music
Music helps audiences to forget it's not real鈥� A history of music in film with Carl Davis
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To Turkey, with love from N芒zim Hikmet
A new selected works by Turkish poet N芒zim Hikmet, who was born100 years ago
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Rohinton Mistry, chronicler of Bombay
Rohinton Mistry talks about his third novel and his own Bombay and Parsi background
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Carmina Burana 鈥� from medieval Poetry to modern Classic
The medieval manuscript, Carmina Burana, that inspired Carl Orff's 20th-century cantata
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Dangerous memories at Heaven's Edge
To remember or forget? 鈥� that's the question at the heart of Romesh Gunesekera's new novel
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Backstage with director Peter Hall
Influential British theatre director Peter Hall interviewed on the opening of The Bacchae
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Cuba's private Libraries open to All
Cuba's book shortage has led to individuals opening up their own collections as libraries
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Alexandria, the city as Literary Muse
How the Egyptian port of Alexandria has been a muse for great writers from many countries
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Memory Palace of Alexandria
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a major new library and cultural centre in Egypt
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Claudia Roden on Food and Cultural Identity
The dishes of childhood remain part of every exile's identity, explains Claudia Roden
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Rostropovich 鈥� a Life in Music
Mstislav Rostropovich, combining ancient Persian literature, Iranian folk music & western classical music. Presenter: unknown.
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Chadha's perfect Pitch 鈥� Football and Marriage
Bend It Like Beckham tells the story of a British Sikh girl's footballing ambition
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Tom Paulin's poetic new War History
Tom Paulin's new poetry book The Invasion Handbook about World War Two.
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On the record 鈥� 80 years of Gramophone magazine
Celebrating 80 years of the record industry and of Gramophone Magazine
