Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Elton John interview
The British singer and songwriter talks about his album Song from the West Coast
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Muriel Spark interview
A rare interview with the Scottish novelist about her life and work
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Poems on the Underground
How an American writer came up with the idea to bring poetry to a wider audience
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Caryl Phillips and his new World Order
Caryl Phillips talks about his new book abouy the fluidity of contemporary identity
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Greek Gifts 鈥� Lots of English words
How the ancient Greeks still influence our lives today. This week, lots of English words
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Samuel Pepys 鈥� the Great Diarist
Claire Tomalin talks about her biography of the great diarist Samuel Pepys
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Greek Gifts 鈥� Oedipus Tyrannus
How the ancient Greeks still influence our lives. This week, Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles
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Taking slam Poetry to South Africa
New York Slam poets receive an enthusiastic welcome in Johannesburg
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Greek Gifts 鈥� the White House
How the ancient Greeks still influence our lives today. This week, political thinking
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Peter Carey wins the 2001 Booker Prize
Report from the Booker Prize awards ceremony in London
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Jon Vickers' 75th Birthday
Profile of operatic tenor Jon Vickers at 75, whose first performances were for prisoners
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V.S. Naipaul 鈥� Narrator of the post-colonial World
The Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to V.S. Naipaul
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The Silk Road Project 鈥� a musical Exchange
The Silk Road Project is a cultural exchange involving traditional and contemporary musics
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Ian McEwan on 'Atonement'
Novelist Ian McEwan on viewing events through the prism of childish misunderstanding
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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
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Composer John Adams 鈥� beyond Minimalism
Interview with John Adams, composer of the opera Nixon in China
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Comics 鈥� more than Superheroes
Superheroes are only half the story of comic books 鈥� there serious adult literature, too
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Round-up of new Releases 鈥撀燼 rip-roaring Beethoven Fifth Symphony
New releases include a "rip-roaring reading" of Beethoven's 5th Symphony
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The Devil's well-stocked Larder
Jim Crace talks about his book The Devil's Larder, a sequence of meditations around food
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Beryl Bainbridge takes on Samuel Johnson
C L R JAMES, 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
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Film Sound 鈥� with Skip Lievsay and Alan Splet
At work with great sound designers and editors Skip Lievsay, Alan Splet and Ann Kroeber
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Writers on Location 鈥� Douglas Dunn
Scottish poet Douglas Dunn interviewed on the spot where he set Early Hours in Dairsie
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Writers on Location 鈥� Jan Morris in Wales
Jan Morris interviewed at home in Criccieth about her relationship with Wales
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North meets South in the Youth Orchestra of Americas
The YOA is the latest venture for Venezuela's pioneering network of youth orchestras
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Listening with Vermeer
Music in the time of Vermeer, plus an interview with American soprano Barbara Bonney
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Film Sound 鈥� with Walter Murch
Walter Murch talks about designing sound tracks for movies including American Graffiti
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Nadine Gordimer on her post-political Heroine
Nadine Gordimer talks about her new novel, The Pickup, set in post-Apartheid South Africa
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The Edinburgh Festival 鈥� after the Fringe
The Fringe may have finished but the main Edinburgh Festival is still in full swing
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Box-office Success for the Edinburgh Festival
Report from the second week of this year's Edinburgh International Festival
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Salzburg Festival on the Internet
Gerard Mortier talks about the development of a remarkable internet initiative
