Meridian Episodes Available now
Ian McEwan on 'Atonement'
Novelist Ian McEwan on viewing events through the prism of childish misunderstanding
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
Composer John Adams – beyond Minimalism
Interview with John Adams, composer of the opera Nixon in China
Round-up of new Releases – a rip-roaring Beethoven Fifth Symphony
New releases include a "rip-roaring reading" of Beethoven's 5th Symphony
Comics – more than Superheroes
Superheroes are only half the story of comic books – there serious adult literature, too
The Devil's well-stocked Larder
Jim Crace talks about his book The Devil's Larder, a sequence of meditations around food
Beryl Bainbridge takes on Samuel Johnson
C L R JAMES, 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
Film Sound – with Skip Lievsay and Alan Splet
At work with great sound designers and editors Skip Lievsay, Alan Splet and Ann Kroeber
Listening with Vermeer
Music in the time of Vermeer, plus an interview with American soprano Barbara Bonney
North meets South in the Youth Orchestra of Americas
The YOA is the latest venture for Venezuela's pioneering network of youth orchestras