Wide-ranging series exploring arts and cultural issues around the world
World Service,·126 episodes
Interview with Michael Frayn and his wife Claire Tomalin both nominated for the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize.
Exploring our changing relationship with the media with a look at interactive media
Examining the media in the modern world. Do we still need objective News media?
Discussing how the media affects our lives and our fascination with celebrity
Exploring the true story behind the novel and opera 'Porgy and Bess'
Clint Eastwood is interviewed at the National Film Theatre, London by Michael Parkinson
A look at the East Asian film industry and it's influence and popularity across the world
2/4 programmes looking at the East Asian film industry and it's influence and popularity
3/4 programmes looking at the East Asian film industry and it's influence and popularity
4/4 programmes looking at the East Asian film industry and it's influence and popularity
Interview with Toni Morrison as her latest novel 'Love' is published
Profiles of the two pioneering African-American dancers and choreographers
The power of one simple piece of music and why people love it
Why people love Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony
An interview with British artist Tracey Emin
Reflections on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda
British sculptor Antony Gormley reflects on his life and career
An exploration of how highlife music is evolving in Ghana
Hip hop DJ Bola Ray, continues his look at hiplife music in Accra, Ghana
A look at the music of the Baka people in the forests of South East Cameroon
Life in South Africa's 'coloured' townships
1/2 programmes celebrating poet Pablo Neruda who had 'a passion for love and life'
Exploring Pablo Neruda's poetry of politics and social injustice
A look at the beauty business in Kabul, Afghanistan
Irish film director and writer Neil Jordan talks about his work
The story of the English Concertina and it's inventor Charles Wheatstone
A look at the life and work of conductor Daniel Barenboim
'Justice, land and liberty', the Zapata slogan still being used by the women of Chiapas
What happened to the 10,000 Hmong people evacuated from Vietnam to Thailand during the war
Architect Daniel Libeskind talks about his life and work
