Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
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Julia Lee's novel tracks a mysterious hunter on the trail of the last Tasmanian tiger
List of 350 artworks in UK museums with wartime gaps in their provenances
Profile of Indian musician Zakir Hussain, the great tabla player
Hans Ulrich Treichel talks about how his own childhood influenced his new novel
Furore over proposal putting Palestinians on the Israeli curriculum
Why Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel, When We Were Orphans, is so "intriguing and compulsive"
A critical storm is brewing over Marlene, a German biopic of Marlene Dietrich
Why some New Yorkers are up in arms at Hans Haacke's work for the Whitney Biennial
Edmund White talks about his latest semi-autobiographical novel, The Married Man
How relevant are the ideas and Existentialist philiosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre today?
Bahrain's first film festival has no new films but it may launch a Gulf film industry
Interview with the French composer, conductor, writer and activist, Pierre Boulez
Interview with MartÃn Espada, Latino poet, about his politically-charged work
Profile of the English poet, playwright, satirist, translator and critic John Dryden
Interview with American film director Oliver Stone
Ian Rankin, creator of Rebus, on the appeal and tradecraft of detective fiction
Interview with Errol Morris, the independent non-fiction filmmaker
Michael Ondaatje talks about how, as a novelist, he writes history
The most famous detective ever is a fictional character – Sherlock Holmes
Sarah Paretsky identifies the "four Vs" of female characters in 1930s detective fiction
Will we ever be able to trust a news photograph again?
Tribute to the life and work of Sir John Gielgud, the great English actor, who has died
A visit to the National Gallery of Scotland to discuss the building and its collections
The director of Castello di Rivoli takes listeners on a guided tour
Debate around exhibiting photographs of lynchings of African-Americans by white mobs
"Human beings always escape their biographers," says novelist A.S.Byatt in this interview
Philippe de Montebello takes listeners on a guided tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Our need for narrative is as important as food, shelter and sex, says Connie May Fowler
A guided tour of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam with its director Rudi Fuchs
What is beauty and whay do we crave it? What is the relationship between art and beauty?
