Iconic arts series with films, plays, literature and music from around the world
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Protecting creators' rights to their artistic and literary works in a new digital age
Large prehistoric human and animal figures discovered engraved on a cave wall in France
Gorgeous Zuleika is the heroine of Bernadine Evaristo's verse-novel, The Emperor's Babe
Poet Peter Forbes talks about his English translation of Primo Levi's last book
Ryszard Kapuściński on his new book about his half-century reporting from Africa
South African singing star, Sibongile Khumalo, talks about her life and art
The life and work of visionary English painter Stanley Spencer
What contemporary Turkish novelists are writing about
As History Today magazine turns 50, a look at how history writing has evolved
In the footsteps of Samuel Johnson and Richard Savage, with biographer Richard Holmes
Peter Carey talks about his book True History of the Kelly Gang
Michael Burleigh talks about his prize-winning book, The Third Reich: A New History
An interview with the Portuguese painter Paula Rego – a "supreme artist-storyteller"
Everyone can vote in the Master Prize for composers, worth £30,000 to the winner
The sound of the hydraulis, the earliest known keyboard instrument, is brought to life
Two new operas have their premieres at the Munich Biennale
Gerard Mortier talks about the development of a remarkable internet initiative
Report from the second week of this year's Edinburgh International Festival
The Fringe may have finished but the main Edinburgh Festival is still in full swing
Nadine Gordimer talks about her new novel, The Pickup, set in post-Apartheid South Africa
Walter Murch talks about designing sound tracks for movies including American Graffiti
Music in the time of Vermeer, plus an interview with American soprano Barbara Bonney
The YOA is the latest venture for Venezuela's pioneering network of youth orchestras
Jan Morris interviewed at home in Criccieth about her relationship with Wales
Scottish poet Douglas Dunn interviewed on the spot where he set Early Hours in Dairsie
At work with great sound designers and editors Skip Lievsay, Alan Splet and Ann Kroeber
C L R JAMES, 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.
Jim Crace talks about his book The Devil's Larder, a sequence of meditations around food
New releases include a "rip-roaring reading" of Beethoven's 5th Symphony
Superheroes are only half the story of comic books – there serious adult literature, too
