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The lutenist and soprano talk about their hugely successful musical partnership

A review of Anne Sofie von Otter performing Cecile Chaminade’s songs

A profile of the African American poet and the leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance

A programme devoted to one word: nigger. Author Randall Kennedy on his history of the word

How the darker side of London's history has been used in films about crime

How New York is represented in the movies of Woody Allen and earlier classics

How Los Angeles – home of Hollywood and dreams – is depicted in the movies

How Paris – birthplace of cinema a century ago – has itself appeared in films ever since

Alexandra Fuller talks about her book, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

American video artist Bill Viola talks about working with the dimension of time

Bombay's position at the centre of India's film industry and how the city is portrayed

Results of the World Service Poetry Competition, interviews with the winners and judges

Interview with Richard Watkins, one of the leading horn players of his generation

Celebration of the winners of the World Service poetry competition at London's Poetry Café

Fabulously dysfunctional family life in Wes Anderson's new film, The Royal Tenenbaums

Greta Scacchi stars as Mata Hari, femme fatale and World War One spy, on stage in London

Celebrating 80 years of the record industry and of Gramophone Magazine

Tom Paulin's new poetry book The Invasion Handbook about World War Two.

Bend It Like Beckham tells the story of a British Sikh girl's footballing ambition

Mstislav Rostropovich, combining ancient Persian literature, Iranian folk music & western classical music. Presenter: unknown.

The dishes of childhood remain part of every exile's identity, explains Claudia Roden

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a major new library and cultural centre in Egypt

How the Egyptian port of Alexandria has been a muse for great writers from many countries

Cuba's book shortage has led to individuals opening up their own collections as libraries

Influential British theatre director Peter Hall interviewed on the opening of The Bacchae

To remember or forget? – that's the question at the heart of Romesh Gunesekera's new novel

The medieval manuscript, Carmina Burana, that inspired Carl Orff's 20th-century cantata

Rohinton Mistry talks about his third novel and his own Bombay and Parsi background

A new selected works by Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet, who was born100 years ago

Music helps audiences to forget it's not real… A history of music in film with Carl Davis