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14/01/2011
The best of the world's arts, film, literature and music brought to you every day.
17/01/2011
Andrei Konchalovsky, Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, Yi Zhou, Comedy Jihad.
18/01/2011
Andreas Scholl, Neds, Steinbeck's New Orleans, Noam Shpancer.
19/01/2011
New Indian Cinema, an Anthology Of Rap, Steinbeck's Fargo.
20/01/2011
David Byrne, formerly the frontman of art rock new wave group Talking Heads talks to Mark.
21/01/2011
On today's programme: Jay Parini on his new novel "The Passages of Herman Melville鈥
24/01/2011
The best of the world's arts, film, literature and music brought to you every day
25/01/2011
We speak to Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, winner of this year's TS Eliot prize.
26/01/2011
The American author David Vann explains how imagination feeds off his family stories.
27/01/2011
28/01/2011
We meet the author of a new book and album about the influence of Bossa Nova in the 1960s.
31/01/2011
Sundance Film Festival round-up and Jonah Lehrer on how art anticipated neuroscience
01/02/2011
A review of Rabbit Hole starring Nicole Kidman
02/02/2011
Michael Cunningham, Rien 脿 Declarer, Islamabad Fashion, Gabriel Orozco.
03/02/2011
Caine Prize winning Nigerian writer EC Osondu discusses his collection of short stories.
04/02/2011
Jason Solomons reviews the film remake of Graham Green's iconic thriller Brighton Rock.
08/02/2011
We talk to Sir David Chipperfield who has just won Britain's highest architecture award.
07/02/2011
09/02/2011
Javier Cercas, one of Spain's most respected fiction writers turns to non-fiction.
11/02/2011
10/02/2011
On The Strand, film critic Nigel Floyd reviews the new Coen Brothers' film True Grit.
15/02/2011
Man Asian Literary Prize, Muthoni, Andrea Eames, Justin Bieber.
14/02/2011
Esperanza Spalding, Latvian Film, Art Manifesto, Dan Vyleta.
16/02/2011
Iceland's Concert Hall, Zimbabwe Art, Zora Neale Hurston.
17/02/2011
Writer David Shields tells Mark why he believes traditional novels are a dead artform.
18/02/2011
The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day.
21/02/2011
22/02/2011
We review the new album from one of the most important rock-bands in the world, Radiohead.
23/02/2011
The Strand reviews the new film No Strings Attached starring Natalie Portman.
24/02/2011
Mirza Waheed discusses his first novel which is set in the disputed territory of Kashmir.
25/02/2011
Libyans Ghazi Gheblawi and Guima Bukleb discuss the role of writers in their culture.