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27/01/2011
The best of the world's arts, film, literature and music brought to you every day.
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.
28/02/2011
Presenter Harriett Gilbert and film critic Owen Gleiberman look at the Oscar winners.
02/03/2011
Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World, Apollo Theatre, Nicole Krauss
01/03/2011
The Libyan author Hisham Matar talks about his new book Anatomy of a Disappearance.
03/03/2011
Matt Damon and Emily Blunt star in a film adaption of a short story by Philip K Dick
04/03/2011
As Fespaco draws to an end, we get an overview of what has been on offer during the week.
07/03/2011
Harriett Gilbert talks to Spanish writer and historian Javier Cercas about his new novel.
08/03/2011
Award winning Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston talks about her new book
09/03/2011
A collection of writings from the modern Middle East from the author Reza Aslan
10/03/2011