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22/09/2011
We hear from the first rock festival in Kabul in decades
23/09/2011
Ray Furlong presents a special programme on design from the London Design Festival
26/09/2011
The Janin Freedom Theatre, six months after its director Juliano Mer-Khamis was killed.
27/09/2011
Chinese literature expert Jie Li on Such Is This World@Sars.come
28/09/2011
Danish director Lars von Trier returns with an apocalyptic drama.
29/09/2011
Ireland's enfant terrible of dance Michael Keegan Dolan talks about his new production
30/09/2011
Journalist and broadcaster Paul Fisher talks us through three current releases from Asia.
03/10/2011
Renowned classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma talks about working with bluegrass musicians
04/10/2011
Warriors of the Rainbow, an epic new Taiwanese film based on a true story
05/10/2011
On today's programme, Shahidul Alam, Gianrico Carofiglio and Bert Jansch.
06/10/2011
Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
07/10/2011
Zina Saro-Wiwa reviews a new documentary which explores attitudes about skin colour.
10/10/2011
South African Albie Sachs on his memoir The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
11/10/2011
The Beijing International Movie Festival which includes a film celebrating rebellion.
12/10/2011
Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif talks about his new book, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti.
13/10/2011
Award-winning playwright Katori Hall discusses her play The Mountaintop.
14/10/2011
Poetic, political protest on the rooftops in Tehran.
17/10/2011
We review Poland's first 3D film, the story of a battle long-erased from Soviet history.
18/10/2011
We discuss 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami which is out in English and getting star treatment.
19/10/2011
Why Man Booker winner Julian Barnes got picked from a shortlist selected for "readability"
20/10/2011
American novelist David Guterson talks about his new book, Ed King.
21/10/2011
A special edition of The Strand dedicated to film
24/10/2011
Jarvis Cocker on a book of his song lyrics for 90s band Pulp.
25/10/2011
American Artist George Condo discusses his cartoon-like characters and painting The Queen.
26/10/2011
Italian writer and thinker Umberto Eco discusses his latest book The Prague Cemetery.
27/10/2011
Restoring Japan's cultural heritage after the earthquake and tsunami.
28/10/2011
Angela Gheorghiu's new CD, and three Egyptian writers discuss their latest novels.
31/10/2011
We review Tower Heist, the new film staring Alan Alda and Eddie Murphy
01/11/2011
African literary star Binyavanga Wainaina on tribalism, language and flunking school
02/11/2011
Martin Vogl reports from Mali on Africa's leading photography festival
03/11/2011
We find out how Cuban plays reflect the every day life on the island.