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Erica Jong's Any Women's Blues
Paul Verhoeven on Total Recall
Director Paul Verhoeven on the dystopian science in his movie Total Recall
Derek Jacob as Edmund Keane
Derek Jacobi is Britain's greatest 19th Century actor Edmund Keane
British theatre design team Motley
British theatre design trio Margaret "Percy" Harris, Sophie Harris, Elizabeth Montgomery
Touching the Moon
Books Touching the Moon by John Preston and Changing Heaven by Jane Urquhart
Lord Young's Enterprise Years
Book reviews: The Enterprise Years by Lord Young and My Son's Story by Nadine Gordimer
The Gate of Angels
The Gate of Angels by British author Penelope Fitzgerald
The 44th Edinburgh Festival
Director Bernard Tavernier talks about his film These Foolish Things
Scott Turow's Burden of Proof
Four great names in novels: Scott Turow, James Joyce, DH Lawrence and Anita Brookner
Edinburgh International Festival
With director Frank Dunlop on adapting Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island for stage
National Theatre on tour
Includes directors Richard Eyre and Deborah Warner, and actors Ian McKellen and Brian Cox
Peter Viertel's White Hunter, Black Heart
Interview with the German author and screenwriter Peter Viertel
Charles Dickens
Author Peter Ackroyd looks at how Charles Dicken's life influenced his novels
An American Memphis Belle
David Puttnam's new film about a World War Two bombing crew, Memphis Belle
Talking with David Puttnam
A special looking at the career of Oscar-winning British film producer David Puttnam
medical movie Paper Mask
Dr John Collee on his screenplay for the medical movie Paper Mask
Bram Stoker's Dracula
An in depth look at Bram Stoker's Dracula and vampirism
Glasgow - European Capital of Culture
Special on Glasgow's International Arts Festival, includes writer director Bill Bryden
Moscow Gold
Moscow Gold by Howard Brenton and Tariq Ali with David Calder as Mikhail Gorbachev
remembering Patrick White
Remembering Australian writer Patrick White, winner of the 1973 Nobel Literature Prize
An Angel at My Table
New film about Kiwi novelist Janet Frame, An Angel at My Table
Athol Fugard
A special on South African playwright,Athol Fugard, author of Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Stephen King; Nobel Prize for Literature winner Octavio Paz; Orham Pamuk
Nobel Prize for Literature winner Octavio Paz. Alastair Lack reports from the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Luc Besson's Nikita
Luc Besson's film Nikita where a French agent turns a drug punk into an assassin
Verdi's opera Attila
English conductor Edward Downes on his new production of Verdi's opera Attila
talking with Kurt Vonnegut
Interview with Kurt Vonnegut about his new novel Hocus Pocus or What's the Hurry, Son?
Martin Scorsese on Goodfellas
Director Martin Scorsese on the book behind his film Goodfellas
Elizabeth Taylor
New biography of Elizabeth Taylor by film critic Alexander Walker
Margaret Atwood and The Handmaid's Tale
Writer Margaret Atwood on her novel The Handmaid's Tale, plus review of the film
A new Richard II
The RSC's Richard II, plus dramatist David Edgar's The Shape of the Table
Race and Theatre
Exploring the issue of race in casting. With actresses Meera Syal and Yvonne Brewster