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Goethe's literary Legacy

The life and work of great European writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Indian Music Festival with political Overtones

The Festival of Classical and Folk Permformance in India has developed a political edge

• 28 mins

John Adams, American composer

Interview with American composer John Adams who is about to conduct his latest work

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Winter in Lisbon by Antonio Molina

Review of an English translation of Winter in Lisbon by Antonio Molina

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Eyes Wide Shut 鈥� in Venice

A review of the Toronto and Venice film festivals

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Ruth Rendell 鈥� a Life in Crime

Profile of English crime novelist Ruth Rendell

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The rise of 'appointment' television 鈥� Ally McBeal

How Ally McBeal has become appointment TV

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Roddy Doyle 鈥� A Star Called Henry

A review of Roddy Doyle's latest fiction A Star Called Henry

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Thirty Cases of Major Zeman

How the decision to rerun a Soviet-era TV drama on Czech TV has been fiercely criticised

• 27 mins

Jim Crace interview

The English author talks about his novel Being Dead

• 28 mins

Rose Tremain

The English novelist talks about her book Music and Silence

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The German writer G眉nter Grass

George Steiner on why the German novelist so deserved the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature

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The American century: Art and culture 1950-2000

The Royal Opera House opens after renovations; Nick Hughes' Rwanda set film '100 Days'; 'Sensation' exhibition of British art in New York; Tim Winton's Australian play, based on the novel 'Cloudstreet'.

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Harold Evans on The American Century

The English publisher and journalist talks about his history of 20th-century America

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Edgar Allen Poe

The short and strange life of the American author and creator of the detective story

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French play The Man Who Said Non

A review of the play about Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill from 1940 to 1945

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Ben Elton interview

The writer and comedian talks about his novel Inconceivable

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China's avant garde art

Exploring the exciting counter culture of China's contemporary art scene

• 28 mins

The Japanese movie Cursed: The Financially Corrupt Islands

How a film about a banking panic proved a big hit in Japan

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American writer Dava Sobel

The author of Longitude on her book, Gallileo's Daughter about the Italian astonomer

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Edward Said interview

The literary theorist and Palestinian activist talks about his memoirs Out of Place

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Francis Wheen on Karl Marx

The British journalist talks about his book about the founder of international communism

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The Elgin Marbles

Whether the Greek sculptures should be returned to Greece.

• 27 mins

Frank McCourt interview

The Irish-American author of Angela's Ashes talks about its sequel 'Tis

• 29 mins

Simon Schama on Rembrandt

The historian Simon Schama talks about why Rembrandt continues to exert such a hold on us

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Jay Griffiths on her essays about time

The British journalist Jay Griffiths talks about her book Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time

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Annie Leibovitz's Women

The American photographer's collection of female subjects reviewed

• 28 mins

Tracey Emin's My Bed

The art critic Adrian Searle talks about the vandalisation of the British artist's work

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PD James interview

The British author talks about why she writes detective fiction

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Noel Coward profile

The life of the English actor, playwright and composer

• 28 mins