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Noel Coward profile

The life of the English actor, playwright and composer

• 28 mins

Frederick Forsyth interview

The political thriller writer talks about his book, The Phantom of Manhattan

• 28 mins

Joan of Arc

Why the French figure has inspired more than 50 films and over 1000 books

• 28 mins

Mumbai Film Festival

How the Indian city's uniquely privately-financed festival was founded

• 30 mins

The Turner Prize

The winner of the prize is announced: Steve McQueen

• 29 mins

Waiting for Love in Commmunist China

Prize-winning novelist Ha Jin talks about writing in English about love and life in China

• 27 mins

Utopias in literature

Professor John Carey and AC Grayling discuss the Faber Book of Utopias

• 28 mins

The Art Of Fireworks

How fireworks have influenced art and literature

• 28 mins

Disney's Fantasia

Critics and fans talk about the movie which has divided audiences since its release

• 28 mins

Meridian's highlights of 1999

The year's high points in film, music, dance, literature and architecture

• 28 mins

Sam Mendes interview

The director of American Beauty discusses his successful transition from stage to screen

• 28 mins

AOL buys Time Warner

How the internet provider's purchase of the entertainment company will change the industry

• 28 mins

1900: Art at the Crossroads

An exhibition in London which looks back at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris

• 28 mins

Sundance film festival

The critic Kenneth Turan talks about the festival's highlights including Girlfight

• 28 mins

George Orwell

A reassessment of one of the great twentieth century writers

• 28 mins

Sundance Film Festival winners

Kenneth Turan on the films which shared the big prize at the independent film festival

• 28 mins

Zadie Smith interview

The young British novelist talks about her much-hyped debut novel White Teeth

• 28 mins

Alan Ayckbourn interview

The British playwright talks about his remarkable career and his play Virtual Reality

• 27 mins

How are fictional characters created?

The writers Pat Cumper and Jim Crace discuss the fundamental element of storytelling

• 28 mins

Joanna Trollope interview

Joanna Trollope talks about her latest novel; 'A History of Reading' by Alberto Manguel. Neil Bissoondath novel.

• 28 mins

Indian film director Deepa Mehta

A report from Varanasi, after Hindu extremists destroyed Mehta's film set

• 28 mins

Composer Mark Anthony Turnage

The English composer talks about how he created his opera The Silver Tassie

• 28 mins

Novelist Stephen Amidon

The American writer talks about his ambitious novel, The New City, set in an utopian town

• 28 mins

Austrian artists' protest against the far right

How over 2000 Austrian artists are responding to the right-wing Freedom party

• 28 mins

Andrew Motion on Wainewright the Poisoner

Andrew Motion explains why he wrote Wainewright the Poisoner, a highly unusal biography

• 28 mins

Indian Cinema tackles Partition

Hey Ram, about the assassination of Gandhi, is the first Indian film to address Partition

• 27 mins

The Arts lead the Way for Serbia

How the arts in Serbia are helping to renew the country's culture

• 26 mins

Literary hunt for the last Thylacine

Julia Lee's novel tracks a mysterious hunter on the trail of the last Tasmanian tiger

• 28 mins

Checking up on artworks' Nazi connections

List of 350 artworks in UK museums with wartime gaps in their provenances

• 28 mins

Zakir Hussain – Master of the Tabla

Profile of Indian musician Zakir Hussain, the great tabla player

• 26 mins