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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

Treichel's Novel of Lost Brothers

Hans Ulrich Treichel talks about how his own childhood influenced his new novel

• 28 mins

Will Israeli pupils get to study Palestinian writers?

Furore over proposal putting Palestinians on the Israeli curriculum

• 28 mins

Kazuo Ishiguro's Orphans

Why Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel, When We Were Orphans, is so "intriguing and compulsive"

• 29 mins

Marlene's disputed Romance

A critical storm is brewing over Marlene, a German biopic of Marlene Dietrich

• 28 mins

Should the Mayor be New York's Arbiter of Taste?

Why some New Yorkers are up in arms at Hans Haacke's work for the Whitney Biennial

• 28 mins

For the Love of a Married Man

Edmund White talks about his latest semi-autobiographical novel, The Married Man

• 28 mins

Sartre for the 21st Century

How relevant are the ideas and Existentialist philiosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre today?

• 23 mins

Bahrain's Film Festival with a different Mission

Bahrain's first film festival has no new films but it may launch a Gulf film industry

• 28 mins

Pierre Boulez, a modern Maestro

Interview with the French composer, conductor, writer and activist, Pierre Boulez

• 24 mins

Martín Espada – Activist and Poet

Interview with Martín Espada, Latino poet, about his politically-charged work

• 24 mins

The Restoration of John Dryden

Profile of the English poet, playwright, satirist, translator and critic John Dryden

• 24 mins

Oliver Stone's History

Interview with American film director Oliver Stone

• 24 mins

Whodunnit? Corpses and Clues

Ian Rankin, creator of Rebus, on the appeal and tradecraft of detective fiction

• 23 mins

Errol Morris's American Stories

Interview with Errol Morris, the independent non-fiction filmmaker

• 24 mins

Michael Ondaatje on Writing History

Michael Ondaatje talks about how, as a novelist, he writes history

• 23 mins

Whodunnit? Clever Pipe-Smokers

The most famous detective ever is a fictional character – Sherlock Holmes

• 23 mins

Whodunnit? The Femme Fatale

Sarah Paretsky identifies the "four Vs" of female characters in 1930s detective fiction

• 23 mins

Digital Photography – a Revolution

Will we ever be able to trust a news photograph again?

• 23 mins