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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

John Gielgud, giant of British Theatre

Tribute to the life and work of Sir John Gielgud, the great English actor, who has died

• 24 mins

Director's Choice – National Gallery of Scotland

A visit to the National Gallery of Scotland to discuss the building and its collections

• 24 mins

Director's Choice – Castello di Rivoli

The director of Castello di Rivoli takes listeners on a guided tour

• 25 mins

Controversy over Exhibition of Lynching Photographs

Debate around exhibiting photographs of lynchings of African-Americans by white mobs

• 23 mins

A.S. Byatt – the Novelist in pursuit of the Biographer

"Human beings always escape their biographers," says novelist A.S.Byatt in this interview

• 23 mins

Director's Choice – the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Philippe de Montebello takes listeners on a guided tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

• 23 mins

Storytelling –ÌýSitting on the Porch

Our need for narrative is as important as food, shelter and sex, says Connie May Fowler

• 24 mins

Director's Choice – the Stedelijk Museum

A guided tour of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam with its director Rudi Fuchs

• 23 mins

Beauty – What is it?

What is beauty and whay do we crave it? What is the relationship between art and beauty?

• 23 mins

Director's Choice – the Louvre

Pierre Rosenberg, president-director of the Louvre, takes listeners on a guided tour

• 23 mins

Beauty – Who believes in it now?

When was the Western idea of beauty overturned – and why don't we believe in it anymore?

• 24 mins

Writers' Workshop – Memoirs

Martin Amis and Lisa Appignanesi explore the process of memoir writing

• 23 mins

Guy de Maupassant – Master of the Short Story

Life and work of Guy de Maupassant, the 19th-century French writer

• 23 mins

Beauty – Is it making a come-back?

Could beauty make a come-back in contemporary art?

• 23 mins

How Henry IV touched an Elizabethan nerve

Royal succession was a real concern for the first audiences of Shakespeare's Henry IV

• 23 mins