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Verdi's Life in Love and Politics

Politics, love affairs and music – the later years and work of composer Giuseppe Verdi

• 24 mins

Writers on Location – In pursuit of Wordsworth

Juliet Barker biographer of William Wordsworth visits the places he knew and loved

• 24 mins

The Lyrics – John Keats and Andrew Motion

Poet Laureate Andrew Motion talks about Keats and reads his own poem written in response

• 24 mins

Liv Ullman takes her Place behind the Camera

"I was born to be behind the camera," says Liv Ullman, distinguished actress and director

• 24 mins

Century Cities – Rio de Janeiro and Lagos

Exploring the cultural explosions of the 1950s and 1960s in Rio de Janeiro and Lagos

• 23 mins

TV Comedy –ÌýLarry David on how Seinfeld happened

Writer Larry David talks about how he and Jerry Seinfeld created the sitcom Seinfeld

• 24 mins

Century Cities – Tokyo and Mumbai

Exploring the contemporary cultural explosions in Tokyo and Bombay/Mumbai

• 23 mins

Pather Panchali –ÌýSatyajit Ray's first Masterpiece

Appreciation of director Satyjit Ray's masterpiece of Indian rural life, Pather Panchali

• 14 mins

Why was La Traviata's premiere a Flop in Venice?

How Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata was a total flop at its premiere in Venice

• 24 mins

TV Comedy – Behind the Scenes with Rob Long

How sitcom writer Rob Long cut his writing teeth on Cheers with Dan Staley

• 23 mins

Henry Moore – Shaping his Century

Henry Moore and his work, starting from his bronze Atom Piece

• 14 mins

Adventures in Poetry – The Owl and the Pussycat

Why Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat is such an enduring favourite

• 23 mins

Adventures in Poetry – Remember Christina Rossetti

Why we remember still the poem Remember by Christina Rossetti

• 23 mins

Adventures in Poetry – John Donne

Is the poem The Sunne Rising by John Donne the sexiest poem in English?

• 24 mins

Writers on Location – Hanif Kureishi in south London

Writer Hanif Kureishi on south London and how it has influenced his writing

• 23 mins

TV Comedy – Dava Savel and Ellen

Dava Savel on being lead writer on the sitcom Ellen when Ellen DeGeneres came out on air

• 23 mins

Le Corbusier, Architect of modern Living

Why Le Corbusier was the most influential and most maligned architect of the 20th century

• 14 mins

Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians goes Online

The online version of Grove Dictionary reviewed, plus Evelyn Glennie's cymbals

• 24 mins

Masterpiece – Picasso's Mademoiselles

Discussing Picasso's masterpiece of 1907, Les Mademoiselles d'Avignon

• 13 mins

Casanova – the Great Seducer

Should we think of Casanova as hero or villain?

• 23 mins

Walt Disney's Snow White

How the landmark animated film was made

• 14 mins

Traditional Chinese music

Is Chinese music being preserved intact? Or is it embracing western traditions?

• 24 mins

Dancer Martha Graham

A profile of the American modern dancer and choreographer

• 14 mins

Azerbaijani author Lev Nussimbaum

An exploration of Nussimbaum's novel Ali and Nino: A Love Story

• 23 mins

Irish writer Billy Roche

The Irish playwright and actor visits his home town of Wexford

• 23 mins

Anna Karenina

Are the great issues found in Tolstoy's novel still to be found in Russia today?

• 24 mins

Crime and Punishment

A tour of St Petersburg where the world of Fyodor Dostoevsky's masterpiece is all around

• 23 mins

Chekhov's Three Sisters

An exploration of the Anton Chekhov's masterpiece

• 24 mins

The writer Alan Sillitoe

The author of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning visits his home town of Nottingham

• 23 mins

The British composer John Taverner

A profile of the composer, famous for his moving, religious work

• 24 mins