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Ravi Shankar's guide to Indian instruments

The Indian sitar virtuoso reveals the secrets of the tabla, tanbur and sitar

• 23 mins

Maria Callas' early life

Discussing the operatic soprano's life in Athens from 1937 to 1945

• 24 mins

RK Naryan remembered

A tribute to the Indian writer, with contributions from Mark Tully and archive interviews.

• 24 mins

The Wigmore Hall

The history and impact of the London music venue which opened in 1901

• 24 mins

Carlos Fuentes

The celebrated Mexican writer talks about losing a child and his book The Years With Laura

• 23 mins

The Ta'ziyeh in Iran

An exploration of the annual religious event in Iran, a kind of passion play.

• 23 mins

The Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta

Egytpian novelist Ahdaf Soueif talks about the accounts of the 14th-century traveller

• 24 mins

Wigmore Hall

The history behind Wigmore Hall and the artists who have performed there

• 25 mins

Displaced authors

The Lebanese Hanan Al-Sheikh and two other writers talk about being separated from home

• 24 mins

Opening Nights: West Side Story

The American musical's first performance in 1957, remembered by the cast.

• 23 mins

How do artists use colour?

The abstract artists Terry Frost, John Hoyland and Yuko Shirai discuss how they use colour

• 24 mins

Opening Nights: Evita

The first performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical about Eva Peron.

• 24 mins

Iain Sinclair interview

The British writer and 'psychogeographer' talks about his novel Landor's Tower

• 23 mins

Schoenberg Festival

Ensemble Organum perform Franciscan chant; Tribute to Arnold Schoenberg.

• 24 mins

´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms 2001

A look ahead to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms season with the conductor Leonard Slatkin

• 24 mins

Seamus Heaney and Irish literature

The Irish poet talks about his collection, Electric Light

• 24 mins

Where Do Plays Come From?

Three playwrights talk about why they choose to write plays and film scripts

• 23 mins

´óÏó´«Ã½ Cardiff Singer of the World Competition

Marius Brenciu is the first tenor to win the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Cardiff Singer of the World Competition

• 24 mins

Protecting Intellectual Property in the Digital Age

Protecting creators' rights to their artistic and literary works in a new digital age

• 23 mins

Prehistoric Art discovered in a French Cave

Large prehistoric human and animal figures discovered engraved on a cave wall in France

• 26 mins

Adventures of an Imperial Babe

Gorgeous Zuleika is the heroine of Bernadine Evaristo's verse-novel, The Emperor's Babe

• 24 mins

Primo Levi's Literary Companions

Poet Peter Forbes talks about his English translation of Primo Levi's last book

• 24 mins

Ryszard Kapuściński's African Years

Ryszard Kapuściński on his new book about his half-century reporting from Africa

• 23 mins

Sibongile Khumalo's South African life in Song

South African singing star, Sibongile Khumalo, talks about her life and art

• 24 mins

Stanley Spencer's Village Visions

The life and work of visionary English painter Stanley Spencer

• 23 mins

Voices of contemporary Turkish Fiction

What contemporary Turkish novelists are writing about

• 24 mins

Reading modern History's Maps

As History Today magazine turns 50, a look at how history writing has evolved

• 24 mins

Nightwalking with Dr Johnson and Mr Savage

In the footsteps of Samuel Johnson and Richard Savage, with biographer Richard Holmes

• 23 mins

Peter Carey on the appeal of Ned Kelly

Peter Carey talks about his book True History of the Kelly Gang

• 23 mins

Michael Burleigh: Demystifying the Nazis

Michael Burleigh talks about his prize-winning book, The Third Reich: A New History

• 23 mins