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Cinema City – Los Angeles

How Los Angeles – home of Hollywood and dreams – is depicted in the movies

• 24 mins

Cinema City – Paris

How Paris – birthplace of cinema a century ago –Ìýhas itself appeared in films ever since

• 24 mins

'One breath away from death': growing up in Zimbabwe

Alexandra Fuller talks about her book, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

• 23 mins

Putting Time into Art: interview with Bill Viola

American video artist Bill Viola talks about working with the dimension of time

• 24 mins

Cinema City – Bombay

Bombay's position at the centre of India's film industry and how the city is portrayed

• 24 mins

Judges announce World Service Poetry Competition Winners

Results of the World Service Poetry Competition, interviews with the winners and judges

• 23 mins

Richard Watkins, French Horn virtuoso

Interview with Richard Watkins, one of the leading horn players of his generation

• 23 mins

Celebrating World Service Poetry Competition Winners

Celebration of the winners of the World Service poetry competition at London's Poetry Café

• 24 mins

Wes Anderson's dysfunctional 'Royal' family

Fabulously dysfunctional family life in Wes Anderson's new film, The Royal Tenenbaums

• 24 mins

Mata Hari – her Life and Legend

Greta Scacchi stars as Mata Hari, femme fatale and World War One spy, on stage in London

• 24 mins

On the record – 80 years of Gramophone magazine

Celebrating 80 years of the record industry and of Gramophone Magazine

• 28 mins

Tom Paulin's poetic new War History

Tom Paulin's new poetry book The Invasion Handbook about World War Two.

• 24 mins

Chadha's perfect Pitch – Football and Marriage

Bend It Like Beckham tells the story of a British Sikh girl's footballing ambition

• 24 mins

Rostropovich – a Life in Music

Mstislav Rostropovich, combining ancient Persian literature, Iranian folk music & western classical music. Presenter: unknown.

• 28 mins

Claudia Roden on Food and Cultural Identity

The dishes of childhood remain part of every exile's identity, explains Claudia Roden

• 24 mins

Memory Palace of Alexandria

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a major new library and cultural centre in Egypt

• 24 mins

Alexandria, the city as Literary Muse

How the Egyptian port of Alexandria has been a muse for great writers from many countries

• 24 mins

Cuba's private Libraries open to All

Cuba's book shortage has led to individuals opening up their own collections as libraries

• 23 mins

Backstage with director Peter Hall

Influential British theatre director Peter Hall interviewed on the opening of The Bacchae

• 22 mins

Dangerous memories at Heaven's Edge

To remember or forget? – that's the question at the heart of Romesh Gunesekera's new novel

• 23 mins

Carmina Burana – from medieval Poetry to modern Classic

The medieval manuscript, Carmina Burana, that inspired Carl Orff's 20th-century cantata

• 23 mins

Rohinton Mistry, chronicler of Bombay

Rohinton Mistry talks about his third novel and his own Bombay and Parsi background

• 23 mins

To Turkey, with love from Nâzim Hikmet

A new selected works by Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet, who was born100 years ago

• 23 mins

'Making it real' – A History of Film Music

Music helps audiences to forget it's not real… A history of music in film with Carl Davis

• 22 mins

Nawal El Saadawi – Egypt's 'unputdownable' Campaigner

Interview with Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian novelist and campaigner for women's rights

• 23 mins

New Oriana collection for the Golden Jubilee

New choral works will celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee

• 28 mins

Writing for the US President

Speechwriters who craft the big set-pieces delived by presidents and captains of industry

• 23 mins

The Wild World of Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen talks about his work as novelist, naturalist and campaigner

• 23 mins

Edna O'Brien – Murder in a Dark Landscape

Irish novelist Edna O'Brien talks about her new book, based on a triple murder

• 23 mins

Vladimir Spivakov – A Life Devoted to Music

Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conducto talks about his career and vision

• 28 mins