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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

What's in the Method for actors?

Finding out about The Method, the most famous approach to acting in the world

• 23 mins

John Steinbeck – Voice of the Dust Bowl Refugees

The life and works of American author John Steinbeck, born 100 years ago

• 22 mins

Music Review – Tone Poems by Sibelius

The month's top CDs include Sibelius's Tone Poems recorded by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra

• 28 mins

Maya Angelou on the Power of Words

Interview with American poet, academic and campaigner, Maya Angelou

• 23 mins

Masterpiece – the Mona Lisa

Why has Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa mystified and intrigued for 500 years?

• 23 mins

Ibn Sina, Philosopher of the Persian Golden Age

The life and achievements of Ibn Sina, the great 11th-century Persian scientist and writer

• 22 mins

Meridian Short Story Competition announced

Meridian launches its own Short Story Competition

• 22 mins

Masterpiece – The Great Wave

Why The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai still has the power to thrill

• 23 mins

David Hare on turning Politics into a Drama

British playwright and director David Hare talks about screenwriting

• 22 mins

Out Of Many, One Voice

How Jamaican culture threw off the shackles of colonial rule after independence

• 23 mins

Nick McDonnell’s Twelve

The novelist from New York talks about the book he started writing when he was 17

• 23 mins

Writing about war

War reporter and novelist Jeffrey Lee and an atom bomb survivor turned poet

• 23 mins

Three Wise Men: Moses Maimonides

The Jewish philosopher who was also one of the finest scholars of the Arabic world

• 23 mins

Three Wise Men: Averroes

A profile of the medieval Andalusian scholar

• 23 mins

Stephen King

What makes Stephen King not only the master of horror but much more than that?

• 23 mins

The age of the brand

The concept of ‘branding’ has become ubiquitous. But what does it really mean?

• 23 mins

Rick Moody

The American novelist and author of The Ice Storm talks about his memoirs

• 23 mins

Culture in the age of speed

Are books and slow symphonies on their way out in the age of the fast forward button?

• 22 mins

Ethan Hawke interview

The Gattaca and Dead Poets Society actor talks about his second novel Ash Wednesday

• 23 mins

How the West was Shot: Part 1

How the American film genre, the Western, was invented in late 19th-century America

• 23 mins

Barry Unsworth’s The Songs of the Kings

The author talks about his novel set during the Trojan War

• 23 mins

How the West was Shot: Part 2

How the Italian director Sergio Leone took on the American genre of the western

• 23 mins