Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Whodunnit? Corpses and Clues
Ian Rankin, creator of Rebus, on the appeal and tradecraft of detective fiction
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Oliver Stone's History
Interview with American film director Oliver Stone
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The Restoration of John Dryden
Profile of the English poet, playwright, satirist, translator and critic John Dryden
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Mart铆n Espada 鈥� Activist and Poet
Interview with Mart铆n Espada, Latino poet, about his politically-charged work
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Pierre Boulez, a modern Maestro
Interview with the French composer, conductor, writer and activist, Pierre Boulez
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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
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Sartre for the 21st Century
How relevant are the ideas and Existentialist philiosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre today?
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For the Love of a Married Man
Edmund White talks about his latest semi-autobiographical novel, The Married Man
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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
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Marlene's disputed Romance
A critical storm is brewing over Marlene, a German biopic of Marlene Dietrich
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Kazuo Ishiguro's Orphans
Why Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel, When We Were Orphans, is so "intriguing and compulsive"
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Will Israeli pupils get to study Palestinian writers?
Furore over proposal putting Palestinians on the Israeli curriculum
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Treichel's Novel of Lost Brothers
Hans Ulrich Treichel talks about how his own childhood influenced his new novel
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Zakir Hussain 鈥� Master of the Tabla
Profile of Indian musician Zakir Hussain, the great tabla player
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Checking up on artworks' Nazi connections
List of 350 artworks in UK museums with wartime gaps in their provenances
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Literary hunt for the last Thylacine
Julia Lee's novel tracks a mysterious hunter on the trail of the last Tasmanian tiger
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The Arts lead the Way for Serbia
How the arts in Serbia are helping to renew the country's culture
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Indian Cinema tackles Partition
Hey Ram, about the assassination of Gandhi, is the first Indian film to address Partition
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Andrew Motion on Wainewright the Poisoner
Andrew Motion explains why he wrote Wainewright the Poisoner, a highly unusal biography
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Austrian artists' protest against the far right
How over 2000 Austrian artists are responding to the right-wing Freedom party
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Novelist Stephen Amidon
The American writer talks about his ambitious novel, The New City, set in an utopian town
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Composer Mark Anthony Turnage
The English composer talks about how he created his opera The Silver Tassie
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Indian film director Deepa Mehta
A report from Varanasi, after Hindu extremists destroyed Mehta's film set
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Joanna Trollope interview
Joanna Trollope talks about her latest novel; 'A History of Reading' by Alberto Manguel. Neil Bissoondath novel.
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How are fictional characters created?
The writers Pat Cumper and Jim Crace discuss the fundamental element of storytelling
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Alan Ayckbourn interview
The British playwright talks about his remarkable career and his play Virtual Reality
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Zadie Smith interview
The young British novelist talks about her much-hyped debut novel White Teeth
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Sundance Film Festival winners
Kenneth Turan on the films which shared the big prize at the independent film festival
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George Orwell
A reassessment of one of the great twentieth century writers
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Sundance film festival
The critic Kenneth Turan talks about the festival's highlights including Girlfight
