Meridian Episodes Episode guide
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Marianne Wiggins interview
The American writer talks about the central role of weather in her novel Almost Heaven
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Bessie and Sadie Delaney
The remarkable American sisters whose story is told in US TV drama Having our Say
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Philip Gourevitch interview
The journalist talks about his book about the Rwandan genocide
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Pulitzer Prize winners
The winners include the play Wit by Margarert Edson and Michael Cunningham's The Hours
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Vikram Seth interview
The Indian author talks about his novel An Equal Music
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Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet
What is Rushdie's novel really about - love, art, identity or the modern human condition?
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Hong Kong film festival
A review of the festival's opening film, Ordinary Heroes by Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui
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Welsh novelist Bernice Rubens
The Booker Prize-winning writer talks about her novel I, Dreyfus
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Alberto Manguel
The Argentine writer and translator talks about the moral and ethical duty of reading
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Chinese opera The Peony Pavilion
A new production of the Kunqu opera is staged in Shanghai
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Woody Allen: a profile
An exploration of the life and work of New York's most famous film director
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A tribute to Yehudi Menuhin
Tribute to violinist and conductor Lord Yehudi Menuhin; Sri Lankan film 'Death On A Full Moon Day'; Curator Anthony Shelton talks about exhibition 'African Worlds'; Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamin dies.
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Harold Bloom on Shakespeare
The eminent American scholar talks about why he thinks Shakespeare is uniquely great
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Women's literature
Maggie Gee, Ursula Owen and Anita Roy discuss the importance of women's literature
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Ngangura Mweze wins at the 'African Oscars'
The Congolese filmmaker wins the top prize at the Pan African Film Festival in Ouagadougou
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China mourns the writer Xie Wanying
The daughter of one of China's most prolific writers of the 20th century pays tribute
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Commonwealth Writer's Prize
The chair of the Eurasian region judges Professor Malashri Lal talks about the winners
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Wole Soyinka and the 1999 Nigerian elections
The Nigerian poet talks about how the arts struggled against military rule
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John le Carr茅's Single & Single
The British spy writer's novel is reviewed by the British politician Gerald Kaufmann
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Thomas Keneally interview
The gregarious Australian author of Schindler's Ark talks about his life and work
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Los Angeles: The City Of Mirrors
A portrait of the Californian city which has reinvented itself through TV and film
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Berlin film festival
The Finnish actress Kati Outinen talks about rediscovering silent movie acting
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Erica Jong's What do Women Want
"All revolutions start with books." The American feminist talks about her book of essays
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Oscar nominations
Festival of Islamic pop in Iran, previously banned by Ayatollah Khomeini; Salman Rushdie to return to India; Writer Iris Murdoch dies; Berlin's Film Festival; Oscar nominations.
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Irish Murdoch
A tribute to the philosopher novelist who has died aged 79
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King Henry IV, Part One
An analysis of Shakespeare's historical play
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Calcutta Book Fair
The literary critic Surendranath Dasgupta reports from one of the annual literary event
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Rhapsody in Blue
The story of how George Gershwin wrote his most famous work
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Sundance Film Festival
Film critic Ken Turan reports from the independent film festival in Utah
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FW de Klerk's autobiography
A review of the last white President of South Africa's memoir
