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Margaret Atwood and The Handmaid's Tale
Writer Margaret Atwood on her novel The Handmaid's Tale, plus review of the film

Elizabeth Taylor
New biography of Elizabeth Taylor by film critic Alexander Walker

Martin Scorsese on Goodfellas
Director Martin Scorsese on the book behind his film Goodfellas

talking with Kurt Vonnegut
Interview with Kurt Vonnegut about his new novel Hocus Pocus or What's the Hurry, Son?

Verdi's opera Attila
English conductor Edward Downes on his new production of Verdi's opera Attila

Luc Besson's Nikita
Luc Besson's film Nikita where a French agent turns a drug punk into an assassin

Stephen King; Nobel Prize for Literature winner Octavio Paz; Orham Pamuk
Nobel Prize for Literature winner Octavio Paz. Alastair Lack reports from the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Athol Fugard
A special on South African playwright,Athol Fugard, author of Sizwe Banzi Is Dead

An Angel at My Table
New film about Kiwi novelist Janet Frame, An Angel at My Table

remembering Patrick White
Remembering Australian writer Patrick White, winner of the 1973 Nobel Literature Prize