Meridian Episodes Available now

CS Lewis - a new biography
New biography of provocative writer CS Lewis by AN Wilson (with interview of Lewis)

Women directors in Hollywood
Talking to directors Lee Grant, Susan Seidelman, Amy Heckerling, and Mary Lambert

A Clockwork Orange - on stage
Phil Daniels in controversial play A Clockwork Orange at the Barbican Theatre

Salman Rushdie interview
Interview with author Salman Rushdie on the first anniversary of the fatwa against him

David Grossman's See Under: Love
Talking with David Grossman about his Holocaust novel See Under: Love

Jesus of Montreal
Canadian film director Denys Arcand on his film Jesus of Montreal

remembering Barbara Stanwyck and Ava Gardner
Tributes to late American actresses Barbara Stanwyck and Ava Gardner

The Whitbread book of the year
Review of Richard Holmes biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A look back at the 1890s
A look back at the 1890s, a decade of social upheaval in Britain

Chronicling the Crusades
Malcolm Billings reviews two new books about the Crusades