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Talking to Alice Walker
Profile of US author Alice Walker, the first black woman to ever win the Pulitzer prize

Bristol Animation Festival
With Canadian Oscar winner Frederic Back and Japanese animator Kihachiro Kawamoto

Don Webb on his new play Mindrape
Don Webb on his new play Mindrape about notorious experiments on British servicemen

Glasgow Print and Sculpture Studios
Backstage at the Glasgow Print and Sculpture Studios with Scottish artist Ken Currie

Dance Umbrella
Dance Umbrella opens in London, plus remembering actor Sir Anthony Quayle

1989 Booker Prize for Fiction
Christopher Bigsby reports from the 1989 Booker Prize for fiction

The History of Film Music
With work from Sergei Prokofiev, William Walton, Dmitri Shostakovich and Bernard Herrmann

Doris Lessing: The older I get…
Profile of author Doris Lessing to celebrate her 70th birthday

Kurt Weill's Street Scene
Kurt Weill's American opera Street Scene revived by the English National Opera

Climbing the peaks with Chris Bonnington
British mountaineer Chris Bonington on his autobiography Mountaineer