蜜芽传媒

Eric Hobsbawm interview

The Marxist historian talks about his life and key events of the 20th century

• 23 mins

Youssou N鈥橠our interview

The Senegalese musician talks about the power of lyrics

• 23 mins

Waiting For Godot

A celebration of Samuel Beckett鈥檚 revolutionary play, 50 years after it was first performe

• 23 mins

Edvard Munch's The Scream

The story behind one of the most unsettling paintings ever created.

• 22 mins

World Book Club: Ben Okri

The Nigerian born writer discusses his novel The Famished Road

• 23 mins

Raja Shehadeh interview

The Palestinian lawyer and writer on his memoir, Stranger in the House

• 22 mins

The Art of Fireworks

How fireworks have appeared and influenced art across the world

• 22 mins

Shimmer Chinodya interview

The Zimbabwean novelist talks about writing for children

• 23 mins

Art and the marketplace

A discussion about market forces in two contrasting areas: pop music and fine art

• 23 mins

Anthony Julius and Hans Hacker

The British academic and the German-born artist discuss transgressive art

• 22 mins

Americanization: Part 1

How mass marketing and production made the American dream universal

• 23 mins

Elizabeth Alexander and James G Basker

The African-American poet and academic discuss an anthology of poems about slavery

• 23 mins

Americanization: Part 2

How American architecture and food has worked its way into global culture

• 23 mins

Ghandi鈥檚 The Story of my Experiments with Truth

The Indian writer and publisher Urvashi Butalia talks about Mahatma Ghandi鈥檚 autobiography

• 23 mins

Americanization: Part 4

How France embraces and resists American culture

• 23 mins

蜜芽传媒 World Service Short Story Competition

The judges announce the winning writers from Zambia, Italy and Belgium

• 23 mins

Americanization: Part 3

How American popular music helped to spread the USA鈥檚 cultural revolution

• 23 mins

Bernardine Evaristo

The British novelist talks about Toni Morrison鈥檚 novel The Bluest Eye

• 22 mins

Fred D'Aguiar

An interview with the British-Guyanese poet, playwright and novelist

• 23 mins

Linton Kwesi Johnson

An interview with the Jamaican reggae dub poet

• 22 mins

Adapting books for the screen

From Adaptation to Gone to the Wind, the relationship between Hollywood and novels

• 23 mins

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

The announcement of the winners in the Eurasian region

• 23 mins

Porgy and Bess: the world tour

The story of the 1950s international tour of George Gershwin鈥檚 opera

• 22 mins