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  1. AndrΓ© Gide

    Alan Sheridan and Patrick Pollard discuss AndrΓ© Gide, France's favourite rebel.

  2. Salvador Dali: The Burning Giraffe, 1936-7

    Richard Cork and Dawn Ades discuss the eccentric master of surrealism.

  3. Luis Bunuel - Belle De Jour

    David Thomson and Ginette Vincendeau celebrate the Spanish director's classic fantasy film

  4. Jean Genet - The Balcony

    George Melly and Terry Hands discuss the French writer's examination of power and sleaze.

  5. Richard Rogers: Pompidou Centre

    Hilary French and Deyan Sudjic assess the impact of this world-renowned British architect.

  6. Orson Welles, Citizen Kane

    Peter Bogdanovich, David Thompson and Jonathan Rosenbaum discuss Orson Welles.

  7. Jean Renior - La Grande Illusion

    A film that is a powerful condemnation of war and was banned in Germany.

  8. Marcel Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu

    The book that launched a thousand memories of sponge cakes, discussed by experts.

  9. Henry Moore - Atom Piece

    A portrait of Henry Moore, who became a sculptor after hearing a talk on Michelangelo.

  10. Orson Welles: Citizen Kane

    Peter Bogdanovich, David Thomson and Jonathan Rosenbaum discuss Welles's masterpiece.

  11. Mies van der Rohe - Seagram Tower

    Penny Spark and Deyan Sudjic reflect on the work of one of the influential architect.

  12. Mark Rothko:Light Red Over Black

    How much of Mark Rothko's troubled life should be read into his work?

  13. Lucie Rie - Bowl

    Sir David Attenborough, Gail Robinson and Emmanuel Cooper celebrate the work of Lucie Rie.

  14. Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum

    Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum was published in 1961. It immediately changed German fiction.

  15. Buster Keaton - The General

    David Robinson and David Thomson celebrate film star Buster Keaton and his movie machine.

  16. Alfred Hitchcock - Rear Window

    John Russell Taylor and composer Neil Brand celebrate Hitchcock's own favourite movie.

  17. Anna Akhmatova - Requiem

    Zinovy Zinik, Sarah Maguire and Tania Litvinova discuss the top Russian poet of her time.

  18. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

    Owen Knowles, Dr Robert Hampson and John Milius discuss the moral ambiguity in this novel.

  19. Jackson Pollock - Autumn Rhythm

    Norbert Lynton, Irving Sandler and David Ross discuss the wild man of abstract art.

  20. Frank Lloyd Wright: Falling on Water

    Dejan Sudji assesses the work and philosophy of the great American architect.

  21. Jorge Luis Borges - Fictions

    The Argentinian book of short stories was published in 1941 and had a deep impact.

  22. Jean Renoir - La Grande Illusion

    La Grande Illusion, banned in Germany, is Renoir's powerful condemnation of war.

  23. Cartier-Bresson - The Decisive Moment

    A celebration of the photographer who united art and documentary.

  24. Barbara Hepworth: The Sculpture Garden

    'You can hear Barbara breathing in her garden at St. Ives' - the life of the sculptor.

  25. Anton Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard

    Anton Chekhov and his play The Cherry Orchard are discussed by experts.

  26. Toni Morrison - Beloved

    Helen Taylor and Davis Dabydeen discuss Toni Morrison and her exceptional novel Beloved.

  27. Rabindranath Tagore - Broken Song

    William Radice and Jatinder Verma discuss the famous poem by one of India's leading icons.

  28. Marcel Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu

    The book that launched many a memory of sponge cakes. Panellists include Alain de Botton.

  29. John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath

    The 1930s American depression inspired Steinbeck's epic work of protest fiction.

  30. Guillaume Apollinaire

    Michele Roberts and Andrew Rothwell discuss one of the great figures of French Modernism.

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