Magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
JK Rowling talks to Mark Lawson, as she publishes her first novel aimed at adult readers.
The writers of The Thick of It, Cerys Matthews on country women, and Elementary.
Emma Watson in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Turner Prize, Hunted, Northern Broadsides.
John Wilson has news of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ International Short Story Award winner.
Dramatist Howard Barker, how TV covers India, and attracting younger audiences to opera.
The Reader author Bernhard Schlink, US painter Alex Katz, and TV drama Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔland is back.
Ruby Sparks, from the directors of Litte Miss Sunshine; playwright Roy Williams.
Pete Townshend reflects on the highs and lows of his career, as he publishes a memoir.
Roy Hattersley reviews Westminster drama This House; Jo Nesbo; a biography of Prince.
The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, actress Anne-Marie Duff, and artist David Shrigley.
Peep Show's David Mitchell, the Nobel Prize for literature and how actors learn accents.
On the Road in the cinema; American Idiot the musical; Agyness Deyn; the memoir industry.
Tim Burton's new animation Frankenweenie; David Walliams on his memoir; US TV series Girls
Graham Norton on whether TV talk has been sanitised; Peter Hook on life in Joy Division.
Hollywood costumes from Oz to Avatar; rock documentaries; Damien Hirst's harbour sculpture
Rod Stewart on his career, the prince who was nearly Henry IX and sitcom Hebburn reviewed.
Kirsty Lang reviews Sally Potter's Ginger & Rosa and talks birds with Ralph Steadman.
Kirsty Lang on Skyfall director Sam Mendes; Kevin Costner in TV series Hatfields & McCoys.
Sharon Olds on her poems charting the end of her marriage; Squeeze on writing new songs.
Booker Prize-winning writer Thomas Keneally, actor Dan Stevens and Michael Palin's Brazil.
Mark Gatiss as Charles I, cartoonist Posy Simmonds, Derry-Londonderry City of Culture 2013
Playwright Jez Butterworth, Russell T Davies' latest TV show, and soundscapes on the move.
Mark Lawson interviews American writer Tom Wolfe, as he publishes a new novel.
Lionel Shriver on The Master, photography at the National Gallery; composer Thomas Adès.
