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Essential news and reviews from the best in arts, culture and entertainment from around the world, with Harriett Gilbert and friends.

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Interview with film director Danny Boyle
Harriett Gilbert talks to the director of Shallow Grave and 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire.
18 mins29 Mar 2013
Mohsin Hamid
Samira Ahmed talks to Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid.
18 mins28 Mar 2013
A Tribute to Chinua Achebe
The Strand celebrates one of the world's great writers - the late Chinua Achebe.
18 mins27 Mar 2013
Austerity Opera: Nostra Culpa
How a Twitter feud became an opera.
18 mins26 Mar 2013
�鶹Լ�� World Service's What If Competition winners
We announce the winners of the �鶹Լ�� World Service's What If competition.
18 mins25 Mar 2013
The death of Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe, the acclaimed Nigerian novelist and poet has died.
18 mins22 Mar 2013
Philip Roth Unmasked
Pulitzer Prize winning American writer Philip Roth is the subject of a new TV documentary
18 mins21 Mar 2013
Steve Earle Special
The American singer-songwriter talks to Mark Coles about his new album The Low Highway.
18 mins20 Mar 2013
Bolshoi Scandal
Bolshoi Scandals - we hear the latest.
18 mins19 Mar 2013
The Infatuations by Javier Marias
Javier Marias on his latest novel The Infatuations.
18 mins18 Mar 2013
Tracy Chevalier - The Last Runaway
The best selling author discusses her latest novel The Last Runaway.
18 mins15 Mar 2013
The Man Asian Literary Prize
Maya Jaggi, chair of the judges, reveals the name of the winner of the Man Asian Prize.
18 mins14 Mar 2013
African Rock
We examine the trend for western rock producers to work with prominent African musicians.
18 mins13 Mar 2013
Papal Arts Legacy
We discover how much Benedict XVI was keen to support the contemporary arts.
18 mins12 Mar 2013
Music from Iceland
Fiona Talkington visits the Dark Music Days Festival in Iceland.
18 mins11 Mar 2013
Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes
A review of Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes - clever satire or simple bad taste?
18 mins08 Mar 2013
Amish Tripathi
How Amish Tripathi's trilogy about Lord Shiva led to the largest book advance in India.
18 mins07 Mar 2013
The return of computer games icon, Lara Croft
Release of new Tomb Raider game sees return of icon Lara Croft - minus the hotpants
18 mins06 Mar 2013
Latest novel from Malaysian author Tash Aw
Malaysian author Tash Aw's latest novel, Five Star Billionaire.
18 mins05 Mar 2013
FESPACO: The 23rd African film festival comes to a close
The 23rd FESPACO pan-African film festival, held in Burkina Faso, has just ended.
18 mins04 Mar 2013
Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer
The two American songwriters talk to us about their current release Child Ballads.
18 mins01 Mar 2013
Mexican Car Poolers
The photographer Alejandro Cartagena spent over a year photographing Mexican car poolers
18 mins28 Feb 2013
Comedy at the ballot box
Henning Wehn examines the relationship between stand-up comedy and politics.
18 mins27 Feb 2013
YouTube Charts
What does the incorporation of YouTube plays to calculate chart positions mean for music?
18 mins26 Feb 2013
Haneke produces Mozart Opera
Award winning producer of Amour, Michael Haneke directs Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte in Madrid.
18 mins25 Feb 2013
Indian film director Anurag Kashyap
Indian film director Anurag Kashyap and the Perunika Trio.
18 mins22 Feb 2013
Ibrahim Maalouf
Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf brings Arabic scales to 1950s style jazz.
18 mins21 Feb 2013
International Playwriting Competiton - Meet the winners
We hear from the winners of the 2012 International Playwriting Competition.
18 mins20 Feb 2013
Romanian Cinema
The new generation of Romanian film makers.
18 mins19 Feb 2013
Detroit: Music City
Detroit is a city in spiralling decline. Can music and the arts help to revive it?
18 mins18 Feb 2013