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Interview with Nawal el-Saadawi, Egyptian novelist and campaigner for women's rights
New choral works will celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee
Speechwriters who craft the big set-pieces delived by presidents and captains of industry
Peter Matthiessen talks about his work as novelist, naturalist and campaigner
Irish novelist Edna O'Brien talks about her new book, based on a triple murder
Vladimir Spivakov, Russian violinist and conducto talks about his career and vision
Finding out about The Method, the most famous approach to acting in the world
The life and works of American author John Steinbeck, born 100 years ago
The month's top CDs include Sibelius's Tone Poems recorded by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Interview with American poet, academic and campaigner, Maya Angelou
Why has Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa mystified and intrigued for 500 years?
The life and achievements of Ibn Sina, the great 11th-century Persian scientist and writer
Meridian launches its own Short Story Competition
Why The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai still has the power to thrill
British playwright and director David Hare talks about screenwriting
How Jamaican culture threw off the shackles of colonial rule after independence
The novelist from New York talks about the book he started writing when he was 17
War reporter and novelist Jeffrey Lee and an atom bomb survivor turned poet
The Jewish philosopher who was also one of the finest scholars of the Arabic world
A profile of the medieval Andalusian scholar
What makes Stephen King not only the master of horror but much more than that?
The concept of ‘branding’ has become ubiquitous. But what does it really mean?
The American novelist and author of The Ice Storm talks about his memoirs
Are books and slow symphonies on their way out in the age of the fast forward button?
The Gattaca and Dead Poets Society actor talks about his second novel Ash Wednesday
How the American film genre, the Western, was invented in late 19th-century America
The author talks about his novel set during the Trojan War
How the Italian director Sergio Leone took on the American genre of the western
The British novelist talks about her second novel
How the American westerns of the late 60s and 70s reflected the revolutionary times
