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Edinburgh Festival
The latest offerings from the Edinburgh Festival
Nixon in China at the Edinburgh festival
Festival 'fatigue' at the 42nd Edinburgh Festival
The Last Temptation of Christ at the Venice Film Festival
A review of the annual film festival in Venice
Museum of The Moving Image
From the National Film Theatre and the newly opened Museum of The Moving Image
T. E. Lawrence
Examining the life and work of Colonel T.E. Lawrence
George Bernard Shaw - The Search for Love
The official biography of George Bernard Shaw by Michael Holroyd
Our Country's Good
Our Country's Good, review of a play by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Thomas Gainsborough
Celebrating the life and work of Thomas Gainsborough
Bela Bartok
The life and work of Hungarian composer Béla Viktor János Bartók
Sir Frederick Ashton
A look at the life and work of one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th Century
Kingsley Amis - Difficulties with Girls
A review of Kingley Amis's Difficulties with Girls
The Secret Rapture
Review of David Hare's latest play The Secret Rapture
Nobel Prize for Literature
The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded
The Plantagenets
Watching actors of the RSC through their paces in rehearsals
Antonia Fraser's Warrior Queens
A gallery of The Warrior Queens in Antonia Fraser's latest book
The Booker Prize
Peter Carey, wins this year's Booker Prize
Does poetry make things happen?
Seamus Heaney and Les Murray discuss the impact of poetry
David Hockney at Tate Gallery
A David Hockney retrospective at the Tate Gallery
Michael Tilson Thomas
A look at the work of the musician of Michael Tilson Thomas
A Walk in the Woods
Sir Alec Guinness in the West End play A Walk in the Woods
World War One
Marking the 70th anniversary of the the armistice
Mickey Mouse turns 60
Celebrations mark the 60th birthday of Mickey Mouse
Renaissance Theatre Company
Actor power in the British Theatre, the Renaissance Theatre Company
Prince Charles by Anthony Holden
A new biography of Prince Charles to mark his 40th birthday
Doris Lessing at the opera
The premier of the opera The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
Literary biographies
Michael Holroyd and Hilary Spurling discuss literary biographies
English Literature
A look at English literature
Tucker by Francis Ford Coppola
The unravelling of an American legend in a film by Francis Ford Coppola
Turner Prize
The Turner Prize winner 1998
Heroes
The book Heroes about the Nigerian civil war
First European Film Awards
An audience of millions watched the first European Film Awards ceremony