麻豆约拍

Doris Lessing at the opera

The premier of the opera The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

• 28 mins

Literary biographies

Michael Holroyd and Hilary Spurling discuss literary biographies

• 28 mins

English Literature

A look at English literature

• 28 mins

Tucker by Francis Ford Coppola

The unravelling of an American legend in a film by Francis Ford Coppola

• 28 mins

Turner Prize

The Turner Prize winner 1998

• 28 mins

Heroes

The book Heroes about the Nigerian civil war

• 28 mins

First European Film Awards

An audience of millions watched the first European Film Awards ceremony

• 28 mins

R.M Lammings

A review of R.M Lammings new book The Notebook of Gismondo Cavaletti

• 28 mins

European Film Awards

Plus US stand-up comedian Charles Fleischer on voicing Roger in Who Framed Roger Rabbit

• 28 mins

Melvyn Tan - extended interview

Special programme dedicated to Singapore-born British classical pianist Melvyn Tan

• 28 mins

Cultures in conflict

Film director Miguel Pereira on his Argentine and British co-production Veronico Cruz

• 28 mins

Humbug! A Christmas Carol

Exploring the ghost story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

• 27 mins

PL Travers - interview

The Australian-born British novelist who wrote a series of novels about Mary Poppins

• 28 mins

Musical injuries

Special exploring the injuries suffered by musicians

• 28 mins

Orpheus Descending with Vanessa Redgrave

Director Sir Peter Hall on Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending with Vanessa Redgrave

• 28 mins

African music in Britain

Includes interviews with Jonah Moyo and Devera Ngwena Jazz Band, both from Zimbabwe

• 29 mins

Book review of the year

Favourite books include Nora by Brenda Maddox and Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child

• 28 mins

Writing for children

Trends in children's writing from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Matilda

• 28 mins

Vanessa Redgrave interview

British actress Vanessa Redgrave on inviting the Russian Vakhtangov Theatre to London

• 28 mins

Sophocles Electra with Fiona Shaw

Sophocles' Greek tragedy Electra directed by Deborah Warner

• 28 mins

Roald Dahl - interview

Special programme talking to Britain's most popular children's writer, Roald Dahl

• 28 mins

Dustin Hoffman as Shylock

Director Sir Peter Hall on casting US film star Dustin Hoffman in The Merchant of Venice

• 28 mins

The Satanic Verses

Writer Salman Rushdie on the controversy surrounding his new book The Satanic Verses

• 28 mins

Turmoil at Opera de la Bastille

French Opera de la Bastille sack conductor Daniel Barenboim

• 28 mins

Stradivari's Secret

Special on the Stradivarius, a stringed instrument built by the Stradivari family

• 28 mins

The Making of India

MJ Akbar on his biography of Jawaharlal Nehru, The Making of India

• 28 mins

Arthur Miller's Two Way Mirror

Arthur Miller play Two Way Mirror opens at London's Young Vic, plus excerpt with Bob Peck

• 29 mins

David Cronenberg - interview

Interview with the Canadian originator of body horror or venereal horror films

• 28 mins

Gorillas in the Mist

Gorillas in the Mist, directed by Michael Apted and starring Sigourney Weaver

• 28 mins

William Butler Yeats

Author Norman Jeffers on his biography of Irish poet WB Yeats

• 28 mins