麻豆约拍

How to write

How do novelists physically write?

• 28 mins

Country music

How country music is taking the charts and silver screen by storm

• 28 mins

Steven Spielberg

A documentary on Steven Spielberg

• 28 mins

Penelope Fitzgerald

This programme examines Penelope Fitzgerald, who was an English poet, novelist and biographer

• 31 mins

Censorship and the Thai film industry

As the first Thai film festival ends, a look at the subject of censorship in Thailand

• 28 mins

Jose Saramago - winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

An interview with the translator of Portuguese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

• 28 mins

Iraq arts festival

A report on an arts festival in Iraq

• 28 mins

Iris Murdoch

The husband of writer Iris Murdoch chronicles her descent into dementia

• 28 mins

Aga Khan Award - architecture

Winners announced for The Aga Khan Award for architecture

• 28 mins

George Bernard 's Pygmalion

A look at the life of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion

• 28 mins

Antony and Cleopatra analysed

A look at Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra

• 28 mins

Magnus Mills - The Restraint of Beasts

Magnus Mills talks about his first novel The Restraint of Beasts

• 28 mins

The 30th Booker Prize

The winner of the 30th Booker Prize for Fiction, Ian McEwan

• 28 mins

Booker Prize for Fiction

Nick Rankin reports from the Booker Prize for Fiction ceremony

• 28 mins

Charles Dickens - Hard Times

Discussing Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times

• 28 mins

V.S. Naipaul and Arthur Koestler

Attacks on the reputation of two giants

• 28 mins

Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa was a prominent Japanese filmmaker, film producer, and screenwriter

• 27 mins

French Literary prize winner

The winner of a French literary prize

• 28 mins

Lorrie Moore

US writer Lorrie Moore talks about her collection of short stories - Birds of America

• 28 mins

African and Oceanic art

A sale of African and Oceanic art in London is discussed

• 28 mins

The Art of the Essay

How are essays defined?

• 28 mins

The Colour Purple

A review of the making of The Colour Purple, adapted from the novel by Alice Walker

• 28 mins

Tom Wolfe - A Man in Full

Review of new novel A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe

• 28 mins

Censorship in music

Music banning debate at the first international conference on music and censorship

• 28 mins

C.S Lewis - centenary

A celebration of 100 years since the death of C.S Lewis

• 28 mins

The War of the Worlds

Feature on The War Of The Worlds by H. G Wells

• 28 mins

Antoni Gaudi

Documentary on Antoni Gaudi a Spanish Catalan architect, one of the most noted in Spain

• 28 mins

Rudolf Nureyev biography

First full length biography on ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev is published

• 28 mins

Japanese film in Korea

A Japanese movie showing in Korean theatres for the first time

• 28 mins

Chris Ofili - winner of the Turner Prize

This year's Turner Prize winner is announced

• 28 mins