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Verdi floats on success at Bregenz Festival

Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera takes place on a fantastical floating stage

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Swimming through Life like a Fish

Ruri Pilgrim's characters swim through life in her novel Fish of the Seto Inland Sea

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Howard Arkley, painter of Australian Suburbia

The suburban visions of Australian painter Howard Arkley, who has died aged 48

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Hitchcock: A Love Affair with Cinema

Meet the master of suspense, British film director Alfred Hitchcock,

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Rita Dove 鈥� Poet of her People

American Rita Dove talks about her work, including the poem On the Bus with Rosa Parks

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Leonardo's Horse completed after 500 Years

After 500 years, Leonardo da Vinci's proposal for a giant bronze horse becomes reality

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Heart-break in Willowsville with Joyce Carol Oates

What spell does John Reddy Heart cast over the girls and women of Willowsville?

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Iain Banks gets creepy and corporate

Iain Banks talks about his latest novel, The Business

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Thulani Davis on Black Women Playwrights

Thulani Davis on how there are currently very few black women playwrights

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Michael Frayn's hero 鈥� headlong towards his Fate

Michael Frayn talks about his new novel, Headlong

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South Koreans Cooking up a storm in Edinburgh

Highlights of the first week of the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe

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East European Literature 鈥� out from under Communism

East European writers discuss their experiences of censorship and writing under Communism

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Jorge Luis Borges 鈥� Latin American Literary Giant

Profile of Jorge Luis Borges, the great Latin American novelist and poet

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Goethe's literary Legacy

The life and work of great European writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Indian Music Festival with political Overtones

The Festival of Classical and Folk Permformance in India has developed a political edge

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John Adams, American composer

Interview with American composer John Adams who is about to conduct his latest work

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Winter in Lisbon by Antonio Molina

Review of an English translation of Winter in Lisbon by Antonio Molina

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Eyes Wide Shut 鈥� in Venice

A review of the Toronto and Venice film festivals

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Ruth Rendell 鈥� a Life in Crime

Profile of English crime novelist Ruth Rendell

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The rise of 'appointment' television 鈥� Ally McBeal

How Ally McBeal has become appointment TV

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Roddy Doyle 鈥� A Star Called Henry

A review of Roddy Doyle's latest fiction A Star Called Henry

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Thirty Cases of Major Zeman

How the decision to rerun a Soviet-era TV drama on Czech TV has been fiercely criticised

• 27 mins

Jim Crace interview

The English author talks about his novel Being Dead

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Rose Tremain

The English novelist talks about her book Music and Silence

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The German writer G眉nter Grass

George Steiner on why the German novelist so deserved the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature

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The American century: Art and culture 1950-2000

The Royal Opera House opens after renovations; Nick Hughes' Rwanda set film '100 Days'; 'Sensation' exhibition of British art in New York; Tim Winton's Australian play, based on the novel 'Cloudstreet'.

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Harold Evans on The American Century

The English publisher and journalist talks about his history of 20th-century America

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Edgar Allen Poe

The short and strange life of the American author and creator of the detective story

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French play The Man Who Said Non

A review of the play about Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill from 1940 to 1945

• 28 mins

Ben Elton interview

The writer and comedian talks about his novel Inconceivable

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