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Opening Nights: West Side Story

The American musical's first performance in 1957, remembered by the cast.

• 23 mins

How do artists use colour?

The abstract artists Terry Frost, John Hoyland and Yuko Shirai discuss how they use colour

• 24 mins

Opening Nights: Evita

The first performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical about Eva Peron.

• 24 mins

Iain Sinclair interview

The British writer and 'psychogeographer' talks about his novel Landor's Tower

• 23 mins

Schoenberg Festival

Ensemble Organum perform Franciscan chant; Tribute to Arnold Schoenberg.

• 24 mins

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms 2001

A look ahead to the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms season with the conductor Leonard Slatkin

• 24 mins

Seamus Heaney and Irish literature

The Irish poet talks about his collection, Electric Light

• 24 mins

Where Do Plays Come From?

Three playwrights talk about why they choose to write plays and film scripts

• 23 mins

Â鶹ԼÅÄ Cardiff Singer of the World Competition

Marius Brenciu is the first tenor to win the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Cardiff Singer of the World Competition

• 24 mins

Protecting Intellectual Property in the Digital Age

Protecting creators' rights to their artistic and literary works in a new digital age

• 23 mins

Prehistoric Art discovered in a French Cave

Large prehistoric human and animal figures discovered engraved on a cave wall in France

• 26 mins

Adventures of an Imperial Babe

Gorgeous Zuleika is the heroine of Bernadine Evaristo's verse-novel, The Emperor's Babe

• 24 mins

Primo Levi's Literary Companions

Poet Peter Forbes talks about his English translation of Primo Levi's last book

• 24 mins

Ryszard Kapuściński's African Years

Ryszard Kapuściński on his new book about his half-century reporting from Africa

• 23 mins

Sibongile Khumalo's South African life in Song

South African singing star, Sibongile Khumalo, talks about her life and art

• 24 mins

Stanley Spencer's Village Visions

The life and work of visionary English painter Stanley Spencer

• 23 mins

Voices of contemporary Turkish Fiction

What contemporary Turkish novelists are writing about

• 24 mins

Reading modern History's Maps

As History Today magazine turns 50, a look at how history writing has evolved

• 24 mins

Nightwalking with Dr Johnson and Mr Savage

In the footsteps of Samuel Johnson and Richard Savage, with biographer Richard Holmes

• 23 mins

Peter Carey on the appeal of Ned Kelly

Peter Carey talks about his book True History of the Kelly Gang

• 23 mins

Michael Burleigh: Demystifying the Nazis

Michael Burleigh talks about his prize-winning book, The Third Reich: A New History

• 23 mins

In the Studio with Paula Rego

An interview with the Portuguese painter Paula Rego – a "supreme artist-storyteller"

• 24 mins

Who will carry off the Master Prize for composition?

Everyone can vote in the Master Prize for composers, worth £30,000 to the winner

• 24 mins

Sound of the first Keyboard Instrument

The sound of the hydraulis, the earliest known keyboard instrument, is brought to life

• 24 mins

Two new Operas in Munich

Two new operas have their premieres at the Munich Biennale

• 28 mins

Salzburg Festival on the Internet

Gerard Mortier talks about the development of a remarkable internet initiative

• 24 mins

Box-office Success for the Edinburgh Festival

Report from the second week of this year's Edinburgh International Festival

• 24 mins

The Edinburgh Festival – after the Fringe

The Fringe may have finished but the main Edinburgh Festival is still in full swing

• 23 mins

Nadine Gordimer on her post-political Heroine

Nadine Gordimer talks about her new novel, The Pickup, set in post-Apartheid South Africa

• 24 mins

Film Sound – with Walter Murch

Walter Murch talks about designing sound tracks for movies including American Graffiti

• 23 mins