麻豆约拍

Wole Soyinka

The Nigerian playwright and poet talks about his poem In the Small Hours

• 23 mins

Michael Rosen interview

The poet talks about a collection of poems about the death of his 18-year-old son

• 23 mins

Michel Houellebecq interview

The French writer talks about his novel Platform

• 23 mins

Soul Music: Abide With Me

Why the hymn has so much significance to so many people

• 22 mins

Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings

What Andy Warhol鈥檚 Marilyn Monroe paintings say about the US pop artist

• 23 mins

Writing and Prison

The Nigerian author Helon Habila talks about his novel Waiting for an Angel

• 23 mins

Electronic music pioneers

The enormous impact of the early electronic music pioneers on the music of today

• 23 mins

World Book Club: Arundhati Roy

The Indian author answers your questions about her book The God of Small Things

• 23 mins

Nigerian teenagers鈥� favourite novels

How the sex lives of young Nigerians are influenced by the novels they鈥檝e read. Also on th

• 23 mins

Picasso: Les Mademoiselles d'Avignon

The story behind Picasso鈥檚 disturbing, defiant masterpiece

• 22 mins

Eric Hobsbawm interview

The Marxist historian talks about his life and key events of the 20th century

• 23 mins

Youssou N鈥橠our interview

The Senegalese musician talks about the power of lyrics

• 23 mins

Waiting For Godot

A celebration of Samuel Beckett鈥檚 revolutionary play, 50 years after it was first performe

• 23 mins

Edvard Munch's The Scream

The story behind one of the most unsettling paintings ever created.

• 22 mins

World Book Club: Ben Okri

The Nigerian born writer discusses his novel The Famished Road

• 23 mins

Raja Shehadeh interview

The Palestinian lawyer and writer on his memoir, Stranger in the House

• 22 mins

The Art of Fireworks

How fireworks have appeared and influenced art across the world

• 22 mins

Shimmer Chinodya interview

The Zimbabwean novelist talks about writing for children

• 23 mins

Art and the marketplace

A discussion about market forces in two contrasting areas: pop music and fine art

• 23 mins

Anthony Julius and Hans Hacker

The British academic and the German-born artist discuss transgressive art

• 22 mins

Americanization: Part 1

How mass marketing and production made the American dream universal

• 23 mins

Elizabeth Alexander and James G Basker

The African-American poet and academic discuss an anthology of poems about slavery

• 23 mins

Americanization: Part 2

How American architecture and food has worked its way into global culture

• 23 mins

Ghandi鈥檚 The Story of my Experiments with Truth

The Indian writer and publisher Urvashi Butalia talks about Mahatma Ghandi鈥檚 autobiography

• 23 mins

Americanization: Part 4

How France embraces and resists American culture

• 23 mins

麻豆约拍 World Service Short Story Competition

The judges announce the winning writers from Zambia, Italy and Belgium

• 23 mins

Americanization: Part 3

How American popular music helped to spread the USA鈥檚 cultural revolution

• 23 mins

Bernardine Evaristo

The British novelist talks about Toni Morrison鈥檚 novel The Bluest Eye

• 22 mins

Fred D'Aguiar

An interview with the British-Guyanese poet, playwright and novelist

• 23 mins

Linton Kwesi Johnson

An interview with the Jamaican reggae dub poet

• 22 mins