麻豆约拍

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

Adapting books for the screen

From Adaptation to Gone to the Wind, the relationship between Hollywood and novels

• 23 mins

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

The announcement of the winners in the Eurasian region

• 23 mins

Porgy and Bess: the world tour

The story of the 1950s international tour of George Gershwin鈥檚 opera

• 22 mins