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Peter Viertel's White Hunter, Black Heart

Interview with the German author and screenwriter Peter Viertel

• 28 mins

Charles Dickens

Author Peter Ackroyd looks at how Charles Dicken's life influenced his novels

• 28 mins

An American Memphis Belle

David Puttnam's new film about a World War Two bombing crew, Memphis Belle

• 29 mins

Talking with David Puttnam

A special looking at the career of Oscar-winning British film producer David Puttnam

• 28 mins

medical movie Paper Mask

Dr John Collee on his screenplay for the medical movie Paper Mask

• 29 mins

Bram Stoker's Dracula

An in depth look at Bram Stoker's Dracula and vampirism

• 28 mins

Glasgow - European Capital of Culture

Special on Glasgow's International Arts Festival, includes writer director Bill Bryden

• 28 mins

Moscow Gold

Moscow Gold by Howard Brenton and Tariq Ali with David Calder as Mikhail Gorbachev

• 28 mins

remembering Patrick White

Remembering Australian writer Patrick White, winner of the 1973 Nobel Literature Prize

• 29 mins

An Angel at My Table

New film about Kiwi novelist Janet Frame, An Angel at My Table

• 28 mins

Athol Fugard

A special on South African playwright,Athol Fugard, author of Sizwe Banzi Is Dead

• 28 mins

Stephen King; Nobel Prize for Literature winner Octavio Paz; Orham Pamuk

Nobel Prize for Literature winner Octavio Paz. Alastair Lack reports from the Frankfurt Book Fair.

• 28 mins

Luc Besson's Nikita

Luc Besson's film Nikita where a French agent turns a drug punk into an assassin

• 28 mins

Verdi's opera Attila

English conductor Edward Downes on his new production of Verdi's opera Attila

• 28 mins

talking with Kurt Vonnegut

Interview with Kurt Vonnegut about his new novel Hocus Pocus or What's the Hurry, Son?

• 28 mins

Martin Scorsese on Goodfellas

Director Martin Scorsese on the book behind his film Goodfellas

• 28 mins

Elizabeth Taylor

New biography of Elizabeth Taylor by film critic Alexander Walker

• 29 mins

Margaret Atwood and The Handmaid's Tale

Writer Margaret Atwood on her novel The Handmaid's Tale, plus review of the film

• 28 mins

A new Richard II

The RSC's Richard II, plus dramatist David Edgar's The Shape of the Table

• 29 mins

Race and Theatre

Exploring the issue of race in casting. With actresses Meera Syal and Yvonne Brewster

• 28 mins

Macbeth directed by Wu Hsing-kuo

The Kingdom of Desire, a Taiwanese production of Macbeth directed by Wu Hsing-kuo

• 28 mins

Kogi people - The Heart of the Worl

Alan Ereira on his film about South American Kogi people, The Heart of the World

• 28 mins

Henry & June

Philip Kaufman's film about American writer Henry Miller his wife June

• 28 mins

Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art

Painter and writer Francoise Gilot on her book Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art

• 28 mins

Andrei Serban's Greek tragedies

Report from Bucharest on director Andrei Serban's trilogy of Greek tragedies

• 28 mins

Manchester's Royal Exchange

Special programme on the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester

• 28 mins

Come Beckoning Ghost

Exploring the ghost story with authors Peter Straub, Susan Hill, AS Byatt and Clive Barker

• 28 mins

The Felix Winner is...

Winner of the European film of the year, Porte aperte directed by Italian Gianni Amelio

• 29 mins

Thomas Hardy's Music

The folk, street, and church music that surrounded writer Thomas Hardy

• 28 mins

Wind in the Willows

Alan Bennett's musical adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows

• 28 mins