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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Interview with screenwriter and author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

• 28 mins

Review of the year - 1998

A look back at the arts that provided the backdrop to the 12 months that was 1998

• 28 mins

Golden Globe nominations

Hollywood's Golden Globe film nominations are announced

• 28 mins

Alvin Ailey

A documentary on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

• 28 mins

Jane Smiley - Pulitzer prize winner

A feature-length programme on the novelist Jane Smiley

• 28 mins

The London Book Fair

A report from the annual international fair attended by 45 countries

• 28 mins

How do art thieves get away with it?

How are thieves able to sell on famous paintings?

• 28 mins

John Updike's novel Bech at Bay

The author and critic Stephen Amidon talks about the American writer's work

• 28 mins

European Capital of Culture 1999: Weimar, Germany

Gabriele Gerecke talks about why the German city has been chosen

• 29 mins

Northern Irish novelist Brian Moore

Professor Bob Welsh from the Univeristy of Ulster talks about the Irish author

• 28 mins

Indian International Film Festival

Film critic Lalit Joshi reports from the wide-ranging festival in Hyderabad

• 28 mins

Samuel Shem's Mount Misery

A psychiatrist and a writer reviews the American writer and psychiatrist's novel

• 28 mins

Berlin's Holocaust Memorial

The architect Peter Eisenman talks about a new plan for the memorial

• 28 mins

International Film Festival of India

How Hydrabad played host to the festival which featured a film market for the first time

• 28 mins

FW de Klerk's autobiography

A review of the last white President of South Africa's memoir

• 28 mins

Sundance Film Festival

Film critic Ken Turan reports from the independent film festival in Utah

• 28 mins

Rhapsody in Blue

The story of how George Gershwin wrote his most famous work

• 28 mins

Calcutta Book Fair

The literary critic Surendranath Dasgupta reports from one of the annual literary event

• 28 mins

King Henry IV, Part One

An analysis of Shakespeare's historical play

• 28 mins

Irish Murdoch

A tribute to the philosopher novelist who has died aged 79

• 28 mins

Oscar nominations

Festival of Islamic pop in Iran, previously banned by Ayatollah Khomeini; Salman Rushdie to return to India; Writer Iris Murdoch dies; Berlin's Film Festival; Oscar nominations.

• 27 mins

Erica Jong's What do Women Want

"All revolutions start with books." The American feminist talks about her book of essays

• 28 mins

Berlin film festival

The Finnish actress Kati Outinen talks about rediscovering silent movie acting

• 28 mins

Los Angeles: The City Of Mirrors

A portrait of the Californian city which has reinvented itself through TV and film

• 28 mins

Thomas Keneally interview

The gregarious Australian author of Schindler's Ark talks about his life and work

• 28 mins

John le Carr茅's Single & Single

The British spy writer's novel is reviewed by the British politician Gerald Kaufmann

• 28 mins

Wole Soyinka and the 1999 Nigerian elections

The Nigerian poet talks about how the arts struggled against military rule

• 28 mins

Commonwealth Writer's Prize

The chair of the Eurasian region judges Professor Malashri Lal talks about the winners

• 28 mins

China mourns the writer Xie Wanying

The daughter of one of China's most prolific writers of the 20th century pays tribute

• 28 mins

Ngangura Mweze wins at the 'African Oscars'

The Congolese filmmaker wins the top prize at the Pan African Film Festival in Ouagadougou

• 28 mins