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  1. Interview with film director Danny Boyle

    Harriett Gilbert talks to the director of Shallow Grave and 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire.

  2. Mohsin Hamid

    Samira Ahmed talks to Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid.

  3. A Tribute to Chinua Achebe

    The Strand celebrates one of the world's great writers - the late Chinua Achebe.

  4. Austerity Opera: Nostra Culpa

    How a Twitter feud became an opera.

  5. BBC World Service's What If Competition winners

    We announce the winners of the BBC World Service's What If competition.

  6. The death of Chinua Achebe

    Chinua Achebe, the acclaimed Nigerian novelist and poet has died.

  7. Philip Roth Unmasked

    Pulitzer Prize winning American writer Philip Roth is the subject of a new TV documentary

  8. Steve Earle Special

    The American singer-songwriter talks to Mark Coles about his new album The Low Highway.

  9. Bolshoi Scandal

    Bolshoi Scandals - we hear the latest.

  10. The Infatuations by Javier Marias

    Javier Marias on his latest novel The Infatuations.

  11. Tracy Chevalier - The Last Runaway

    The best selling author discusses her latest novel The Last Runaway.

  12. The Man Asian Literary Prize

    Maya Jaggi, chair of the judges, reveals the name of the winner of the Man Asian Prize.

  13. African Rock

    We examine the trend for western rock producers to work with prominent African musicians.

  14. Papal Arts Legacy

    We discover how much Benedict XVI was keen to support the contemporary arts.

  15. Music from Iceland

    Fiona Talkington visits the Dark Music Days Festival in Iceland.

  16. Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes

    A review of Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes - clever satire or simple bad taste?

  17. Amish Tripathi

    How Amish Tripathi's trilogy about Lord Shiva led to the largest book advance in India.

  18. The return of computer games icon, Lara Croft

    Release of new Tomb Raider game sees return of icon Lara Croft - minus the hotpants

  19. Latest novel from Malaysian author Tash Aw

    Malaysian author Tash Aw's latest novel, Five Star Billionaire.

  20. FESPACO: The 23rd African film festival comes to a close

    The 23rd FESPACO pan-African film festival, held in Burkina Faso, has just ended.

  21. Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer

    The two American songwriters talk to us about their current release Child Ballads.

  22. Mexican Car Poolers

    The photographer Alejandro Cartagena spent over a year photographing Mexican car poolers

  23. Comedy at the ballot box

    Henning Wehn examines the relationship between stand-up comedy and politics.

  24. YouTube Charts

    What does the incorporation of YouTube plays to calculate chart positions mean for music?

  25. Haneke produces Mozart Opera

    Award winning producer of Amour, Michael Haneke directs Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte in Madrid.

  26. Indian film director Anurag Kashyap

    Indian film director Anurag Kashyap and the Perunika Trio.

  27. Ibrahim Maalouf

    Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf brings Arabic scales to 1950s style jazz.

  28. International Playwriting Competiton - Meet the winners

    We hear from the winners of the 2012 International Playwriting Competition.

  29. Romanian Cinema

    The new generation of Romanian film makers.

  30. Detroit: Music City

    Detroit is a city in spiralling decline. Can music and the arts help to revive it?

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