15/07/2012

Available for over a year

The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Anna McNamee Tanni Grey-Thompson One of Britain's most influential athletes on the poem that inspires her. Asif Kapadia: Odyssey Award-winning director of Senna with an eagle's eye view of London's turbulent journey towards the Olympics Fast Girls We talk to Damian Jones, the Iron Lady producer. His new film is the sport movie Fast Girls, he reveals how the cast were trained to look like elite athletes. Ping! 4 table tennis players versus the four members of a string quartet - the winner is music. Speed Of Light Endurance running up a big rock in Edinburgh produces musical starlight Lightness of an Olympic hopeful Susan pui san lok on why pole vault is the sport that sums up optimism in her video installation of British olympic hopeful, Kate Dennison Cricket beloved of Wordsmiths Earl Lovelace from Trinidad and Shehan Karunatilaka from Sri Lanka have both won prizes for novels which use the politics of bat and ball to explore the world' John Gerrard and Janie Hampton 21st century military technologies underpin both art and sport in this London 2012 Cultural Olympiad offering - a far cry from the art which won medals in 1948, the last time Britain hosted the games. Picture shows: John Gerrard Installation shot of Exercise Djibouti 2012 at Old Power Station Oxford Photo credit: Stuart Whipps Chris Holmes Multiple gold medallist in swimming paralympics on why the poet John Dryden works for him.