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22/07/2011
The best of the world's arts, film, literature and music brought to you every day
25/07/2011
The music of highly acclaimed British artist Amy Winehouse who died at the weekend
26/07/2011
We discuss the origins of Hollywood's latest superhero, Captain America: The First Avenger
27/07/2011
Colombian singer and musician Joe Arroyo who has died at the age of 56.
28/07/2011
The National Museum of Scotland reopens after a major refurbishment.
29/07/2011
The Egyptian artist Khaled Hafez on the Arab Spring, art and disco music
01/08/2011
A review of film The Whistleblower, a thriller about a UN sex scandal in post-war Bosnia
02/08/2011
How Hollywood gets around strict Chinese quotas on foreign film imports
03/08/2011
Hari Kunzru talks about his new novel Gods Without Men
04/08/2011
We review the documentary Magic Trip based on a 1964 drug-fuelled cross-country road trip
05/08/2011
British art collector Charles Saatchi shows his controversial works in Australia
08/08/2011
We review the cautionary prequel to the science-fiction classic Planet of the Apes
09/08/2011
A collection of photos revealing the inner-workings of the East German Secret Police.
10/08/2011
On today's programme, TV Satire for Freedom, Project Nim and Andre Dubus III
11/08/2011
Jay Z and Kanye West have come together to create a new album, Watch the Throne
12/08/2011
We review The Devil's Double, a new film about Uday Hussein and his body double
15/08/2011
David D'Arcy reviews Cowboys and Aliens, a genre-bending film with a star studded cast
16/08/2011
Artist David Mach takes on the King James Bible via collage and sculpture
17/08/2011
Xuefei Yang, the Chinese classical guitarist who has found international acclaim
18/08/2011
New versions from Taiwan and Korea of Shakespeare at the Edinburgh Festival
19/08/2011
Award-winning poet Daljit Nagra talks about his new collection
22/08/2011
Critic Maria Delgado reviews Pedro Almodovar's latest film, The Skin I Live In
23/08/2011
We talk to Danish director, Lone Sherfig, about her new film One Day
24/08/2011
Elegy, a play which examines the plight of the gay community in Iraq.
25/08/2011
Acclaimed Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov discusses his new book The Milkman in The Night
26/08/2011
New novel by award-winning Lebanese author, Elias Khoury
29/08/2011
Christopher Hope talks to Harriett about his new novel, Shooting Angels
31/08/2011
We review the graphic novel adaptation of Kahled Hosseini's The Kite Runner.
30/08/2011
Francesc Torres talks to Anna McNamee about his photographic exhibition Memory Remains.
01/09/2011
We find out what to expect from the 68th Venice Film Festival which opened yesterday
02/09/2011
Glen Campbell reflects on his career after selling 45 million albums.