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16/02/2012
A special Strand programme looking at the global city and its housing needs.
18/02/2012
We discuss a new stage adaption of Jung Chang's international bestseller Wild Swans.
20/02/2012
Alexa Dvorson reports on this year's Berlin International Film Festival.
21/02/2012
We continue discovering this year's Oscar-nominated foreign films; Today In Darkness.
22/02/2012
The Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky stars in the rarely performed Ernani by Verdi.
23/02/2012
Film critic Inge Shelstraeta gives us the lowdown on Belgium's Oscar offering.
25/02/2012
The Strand reports from a snowbound and bomb damaged Afghan National Theatre.
27/02/2012
How writers from 4 countries will work around the clock to create an entire novel in a day
28/02/2012
On the eve of the presidential election, the new wave of challenging Russian film and tv.
Tommy Emmanuel - Australian fingerstyle Guitarist
The guitar wizard, Tommy Emmanuel talks about his extraordinary virtuosity and plays live.
29/02/2012
A special live show with William Orbit, Lionel Shriver, Anoushka Shankar and many more.
01/03/2012
A film about two boys killed by police in Ecuador in 1988 is being used for training .
03/03/2012
Natacha Butler reports on a new initiative to put Indian design on the global map.
05/03/2012
Art critic Louisa Buck tells us about the latest incarnation of the Marrakesh Biennale.
06/03/2012
Bruce Springsteen is back with a new CD Wrecking Ball and we go to meet The Boss in Paris.
07/03/2012
We review Swedish director Lasse Hallstr枚m's new film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.
08/03/2012
We talk to the Turner Prize winning artists Gilbert and George.
10/03/2012
A special programme linked to the World Service season about the Human Race.
12/03/2012
Anna McNamee introduces the first of three brand new pieces of speculative fiction.
13/03/2012
One More, a new film by Shivajee Chandrabhushan about Ice Hockey in Ladakh, India.
14/03/2012
Why the world's theatre companies are swarming to a stage by the river Thames in London.
15/03/2012
Razia Iqbal reveals the winner of this year's Man Asian Literary Prize.
17/03/2012
As part of Globe to Globe, we hear about a production of Troilus and Cressida.
19/03/2012
Anna McNamee introduces the second in our series of brand new speculative fiction.
20/03/2012
Juliana Liu tells us about the winners at the Asian Film Awards.
21/03/2012
The Hunger Games has sold more advance tickets than any non-sequel, but is it any good?
22/03/2012
Nadine Gordimer talks about her new novel, No Time Like The Present.
24/03/2012
Nigerian author Chibundu Onuzu talks about her debut novel set in Lagos.
26/03/2012
Anna McNamee introduces Wasteland, Wasteland, Wasteland by US author Claire Vaye Watkins.
27/03/2012
The Norwegian hit film Headhunters, an adaptation of the best selling novel by Jo Nesbo.
28/03/2012
Winner of the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, Rabee Jaber.