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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.
29/03/2012
A Gujarati adaptation of All's Well That Ends Well is coming to London's Globe Theatre.
31/03/2012
Mark Coles joins Anna to discuss hot new releases and the most important music news.
02/04/2012
Damien Hirst at London's Tate Modern - the first large scale exhibition of his career.
03/04/2012
James Copnall reports on South Sudan's first Shakespearean production, Cymbeline.
04/04/2012
An interpretation of Shakespeare's Richard II by ASHTAR Theatre addresses the Arab Spring.
05/04/2012
We speak to Morgan Spurlock, director of documentary Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope.
06/04/2012
A poetry edition of The Strand, discussing the Montreal Prize and featuring Ben Okri.
09/04/2012
Nadine Gordimer discusses South Africa and her new novel No Time Like the Present.
10/04/2012
Post Mortem, a film with a very original perspective on Pinochet's 1973 coup in Chile.
12/04/2012
We find out why artists of all kinds are congregating in specific public spaces in Egypt.
11/04/2012
We review Le Havre, the latest film by Finnish director Aki Karusmaki.
13/04/2012
Seriously midblowing music from Pakistan.