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22/06/2012
We find out what's on offer at this year's London Indian Film Festival
25/06/2012
We meet Melissa Tandiwe Myambo, shortlisted for the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing.
26/06/2012
The runaway success of the Indian TV chat show tackling controversial subjects.
27/06/2012
We review the debut feature film Ted from Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the Family Guy.
28/06/2012
The director of the Exorcist William Friedkin is back with a black comedy.
29/06/2012
We continue our series profiling the nominees for the Caine Prize for African Writing 2012
02/07/2012
We review the new film from often-controversial three-time Oscar-winner, Oliver Stone.
03/07/2012
We talk to this year's winner of the Caine Prize for African Literature, Rotimi Babatunde.
04/07/2012
Asif Kapadia and Olympic Short Film The Odyssey.
05/07/2012
Nuruddin Farah talks pirates, his hatred of fear and questions he wants answered
06/07/2012
In today's programme Christopher Hope talks to Harriett about his novel, Shooting Angels.
09/07/2012
The patchwork boat created from donated wood by British artists Lone Twin.
10/07/2012
In Argentina, the world's first ever self-destructing book.
11/07/2012
We review Detachment, the latest film from maverick British director Tony Kaye.
12/07/2012
We review God Bless America, a black satire on American reality television
13/07/2012
The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day.
16/07/2012
We review the new Hollywood blockbuster, The Dark Knight Rises.
17/07/2012
A new play brings personal testimony from the Syrian conflict to the stage.
18/07/2012
A tribute to Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna.
19/07/2012
A new theatre in Lima aims to put Peru on the international performing-arts map.
20/07/2012
Ice T: The Art of Rap
Harry Belafonte at 85
A 2012 interview with the singer, actor, and civil rights activist
23/07/2012
24/07/2012
Brazilian artists moving into London to stage performances in people鈥檚 homes.
Making with Thomas Heatherwick
Harriett Gilbert visits the designer Thomas Heatherwick in his studio.
26/07/2012
The latest on Russian girl band Pussy Riot and the protests sparked by their imprisonment.
27/07/2012
We find out what celebrations are planned to mark 50 years of Jamaican independence.
30/07/2012
Slovenia releases its most expensive film ever - a Roma romance called Shanghai Gypsy.
31/07/2012
We are joined by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the writer of the Olympic opening ceremony.
01/08/2012
A tribute to American man of letters Gore Vidal who has died aged 86.
02/08/2012
With the 18th Sydney Biennale well under way, we take a look at the biannual art show.