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A tribute to Yehudi Menuhin

Tribute to violinist and conductor Lord Yehudi Menuhin; Sri Lankan film 'Death On A Full Moon Day'; Curator Anthony Shelton talks about exhibition 'African Worlds'; Ecuadorian painter Oswaldo Guayasamin dies.

• 28 mins

Woody Allen: a profile

An exploration of the life and work of New York's most famous film director

• 29 mins

Chinese opera The Peony Pavilion

A new production of the Kunqu opera is staged in Shanghai

• 28 mins

Alberto Manguel

The Argentine writer and translator talks about the moral and ethical duty of reading

• 28 mins

Welsh novelist Bernice Rubens

The Booker Prize-winning writer talks about her novel I, Dreyfus

• 28 mins

Hong Kong film festival

A review of the festival's opening film, Ordinary Heroes by Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui

• 28 mins

Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet

What is Rushdie's novel really about - love, art, identity or the modern human condition?

• 28 mins

Vikram Seth interview

The Indian author talks about his novel An Equal Music

• 29 mins

Pulitzer Prize winners

The winners include the play Wit by Margarert Edson and Michael Cunningham's The Hours

• 28 mins

Philip Gourevitch interview

The journalist talks about his book about the Rwandan genocide

• 28 mins

Bessie and Sadie Delaney

The remarkable American sisters whose story is told in US TV drama Having our Say

• 28 mins

Marianne Wiggins interview

The American writer talks about the central role of weather in her novel Almost Heaven

• 28 mins

Havana, Cuba

The disinctive music, literature and culture of the Cuban capital

• 28 mins

Vladimir Nabokov

A celebration of the world-class Russian-American writer

• 28 mins

Peter Porter interview

As he celebrates his 70th birthday, the Australian poet talks about his life and work

• 28 mins

Tokyo Book Fair

What the Japanese are reading in 1999: fairy tales and fantasies - and a lot of manga

• 28 mins

Commonwealth Writers' Prize

Why should writers from such a large cultural range be judged together?

• 28 mins

Catherine Cookson

The life of the English writer who wrote a novel almost every six months

• 28 mins

Tony Awards

Classic plays dominate the nominations for the American drama awards

• 28 mins

Fred Astaire

A profile of the legendary American dancer and actor

• 28 mins

Contemporary painting

Is it as exciting as other, newer, conceptual art forms?

• 28 mins

The Orange Prize for Fiction

The all-female line-up for the prize is reviewed by The Times' Literary Editor Eric Wagner

• 28 mins

Remembering Bruce Chatwin

Life and work of English novelist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin

• 27 mins

A First Novel takes top Literary Prize

English author Andrew Miller has won a $150,000 literary prize with his first novel

• 28 mins

Applause for Asian films at Cannes Festival

This might be the "best year ever" for Asian films at the Cannes Film Festival

• 28 mins

Salman Rushdie – Shaking up Myth and Time

Salman Rushdie talks about his new novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

• 28 mins

A History of the Superhero

Exploring the history and popularity of comics, focusing on Batman and Superman

• 28 mins

Nelson Mandela – a new Biography

New biography of Nelson Mandela by Anthony Sampson

• 28 mins

Sweden wins the Eurovision Song Contest – again

Charlotte Nilsson wins the Eurovision song contest for Sweden

• 28 mins

Hillary's View from the Summit

Sir Edmund Hillary on how you follow the conquest of Mt Everest?

• 28 mins