Philip Dodd explores the extraordinary story of David Rodinsky , who disappeared from his room above a synagogue in London's East End leaving books, records and clothes that lay undisturbed for twenty years. Then the artist Rachel Lichtenstein decided to find out what happened.... Bill Buford of The New Yorker files his regular letter on cultural life across the Atlantic. And a new book by anthropologist
Adam Kuper asks what exactly we mean by culture - a term now invoked to explain everything from civil wars to divorces. Producer Paul Quinn