True Stories?
Sheila Hancock previews "Talking Heads", a new series of dramatic monologues for television by Alan Bennett. Featuring Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Thora Hird and Bennett himself, each play focuses on a character who faces the camera and tells his or her own story. What picture of ordinary lives does this challenging form present?

Souled Out
Stuart Cosgrove catches up with Barry White on his current British tour, and talks to Bobby Womack, self-styled 'last soul man'. Have cars, clothes and designer sheets undermined the authenticity of soul music?

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The film version of Milan Kundera's acclaimed novel, starring Daniel Day-Lewis - a complex and erotic love story set at the time of the Russian invasion which put a brutal end to the Prague Spring of 68.