Foreign Fictions. Richard Coles considers how foreign cultures have fired the imagination. William Gibson talks about the setting of his latest novel in a virtual Tokyo, while Peter Greenaway 's new film reinvents traditional rituals in modern Japan. In the 18th century, it was Italy that caught the artistic imagination: Night Waves investigates a new exhibition on the tradition of the grand tour. Plus the first of this week's poetry interviews leading up to National Poetry Day.
Producer Robyn Read