Robert Frost believed that "poetry is what gets lost in translation". Yet it is only through translation that writing can break out of the ghettos of language. Richard Coles discusses the problem of translating style as well as sense with Tim Parks , author of a new book on the subject. The New Yorker's Bill Buford performs a different kind of cultural translation in his weekly letter from New York. And the meaning of Ben Jonson 's earthy comedy
Bartholomew Fair is considered as a new production opens in Stratford. Producer Rob Ketteridge
