As this month's moon approaches its final quarter, Richard Coles explores the pervasive influence of moonlight on the arts, from Shakespeare to
Pinter and from Coleridge to Turner. He keeps to the romantic theme with discussion of a new biography, The Hidden Wordsworth - Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy, which claims to unpick Wordsworth's own carefully created public image with political, poetic and sexual revelation. Plus more contemporary tales of art and politics in Bill Buford 's weekly letter on cultural life across the Atlantic.
Producer Rob Ketteridge