The cabaret of language returns with Ian McMillan introducing the best in new writing, performance and the hot topics of contemporary speech. Tonight Jan Morris explains how the age has changed and her time for writing has passed; poetry dances at the edge of song with the Rommi Smith Band; William Fiennes judges the competition to write the opening of a travel book and talks about the role of the imagination in travel writing; and Ian McMillan goes in search of a writer Zola described as "greater than my master, Flaubert", Portuguese novelist Eca de Quieros.