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Coverage of the evening session of day four at the 2022 World Snooker Championship.

Examining the novel from three unique perspectives. This episode shows the way that women writers, women readers and women's lives have been central to the novel. Show more

Marking 25 years since the creation of the Bridget Jones character, author Helen Fielding opens up her personal archive to tell the story of how Bridget Jones’s Diary came to be. Show more

Alan Yentob meets acclaimed writer Margaret Atwood in Toronto and discovers how a childhood spent between the Canadian wilderness and the city helped shape her. Show more

The story behind Sylvia Plath’s seminal novel The Bell Jar: a young woman’s struggle to survive in 1950s America. With her daughter Freida Hughes and several of her close friends. Show more

The medieval era was the heyday of illuminated manuscripts. This episode looks at the Luttrell Psalter, a remarkable devotional book, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Show more

Jim Al-Khalili examines how the Islamic world advanced science. He tells the story of physicist Ibn al-Haytham, who helped establish the science of optics. Show more

Examining the novel from three unique perspectives. This episode shows the way that women writers, women readers and women's lives have been central to the novel. Show more

Programmes start at 7.00pm.