Professor Michael G Wood explains why Marcel Proust's Swann's Way was important for Parisian culture and a turning point in the relationship between a writer and his characters. Show more

Music historian Richard Witts focuses on the notorious opening of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in 1913 and its role in music of the city that year. Show more

Martin Sorrell focuses on Apollinaire's volume of poetry, Alcools, which was met with astonishment, admiration and a good deal of outrage when it was published in Paris in 1913. Show more

Writer Michele Roberts assesses the impact of Alain-Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes which, since its publication in 1913, has become one of France's best-loved and most revered novels. Show more

Writer Adam Gopnik discusses Cubism in 1913 Paris, considering it as a form of poetic realism, celebrating a civilisation on the point of suicide. Show more