Rana Mitter is joined by novelist Xiaolu Guo to discuss the culture of China today as the country seeks a path between the past and the challenges of modernity. Show more

Nature writers Miriam Darlington and Horatio Clare join Rana Mitter to discuss the Scottish author of Ring of Bright Water, Gavin Maxwell. With readings by Scott Handy. Show more

Rana Mitter talks to actress and director Janet Suzman and actress Alexandra Gilbreath about Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and its relevance to sexual politics today. Show more

National poet of Wales Gillian Clarke and painter Peter Blake celebrate the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas. With readings by Trystan Gravelle. Show more

Booker prize-winning novelist Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration Trilogy, and poet Owen Sheers discuss writers', musicians' and painters' responses to war. Show more

Novelist and poet Helen Dunmore and writer Simon Heffer discuss the myths and realities behind the idea of the 'Lost Generation' of World War I. Show more

Publisher Carmen Callil, the founder of Virago Press, and novelist Helen Fitzgerald explore Melbourne's cultural heritage past and present. Show more

In a discussion held at the Royal College of Music in London, poets Fred d'Aguiar and Michael Longley discuss the work of Wilfred Owen, whose poetry inspired Britten's War Requiem. Show more

Poet Daljit Nagra and Radio 3 presenter Ian McMillan introduce the winning entries in the 2014 Proms Poetry Competition and welcome some of the winners on stage to read them. Show more

Radio 3 New Generation Thinker and expert in Nordic sagas Eleanor Rosamond Barraclough joins novelist Joanna Kavenna to discuss Icelandic culture. Show more

Writer Matthew Hollis and biographer Jay Parini discuss American poet Robert Frost and his work. Recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music in London. Show more

On the centenary of Britain's entry into World War I, Dame Shirley Williams and Colonel Tim Collins introduce an anthology of poetry from the war. Show more

Poet Craig Raine discusses the ways in which borrowing and reshaping existing phrases is a feature of music and literature, and why writers adopt a 'magpie' approach to language. Show more

Poet and playwright Tony Harrison talks to Matthew Sweet about his passionate commitment to the classics, poetic language and political writing over the last 50 years. Show more

Poets Andrew Motion and Kate Clanchy discuss the writing of Philip Larkin and his poetry collection The Whitsun Weddings, first published in 1964. Show more

Author Martin Amis discusses his new novel The Zone of Interest, in which he revisits the Holocaust for the first time since his controversial book Time's Arrow. Show more