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45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
A review of the week's cultural highlights, including Oprah Winfrey's role in A Wrinkle In Time, The Great Wave at The Dorfman Theatre and Philip Hensher's novel The Friendly Ones. Show more
43 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Libby Purves meets playwright Mark Ravenhill, former nun turned midwife Eleanor Stewart, spoon maker Barnaby Carder and photographer Stuart Griffiths. Show more
Set on a Louisiana plantation in the 1850s, Dion Boucicault's classic melodrama exploring Abolition and the role of theatre in politics. Show more
1 hour, 30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for years
By Mark Ravenhill. Drama telling how Imogen Holst worked with Benjamin Britten on the score for the opera Gloriana. With Paul Ready as Britten and Amanda Root as Imogen Holst. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra
Available for over a year
4 Extra Debut. Mark Ravenhill, DJ Nihal and Harriett Gilbert on books by James Ellroy, Nadine Gordimer and Wolfgang von Goethe. From 2013. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Ian McEwan's novel The Children Act, Alecky Blythe's play Little Revolution using verbatim interviews, plus docu-film Watermark, drama series Secrets, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
A review of the week's cultural highlights, including Kander and Ebbs' musical The Scottsboro Boys, the new Arcade Fire CD, and Judi Dench as Philomena. Show more
Kirsty Wark is joined by Mark Ravenhill, Hannah McGill and Matthew Sweet to discuss a new exhibition about brains at the Wellcome Collection in London. Show more
44 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England
Reviews include Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, cycling documentary The Armstrong Lie, artist Martin Creed's show What's the Point of It? and a novel by Stewart Foster. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Mark Lawson reviews Burton and Taylor, and talks to crime writer Denise Mina and film director Noah Baumbach. Mark Ravenhill chooses Dennis Potter's Casanova for Cultural Exchange. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Arts news with John Wilson including Lisa Dwan on performing Beckett's Not I, Scarlett Johansson's new film Lucy, Richard Osman on new TV formats and Mark Ravenhill on Alan Turing. Show more
Kirsty Wark is joined by Sarah Crompton, Ekow Eshun, Mark Ravenhill, and Amanda Vickery to discuss Lars Von Trier's latest film Melancholia and Tariq Godard's book The Message. Show more
Kirsty Wark is joined by guests including Marcel Theroux, Kate Mosse and Mark Ravenhill to discuss their pick of the best books to buy this Christmas.
1 hour
First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England
Why has a TV show about a man with a box that can travel anywhere in time and space become the BBC's longest running drama? Matthew Sweet investigates. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Mark Lawson hosts the Front Row Quiz of the Year. Team captains Natalie Haynes and Mark Billingham are joined by Adil Ray, Helen Lederer, Jackie Clune and Mark Ravenhill. Show more
Caryl Churchill's play, directed by Mark Ravenhill, focusing on the radical movements that erupted during the English Civil War in the 1640s. Show more
43 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
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Tom Sutcliffe discusses the 'myth' of progress with James Lasdun, Mary Beard, Mark Ravenhill and John Gray. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Mark Ravenhill and Matt Wolf on Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the National Theatre and the South Africa director Yaël Farber discusses her reworking of the Salomé story. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Philip Dodd explores the history of speaking truth to power with New Generation Thinker Joanne Paul. Plus dramas about the beliefs and ideas of John Knox and Galileo. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Clive Anderson and Francesca Martinez are joined by Paul Feig, Mark Ravenhill, David Essex and Mark Watson for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. Show more
