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1 hour
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Julia Stoneham's dramatisation of Julian Barnes's love triangle tale, which slowly darkens and deepens, drawing the listener compellingly into the quagmires of the heart. Show more
1 hour
First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD
Booker Prize-winning novelist Julian Barnes, whose Levels of Life is a memoir of bereavement following the loss of his wife to cancer, talks about love, death, memory and grief. Show more
Chiller about teenagers in the Swinging Sixties who spend a night in a haunted house - with murderous results. Starring Frankie Avalon and Jill Haworth. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
For Valentine's Day, a special programme devoted to love. Julian Barnes talks about his new novel The Only Story, about a relationship between and older woman and a younger man. Show more
28 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Mariella Frostrup talks to Julian Barnes about his book Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art, a collection of essays on various artists, plus Attica Locke on an inspirational book. Show more
Julian Barnes reflects on his early encounters with art. The Laughing Cavalier did not impress his younger self, but as a teenager in Paris he began to discover what he liked. Show more
Georges Braque 'thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting'. His comrade Picasso was more voluble. Show more
With reference to Claes Oldenburg and his exaggerated works, Julian Barnes considers the jolly japes of pop art and what they actually achieve. Show more
Julian Barnes notes how Lucian Freud was never very keen on being the subject of a biography but was perfectly content to ruthlessly expose the flesh of the women who sat for him. Show more
For Julian Barnes, modern art begins with Paul Cezanne, an artist whose portraits 'are all still lives'. Show more
Laura Cumming takes a journey through more than 500 years of self-portraits and finds out how the greatest names in western art transformed themselves into their own masterpieces. Show more
Darker and deeper than its predecessor, Talking It Over, this sequel is an engrossing exploration of betrayal and revenge, written by Julian Barnes and dramatised by Julia Stoneham. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Mark Lawson examines the American fiction that made headlines in 2013, including interviews with Edith Pearlman, James Salter, Renata Adler, Julian Barnes and Ruth Rendell. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Arts news, interviews and reviews with Mark Lawson. Julian Barnes discusses his new book Levels of Life, which combines history, fiction and personal memoir. Show more
Tony Webster, semi-retired owner of a specialist photography shop, receives a mysterious legacy and finds himself contending with a past he had never thought that much about. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Presented by Anne McElvoy. With Booker Prize-winning writer Julian Barnes on his love of art, Pakistani author Bapsi Sidhwa on her novel The Crow Eaters, and light-inspired poetry. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Anne McElvoy and novelist Julian Barnes discuss images of Russian cultural figures on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Plus the satire of Gogol and Erdman on the UK stage. Show more
