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45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Paolo Sorrentino's film The Great Beauty, Mark Ravenhill's take on Candide and Helen McCrory and Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders. Show more
43 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW
Available for over a year
Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. Libby Purves meets Professor John Carey and comedian Lynn Ruth Miller. Show more
National Service in Egypt was an odd sort of prelude to an Oxford degree. Show more
John Carey on how reviewing television programmes meant having to acquire one. Show more
Family fortunes had dwindled into a genteel memory of former wealth, by the time the young Carey was born in pre-war south London. Show more
John Carey tells how rummaging in the study produced not just books but bullets too. Show more
John Carey on how the perils of being outspoken in the national press sometimes led to unhappy fractures. Show more
John Carey delivers a critique of the response by early 20th century writers, including D H Lawrence, E M Forster, H G Wells and W B Yeats, to the rise of popular culture. Show more
30 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales (Analogue)
Kirsty Wark reviews the highs and lows of the cultural week with John Carey, Johann Hari and Rachel Campbell-Johnston.
Simon Schama celebrates the life and work of love poet John Donne, looking at how Donne has transformed English poetry through his emotional honesty and skilled use of language. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England
Martha Kearney is joined by guests including Rhona Cameron and Professor John Carey to discuss everything from modern British sculpture to the new year's crop of self-help books. Show more
1 hour
First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC HD
Series on the brilliance of the British novel. Sebastian Faulks looks at how novelists from Jane Austen to Monica Ali have used snobs as their secret weapon. Show more
50 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Two ScotlandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England
Round table arts and culture discussion programme. Guests including Sarah Churchwell, John Carey and Paul Morley discuss Danny Boyle's Frankenstein and James Franco in Howl. Show more
In this Book Review Show, Kirsty Wark and guests discuss the latest novel from Umberto Eco and a previously unpublished work by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Show more
In a Book Review Show special celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth, Kirsty Wark and guests discuss Simon Callow's new biography of the great author. Show more
An insight into the private obsessions and insecurities of the author of Lord of the Flies. With contributions from his daughter and son and bestselling author Stephen King. Show more
Martha Kearney and guests John Carey, Ekow Eshun and Natalie Haynes discuss the cultural highlights of the week including the National Theatre's production of The Magistrate. Show more
1 hour
Series on the brilliance of the British novel. Sebastian Faulks looks at how literary lovers, from Mr Darcy to Nick Guest, have taught us the truth about love. Show more
Martha Kearney is joined by guests including John Carey and Kate Mosse to discuss books by Alan Hollinghurst and Mervin Peake. Plus an interview with Philip Roth in Connecticut. Show more
45 minutes
First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3
Available for over a year
Professor John Carey, Dr Mandy Green and New Generation Thinkers Islam Issa and Joe Moshenska join presenter Philip Dodd to discuss Milton's poem Paradise Lost. Show more
