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Matthew Bannister on anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, philanthropist Drue Heinz, footballer Ray Wilkins, darts player Eric Bristow and TV writer Steven Bochco. Show more
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Matthew Bannister on TV pioneer Peter Dimmock. SOE agent Alix d'Unienville, designer Yolanda Sonnabend, ITN foreign editor Maggie Eales, car customiser George Barris. Show more
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Matthew Bannister on chef Antonio Carluccio, Afghan women's rights campaigner Sima Wali, poet Richard Wilbur, racehorse trainer Mary Reveley, TV composer Dudley Simpson. Show more
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Julian Worricker on gardener Beth Chatto, author Philip Roth, sumo expert Doreen Simmons, judge Khurshid Drabu, writer and publisher June Milne. Show more
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Julian Worricker on musician Oliver Knussen, anthropologist Barbara Harrell-Bond, media executive Sam Chisholm, artist Steve Ditko, Transylvanian aristocrat Anna Sandor de Kenos. Show more
30 minutes
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Arts news. John Wilson John takes a tour of a Viking exhibition, reviews World War One drama 37 Days, and discusses newly found recordings of Johnny Cash with his son. Show more
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Arts news. Kirsty Lang talks to the director of new British film Pride and meets novelist Rachel Cusk, whose new book is about a creative writing teacher in Athens. Show more
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Arts news with John Wilson, including Marlon James on his Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel and a look at Stephen Frears's Lance Armstrong film The Program. Show more
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Michael Carlson reviews Black Mass with Johnny Depp as mobster 'Whitey' Bulger. Pinter's The Homecoming 50 years on. Arts Council England's Peter Bazalgette on government funding. Show more
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Samira Ahmed presents the arts magazine programme. Patriots Day, playwright Stephen Karam, EU Baroque Orchestra leaves the UK, and making documentaries about Syria. Show more
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Arts news with John Wilson. Lionel Shriver reviews Interstellar, Nick Hornby talks about his new novel Funny Girl, John Harle on Adolphe Sax's sax, and Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes. Show more
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Arts news with Samira Ahmed, including pianist Leif Ove Andsnes on performing Beethoven's piano concertos at the Proms, a Mack & Mabel review and Kurdish poet Choman Hardi. Show more
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Sharlene Teo on her novel Ponti; poet Alice Oswald and artist William Tillyer collaborate on Nobody; is Coronation Street the most feminist soap on TV?; the Chelsea Hotel. Show more
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Andrew Miller on his new novel Now We Shall be Entirely Free, Muses in History (part of our Inspire season), behind the scenes at ITV's Vanity Fair, and Neil Simon remembered. Show more
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A review of Warren Beatty in Rules Don't Apply; Poet Inua Ellams discusses and performs from his collection #Afterhours; Born to Kill reviewed; the everlasting pull of pop. Show more
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Timothy Spall talks about The Caretaker, Catherine Tate's choice for Shakespeare's People, plus the TV series of Stephen King's 11.22.63, and Dutch flowers at the National Gallery. Show more
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Ralph Fiennes and director Rupert Goold on Richard III; Elvis & Nixon, starring Kevin Spacey; Marina Lewycka and Hassan Abdulrazzak on refugee fiction; Amjad Sabri remembered. Show more
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Arts news with Samira Ahmed, including AS Byatt on the enduring legacy of the Brontes' juvenilia, and Malian kora player Ballake Sissoko and French cellist Vincent Segal. Show more
