Margaret Keane and the Big Eyes art fraud; Film composer Ennio Morricone; Crime writer James Ellroy; South Korean violinist Kyung Wha Chung; Japan's village of dolls. Show more
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Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst, Comedy to stop radicalisation, Singer-songwriter Ayo, Indian actress Shabana Azmi, Emergency poet, Blind sculptor who says forbidden NOT to touch Show more
Saad Haroon, 2nd funniest man in the world; German novel "The Tower"; Indian rapper helps kids; "Humans Of New York" photos; Actor Haluk Bilginer; Global appeal of Dr Who Show more
Norma Miller was with Whitey's Lindy Hoppers in the 1930s and 40s in films like Hellzapoppin and is still trying to fill the floor; Winston Ruddle runs a circus school in Tanzania Show more
Poppy Shakespeare writer; Conceptual artist Koen Vanmechelen; Nigerian political music; Algerian singer Souad Massi; Singing nun Cristina Scuccia; Shirley Bassey. Show more
Trevor Noah, the Soweto comic making it big in the USA; Oliver Truc's reindeer police thriller in Norway; Zoia Skoropadenko using frozen octopus to make statues of the human torso Show more
Barry Manilow duets with the dead, Iranian writer Farnoosh Moshiri, 'Ca tru' storytelling, Artist Chuck Close, Cuban songs, Scottish singer Annie Lennox. Show more
Creator of the "Wimpy Kid"; pomegranates in art and poetry; dyslexic Indian dancer; artist who choreographed the Beijing Olympics; Rwandan music; Syrian painter in exile. Show more
Matthew Bannister presents some of the most fascinating interviews with performers from this year's programmes, including Albert Mazibuko of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Show more
Sophia Loren on Carlo Ponti, the enduring power of George Orwell's 1984, John Waters hitches across US, First Nation art, Photos to reframe Nigeria and Birdsong. Show more
Mark Landis, the art forger who fooled America, Oscar winner Julianne Moore and opera singer Artyom Yaroshevich from Donetsk, on why he continues to perform through the conflict. Show more
Adam Pearson, a British actor whose face is distorted by tumours, on acting naked with Scarlett Johansson; Brazilian rap star Criolo; Nahed Najjar on Arabic music. Show more
Amy Jackson - from Liverpool to Bollywood; Burning Monuments to the Dead in the Nevada Desert; Pertti Kurikka's Nameday - Finland's learning disabled punks Show more