Cultural discussion programme. Andrew Marr discusses empire and the changing world order with Maya Jasanoff, Robert Colls, Ishion Hutchinson and Gideon Rachman. Show more

The story of Joseph Conrad. After the death of his father, the author yearns for the sailor's life. Read by Laurel Lefkow. Show more

Tina Brown recalls her time as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair magazine from 1983 to 1992. How did she first start out there? Show more

It is 1878, and Joseph Conrad arrives in teeming London, a metropolis of many types, which will become the inspiration for his novel The Secret Agent. Show more

Back from the Congo, sensitive to the tensions between 'civilisation' and 'savagery', Conrad enjoys publication of his first novel. Then life at sea comes to an end. Show more

Conrad's roving days are over. Married and living in Kent, rubbing shoulders with Henry James and Ford Madox Ford, he is now the quintessential man of letters. Show more

Joseph Conrad was born with Poland in turmoil, hardly existing. After the death of his father and support from an uncle, he yearns for the sailor's life. Marseilles duly beckons. Show more

Conrad meets Marguerite Poradowski. Then his novel Almayer's Folly starts to gather words, as he undertakes a journey through the Congo Free State to Leopoldville. Show more

Historian William Dalrymple travels to Hyderabad in India to explore the remarkable 18th-century love affair between a British diplomat and the Muslim princess he married. Show more