Meridian Episodes Available now

Porgy and Bess: the world tour
The story of the 1950s international tour of George Gershwin鈥檚 opera

Commonwealth Writers' Prize
The announcement of the winners in the Eurasian region

Adapting books for the screen
From Adaptation to Gone to the Wind, the relationship between Hollywood and novels

Linton Kwesi Johnson
An interview with the Jamaican reggae dub poet

Fred D'Aguiar
An interview with the British-Guyanese poet, playwright and novelist

Bernardine Evaristo
The British novelist talks about Toni Morrison鈥檚 novel The Bluest Eye

Americanization: Part 3
How American popular music helped to spread the USA鈥檚 cultural revolution

成人快手 World Service Short Story Competition
The judges announce the winning writers from Zambia, Italy and Belgium

Americanization: Part 4
How France embraces and resists American culture

Ghandi鈥檚 The Story of my Experiments with Truth
The Indian writer and publisher Urvashi Butalia talks about Mahatma Ghandi鈥檚 autobiography