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Richard Watkins, French Horn virtuoso
Interview with Richard Watkins, one of the leading horn players of his generation

Judges announce World Service Poetry Competition Winners
Results of the World Service Poetry Competition, interviews with the winners and judges

Cinema City – Bombay
Bombay's position at the centre of India's film industry and how the city is portrayed

Putting Time into Art: interview with Bill Viola
American video artist Bill Viola talks about working with the dimension of time

'One breath away from death': growing up in Zimbabwe
Alexandra Fuller talks about her book, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

Cinema City – Los Angeles
How Los Angeles – home of Hollywood and dreams – is depicted in the movies

Cinema City – Paris
How Paris – birthplace of cinema a century ago – has itself appeared in films ever since

Cinema City – New York
How New York is represented in the movies of Woody Allen and earlier classics

Cinema City – London
How the darker side of London's history has been used in films about crime

A History of the N-word
A programme devoted to one word: nigger. Author Randall Kennedy on his history of the word