Meridian Episodes Available now

Ian McEwan on 'Atonement'
Novelist Ian McEwan on viewing events through the prism of childish misunderstanding

Woody Allen – New York will Survive 9/11
Woody Allen talks about the impact of 9/ll on New York, and also about his latest film

Composer John Adams – beyond Minimalism
Interview with John Adams, composer of the opera Nixon in China

Round-up of new Releases – a rip-roaring Beethoven Fifth Symphony
New releases include a "rip-roaring reading" of Beethoven's 5th Symphony

Comics – more than Superheroes
Superheroes are only half the story of comic books – there serious adult literature, too

The Devil's well-stocked Larder
Jim Crace talks about his book The Devil's Larder, a sequence of meditations around food

Beryl Bainbridge takes on Samuel Johnson
C L R JAMES, 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH. Presenter: Harriett Gilbert.

Film Sound – with Skip Lievsay and Alan Splet
At work with great sound designers and editors Skip Lievsay, Alan Splet and Ann Kroeber

Listening with Vermeer
Music in the time of Vermeer, plus an interview with American soprano Barbara Bonney

North meets South in the Youth Orchestra of Americas
The YOA is the latest venture for Venezuela's pioneering network of youth orchestras