Cultural Exchange

Novelist Anne Tyler chooses a self portrait by the pioneering photographer Charles R Savage. Presented by Mark Lawson. The interview is accompanied by selected clips from the BBC archive: Brian May on TR Williams; Joanna Pitman on Eadweard Muybridge; Will Gompertz on a family photograph of The Queen, aged 2; Don McCullin on photographing war zones and Harry Benson on photographing the moment that Bobby Kennedy was shot. For full archive details go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/anne-tyler

The Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Rev Justin Welby chooses the War Requiem (Op.66) by Benjamin Britten, written for the 1962 consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, the original having been destroyed in the blitz of 1940. Presented by Mark Lawson The interview is followed by selected clips from the BBC archive: The first performance in 1962; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on the singing in the premiere; Ben Wishaw reads Wilfred Owen; Michael Berkeley on the music and legacy of the War Requiem; The Archbishop of Canterbury reads Owen; Paul Kildea on Britten's legacy; The bells of Coventry Cathedral. Full archive details are available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/archbishop-of-canterbury

Jodi Picoult, the American author whose books, including My Sister's Keeper have sold 14 million copies worldwide, chooses an American classic from 1936: Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize winning novel Gone with the Wind. Presented by John Wilson Includes selected clips from the BBC archive: The story of the publication of Gone with the Wind; memos from producer David O Selznick on the production and casting of the movie adaptation; Vivien Leigh and Sir Lawrence Olivier starring in Caesar and Cleoptra and Antony and Cleopatra and Leigh's biographer Hugo Vickers on the breakdown of her marriage. Full details of the archive can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/jodi-picoult

The TV producer and chair of the Arts Council England talks to John Wilson about Wyndham Lewis's portrait of Edith Sitwell. Includes selected BBC archive: AS Byatt on the difficulty of painting hands; Edith Sitwell on writing poetry; Edith Sitwell profiled on Woman's Hour and Dylan Thomas reading an extract from An Old Woman by Edith Sitwell. Full Archive details at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/peter-bazalgette

Howard Jacobson chooses the 1971 film Carnal Knowledge, directed by Mike Nichols. Plus related bbc archive interviews including Jack Nicholson on Carnal Knowledge; Francine Stock talking to Jack on The Film Programme and Mark Lawson talking to Art Garfunkel on Front Row. Full details at Front Row's Cultural Exchange website.

Germaine Greer chooses The Getting of Wisdom by the Australian novelist Henry Handel Richardson. Published in 1910 it's a story of friendship and betrayal set in a girls boarding school in Melbourne. Presented by Mark Lawson. The interview is followed by selected clips from the BBC archive: Carmen Callil on Henry Handel Richardson; Henry Handel Richardson reading her work in 1944; Germaine Greer, Thomas Kineally and David Williamson on Australia's Cultural Cringe and Germaine Greer on why feminists should not aim for equality with men. Full archive details are available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/germaine-greer

Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie chooses a portrait by the 20th Century Nigerian artist Ben Enwonwu, called Tutu. Plus additional archive including Ben Enwonwu talking to the BBC in 1958, poet Jackie Kay on African art, the artist Edosa Oguigo, and more from Chimamanda. Go to Front Row's Cultural Exchange website for more details and images.

Suggs chooses Sir John Betjeman's poem On a Portrait of a Deaf Man from the Album Banana Blush, set to music by Jim Parker. Plus clips from the bbc archive including Betjeman and Parker in the recording studio; a Radio 4 Quiz on Betjeman; the poet's daughter on his teddy Archie; and Betjeman's famous answer about regrets. Full details at Front Row's Cultural Exchange website.

Melvyn Bragg chooses Rembrandt's Self-Portrait (1658) for his Cultural Exchange. Plus additional archive including Neil McGregor on Rembrandt's complicated love life; a look at the mysterious Self-Portrait with Circles at Kenwood House, and artist Maggi Hambling on the Dutch master. Go to Front Row's Cultural Exchange website for more details and images.

Meera Syal talks to Mark Lawson about her favourite book, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Includes archive selections: The Reverend Thomas Lane Butts profiles Harper Lee's hometown, Moroeville, Alabama; Gregory Peck on playing Atticus Finch; Lee Child on the darker side of To Kill a Mockingbird; a reading from the book; Meera Syal on growing up as an outsider. Full archive details available at Front Row's Cultural Exchange website.

Bernardo Bertolucci talks to John Wilson about his favourite film, La Dolce Vita. Includes selected clips from the BBC archive: Daniel Day Lewis on playing an Italian director, Fellini defining neorealism in 1957, Anthony Minghella's thoughts on Fellini, Ken Russell's thoughts on Fellini, Michael Tolkin on the relevant subject matter of La Dolce Vita, Bernardo Bertolucci on Last Tango in Paris. Full archive details are available at Front Row's Cultural Exchange website.

95 year old literary editor and author Diana Athill selects the Letters of Lord Byron for Front Row's Cultural Exchange. Plus archive clips including Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen on Byron's fashion and a reading from the letters.

Actor Adrian Lester chooses Bob Marley’s Redemption Song for Front Row’s Cultural Exchange. Plus archive interviews with Bob Marley, his producer Chris Blackwell, and other friends and relations.

Author Mohsin Hamid talks to Mark Lawson about a seminal work in the history of science fiction, Olaf Stapledon's epic Star Maker (1937), a book loved by Winston Churchill, Arthur C Clarke, and Virginia Woolf. Moshin's interview is accompanied by selected clips from the archive;Chris Lintott and music critic Neil McCormick discuss Stapledon's first novel, A reading from Star Maker. Plus Brian Stableford on the theme of evolution in British science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke on why Olaf Stapledon is his biggest literary influence, H. G. Wells and Orson Welles on the infamous 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, Mohsin Hamid talks to James Naughtie about his bestselling novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Spanish ballerina Tamara Rojo is Artistic Director and Principal Dancer at English National Ballet. She talks to John Wilson about her favourite ballet The House of Bernarda by Mats Ek. The interview is accompanied by selected clips from the BBC archive: Sylvie Guillem on Mat Ek's Carmen; Deborah Bull and Fiona Shaw on Pina Bausch; Darcey Bussell on the physical strain of being a ballerina; Darcey Bussell on life at the Royal Ballet School; Deborah Bull on Mats Ek's Sleeping Beauty Full details of each clip is available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/tamara-rojo

To launch Cultural Exchange, artist Tracey Emin talks to Mark Lawson about Vermeer's painting Lady Writing a Letter, with her Maid. The interview is accompanied by selected highlights from the BBC Archive: Tracy Chevalier on Vermeer's The Lacemaker; Art critic Waldemar Janusczak on Vermeer's unconventional career; John Wilson reports on the world's biggest art theft; Tracey Emin visits her hometown Margate; Tracey Emin on the importance of drawing Full details of the archive clips are available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016p5mb/profiles/tracey-emin