Charles Chesshire
The garden designer explains the influence of Shinto, Chinese art and Zen Buddhism on the development of this distinctive garden style.
David Hart, Gavin Selerie, Glenn Storhaug
A multi-media session with film, poetry readings and conversation, celebrating the design and art of the exquisitely produced Five Seasons Press publications.
Leslie Phillips, John Walsh
The life and times of the much-loved and outrageous character actor.
Simon Schama
‘The power of the greatest art is the power to shake us into revelation, and rip us from our default mode of seeing … We don’t look at a face, a colour, a sky, a body in the same way again.’
Michael Nyman, Francine Stock
The prodigious composer discusses his international cinema work and collaborations with Peter Greenaway and Michael Winterbottom.
Peter Carey talks to John Walsh
The double Booker Prizewinner (True History of the Kelly Gang, Oscar and Lucinda) discusses his lewdly funny new art world novel with the Independent writer.
Maureen Lipman
The actress, writer, widow of the perrless Jack Rosenthal, and national treasure.
Sheila Hancock and Joan Bakewell
The actress and RSC Artistic Director discusses her portrait of her own marriage The Two of Us: My Life With John Thaw.
Howard Hodgkin, Simon Schama
To celebrate his forthcoming retrospective at Tate Britain, and to mark the publication of the catalogue raisonnés of his paintings and prints, the artist talks to Simon Schama.
Simon Callow
The actor introduces the 2nd volume of his biography taking the American wunderkind through the career-disaster years from Citizen Kane to Macbeth.