Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.

Biography and in-depth look of Beckett and his work.

Paul Robeson was a celebrated African-American Actor, Athlete, Singer, Writer, and Civil Rights Activist. Robeson's many achievements are chronicled...

Ralph Ellison was an African-American writer and essayist, who's only novel Invisible Man (1953) gained a wide critical success. Ellison's ambitious...

Half blind and half deaf, ostraziced Cuban writer Rafael Alcides tries to finish his unpublished novels to discover that after several decades, the...

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the...

Revisit the events of 1984, when six female vigilantes kidnapped an Auckland University lecturer and assaulted him in a violent political action,...

Martine is a marriage counsellor at the Women's Centre in Montreuil. Between files and dance steps, she takes us on a tour of the centre, telling us...

The last day of Patrizia Cavalli’s home. Before it’s all gone.

The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose,...