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Live debates

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  A conversation with Gore Vidal

  Filmed: 20 May 2008

  1 hr 17 mins

Talks

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  Doris Lessing wins the Nobel prize for literature

  Filmed: 11 Oct 2007

  2 min 2 sec

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  Vladimir Nabokov on Lolita

  Filmed: 1950

  11 min 32 sec

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  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her literary influences

  Filmed: 2009

  4 min 55 sec

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  Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A World Split Apart

  Filmed: 08 Jun 1978

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  Down Cemetery Road with Philip Larkin and John Betjeman

  Filmed: 1964

  29 min 54 sec

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  Primo Levi revisits Auschwitz (excerpt)

  Filmed: 1983

  7 min 7 sec

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  Virginia Woolf on words

  Filmed: 29 Apr 1937

  7 min 38 sec

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  TS Eliot reads selected works

  Filmed:

  11 min

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  Jorge Luis Borges on the riddle of poetry

  Filmed: 1968

  42 min 11 sec

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  James Baldwin Interview

  Filmed:

  20 min 3 sec

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  Sylvia Plath Interview and poetry recital

  Filmed: 1962

  5 min 59 sec

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  Maya Angelou on poetry and Barack Obama

  Filmed:

  8 min 22 sec

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  Truman Capote 1966 CBC Interview

  Filmed: 1966

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  Jack Kerouac 1959 CBC Interview

  Filmed: 1959

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  Arthur Miller 1960 Interview

  Filmed: 1960

  2 min 33 sec

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  Hunter S Thompson 1977 CBC interview

  Filmed: 1977

  2 min 2 sec

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  Charles Bukowski reading Bluebird and The genius of the Crowd

  Filmed:

  2 min 52 sec

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  Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

  Filmed: 1954

  2 min 30 sec

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  Robert Frost Lecture

  Filmed: 1963

  2 min 1 sec

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  Ezra Pound reading 'With Usura'

  Filmed:

  3 min 8 sec

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  William Carlos Williams reads 'The Young Housewife' and other poems

  Filmed:

  35 sec

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  Azar Nafisi on the the role of women in Islam

  Filmed: May 2009

  29 min 32 sec

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  Hanan al-Shaykh on The Locust and the Bird

  Filmed: 18 Jan 2010

  16 min 50 sec

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  Pursuing justice

  Filmed: 01 Feb 2009

  1 hr 4 min

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  Francis Wheen's 'Strange Days Indeed'

  Filmed: Dec 2009

  7 min 7 sec

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  Dan Snow on Death or victory

  Filmed: Dec 2009

  2 min 29 sec

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  Max Hastings on Finest Years

  Filmed: Dec 2009

  2 min 30 sec

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  David Starkey and Hilary Mantel on Henry VIII

  Filmed: Dec 2009

  17 min 22 sec

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  Nadeem Aslam on Afghanistan, Islam, and the Qur'an

  Filmed: Jan 2009

  50 min 33 sec

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  Simon Schama on Obama and the American future

  Filmed: Jan 2009

  1 hr 1 min

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  Pico Iyer on travel writing, globalisation, and the Dalai Lama

  Filmed: Jan 2009

  1 hr 1 min

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  AIDS Sutra - Authors discuss the AIDS epidemic in India

  Filmed: Jan 2009

  57 min 35 sec

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  Fame and Fortune with Frederic Raphael

  Filmed: 01 Feb 2009

  1 hr 29 min

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  Martin Amis in conversation with Christopher Hitchens

  Filmed: 01 Feb 2007

  1 hr 19 min

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  Friendly Fire: a discussion with Abraham B. Yehoshua

  Filmed: 01 Mar 2009

  1 hr 26 min

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  Justin Cartwright on family and future

  Filmed: 08 Oct 2009

  4 mins 57 secs

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  William Boyd on writing Ordinary Thunderstorms Part II

  Filmed: 24 Aug 2009

  7 mins 9 secs

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  William Boyd on writing Ordinary Thunderstorms Part I

  Filmed: 24 Aug 2009

  9 mins 48 secs

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  Colm Tóibín on the Net Book Agreement and being an author

  Filmed: Apr 2009

  7 min 42 sec

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  Raja Shehadeh on New York, Zionism, and resistance

  Filmed: May 2009

  14 min 57 sec

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  Salman Rushdie on freedom of speech, and Obama

  Filmed: May 2009

  8 min 23 sec

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  Michael Ondaatje on freedom of speech, his career and Sri Lanka

  Filmed: May 2009

  7 min 3 sec

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  Defining Diaspora

  Filmed: Jan 2009

  54 min 59 sec

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  Philip Gourevitch on the Paris Review

  Filmed: 08 Dec 2007

  18 min 07 sec

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  Salman Rushdie on India

  Filmed: 24 Aug 2008

  4 min 15 sec

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  Ian McEwan interviewed by Ian Rankin

  Filmed: 24 Aug 2007

  20 min 14 sec

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  Geoff Dyer on writing and commercial success

  Filmed: May 2009

  6 min 14 sec

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  Alaa Al Aswany on authorship and Egyptian culture

  Filmed: May 2009

  8 min 2 sec