Isabel Allende talks about her first foray into memoir since she wrote about the death of her daughter, Paula. Richard Reynolds, dedicated guerrilla gardener, talks about the pleasures and politics of the art, and Philip Dodd explores the future of the book in our culture.

Wim Wenders, the German filmmaker talks about leaving Los Angeles (for Europe), and the special relationship for him between movies, the road and rock and roll. Distinguished US historian Eric Foner, talks about the changing political landscape there, and as the new Rose theatre opens in Kingston we bring together theatre director Tom Morris and theatre architect Rab Bennetts to discuss what makes good theatre design.

Fred Halliday, a professor in international relations who was heavily involved in negotiating the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan joins film reviewer Nigel Floyd to explain what he sees as the fundamental flaw in new Hollywood blockbuster Charlie Wilson's War. George Steiner, the critic and intellectual, explains how he has grappled his life long with the clash between high culture and political ideals and Alan Bleasdale, writer of Boys from the Blackstuff, one of TV's most successful programmes ever, joins Paul Allen and guests to talk about what inspired the drama and how times have changed in TV.

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