Oscar-nominated film The Big Short - a comedy about the financial crisis
Julian Barnes' new novel The Noise of Time tells the story of Russian composer Shostakovich, coping as a creative artistic genius under the yoke of the Stalin's Soviet system
Champagne Life - the Saatchi Gallery's exhibition of women artists.
New play 4000 Days at The Park Theatre is about a man who emerges from a coma and discovers he can't remember anything from the past decade.
Ray Winstone plays the author HG Wells in a new TV series"The Nightmare World of HG Wells

AS Byatt, (who has just won the Erasmus Prize) and comedian Russell Kane join Tom Sutcliffe and David Benedict. The producer is Oliver Jones.