Best selling author Jodi Picoult on her latest book and Brendan O'Carroll discusses his hit creation, TV show, Mrs Brown's Boys. Mark Lawson takes a tour of the newly opened 'The Harry Potter Experience' and talks to conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner. John Wilson meets singer and songwriter Dr John and talks to the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki about his work with Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood

Imelda Staunton & Michael Ball talk about starring in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeny Todd; Neil Cross on creating the character Luther and Russell Banks on his more controversial creation in The Lost Memory of Skin. Singer Esperanza Spalding and John Wilson asks are looks increasingly important in the music biz?

The new Jerwood Gallery in Hastings; author Tobias Jones; Joan Miró's grandsons on his sculptures; Ken Russell's The Devils on DVD; Irving Berlin's three daughters; tenor Noah Stewart; Kirsty Lang reports on art for healthcare in New York.

Oscar-winning film-maker Andrew Stanton; Andrew Carwood on performing music by the Elizabethan composer William Byrd; Therapy in fiction, film and TV drama; director Michael Winterbottom; Andrew Lloyd Webber on Love Never Dies; Gilbert and George.

Playwright Errol John re-assessed; comedian Sarah Millican; Caitlin Moran and Antonia Fraser on recording audio versions of their books; author Shalom Auslander; screenwriter Paula Milne on new TV show White Heat; Naomi Alderman focuses on video games.

Including interviews with actress Olivia Colman and writers Peter Ackroyd, Sue Townsend and Charlotte Keatley. Also John Wilson explores why so many of this year's BRIT nominees take literature as their inspiration and we examine why there is no UK e-book chart.

Daniel Radcliffe on life after Harry Potter; AS Byatt on Picasso; tenor Vittorio Grigolo; Paul McCartney; Mad Men's Jon Hamm and new director at the Donmar Warehouse Josie Rourke.

Stephen Daldry discusses his latest film, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close; Beth & Emma Kilcoyne on writing the second series of Roger & Val Have Just Got In. Syrian poet Adonis talks about his work and theatre producers Howard Panter & Rosemary Squire discuss how they run 36 venues in the UK. We celebrate the centenary of the neglected composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and John Wilson talks to singer Don McLean about American Pie and to Julie Totman who trains dogs to become Hollywood stars

Anne Rice on her new werewolf novel; why Heygate and Aylesbury estates have banned film-makers; the enduring appeal of The Singing Detective; Australian author Kate Grenville; Ashley Walters on acting after prison; mezzo-soprano Alice Coote.

Kenneth Branagh dicusses his Oscar nomination and Edmund White talks about his new book. Novelist Andrew Miller on winning the 2011 Costa Book Prize and poet Paul Farley reviews a film on rhyming couplets. Film maker Norma Percy discusses the story of Vladimir Putin’s secretive Russia. And a review of the exhibition Hajj: A Journey to Islam.