Artsnight

Novelist Meg Rosoff explores the relationship between art and the unconscious mind.

Lynn Barber meets up with the self-ordained king of punk John Lydon.

Is fiction the best way to access the truth?

Rarely seen interviews in which writer Carla Lane discusses her life and work.

Ryan Gander believes that there is too much of a "fear factor" surrounding the idea of art. Ryan suggests that everyday life can be a deeply creative act. In this episode, he explores an artistic colony, encounters a couple who have made a house into an aesthetic.

Punk rock celebrate its 40th anniversary this year with series of events across some of the most affluential and major cultural institutions in Britain. Thurston Moore, a former guitarist with Sonic Youth had a passionate interest in British punk. Moore explores how the music medium has changed his life. He meets with Pete Shelley, Chrissie Hynde, Julien Temple and one of his all-time favourite bands, X-Ray Spex.

Henry Marsh a neurosurgeon meets Karl Ove Knausgaard one of the most important authors writing today.

Lynn Barber meets two American comedians who have found success in the UK, Rob Delaney and Ruby Wax.Both performers have been open about the demons in their personallives. Rob talks to Lynn about his battle with alcoholism and clinical depression, while Ruby discusses the role mindfulness has played in her own mental health, her shows and now in her campaigns.

Chris Dercon, director of Tate Modern, takes the helm of Artsnight for the fourth episode of the series. Chris asks why Berlin is the creative capital of Europe; the city is a magnet for artists and musicians, with an expanding array of galleries, museums and public arts intuitions. He talks to iconoclast Ai Weiwei, who has recently opened a studio in the city despite being unable to leave China. He explores the intriguing world of drone art and the pioneering work of the late Berlin-based artist Harun Farocki. He also commissions a new film about Nick Cave's formative years in West Berlin, when the city was burgeoning with creative talent prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Writer, director and satirist Armando Ianucci takes the reins of Artsnight for the third episode of the series. Armando looks afresh at high culture - poetry, classical music and fine art - to ask why some people feel excluded from it, and why these arts matter. He talks to acclaimed poet Kate Tempest about her life and work, visits an exhibition of Goya's drawings, meets Apollo Music Projects, who are transforming children's lives with classical music, and invites stand-up comedian Josie Long to reflect on the cultural life of the nation in an age of austerity.

Sunday Times journalist Lynn Barber takes over editorial control to 'curate' the second episode. Lynn wants to look at some of the most exciting developments in popular culture in 2015. She chats to Mark Ronson, the most intriguing pop star of the modern age, as well as looking at the boom of ingenious, inventive magazines bought by and made for young people. She sticks up for that supposed 'Mickey Mouse degree' - media studies - while former media studies student Jon Ronson explores the theme of shame in the internet age.

Acclaimed actor Maxine Peake takes over editorial control, 'curating' the opening episode. Celebrating voices marginalised by mainstream culture, Maxine talks to the most controversial band in Britain, Sleaford Mods. She discusses the role of women and television with an all-female panel, including W1A's Jessica Hynes, and she explores the life and legacy of Salford's Shelagh Delaney, the writer who helped inspire Coronation Street and the Smiths.