Sex and Love in Literature and the Arts

Clive James and Peter Porter return, with the first of six programs on sex and love in literature and the arts...

Programme 1: The flowing seed
Date of show: Sat, April 19, 2003

Programme 2: The power of forbidden or rejected love
Date of show: Sat, April 26, 2003

Programme 3: The perils of pornography
Date of show: Sat, May 24, 2003

Programme 4: Insatiable love
Date of show: Sat, May 31, 2003
From Portnoy to Don Giovanni.

Programme 5: The novel's daring portrait of women's sexual desires
Date of show: Sat, June 28, 2003
Flaubert and Tolstoy broke the taboo, Dickens ducked it, D.H. Lawrence went overboard.

Programme 6: Telling the truth about love
Date of show: Sat, July 7, 2003