Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte on his film Night of the Kings, Best Pick podcast, Tirtzah Bassel Canon in Drag
Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte on his film Night of the Kings, set in a notorious jail
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Debbie Harry on a new Blondie album, 'Reclaiming Amy', Reassessing Amy Winehouse's musical legacy
Debbie Harry on a new Blondie album.
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Quentin Tarantino, YA Fiction, Report from Cannes, The Vegetable Seller
Tarantino in his only UK broadcast interview for the novel 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'
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Anna Meredith on Bumps Per Minute, British Podcast Awards, Generational Differences in Publishing
Composer Anna Meredith on her piece inspired by the random movement of dodgems.
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Documentary Witches of the Orient, Antonia Fraser's verse and who should be writing book reviews?
Julien Faraut on his documentary on a TV hit, the 1964 Japanese women's volleyball team.
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Nowhere Special, Art and ecology with George Monbiot and Ruth Maclennan, "Mid-list" novelist Chris Paling
Full Monty producer Uberto Pasolini on directing new movie Nowhere Special.
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Marcus Rashford mural, Ian McMillan, gender split in publishing
The Marcus Rashford mural which was defaced is part of a community street art project.
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Llangollen bridge wrapped in patchwork for its Eisteddfod, Cannes Film Festival, Zaida Bergroth on film Tove
Llangollen bridge is wrapped in patchwork.
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Laura Mvula, Michael Spicer, Anthony Bolton
Laura Mvula's on her new album, Pink Noise
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Ola Ince on Romeo & Juliet, harassment and bullying in the acting profession, BFI's Ben Roberts
Romeo & Juliet director Ola Ince, and harassment and bullying in the acting profession
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Manchester International Festival
A look at this year’s Manchester International Festival.
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Paula Rego at Tate Britain, Black Widow, Cultural Recovery Fund a year on
A retrospective of the Portuguese-born artist Paula Rego opens at Tate Britain this week.
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Giles Terera, Chi-chi Nwanoku, The 2021 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Reviewing Another Round
Danish Oscar-winning film Another Round reviewed.
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Bobby Gillespie, Karla Black, Audience Anxiety
Bobby Gillespie on his new album of duets with Jehnny Beth.
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Mark-Anthony Turnage, V&A East, Patricia Lockwood
Mark-Anthony Turnage on setting Arsenal's 1989 title-winning match to music.
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Dickens readings, Smart Fund, Randall Goosby
Dickens reading his own works, Smart Fund, Randall Goosby's album Roots.
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Simon Russell Beale, French Exit, Lisa Taddeo
Simon Russell Beale on playing JS Bach on stage.
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Siân Owen on Under Milk Wood, Nick Broomfield, Essex stereotypes in culture
Siân Owen on adapting Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood for the National Theatre
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Marianela Núñez, Charlotte Perriand exhibition review, Latitude Festival
Royal Ballet Principal Ballerina Marianela Núñez on Sleeping Beauty at the ROH.
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The Overseas Student, Cherie Jones, India's Parliamentary District row
Tanika Gupta on her play about an 19 year old Gandhi studying law in the UK.
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Joan Armatrading, Erland Cooper, EU cultural quotas
Singer Joan Armatrading on her new album, and composer Erland Cooper.
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Lauryn Redding, Claire Barnett-Jones, Supernova film, Venice Biennale
Lauryn Redding on Bloody Elle, her musical reopening Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre.
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Ian McKellen on playing Hamlet
50 years after last playing Hamlet, Sir Ian McKellen returns to the role.
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Lisa Dwan on Beckett's Happy Days, the winner of the Walter Scott Prize
We announce the winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
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Colin Macleod, Jason Reynolds, Hanna Flint reviews 'Together'
Colin Macleod performs, Jason Reynolds, Hanna Flint reviews 'Together'
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Timothy Spall, Shaan Sahota, Universal Basic Income for artists
Actor Timothy Spall on his new painting exhibition, Out of the Storm.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gerda Stevenson, Implications of the Covid restrictions extension
Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on his new musical film, In the Heights
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Simon Armitage, After Life, The Disciple
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, and After Life on stage
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Noel Gallagher, Amanda Whittington, Mount Recyclemore
Noel Gallagher on Back the Way We Came, a hits album from a decade with High Flying Birds.
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Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Danny Elfman, Emily Davison statue
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé on her debut, Ace of Spades, which landed a million-dollar book deal