Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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James Graham, Alexander McCall Smith, the art of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham
Sherwood creator James Graham on TV's problem with working class representation
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Fran Healy, affordable artists' studios, climate change storytelling
Fran Healy on Travis's new album, climate change storytelling, making spaces for artists
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Pat Barker, the films of Alain Delon, Proms played by memory, Orlando Weeks
Pat Barker, Alain Delon, Proms from memory, Orlando Weeks
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The Outrun, Gwyneth Paltrow dramas, Comedy Roundup, Rebels & Patriots
Kirsty Wark reviews highlights from the Edinburgh Festival.
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David Morrissey, Relaxed performances, Alien: Romulus
David Morrissey - Daddy Issues, relaxed performances, Alien: Romulus director Fede Álvarez
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Nish Kumar, Miriam Margolyes, Rose Matafeo, Teenage Fanclub
Kirsty Wark presents Front Row live from the Edinburgh Festival.
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Emily Tesh and the Hugo Awards; Dating shows; Kelly Jones
Emily Tesh on her Hugo Award winning book, Some Desperate Glory.
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Pericles, Babes, Michael Longley
Pericles, Babes and Michael Longley's poetry collection reviewed.
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Sky Peals film, documentary Doom Scroll, & could a book written 100 years ago be the ultimate millennial read?
Jazz age novel, Ex-Wife - have we rediscovered a classic?
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Joan Baez, Shakespeare in British Sign Language, Charlotte Mendelson
Joan Baez on her poems inspired by her multiple personality disorder.
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Kensuke Kingdom, best Young Adult Fiction reads, do film trailers reveal too much?
Animation Kinsuke's Kingdom, Young Adult fiction, movie trailers, Christopher Hall.
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Didi and Echoes by Evie Wyld reviewed; Benjamin Grosvenor performs Busoni
Reviews of the film Didi and book Echoes, and Benjamin Grosvenor plays live.
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Dramatizing MPs, Jon Savage on LGBTQ and music, Stirling Prize shortlist, Screenwriters v AI
Dramatizing MPs, Jon Savage on LGBTQ and music, Stirling Prize, Screenwriters v AI.
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Deadpool v Wolverine, Cherry Jones, Leyla McCalla
Cherry Jones on staging John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
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James Baldwin Centenary Special
Colm Toibin, Bonnie Greer and Mendez celebrate the life and work of writer James Baldwin.
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Review: theatre: Hello Dolly; TV: The Decameron; film: About Dry Grasses
Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the week's cultural highlights.
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Keanu Reeves & China Miéville, The Cultural Olympiad in Paris, Making in Blackburn
The actor and author on their new sci-fi book, and the Cultural Olympiad in Paris.
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Arts Sponsorship in Crisis?
Samira Ahmed looks at the perilous situation facing arts sponsorship in the UK.
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Fangirls musical, countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski, Sam West
Tom talks to the creators of the hit new musical Fangirls.
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Review: TV: Those About To Die, Film: Thelma, Theatre: ECHO
Review Show: Those About to Die TV series, the film Thelma and play Echo.
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Danny Dyer and Pete Bellotte on his hits for Donna Summer
The cultural impact of the Olympics in Paris 1924 and a look at new series Mr Bigstuff.
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Disco Prom, fast-food themed immersive art, arts funding crisis in Wales, Bill Viola remembered
Disco at the Proms, Sweet Dreams in Manchester, arts funding crisis in Wales, Bill Viola.
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Anne-Marie Duff, Al Murray, Melvyn Hayes, Billboard art
Anne-Marie Duff, World War 2 on Film, Melvyn Hayes, Billboard art.
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Review Show: Theatre: Slave Play, Film: Fly Me To The Moon, TV: Sunny
Film Fly me to the Moon, TV show Sunny and Slave Play are reviewed.
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Museum of the Year winner announced
Breaking as an Olympic sport, Museum of the Year winner, playwright Mark Ravenhill.
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Chariots of Fire staged, Pompidou Centre redeveloped, My Native Land republished
Chariots of Fire on stage, the Pompidou Centre redeveloped, and My Native Land republished
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Laurie Anderson's album Amelia, what's in the new Culture Secretary's in-tray?
Laurie Anderson on Amelia Earhart and Julie Hesmondhalgh on saving the Oldham Coliseum.
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Review: Starlight Express, Anita Desai's book Rosarita, film: The Nature of Love
Reviews of Starlight Express, Rosarita by Anita Desai and rom-com The Nature of Love.
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Poet Paul Muldoon, film Unicorns and writer Stefan Zweig.
Unicorns film directors Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd.
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The Bear, Moonchild Sanelly, Dundee Contemporary Gallery
Ebon Moss-Bacharach on The Bear, Moonchild Sanelly performs live, new Children's Laureate.