Brittany Howard, Boarding schools in fiction, Ed Thomas

Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard discusses her first solo album, Jaime.

• 28 mins

Derek Paravicini, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Booker Book Group with Lucy Ellmann

Derek Paravicini, the blind autistic savant pianist, performs on Front Row.

• 28 mins

Poetry and performance from Hull's Contains Strong Language festival

Poetry and performance from Hull's Contains Strong Language festival

• 28 mins

Helen Mirren, Joker, Rona Munro

Helen Mirren on playing Catherine the Great in a new TV miniseries.

• 28 mins

The BBC National Short Story Award ceremony

The winners are announced for the 2019 BBC NSSA and the Young Writers' Award.

• 28 mins

Rupert Goold on his film Judy, Kara Walker reviewed, Booker Book Group with Bernardine Evaristo

Director Rupert Goold on his Judy Garland biopic starring Renée Zellweger.

• 28 mins

Debbie Harry, the Portraits of Gauguin, the best political podcasts

Debbie Harry on her life and career and her new memoir, Face It

• 28 mins

Booker Book Group with Chigozie Obioma, RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Kurt Weill's The Silver Lake

Booker Prize nominee Chigozie Obioma on his novel An Orchestra of Minorities.

• 28 mins

The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Economics of Publishing, Ravel's Bolero

Director Joe Talbot and star Jimmie Fails on The Last Black Man in San Francisco.

• 28 mins

Extinction Rebellion, Staging Shakespeare, Timothee Chalamet in The King, Dancer/choreographer Dada Masilo

Extinction Rebellion, Staging Shakespeare, The King, Dada Masilo

• 28 mins

Salman Rushdie, playwright Katori Hall, computer games tax avoidance

Salman Rushdie answers listeners’ questions about his Booker shortlisted novel Quichotte.

• 28 mins

Nobel Prizes in Literature, Goldie's Drum'n'Bass picks, artist Es Devlin

More controversy for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Goldie on Drum'n'Bass, Es Devlin

• 28 mins

When Mary Beard met Margaret Atwood

Mary Beard meets the acclaimed Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood for Front Row Late

• 8 mins

Sienna Miller, Elif Shafak, Giri/Haji

Sienna Miller on American Woman, and Elif Shafak is the guest for the Front Row book group

• 28 mins

Margaret Atwood book group, LA artist Mark Bradford, Peanut Butter Falcon review

Booker shortlisted author Margaret Atwood, LA artist Mark Bradford, Peanut Butter Falcon.

• 28 mins

Aisling Bea, Booker Prize Double, Zawe Ashton

Aisling Bea on her new drama Living with Yourself. Plus Zawe Ashton on her new play.

• 28 mins

Víkingur Ólafsson, social housing on screen, Hannah Khalil

Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, playwright Hannah Khalil

• 28 mins

Gavin Hood, Moving to Mars, Salvator Mundi, Winsome Pinnock & Amit Sharma

Gavin Hood on his new film Official Secrets starring Keira Knightley.

• 28 mins

Scooby Doo at 50, Poetry in endangered languages, Composer Judith Weir

Scooby Doo is 50 and, Stig Abell discovers, of considerable cultural significance.

• 28 mins

David Attenborough's cameraman, Bridget Riley exhibition, Forward Poetry winner

David Attenborough's new wildlife series, Bridget Riley exhibition, Forward Poetry Winner

• 28 mins

Joy Labinjo, By The Grace of God reviewed, Alastair Sooke, actors doing other jobs

Artist Joy Labinjo on her paintings inspired by photos and Francois Ozon's film reviewed.

• 28 mins

Bruce Springsteen's Western Stars, Harold Bloom, Islamic folios, new 'Monuments Men'

Bruce Springsteen's new film Western Stars, and the legacy of the late Harold Bloom.

• 28 mins

24/10/2019

Jack Thorne's new drama The Accident, about the aftershocks of an industrial disaster.

• 28 mins

Harry Hill, Peter Brook, film podcasts

Harry Hill on his new comedy cabaret television programme

• 28 mins

David Baddiel, Apple TV+, Wellcome Collection's scary podcasts

David Baddiel, Apple TV+, Welcome Collection's eerie podcasts

• 28 mins

Introducing New Artists from Devon

Sarah Gosling presents a showcase from the Barbican Theatre in Plymouth

• 29 mins

Ian McKellen; theatre director Sarah Frankcom; Guilt reviewed

Ian McKellen on his film The Good Liar. He plays an elderly conman. It's akin to acting.

• 28 mins

Jack Thorne on His Dark Materials, Sorry We Missed You, Emily Howard

Jack Thorne on the task of adapting Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials for the BBC.

• 28 mins

Patti Smith, Tom Harper, Doctor Sleep reviewed

Patti Smith on Year of the Monkey, her memoir of a difficult year.

• 28 mins

Scott Z Burns, writer and director of The Report, poet Katrina Porteous and the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting winner

Scott Z Burns on his docudrama The Report, exploring corruption and subversion in the CIA

• 28 mins

The Irishman, Abomination opera, Murder In The Cathedral, The joy or blight of fireworks

Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Abomination opera, Murder In The Cathedral

• 28 mins

Alison Balsom, Fez, Robert MacFarlane

Alison Balsom talks about her new Baroque trumpet album Royal Fireworks.

• 28 mins

Emilia Clarke on Last Christmas, Theatre ceiling collapse, End of the F***ing World returns

Emilia Clarke on festive film Last Christmas, TV series End of the F***ing World reviewed

• 28 mins

Emilio Estevez, 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, David Attenborough's Gamelan music

Emilio Estevez on his new film The Public which he has written, directed and stars in

• 28 mins

War Of The Worlds re-imagined, Stephen Bourne- Playing Gay, Museum Funding

War Of The Worlds re-imagined, Stephen Bourne- Playing Gay, Museum Funding

• 28 mins

Lorna May Wadsworth, Marriage Story, My Mother Said I Never Should, I Feel Pretty

Lorna May Wadsworth, Marriage Story, My Mother Said I Never Should, I Feel Pretty

• 28 mins

Tobias Menzies plays Prince Philip; Six, a musical about the wives of Henry VIII; and Rapman

Tobias Menzies plays Prince Philip in The Crown; Six, a musical about Henry VIII's wives

• 28 mins

Floods and art, Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries, Tom Rosenthal

How floods have affected - and been in depicted in - art, and Tom Rosenthal performs

• 28 mins

Northern Ballet at 50, Art B&B, Iced Bodies

Northern Ballet at 50, Blackpool's Art B&B, Iced Bodies

• 27 mins

Dear Evan Hansen, Emmanuel Jal, How to Make a Living as a Writer

Hit musical Dear Evan Hansen's co-creator and Sudanese hip-hop star Emmanuel Jal performs

• 28 mins

Taylor Swift rights row, RJ Palacio, Nan Goldin and Judy Chicago reviewed, Le Mans '66 reviewed, Amazon's impact on publishing

Wonder writer RJ Palacio on her new graphic novel

• 28 mins

Frozen's Idina Menzel, Dora Maar, power in publishing

Idina Menzel on reprising her role as Elsa in Frozen II, and surrealist artist Dora Maar

• 28 mins

Harriet, Les Misérables and social realist films, risk in publishing, street art

Slave abolitionist Harriet Tubman's story makes it to the big screen, we review.

• 28 mins

Coldplay and Leonard Cohen albums, Norman Cornish, Roy Chubby Brown controversy

Stig discusses new albums from Coldplay and the late Leonard Cohen

• 28 mins

Rapper Wretch 32, Hamlet on the Faroe Islands, Blue Story controversy

Wretch 32's memoir Rapthology, and Hamlet on the Faroe Islands

• 28 mins

Costa Book Prize shortlist, Rian Johnson on Knives Out, art theft

We announce the 2019 Costa Book Prize shortlist and Rian Johnson on comedy Knives Out

• 28 mins

Tributes to Clive James and Sir Jonathan Miller

Clive James and Sir Jonathan Miller remembered.

• 28 mins

Atlantics, Scheherazade and 1001 Nights, Political parties' arts manifestos

Poets Ruth Padel and Daljit Nagra on Scheherazade, the storyteller in 1001 Nights

• 28 mins

The Boy in the Dress, Turner Prize Shortlisted Artists, The First Nowell

A review of new musical The Boy in the Dress based on David Walliams' book

• 28 mins

Edward Norton, Elizabeth is Missing, artist Luke Jerram

Edward Norton on Motherless Brooklyn, TV adaptation of Elizabeth is Missing reviewed

• 28 mins

Difficult comedy audiences, Netflix v cinema?, Honey Boy, Romesh Gunesekera

Difficult comedy audiences, Honey Boy, Romesh Gunesekera and Netflix v Cinema?

• 28 mins

Lesley Manville, Turner Prize, Bat for Lashes

Award-winning actress Lesley Manville talks about her latest film, Ordinary Love

• 28 mins

Front Row at BBC Music Introducing Live

Ferris & Sylvester perform at BBC Music Introducing Live

• 27 mins

Inua Ellams on Three Sisters, Noah Baumbach on Marriage Story, Art goes Bananas

Inua Ellams on transposing Chekhov's Three Sisters to 1960s Nigeria.

• 28 mins

Gender Imbalance in Art Collections, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, Three Sisters Rewired

Why women artists are hugely under presented in art collections and what to do about this.

• 28 mins

Teenage Dick, Traces review, Olga Neuwirth, Nobel Prize for Literature controversy

A darkly comic take on Richard III with Teenage Dick.

• 28 mins

Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing

Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing

• 28 mins

Francesca Hayward on Cats and Romeo and Juliet, Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir

Ballet star Francesca Hayward on Romeo and Juliet and the new film version of Cats

• 28 mins

Jonathan Pryce, Survival literature, Fictional politicians

Jonathan Pryce on playing one of The Two Popes, and survival fiction.

• 28 mins

Mark Gatiss, Kate Rusby, Creating New Traditions

Mark Gatiss on his TV offerings - Martin's Close for Christmas, and Dracula at New Year

• 28 mins

Taron Egerton, A Christmas Carol, Joe Stilgoe

Taron Egerton on playing Elton John in the musical film Rocketman.

• 30 mins

Saoirse Ronan, The Book People goes into administration, How to paint babies

Saoirse Ronan on playing Jo March in Little Women, indie publisher calamity, babies in art

• 28 mins

Robert De Niro on The Irishman, subverting the gaze, The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

Fairview director Nadia Latif and portraitist Lorna May Wadsworth on challenging the gaze

• 28 mins

JJ Abrams, musicals moving from stage to screen, Derek Owusu

JJ Abrams on directing The Rise of Skywalker - the last film in the 42-year Star Wars saga

• 28 mins

The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting, Reviving the high street with culture

The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting in Leeds, and reviving the high street with culture.

• 28 mins

Screenwriter Amanda Coe, Bad films we love, Diana Evans

Amanda Coe discusses her screenplay for TV drama The Trial of Christine Keeler

• 28 mins

Motown legends Brian and Eddie Holland

Legendary Motown songwriters Brian and Eddie Holland

• 28 mins

Candice Carty-Williams in conversation with Bernardine Evaristo

Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo discuss their dazzling literary year.

• 27 mins

Art and Churches

An exploration of the evolving role of art in churches and cathedrals

• 28 mins

A decade of TV, Ballet podcast Tom and Ty Talk, Long Day's Journey into Night reviewed, Neil Innes

Boyd Hilton and Eleanor Stanford on how television has changed in the last decade

• 28 mins

Cultural Quiz of 2019

We test our guests' knowledge of 2019 in the arts.

• 28 mins

Beethoven at 250

A celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven, marking the composer's 250th anniversary

• 28 mins

Jojo Rabbit reviewed, Alex Michaelides, protecting artworks from light damage

Taika Waititi directs and stars as Adolf Hitler in his Nazi satire Jojo Rabbit - we review

• 28 mins

Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey, Daisy Coulam, Bill Bryson

Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey on their new Guy Ritchie film The Gentlemen

• 28 mins

Sam Mendes on WWI movie 1917, Costa Book Awards 2019 winners

Sam Mendes on WWI movie 1917 and we announce the Costa Book Awards 2019 category winners

• 28 mins

BAFTAs so white, Adam Sandler, Costa First Novel winner Sara Collins, Fidelio reinvented

Adam Sandler talks about Uncut Gems and Sara Collins on her gothic novel

• 28 mins

Freddie Fox, Costa Children's Prize winner Jasbinder Bilan, theatre ticket pricing

Freddie Fox on Freddie Fox on playing Jeremy Bamber in ITV's drama White House Farm.

• 28 mins

Laurie Nunn on Sex Education, Mary Jean Chan, Podcast news

Sex Education creator Laurie Nunn, and Costa Poetry winner Mary Jean Chan

• 28 mins

Jonathan Coe, Johnny Flynn on Magnitsky the Musical, Selena Gomez album reviewed

Jonathan Coe, winner of the Costa Novel Award 2019, discusses Middle England

• 28 mins

2020 Oscar Nominations

John talks to Oscar nominees including Florence Pugh, Charlize Theron and Jonathan Pryce

• 28 mins

Michael B Jordan & Jamie Foxx, Spotlight directory, TS Eliot Prize winner Roger Robinson

Michael B Jordan & Jamie Foxx, Spotlight directory, TS Eliot Prize winner Roger Robinson

• 28 mins

Fire in Australian art and culture, writer Ben Richards and The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel

Three Australian writers on of artists' response to the country's relationship with fire

• 28 mins

Charlize Theron on Bombshell, The Outsider reviewed, Ayeesha Menon, Independent Venue Week

Charlize Theron on playing a Fox News presenter who outs her CEO for sexual harassment

• 28 mins

Playwright Lucy Kirkwood, Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life, Sam Lee and Bernard Butler

Chimerica playwright Lucy Kirkwood, and Terrence Malick's latest film A Hidden Life

• 28 mins

Dev Patel on David Copperfield, Front Row's Risk Season, bestselling author Kimberley Chambers

Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) on playing David Copperfield in Armando Iannucci's film

• 29 mins

Terry Gilliam, Samantha Strauss, Risk in art: Jeremy Deller, Picasso and Paper exhibition

Terry Gilliam, Samantha Strauss, Risk in art: Jeremy Deller, Picasso and Paper exhibition

• 28 mins

Terry Jones remembered by Michael Palin, Hugh Laurie on Avenue 5, Gabrielle Aplin

Remembering the life of former Python Terry Jones with Michael Palin

• 28 mins

Guz Khan, Calculating Risk, Northern Writing

Creator Guz Khan on the return of Man Like Mobeen, Calculating Risk, Northern Writing.

• 28 mins

Pet Shop Boys, Emotional risk taking in the arts, The Eye As Witness

The Pet Shop Boys talk about their new album Hotspot.

• 28 mins

Martin Scorsese

The legendary film director on masculinity, music and redemption in The Irishman.

• 37 mins

Scorsese - The Irishman, Risk Season continues, Naum Gabo exhibition

Martin Scorsese - The Irishman, Risk Season continues, Naum Gabo exhibition in St Ives.

• 28 mins

Patrick Stewart, Costa Book of the Year winner, Arts Council England's new 10-year strategy

Patrick Stewart on Star Trek: Picard, Costa Book Award winner, New Arts Council strategy

• 28 mins

Melina Matsoukas on Queen and Slim, Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy years reviewed, Faustus: That Damned Woman, Richard Armitage

Melina Matsoukas on her film about police violence starring Daniel Kaluuya.

• 28 mins

Robert Pattinson on The Lighthouse, Risk in Films, Greta Gerwig on Little Women

Robert Pattinson on his new film The Lighthouse, and Greta Gerwig on Little Women.

• 28 mins

Agnieszka Holland on Mr Jones, Risk Season - Failure, Timur Vermes

Director Agnieszka Holland on her film Mr Jones starring James Norton.

• 28 mins

Tom Hanks, artists and risk, Brexit dance piece Brink

Tom Hanks on A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, artists and risk, Brexit dance piece.

• 28 mins

Novelist - Eimear McBride, Film - Parasite, Playwright - Jasmine Lee-Jones and the Petworth Beauties get their legs back

Korean film Parasite, up for 3 Oscars, reviewed. Eimar McBride on her novel Strange Hotel.

• 28 mins

Front Row Risk List: The ten riskiest artworks of the 21st century

Which artist has taken the biggest risks since 2000? Our panel give their verdict

• 43 mins

Kirk Douglas remembered, American Dirt, Daniel Kehlmann

Kirk Douglas tribute, author Daniel Kehlmann, American Dirt controversy.

• 28 mins