Pet Shop Boys new album, Zendaya's film Challengers, Expressionists at Tate Modern.
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2024.
The Legend of Ned Ludd, Women's Fiction Prize shortlist, Degas and Monet at The Walker.
Published on Wednesday, 24th April 2024.
Women and Shakespeare, best beach reads, black British music exhibition
Published on Tuesday, 23rd April 2024.
Taylor Swift's new album reviewed, designer Sir Kenneth Grange, the Venice Biennale
Published on Monday, 22nd April 2024.
Salman Rushdie's Knife, London Tide and Baby Reindeer reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2024.
Lionel Shriver on her new book, Mania, and Red Pitch playwright Tyrell Williams.
Published on Wednesday, 17th April 2024.
Sir John Akomfrah at Venice Art Biennale, 200 years since Byron's death, sped-up music.
Published on Tuesday, 16th April 2024.
Jeymes Samuel's Biblical comedy, Sonali Bhattacharyya play, Northern Ireland filming boom.
Published on Monday, 15th April 2024.
Ranjit Singh at the Wallace collection and the BAFTA games awards
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2024.
Movie icon Anna May Wong, folk musician Martin Simpson and funding classical music
Published on Wednesday, 10th April 2024.
Nathan Hill on his novel Wellness. Plus singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers.
Published on Tuesday, 9th April 2024.
Yinka Shonibare, Sean Shibe, cinema and digital decay
Published on Monday, 8th April 2024.
Beyonce’s new album Cowboy Carter, Netflix drama Ripley, Io Capitano movie reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2024.
ABBA's Waterloo at 50, Harewood House on colour, tracking the rise of eco fiction.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd April 2024.
Dev Patel's directing debut Monkey Man. Are teenagers reading the right books at school?
Published on Tuesday, 2nd April 2024.
Samira Ahmed explores the National Gallery which celebrates its bicentenary on May 10.
Published on Monday, 1st April 2024.
Drama This Town, designer Enzo Mari exhibition and Perth Museum.
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2024.
Camilla Whitehill on her new sitcom Big Mood.
Published on Wednesday, 27th March 2024.
Norah Jones performs, Sir Ian McKellen on Player Kings.
Published on Tuesday, 26th March 2024.
Poet Nikki Giovanni and Andrew Buchan on TV drama Passenger.
Published on Monday, 25th March 2024.
Kristen Wiig drama Palm Royale and animation Robot Dreams reviewed, plus Michael Ondaatje.
Published on Thursday, 21st March 2024.
Kazuo Ishiguro on jazz, March hares and film ratings.
Published on Wednesday, 20th March 2024.
Iranian cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, AI and conspiracy theories, Harlow Sculpture Trail.
Published on Tuesday, 19th March 2024.
Architect Daniel Libeskind, composer Karl Jenkins
Published on Monday, 18th March 2024.
The Labour leader's new arts strategy, plus the Japanese film and Biblical book reviewed
Published on Thursday, 14th March 2024.
Paul Theroux on Orwell, Patsy Rodenburg on theatre acting, Sam Lee performs live
Published on Wednesday, 13th March 2024.
Philippa Gregory on Richard III, Showtown, has the superhero franchise bubble burst?
Published on Tuesday, 12th March 2024.
Beth Ditto of Gossip, Ethan Coen on Drive-Away Dolls.
Published on Monday, 11th March 2024.
The country singer sings live and the National Theatre play and football doc reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2024.
Ava DuVernay on Origin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julianne Moore.
Published on Wednesday, 6th March 2024.
Kate Rusby, Edward Bond remembered, Eve Steele, and the decline of female filmmakers.
Published on Tuesday, 5th March 2024.
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Published on Monday, 4th March 2024.
Dune 2, Brian Bilston, Angelica Kauffman RA, Nachtland
Published on Thursday, 29th February 2024.
Published on Wednesday, 28th February 2024.
How can juries be swayed?; Bluestockings, first women's movement; Bhangra Nation musical.
Published on Tuesday, 27th February 2024.
Rufus Wainwright joins Sheridan Smith, and the role of movement directors in film and tv
Published on Monday, 26th February 2024.
Minority Report on stage, Wicked Little Letters starring Olivia Coleman reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 22nd February 2024.
Wim Wenders on his new film, Perfect Days.
Published on Wednesday, 21st February 2024.
Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Sarsgaard, casting directors.
Published on Tuesday, 20th February 2024.
Sir Peter Blake on sculpture, new RADA president - David Harewood, playwright John Logan
Published on Monday, 19th February 2024.
Jed Mercurio on Breathtaking, Yoko Ono show, Arts Council guide on controversial content.
Published on Thursday, 15th February 2024.
Ukraine drama A Small Stubborn Town, Emma Rice, The Hugo Awards.
Published on Wednesday, 14th February 2024.
Stephen Sanchez, Godzilla turns 70, Gen Z's TV habits
Published on Tuesday, 13th February 2024.
Reinaldo Marcus Green on One Love, Bryce Dessner of The National.
Published on Monday, 12th February 2024.
Netflix's version of' One Day, Oscar-nominated American Fiction, Beyond Form exhibition.
Published on Thursday, 8th February 2024.
The Chosen, Cymande, Tayari Jones
Published on Wednesday, 7th February 2024.
The Reytons, Phoebe Eclair-Powell on her Bruntwood Prize-winning play, Andrew McMillan.
Published on Tuesday, 6th February 2024.
The directors of Occupied City, the playwright of The Hills of California and live music.
Published on Monday, 5th February 2024.
Legion: Life in the Roman Army at the British Museum reviewed
Published on Thursday, 1st February 2024.
The actress on working with Martin Scorsese, and the new book Hard by a Great Forest.
Published on Wednesday, 31st January 2024.
Jonny Greenwood of The Smile, Self Esteem, Artes Mundi Prize winner.
Published on Tuesday, 30th January 2024.
Sarah Jessica Parker & Matthew Broderick on playing three couples on stage in Plaza Suite.
Published on Monday, 29th January 2024.
The Color Purple reviewed, and the pop concert as cinema phenomenon.
Published on Thursday, 25th January 2024.
John Orloff, literary spin-offs and hobbies and DIY art.
Published on Wednesday, 24th January 2024.
Oscar nominations, Howard Jacobson, culture funding cuts.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd January 2024.
Andrew Haigh on All Of Us Strangers with Andrew Scott, Expats starring Nicole Kidman.
Published on Monday, 22nd January 2024.
Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne on The Holdovers plus The Artful Dodger reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2024.
Daniel Kaluuya on his new film, Kitchen; the arts in Wales; Jane Jin Kaisen.
Published on Wednesday, 17th January 2024.
Poor Things, Jodie Comer, RSC new productions, TS Eliot poetry prize.
Published on Tuesday, 16th January 2024.
Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer, radio drama, bluegrass.
Published on Monday, 15th January 2024.
Mean Girls and Hisham Matar’s My Friends reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2024.
Jack Rooke on TV sitcom Big Boys, Eliza Carthy goes wassailing.
Published on Wednesday, 10th January 2024.
Kim’s Convenience on stage, British Library cyberattack, setting films in the present
Published on Tuesday, 9th January 2024.
Golden Globe winner Poor Things reviewed, new Warhammer 40,000 deal, Agri Ismaïl on Hyper
Published on Monday, 8th January 2024.
Priscilla and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Kagami reviewed, silence in music.
Published on Thursday, 4th January 2024.
Dan Levy, National Poetry Library at 70, Clarke Peters.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd January 2024.
George Clooney, Callum Turner, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Scala!!!
Published on Tuesday, 2nd January 2024.
Ghosts, Macbeth, Next Goal Wins, Welsh theatre funding
Published on Thursday, 21st December 2023.
The Unthanks, Lucinda Coxon, the North East Cultural Partnership.
Published on Wednesday, 20th December 2023.
Adam Driver in Ferrari, Radio Drama with Bill Nighy and AL Kennedy, the Process of Poetry
Published on Tuesday, 19th December 2023.
Helena Bonham Carter and Russell T Davies on Nolly, about Crossroads star Noele Gordon.
Published on Monday, 18th December 2023.
Front Row reviews Cold War the musical and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.
Published on Thursday, 14th December 2023.
Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan on Maestro, Noel Coward's Songs, Wien Museum reopens.
Published on Wednesday, 13th December 2023.
Margaret Cavendish, Margreth Olin, Christmas TV
Published on Tuesday, 12th December 2023.
Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland on Ulster American, panto and gender roles, graphic novels.
Front Row pays tribute to the poet Benjamin Zephaniah.
Published on Thursday, 7th December 2023.
Paul King on directing Wonka, Best non-fiction books of 2023, Pop Art artist Pauline Boty.
Published on Wednesday, 6th December 2023.
Shane Meadows on the British film industry, Children’s books round-up, the Turner Prize
Published on Tuesday, 5th December 2023.
Julia Roberts on Leave the World Behind, guitarist MILOŠ, Hugh Welchman on The Peasants.
Published on Monday, 4th December 2023.
Front Row reviews Eileen and The House of Bernarda Alba
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2023.
Sir Richard Mantle on Opera North, Billie Marten performs live, Yinka Shonibare in Leeds.
Published on Wednesday, 29th November 2023.
AI and publishing, terrible record covers, Fred D'Aguiar.
Published on Tuesday, 28th November 2023.
Maria Callas at 100 reassessed, Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane, Rory Pilgrim.
Published on Monday, 27th November 2023.
A special edition of Front Row, live from the Booker Prize for Fiction.
Published on Sunday, 26th November 2023.
Bernstein film Maestro, reality TV Squid Game, proposed Brutalist architecture museum.
Published on Thursday, 23rd November 2023.
Joanna Hogg, map making, Ghislaine Leung.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd November 2023.
Published on Tuesday, 21st November 2023.
The Alehouse Boys rework Schubert, Booker shortlisted author Sarah Bernstein, and AS Byatt
Published on Monday, 20th November 2023.
We review a new book on Amazing Grace and the film Rustin.
Published on Thursday, 16th November 2023.
The Barber of Seville in Yorkshire dialect; Turner Prize nominee Jesse Darling.
Published on Wednesday, 15th November 2023.
Emerald Fennell, Lucy Frazer and Paul Harding.
Published on Tuesday, 14th November 2023.
Todd Haynes, Trevor Horn, new galleries at the Imperial War Museum.
Published on Monday, 13th November 2023.
Anatomy of a Fall, Pete McKee on Frank & Joy, Wu-Tang Clan 30th anniversary.
Published on Thursday, 9th November 2023.
Front Row reviews 1623 to mark the anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio.
Published on Wednesday, 8th November 2023.
Billy Bragg, Booker Paul Murray, feminist art of the 1970s and 1980s.
Published on Tuesday, 7th November 2023.
We take a detailed look at a new Arts Access Scheme.
Published on Monday, 6th November 2023.
Kenneth Branagh in King Lear, Andrew Motion on Elegies, new Beatles song.
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2023.
Henry Winkler, Northern Ballet, David Fennessey
Published on Wednesday, 1st November 2023.
Duran Duran, Dobrivoje Beljkasic at 100 and Sandra Newman on retelling Orwell’s 1984.
Published on Tuesday, 31st October 2023.
Backstairs Billy, Jonathan Escoffery, and National Theatre Wales.
Published on Monday, 30th October 2023.
Rhianna Dhillon and John Mullan review David Fincher's The Killer and a Fantasy exhibition
Published on Thursday, 26th October 2023.
A history of 2-Tone, Booker-shortlisted author Chetna Maroo, new play Lyonesse.
Published on Wednesday, 25th October 2023.
Sir Patrick Stewart, cellist Steven Isserlis, and the art of skateboard design.
Published on Tuesday, 24th October 2023.
Aviva Studios, The Chemical Brothers, The National Theatre, Danny Boyle's Free Your Mind.
Published on Monday, 23rd October 2023.
The Rolling Stones new album and film Foe reviewed; TV food consultant; Doctors axed.
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2023.
Musical theatre legend Bonnie Langford performs Sondheim, in tribute to the late composer.
Published on Wednesday, 18th October 2023.
Front Row from Belfast with writer Paul Lynch and folk singer Cara Dillon.
Published on Tuesday, 17th October 2023.
Martin Scorsese, John le Carré’s legacy, Madonna on Tour.
Published on Monday, 16th October 2023.
Front Row reviews the return of Frasier and performance from folk musician Martin Hayes.
Published on Thursday, 12th October 2023.
Lubaina Himid, Richard Armitage, David Pountney’s new opera.
Published on Wednesday, 11th October 2023.
Nigel Kennedy, art gallery labels, how do museums recover stolen art?
Published on Tuesday, 10th October 2023.
Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell performs live from her new album, Cloud Horizons.
Published on Monday, 9th October 2023.
Golda reviewed, musician Tim Ridout, Jon Fosse wins the Nobel Prize.
Published on Thursday, 5th October 2023.
The Streets, the British Textile Biennial, Kate Prince on her mentor.
Published on Wednesday, 4th October 2023.
Samira talks to Patsy Ferran, discusses Rubens' women and explores black British cinema.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd October 2023.
Claudette Johnson, ghosts in literature, the Dutch Golden Age.
Published on Monday, 2nd October 2023.
Víkingur Ólafsson on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Ken Loach’s The Old Oak
Published on Thursday, 28th September 2023.
Chester Contemporary arts biennial: what is there to see?
Published on Wednesday, 27th September 2023.
We announce the winners of BBC National Short Story Award and the BBC Young Writers' Award
Published on Tuesday, 26th September 2023.
The Archers cast on Lark Rise to Ambridge; Philip Barantini on Boiling Point
Published on Monday, 25th September 2023.
Front Row opens the Contains Strong Language festival live from Leeds.
Published on Thursday, 21st September 2023.
Marina Abramovic and The Long Shadow reviewed; Dmitry Glukhovsky's play The White Factory.
Published on Wednesday, 20th September 2023.
Carlos Acosta on Birmingham Royal Ballet's Black Sabbath - The Ballet.
Published on Tuesday, 19th September 2023.
Jane Austen's fashion, poet Daljit Nagra, musician Alice Phoebe Lou performs live.
Published on Monday, 18th September 2023.
Reviews of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the Royal Opera House.
Published on Thursday, 14th September 2023.
Author Katherine Rundell; how makers engage audiences on social media.
Published on Wednesday, 13th September 2023.
The impact of the Hollywood strikes, author K Patrick, singing the Halo video game chant.
Published on Tuesday, 12th September 2023.
The British Museum’s missing gems, a drinking game drama, National Short Story Award.
Published on Monday, 11th September 2023.
The BBC National Short Story with Cambridge University awards shortlist is announced.
Published on Thursday, 7th September 2023.
Sir Ken Dodd exhibition; RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist; A Life on the Farm documentary.
Published on Wednesday, 6th September 2023.
A play on a bus marks the 30th anniversary of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence.
Anna Wintour, Bloomsbury Group fashion. Sofi Jeannin of BBC Singers.
Published on Monday, 4th September 2023.
Front Row reviews new British film Scrapper, French writer director Louis Garrel
Published on Thursday, 24th August 2023.
Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché, Stewart Lee on Macbeth, Connie Converse rediscovered.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd August 2023.
Author Louise Doughty on her new book, signing live music, The Missing Madonna podcast
Published on Tuesday, 22nd August 2023.
Corinne Bailey Rae plays live, Peter Arnott on his new play, short story collections.
Published on Monday, 21st August 2023.
Kate Molleson and guests review the highlights of this year's Edinburgh festivals
Published on Thursday, 17th August 2023.
1976's I Claudius on TV; Jules Buckley’s Stevie Wonder Prom; problems buying gig tickets
Published on Wednesday, 16th August 2023.
Front Row is live from Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh for festival season.
Published on Tuesday, 15th August 2023.
Fiction inspired by climate change, pressures on theatres, Palestinian embroidery
Published on Monday, 14th August 2023.
Music of Ligeti, plus reviews of L'immensità with Penelope Cruz and La Cage Aux Folles.
Published on Thursday, 10th August 2023.
Anohni's new album, My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross.
Published on Wednesday, 9th August 2023.
Bruce Lee, mental health in reality TV and poet Sean Street on birdsong.
Published on Tuesday, 8th August 2023.
Lucy Prebble’s play The Effect, Welsh indie band Adwaith, Is the art of criticism dead?
Published on Monday, 7th August 2023.
Soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha; Joy Ride; Ann Patchett’s novel Tom Lake; Carl Davis.
Published on Thursday, 3rd August 2023.
Welsh Fleabag, a star-gazing Moon Palace in Leeds, the impact of social media on comedy.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd August 2023.
The Booker Prize longlist; Freddie Mercury costume archive, Scottish theatre.
Published on Tuesday, 1st August 2023.
West End producer unmasked; reassessing Virgil; Adjani Salmon on Dreaming Whilst Black
Published on Monday, 31st July 2023.
Cellist Ana Carla Maza, the Mercury Music Prize shortlist, Marilyn Monroe Reframed
Published on Thursday, 27th July 2023.
Kathryn Ferguson on Sinéad O'Connor; Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Efua Traoré; Fringe previews
Published on Wednesday, 26th July 2023.
Pianist Christian Blackshaw performs, a new funding model for art and a new play on words
Published on Tuesday, 25th July 2023.
Elizabeth Fremantle on Artemisia Gentileschi, French horn player Felix Klieser, logos.
Published on Monday, 24th July 2023.
Sarah Phelps on BBC drama The Sixth Commandment, Blur's new album reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 20th July 2023.
Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, Cynghanedd at the Welsh National Eisteddfod, club culture
Published on Wednesday, 19th July 2023.
Aindrea Emelife on black women in art; songwriters explore AI; 20 years of podcasting
Published on Tuesday, 18th July 2023.
Greta Gerwig on her Barbie blockbuster, Tudor tapestry, Tanika Gupta, Jane Birkin farewell
Published on Monday, 17th July 2023.
Mission Impossible, Herzog & de Meuron architecture, Walter Murch's film editing and sound
Published on Thursday, 13th July 2023.
Milan Kundera remembered, author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, the first Northern Soul Prom.
Published on Wednesday, 12th July 2023.
Film-maker Sally Potter has released her first album as a singer-songwriter, Pink Bikini.
Published on Tuesday, 11th July 2023.
PJ Harvey, the Scapa Flow museum on Orkney, pianist Benjamin Grosvenor performs.
Published on Monday, 10th July 2023.
Kwame Kwei-Armah on his play Beneatha's Place and new film Elemental reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 6th July 2023.
Front Row brings you the highlights of the Manchester International Festival.
Published on Wednesday, 5th July 2023.
Ben Okri's Tiger Work, film director Shamira Raphaela, a visit to Leighton House museum
Published on Tuesday, 4th July 2023.
Music legend Dolly Parton, noise abatement for music practice and a kids book festival.
Published on Monday, 3rd July 2023.
Front Row reviews Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny; author Brandon Taylor; Young V&A
Published on Thursday, 29th June 2023.
Playwright Kimber Lee, the art of pattern discussed, musician Elgan Llŷr Thomas sings live
Published on Wednesday, 28th June 2023.
Michael R Jackson on his hit musical, and Ray BLK on her acting role in Champion.
Published on Tuesday, 27th June 2023.
Wes Anderson on Asteroid City, Bob Stanley on the Bee Gees, Naples Museum of Archaeology.
Published on Monday, 26th June 2023.
Elliot Page; Holocaust Memorial and Jewish Museum; Wicker Man music; Sir Michael Hopkins.
Violinist Rachel Podger performs live. Dear England and National Portrait Gallery reviewed
Published on Thursday, 22nd June 2023.
The winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, the MAC in Belfast, does the UK need more arenas?
Published on Wednesday, 21st June 2023.
The Beatles at Stowe update, Nick Drake 75 years since birth, Maggi Hambling's new show.
Published on Monday, 19th June 2023.
Glenda Jackson remembered, Wayne McGregor and Black Mirror reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 15th June 2023.
The Burrell Collection, shortlisted for Museum of the Year, and the Women's Prize winner.
Published on Wednesday, 14th June 2023.
Novelist Cecilia Rabess, director Dionne Edwards; maintaining arts groups' buildings
Published on Tuesday, 13th June 2023.
Musicals with unlikely subjects, composer Eric Whitacre, author Laline Paull.
Published on Monday, 12th June 2023.
Gaming as spectator sport plus reviews of film Chevalier and TV comedy Significant Other.
Published on Thursday, 8th June 2023.
Dave Johns on I, Daniel Blake, the Liverpool Biennial and Dario Fo's work having a moment.
Published on Wednesday, 7th June 2023.
Rufus Wainwright, hairdressing film Medusa Deluxe and the rise of the understudy.
Published on Tuesday, 6th June 2023.
Author Maggie O’Farrell, new opera Giant, and has creativity been co-opted by consumerism?
Published on Monday, 5th June 2023.
A review of the exhibition Punk: Rage and Revolution at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery.
Published on Thursday, 1st June 2023.
Writer-director Shane Meadows and actor Michael Socha on The Gallows Pole.
Published on Wednesday, 31st May 2023.
Broadway legend Chita Rivera, a new arts funding model discussed, Priscilla Morris
Published on Tuesday, 30th May 2023.
Marking the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Windrush and its cultural influence.
Published on Monday, 29th May 2023.
Jhalak Book Prize winners, Tate Britain rehang and The Little Mermaid reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 25th May 2023.
Will Keen plays Vladimir Putin on stage in Peter Morgan's play Patriots.
Published on Wednesday, 24th May 2023.
The 26th Sparks album, EM Forster adaptations on radio, nature mystery writer Bob Gilbert.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd May 2023.
Arlo Parks, Martin Amis remembered, depicting Northern Ireland's Troubles.
Published on Monday, 22nd May 2023.
Caleb Azumah Nelson on new novel Small Worlds.
Published on Thursday, 18th May 2023.
Chuck D on his watercolour art; novelist Jacqueline Crooks; Andy Holden on amateur art.
Published on Wednesday, 17th May 2023.
Sari design exhibition; the politics of museum labels; Mat Osman's novel The Ghost Theatre
Published on Tuesday, 16th May 2023.
Brokeback Mountain on stage, Venice architecture biennale, Tan Twan Eng new novel.
Published on Monday, 15th May 2023.
June Givanni on the PanAfrican cinema archive, Gwen John at Pallant House reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 11th May 2023.
Author Louise Kennedy, royal patronage in the arts, beatboxer SK Shlomo
Published on Wednesday, 10th May 2023.
Dennis Potter’s newly discovered play, Cathi Unsworth on goth culture, artist Isaac Julien
A special programme to mark Liverpool hosting the world’s biggest live music event.
Published on Monday, 8th May 2023.
Playwright Jonathan Harvey, Tom Hanks’s first novel and the film Harka reviewed
Published on Thursday, 4th May 2023.
Writer Jack Thorne, Derek Jarman’s Blue reimagined, music for the King’s coronation.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd May 2023.
Sir Lenny Henry, music from the Tashi Lhunpo monastery, publishing and net zero.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd May 2023.
Celebrating the music of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Published on Monday, 1st May 2023.
Patrick Bringley on his memoir All the Beauty in the World and TV drama Citadel reviewed
Published on Thursday, 27th April 2023.
A first and a final - the making of the new RSC production of Cymbeline.
Published on Wednesday, 26th April 2023.
Playwright Ryan Calais Cameron, Stewart Copeland, and is Morris dancing having a moment?
Published on Tuesday, 25th April 2023.
Patrick Radden Keefe on the Sacklers, Iestyn Davies performs live, sustainable theatre
Published on Monday, 24th April 2023.
Everything But the Girl, Netflix's The Diplomat and French film Pacifiction reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 20th April 2023.
Jeanine Tesori's Blue for the ENO; Baillie Gifford shortlist - Margaret MacMillan.
Published on Wednesday, 19th April 2023.
Jazz singer Georgia Cecile, the controversy surrounding Barcelona’s La Sagrada Família.
Published on Tuesday, 18th April 2023.
Colin Currie performs live, author Catherine Lacey, the influence of Noel Coward.
Published on Monday, 17th April 2023.
Reviews of the RSC's Hamnet and TV drama Obsession; Michael Frayn's memoir Among Others
Published on Thursday, 13th April 2023.
Max Porter on his new novel, Shy; Chris Killip exhibition at the Baltic in Newcastle.
Published on Wednesday, 12th April 2023.
The Rossettis; Benbrick on AI and creativity; Wade Davis on mountaineer George Mallory.
Published on Tuesday, 11th April 2023.
The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio.
Published on Monday, 10th April 2023.
Ai Weiwei - Making Sense. The new Grease TV prequel. The Good Friday Agreement on stage.
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2023.
New Boris Becker film, marking the Good Friday Agreement in art, artist-led organisations.
Published on Wednesday, 5th April 2023.
Joe Pearlman on his Lewis Capaldi film, author Craig Brown, Tartan at the V&A Dundee
Published on Tuesday, 4th April 2023.
Ria Zmitrowicz on The Power, The ENO’s The Dead City and God’s Creatures reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 30th March 2023.
Cash Carraway on her comedy-drama Rain Dogs, the UK gaming industry, Kidnapped on stage
Published on Wednesday, 29th March 2023.
Musician Natalie Merchant, poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley, library funding.
Published on Tuesday, 28th March 2023.
The controversy surrounding fan-made content inspired by the hit game Dungeons and Dragons
Published on Monday, 27th March 2023.
Steven Knight on Great Expectations, the After Impressionism exhibition reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 23rd March 2023.
The radical history of Rochdale Art Gallery in the 1980s.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd March 2023.
Danny Lee Wynter on his play; Pekka Kuusisto plays live; theatre audience etiquette.
Published on Tuesday, 21st March 2023.
Lisa O'Neill performs live, Dance of Death from the National Theatre of Norway, FESPACO.
Published on Monday, 20th March 2023.
Richard Eyre on his film Allelujah, TV series Extrapolations, southern US black artists.
Published on Thursday, 16th March 2023.
Scottish-Iranian film Winners, playwright Calum L MacLeòid, neurodiversity and creativity.
Published on Wednesday, 15th March 2023.
After the Oscars and Baftas, Tom discusses diversity at awards and in the film industry.
Published on Tuesday, 14th March 2023.
Percival Everett's novel Dr No; Pravesh Kumar on film Little English; Yeats & smartphones.
Published on Monday, 13th March 2023.
Reviews of My Sailor My Love and Margaret Atwood’s new collection; Baillie Gifford winners
Published on Thursday, 9th March 2023.
Pioneering play Top Girls turns 40, and do publishers have a duty of care to memoirists?
Published on Wednesday, 8th March 2023.
Daniel Mays in Guys and Dolls, making film and TV sets more accessible for performers.
Published on Tuesday, 7th March 2023.
Steven Moffat and Lucy Caldwell on writing short stories inspired by the science of Cern.
Published on Monday, 6th March 2023.
Reviews of Daisy Jones And The Six and Close, plus ceramicist Edmund de Waal on Lucie Rie.
Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2023.
Barry Male Voice Choir, WNO’s Blaze of Glory and Welsh culture minister Dawn Boden.
Published on Wednesday, 1st March 2023.
Tracy-Ann Oberman on playing Shylock, Creed III's Michael B Jordan, and theatre funds.
Published on Tuesday, 28th February 2023.
Antonio Pappano on Turandot, and the Ukrainian cabaret artists performing in exile.
Published on Monday, 27th February 2023.
Immersive Hockney art, Korean film Broker, installation artist Mike Nelson, AI writing.
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2023.
New film The Strays and artists Chila Kumari Singh Burman and Dawinder Bansal.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd February 2023.
Oscar-winner Michael Douglas talks about his new film, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.
Published on Tuesday, 21st February 2023.
Hugh Jackman, Kevin Jared Hosein, the future of opera.
Published on Monday, 20th February 2023.
Animation Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, Alice Neel's art, Al Murray on Spitting Image
Published on Thursday, 16th February 2023.
Director Asif Kapadia on collaborating with choreographer Akram Khan on the film Creature
Published on Wednesday, 15th February 2023.
Author Tracy Chevalier on the major Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Published on Tuesday, 14th February 2023.
Kate Prince on her suffragette musical, the art of casting, set design at the Brits.
Published on Monday, 13th February 2023.
Georgia Oakley on her film Blue Jean about the impact of Section 28 on a teacher and pupil
Published on Thursday, 9th February 2023.
The Reytons on making a number 1 album, film-maker Saim Sadiq, The Beekeeper of Aleppo.
Published on Wednesday, 8th February 2023.
Les Dennis and Mina Anwar, writer Tania Branigan, and Kerry Shale on Yentl.
Costume designer Sandy Powell, playwright Chris Bush, Donatello sculptures at the V&A.
Published on Monday, 6th February 2023.
A review of Nolly starring Helena Bonham Carter and written by Russell T Davies.
Published on Thursday, 2nd February 2023.
Sonia Boyce's Venice Biennale show, The Quiet Girl, Theatre pay discussed, Oldham Coliseum
Published on Wednesday, 1st February 2023.
Who was the mysterious Elise of Beethoven's famous Für Elise?
Published on Tuesday, 31st January 2023.
Film director Sarah Polley, novelist Ann-Helen Laestadius and deep fakes on TV.
Published on Monday, 30th January 2023.
The Fabelmans and Noises Off reviewed, Joe Cornish on new TV drama Lockwood and Co.
Published on Thursday, 26th January 2023.
Mel C at Sadler's Wells in How Did We Get Here? choreographed by Jules Cunningham.
Published on Wednesday, 25th January 2023.
Artist John Akomfrah on representing the UK at the Venice Biennale, Oscar nominations
Published on Tuesday, 24th January 2023.
Sam Steiner and Josie Rourke on their new production of Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons
Published on Monday, 23rd January 2023.
Spain and the Hispanic World exhibition, new film Holy Spider, artist Clarke Reynolds.
Published on Thursday, 19th January 2023.
Hepworth, Moore and Yorkshire; Scottish fiddle player John McCusker; a novel about mystics
Published on Wednesday, 18th January 2023.
Poet Anthony Joseph, new novels about witchcraft and the fall in female film-makers.
Published on Tuesday, 17th January 2023.
Rebecca Frecknall on A Streetcar Named Desire, Rick Rubin, Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh
Published on Monday, 16th January 2023.
New series The Last of Us series starring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2023.
Filmmaker Todd Field on Tár, Glyndebourne tour cancellation; Debut novelist Jyoti Patel.
Published on Wednesday, 11th January 2023.
How AI is changing art, the TS Eliot Prize for poetry and the folk music of wassailing.
Published on Tuesday, 10th January 2023.
Director Andy Newbery, photographer Mark Power and author Nell Zink.
Published on Monday, 9th January 2023.
John Preston on TV drama Stonehouse, and Front Row reviews Till and Empire of Light.
Published on Thursday, 5th January 2023.
Stile Antico perform the music of William Byrd live.
Published on Wednesday, 4th January 2023.
Tom Hanks on A Man Called Otto, author Deepti Kapoor, The London Ticket Bank.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd January 2023.
Front Row visits Leeds as the city prepares to celebrate culture throughout 2023.
Published on Monday, 2nd January 2023.
Reviews of The Pale Blue Eye and Happy Valley, plus painter Alexander Creswell.
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2022.
Marie Kreutzer on Corsage, her film about Elisabeth, 19th-century empress of Austria.
Published on Wednesday, 21st December 2022.
Terry Hall of The Specials remembered, the state of UK theatre and 40 years of board games
Published on Tuesday, 20th December 2022.
Lucy Prebble on I Hate Suzie Too. Have we reached peak immersion? And what next for ENO.
Celebration of Quentin Blake, reviews of Avatar and Magdalena Abakanowicz.
Published on Thursday, 15th December 2022.
Neil Gaiman on The Ocean at the End of the Lane. China's art censorship in Europe.
Published on Wednesday, 14th December 2022.
Director Kasi Lemmons on I Wanna Dance With Somebody, a Whitney Houston biopic.
Published on Tuesday, 13th December 2022.
Zadie Smith on The Wife of Willesden, David Tennant on Litvinenko and Rick Wakeman.
Published on Monday, 12th December 2022.
Orlando starring Emma Corrin at the Garrick Theatre reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2022.
The winner of the Turner Prize, poet Kim Moore, and Razorlight's Johnny Borrell.
Published on Wednesday, 7th December 2022.
Antoine Fuqua on Emancipation, NDAs in film and TV casting, playwright April De Angelis.
Published on Tuesday, 6th December 2022.
Jazz pianist Fergus McCreadie performs live
Published on Monday, 5th December 2022.
Turner Prize shortlisted artist Veronica Ryan.
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2022.
Maxine Peake on co-writing and starring in Betty! A Sort of Musical about Betty Boothroyd.
Published on Wednesday, 30th November 2022.
Director Clint Dyer on Othello and Turner Prize nominee Ingrid Pollard.
Published on Tuesday, 29th November 2022.
Turner Prize nominee Sin Wai Kin, Katherine Rundell on John Donne, Ballet Black.
Published on Monday, 28th November 2022.
Joan Armatrading on her new album and a lifetime of lyrics.
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2022.
We review Lady Chatterley's Lover starring Emma Corrin and Jack O'Connell.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd November 2022.
Matthew Warchus on Matilda the Musical, Kapil Seshasayee performs,gallery climate protest
Published on Tuesday, 22nd November 2022.
Director Luca Guadagnino on confronting the taboo of cannibalism in his film Bones and All
The Wonder, starring Florence Pugh, and Making Modernism at the Royal Academy reviewed
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2022.
Football inspired exhibitions at the Walker Art Gallery and at Tottenham Hotspur's stadium
Published on Wednesday, 16th November 2022.
Celebrating the centenary of BBC Radio, Play School creator Joy Whitby, Climate Fiction
Published on Monday, 14th November 2022.
The Crown plus No Bears reviewed; winner of the fiction prize; Jez Butterworth on Mammals
Published on Thursday, 10th November 2022.
Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, museums in crisis, photographer Craig Easton.
Published on Wednesday, 9th November 2022.
Jennifer Lawrence and director Lila Neugebauer discuss their new film, Causeway.
Published on Tuesday, 8th November 2022.
Arts Council funding, the art of the infographic, film director Tas Brooker.
Published on Monday, 7th November 2022.
'The English', starring Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer, reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 2022.
Front Row from Cardiff with music from harpist Catrin Finch and violinist Aoife Ni Bhriain
Published on Wednesday, 2nd November 2022.
Nick Hornby on Dickens & Prince, Cecilia Iliesiu, poets Derek Owusu & Anthony Anaxagorou
Published on Tuesday, 1st November 2022.
Alison Lapper on Sarah Biffin, Ric Renton on his play One Off, Plastics at the V&A Dundee.
Published on Monday, 31st October 2022.
The new musical from Elton John; artist Daniel Arsham; Simon Armitage on the BBC centenary
Published on Thursday, 27th October 2022.
Turn It Up: The Power of Music exhibition at Manchester's Science and Industry Museum
Published on Wednesday, 26th October 2022.
Eliza Carthy plays live, film director Ruben Östlund on Triangle of Sadness.
Published on Tuesday, 25th October 2022.
New Taylor Swift and Arctic Monkeys albums reviewed and horror in art and film discussed.
Published on Monday, 24th October 2022.
To mark the BBC’s centenary, Front Row reviews the popular culture of 1922.
Published on Thursday, 20th October 2022.
Martin McDonagh on The Banshees of Inisherin and The Royal National Mòd.
Published on Wednesday, 19th October 2022.
New London theatre @sohoplace, director Edward Berger, fair pay for costume designers.
Published on Tuesday, 18th October 2022.
Samira Ahmed hosts the ceremony live from the Roundhouse in London.
Published on Monday, 17th October 2022.
Hieroglyphs at the British Museum, Emily Brontë biopic, Shehan Karunatilaka.
Published on Thursday, 13th October 2022.
Pianist Ruth McGinley on her album AURA and Conor Mitchell on Propaganda: A New Musical.
Saxophonist Camilla George, Elizabeth Strout and Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari
Published on Tuesday, 11th October 2022.
Alan Garner on his Booker shortlisted novel, Treacle Eater, exploring the nature of time.
Published on Monday, 10th October 2022.
Front Row reviews The Lost King and the Science Fiction exhibition at the Science Museum.
Published on Thursday, 6th October 2022.
Björk on her new album, Booker Prize nominee NoViolet Bulawayo, and Bond, James Bond.
Published on Wednesday, 5th October 2022.
We announce the winners of the BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers’ Award.
Published on Tuesday, 4th October 2022.
Viola Davis and director Gina Prince-Bythewood discuss historical epic The Woman King.
Published on Monday, 3rd October 2022.
A review of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Peaky Blinders as dance, and artist Samson Kambalu.
Published on Thursday, 29th September 2022.
Colm Toibin's novel on stage; debut director of A Bird Flew In; the history of black art.
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, Unboxed's See Monster, and the cost of living crisis
Published on Tuesday, 27th September 2022.
Michael Winterbottom, Welsh arts project GALWAD, Hilary Mantel remembered.
Published on Monday, 26th September 2022.
Reviews of Blonde & Inside Man; National Short Story Award shortlisted author Anna Bailey
Published on Thursday, 22nd September 2022.
Beth Orton performs live, Jodi Picoult, South Korean art reviewed, and Vanessa Onwuemezi.
Published on Wednesday, 21st September 2022.
A celebration of the music and life of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Louise Doughty on her BBC drama, Miki Berenyi's memoir of life in Lush, Jenn Ashworth.
Published on Tuesday, 20th September 2022.
George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite in new rom-com Ticket to Paradise, set in Bali.
Published on Thursday, 15th September 2022.
Abel Selaocoe plays live, seeing art and history from a new perspective, curlews in music
Published on Wednesday, 14th September 2022.
Richard Eyre's The Snail House; Sylvia Anderson and women in TV; the late Jean-Luc Godard.
Published on Tuesday, 13th September 2022.
Eileen Cooper's art, Northern Ireland Opera, government scheme to pay artists in Ireland.
Published on Monday, 12th September 2022.
Musician Alison Balsom, author Jack Hilton, black Scottish identity in art.
Published on Wednesday, 7th September 2022.
Loudon Wainwright III performs live in the studio from his album Lifetime Achievement.
Published on Tuesday, 6th September 2022.
Crimes of the Future reviewed, film news from the Venice, Keane's Tom Chaplin plays live.
Published on Monday, 5th September 2022.
Reviews of Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power and Three Thousand Years of Longing
Published on Thursday, 1st September 2022.
Joyce Carol Oates, RIOPY, the return of jungle
Published on Wednesday, 31st August 2022.
Ann Cleeves discusses the return of her crime creation DI Vera Stanhope in the Rising Tide
Published on Tuesday, 30th August 2022.
Live music from Sheléa, reviewing TV and film, fashion history series Torn.
Published on Thursday, 18th August 2022.
Gregory Doran reflects on ten years as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Published on Wednesday, 17th August 2022.
Anne-Marie Duff on her new TV show Bad Sisters, and returning the Benin Bronzes.
Published on Tuesday, 16th August 2022.
Jacob Collier live, Burhan Sönmez on threats to writers, 75th anniversary of Partition.
Published on Monday, 15th August 2022.
We review Burn and Counting & Cracking. Plus, Aftersun film director Charlotte Wells.
Published on Thursday, 11th August 2022.
Views of Roman Britain today, Raymond Briggs, women in photography, BBC drama Marriage.
Published on Wednesday, 10th August 2022.
Political play Exodus, comedian Matt Forde and singer Anne Sofie von Otter.
Published on Tuesday, 9th August 2022.
The Oscar-winning writer-director Jordan Peele on his sci-fi-western-UFO movie, Nope.
Published on Monday, 8th August 2022.
David Leitch's Bullet Train starring Brad Pitt reviewed
Published on Thursday, 4th August 2022.
Huw Stephens reports from the National Eisteddfod of Wales in Tregaron, Ceredigion.
Accessible ticket problems, Will Ashon's everyday voices book, Habitats As Heritage art.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd August 2022.
A review of Beyoncé's album Renaissance, her first in six years.
Published on Monday, 1st August 2022.
Panah Panahi's Iranian road movie Hit the Road reviewed
Published on Thursday, 28th July 2022.
Beverley Knight and Jennifer Saunders on Sister Act, Ugandan Asian stories, David Olusoga
Published on Wednesday, 27th July 2022.
This year's book and music prize lists; museum funding; Queer Britain - new LGBTQ+ museum.
Published on Tuesday, 26th July 2022.
Folk singer Bella Hardy performs; poet Thomas Lynch reads, art at the Commonwealth Games
Published on Monday, 25th July 2022.
A review of the film Notre-Dame On Fire, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
Published on Thursday, 21st July 2022.
Crawdads director Olivia Newman; theatre on the runway; Hebridean artist Mhairi Killin.
Published on Wednesday, 20th July 2022.
Jean Paul Gaultier's new show, Shakespeare's productions, and a report on music touring.
Published on Tuesday, 19th July 2022.
Life in Kraftwerk, the Spooky Men's Chorale perform, Lucy Kirkwood on Maryland for TV.
Published on Monday, 18th July 2022.
Luke Harding and Hanna Flint review Carrie Cracknell's adaptation of Persuasion.
Published on Thursday, 14th July 2022.
Shakespeare North Playhouse opens in Prescot.
Published on Wednesday, 13th July 2022.
Oscar-winning Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir on her upcoming BBC Proms concerts.
Published on Tuesday, 12th July 2022.
Jack Absolute Flies Again, Joe Stilgoe, Cattelan/Druet
Published on Monday, 11th July 2022.
The Waste Land, Brian and Charles reviewed, The Story Museum Oxford, Grand Theft Hamlet.
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2022.
New national poet of Wales announced, Lucian Freud show, The Blue Woman opera premiere.
Published on Wednesday, 6th July 2022.
Claudia Rankine on her play The White Card and Derby's Museum of Making
Published on Tuesday, 5th July 2022.
Peter Brook remembered, the new children's laureate, Gone With The Wind and the US today.
Published on Monday, 4th July 2022.
Natalia Ginzburg's All Our Yesterdays, opera Sun & Sea, singer-songwriter Laura Veirs
Published on Thursday, 30th June 2022.
Ekow Eshun on curating the exhibition In The Black Fantastic at the Hayward Gallery.
Published on Wednesday, 29th June 2022.
Arthur Hughes, the future of literary prizes, Dadaist interventions.
Published on Tuesday, 28th June 2022.
Playwright and BAFTA winning screenwriter Stephen Beresford on The Southbury Child.
Published on Monday, 27th June 2022.
We review Rock, Paper, Scissors - three new plays marking 50 years of Sheffield Theatres.
Published on Thursday, 23rd June 2022.
Rowan Atkinson, Thomas J Price on his Windrush sculptures, director Susanne Bier.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd June 2022.
The post-pandemic challenges facing the festival sector as Glastonbury returns.
Published on Tuesday, 21st June 2022.
Baz Luhrmann on Elvis.
Published on Monday, 20th June 2022.
Gavin Porter on National Theatre Wales's live documentary performance Circle of Fifths.
Published on Thursday, 16th June 2022.
Tenor Freddie De Tommaso; we announce the Women's Prize winner; John Byrne's retrospective
Published on Wednesday, 15th June 2022.
Theaster Gates' new pavilion, Pixar's Lightyear, Kate Bush, Dean Atta's YA novel in verse.
Published on Tuesday, 14th June 2022.
George Ezra performs tracks from his new album Gold Rush Kid.
Published on Monday, 13th June 2022.
A review of British comedy-horror film All My Friends Hate Me, directed by Andrew Gaynord.
Published on Thursday, 9th June 2022.
Paula Rego’s life and work, Cressida Cowell, Elif Shafak's Women's Prize shortlisted book.
Published on Wednesday, 8th June 2022.
Ayanna Witter Johnson plays live, plus Clement Ishmael and digital theatre.
Published on Tuesday, 7th June 2022.
Music festival Africa Oyé; 100 Queer Poems, Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle.
Published on Monday, 6th June 2022.
A Jubilee Special: Front Row reviews some of the cultural highlights of 1952.
Published on Thursday, 2nd June 2022.
Tracey Emin, poet Anthony Joseph performs live and Bergman Island reviewed.
Published on Wednesday, 1st June 2022.
Actor Rory Kinnear on playing multiple roles in the new Alex Garland film, Men.
Published on Tuesday, 31st May 2022.
Immersive digital art in Coventry, the British Art Show, & music from Jasdeep Singh Degun.
Published on Monday, 30th May 2022.
Reviews of The Midwich Cuckoos, Pistol and Munch, and author Meg Mason on Sorrow and Bliss
Published on Thursday, 26th May 2022.
Burning Man art - in Derbyshire; Frances Poet’s play about dementia; film award for dogs.
Published on Wednesday, 25th May 2022.
ABBA Voyage, Terence Davies, Zaffar Kunial's poem for George Floyd
Published on Tuesday, 24th May 2022.
Jason Solomons reports live from the Cannes Film Festival.
Published on Monday, 23rd May 2022.
Melly Still, Ivor Novello Awards, Emergency and Cornelia Parker reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2022.
Joanna Scanlan on acting in Welsh; and Indu Rubasingham’s new play on the death of Gandhi.
Published on Wednesday, 18th May 2022.
TV dramatist Kay Mellor remembered, and an interview with playwright Chloe Moss.
Published on Tuesday, 17th May 2022.
Top Gun: Maverick, a Joseph Wright of Derby painting unveiled and novelist Louise Erdrich.
Published on Monday, 16th May 2022.
A review of Daniel Fish's production of Oklahoma! as it opens at the Young Vic in London.
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2022.
Everything Everywhere All At Once, Camille O'Sullivan, and do artists need to 'make' art?
Published on Wednesday, 11th May 2022.
The politics of the apolitical Eurovision Song Contest amid conflict in Europe.
Published on Tuesday, 10th May 2022.
Filmmaker Clio Barnard on The Essex Serpent and Belle and Sebastian perform live.
Published on Monday, 9th May 2022.
PJ Harvey on Orlam, her narrative poem in Dorset dialect.
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2022.
Deesha Philyaw, Tristan Sharps, Brighton Festival, County Durham bid for City of Culture.
Published on Wednesday, 4th May 2022.
Playwright Nathaniel Price on writing his drama, First Touch, about abuse in football.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd May 2022.
Front Row from Wales: writer Caryl Lewis, singer Gwenno, Matsena Brothers, choreographers.
Published on Monday, 2nd May 2022.
Play The Corn is Green and Walter Sickert exhibition review, BAFTA winner Cherylee Houston
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2022.
Co-curator of the new Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery, Dr Matthias Wivel.
Published on Wednesday, 27th April 2022.
Tim Foley, Heartstopper, The Proms, Lawrence Power performs
Published on Tuesday, 26th April 2022.
Immersive theatre company Punchdrunk open their biggest show in a new, permanent space.
Published on Monday, 25th April 2022.
Ukrainian film Atlantis and Michael Arditti's novel The Young Pretender reviewed
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2022.
Actor and writer Sarah Solemani on co-writing new TV sitcom Chivalry with Steve Coogan.
Published on Wednesday, 20th April 2022.
Director Robert Eggers on his new film The Northman.
Published on Tuesday, 19th April 2022.
Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah on his novel Paradise, a Big Jubilee Read.
Published on Monday, 18th April 2022.
Paul Verhoeven's film Benedetta is reviewed by our critics.
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2022.
Jude Owusu from To Kill a Mockingbird, and a review of Operation Mincemeat.
Published on Wednesday, 13th April 2022.
Photographer Edward Burtynsky; Turner Prize shortlist; novelist Patrick McCabe.
Published on Tuesday, 12th April 2022.
70 years after a debut on BBC’s Talent Night, Sooty’s Magic Show embarks on a new tour.
Published on Monday, 11th April 2022.
American playwright Jeremy O.Harris discusses his play Daddy at London's Almeida Theatre.
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2022.
Ocean Vuong on his poetry collection Time is a Mother.
Published on Wednesday, 6th April 2022.
Mike Bartlett, Hannah Hodgson, Nick Laird, Non Fungible Token art gallery.
Published on Tuesday, 5th April 2022.
Musician Rae Morris performs live in the studio.
Published on Monday, 4th April 2022.
A Clockwork Orange, National Poetry Competition winner, Slow Horses and Coppelia review.
Published on Thursday, 31st March 2022.
The Burrell Collection in Glasgow reopens.
Published on Wednesday, 30th March 2022.
How to refill theatres after the Covid lockdowns.
Published on Tuesday, 29th March 2022.
Artist Sonia Boyce, cellist Laura van der Heijden, the Oscars discussed.
Published on Monday, 28th March 2022.
The Hermit of Treig, a film following a man who spent four decades living in a log cabin.
Published on Thursday, 24th March 2022.
Bridgerton showrunner Chris van Dusen on the second series of the hit costume drama.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd March 2022.
Director Joachim Trier on his Oscar nominated film The Worst Person in the World
Published on Tuesday, 22nd March 2022.
Hew Locke on his new Tate Britain commission, an installation called The Procession
Published on Monday, 21st March 2022.
Mark Rylance, Julian Knight, Reviews of Hockney's Eye, The Dropout and WeCrashed
Published on Thursday, 17th March 2022.
New film Olga, the story of a gymnast who has to flee Ukraine, reviewed.
Published on Wednesday, 16th March 2022.
Cinematic legend Liv Ullmann, the National Trust's Hilary McGrady and literary translation
Published on Tuesday, 15th March 2022.
Artistic director Rufus Norris on the role and responsibility of The National Theatre.
Published on Monday, 14th March 2022.
Colin Barrett, reviews of Servant of the People, Run Rose Run and Warsan Shire's new poems
Published on Thursday, 10th March 2022.
Artist Larry Achiampong on his solo exhibition at Margate's Turner Contemporary Gallery.
Published on Wednesday, 9th March 2022.
Howard Jacobson on his memoir Mother's Boy. Plus Pixar's new animation Turning Red.
Published on Tuesday, 8th March 2022.
Sean Baker on his film Red Rocket, The Shires perform live, Kaveh Akbar.
Published on Monday, 7th March 2022.
50 year anniversary of The Godfather, Our Generation reviewed, Paul Dano on Batman.
Published on Thursday, 3rd March 2022.
Jane Campion on her film The Power of the Dog.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd March 2022.
Tears For Fears return with their new album The Tipping Point.
Published on Tuesday, 1st March 2022.
Ali & Ava review, cultural responses to Ukraine, Cherry Jezebel, social media in TV drama.
Published on Monday, 28th February 2022.
Photographer Mark Neville documenting Ukraine in Stop Tanks With Books
Published on Thursday, 24th February 2022.
David Byrne, Lord Parkinson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, culture in Paris.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd February 2022.
Playwright Samuel Bailey, sensitivity readers in publishing, making social media satire.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd February 2022.
Henry V, Chris Riddell on Jan Pieńkowski, Trevor Nelson on Jamal Edwards, Surrealism.
Published on Monday, 21st February 2022.
Artist Daniel Lismore's exhibition Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken in Coventry
Published on Thursday, 17th February 2022.
One Man Two Guvnors writer Richard Bean on his new play for Hull Truck Theatre at 50.
Published on Wednesday, 16th February 2022.
What is the future of post-pandemic British dance?
Published on Tuesday, 15th February 2022.
Adapting Michael Morpurgo's World War I novel Private Peaceful for the stage.
Published on Monday, 14th February 2022.
Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's films Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy reviewed.
Published on Wednesday, 9th February 2022.
Black and white films, Oscar nominations and Hannah Silva.
Published on Tuesday, 8th February 2022.
James Smith, lead singer of breakthrough band Yard Act on their debut album The Overload.
Published on Monday, 7th February 2022.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye starring Jessica Chastain reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 3rd February 2022.
Erin Doherty on her latest role as a social media obsessed stalker in new BBC drama Chloe.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd February 2022.
Bastille perform live and discuss their new sci-fi-influenced album Give Me the Future
Published on Tuesday, 1st February 2022.
Van Gogh and his self portraits discussed, ahead of a major exhibition
Published on Monday, 31st January 2022.
Romola Garai on her directorial debut, horror film Amulet
Published on Thursday, 27th January 2022.
Isabel Allende on her latest book, Violeta, a fictional account of one woman’s life.
Published on Wednesday, 26th January 2022.
Actor Martin Freeman and writer Tony Schumacher on new drama The Responder.
Published on Tuesday, 25th January 2022.
Olly Alexander on his new album. Femi Elufowoju jr on Rigoletto. Honorée Fannone Jeffers.
Published on Monday, 24th January 2022.
Ciarán Hinds on Kenneth Branagh's Belfast. Nightmare Alley and The Gilded Age reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 20th January 2022.
Munich: The Edge of War, Jo Browning Wroe on her novel, A Terrible Kindness.
Published on Wednesday, 19th January 2022.
Tilda Swinton on her new film Memoria
Published on Tuesday, 18th January 2022.
Adrian Lester joins Samira Ahmed to discuss his new police drama, Trigger Point.
Published on Monday, 17th January 2022.
One-take kitchen drama Boiling Point and Hanya Yanagihara's novel To Paradise reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2022.
Ascension, John Preston on Robert Maxwell and the downside of the vinyl boom.
Published on Wednesday, 12th January 2022.
Joelle Taylor fresh from winning the 2021 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry.
Published on Tuesday, 11th January 2022.
50 years of Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. Plus Sheffield pop star Self Esteem.
Published on Monday, 10th January 2022.
Director Joe Wright on his new musical Cyrano.
Published on Thursday, 6th January 2022.
Filmmaker Andrea Arnold on her new documentary, Cow.
Published on Wednesday, 5th January 2022.
We announce the winners of the 50th annual Costa Book Awards.
Published on Tuesday, 4th January 2022.
Call the Midwife writer and creator Heidi Thomas on the art of the Christmas special.
Published on Thursday, 23rd December 2021.
Paul Thomas Anderson talks about his new film Licorice Pizza.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd December 2021.
Anything Goes, Live arts venues under Omicron, The Princess Bride
Published on Tuesday, 21st December 2021.
Maggie Gyllenhaal on her new film, The Lost Daughter.
Published on Monday, 20th December 2021.
Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio in Adam McKay's satire Don't Look Up reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 16th December 2021.
Derek Jarman Protest opens at the Manchester Art Gallery and Benjamin Cleary on Swan Song.
Published on Wednesday, 15th December 2021.
Covid-related theatre closures and a dance round-up with Sarah Crompton.
Published on Tuesday, 14th December 2021.
Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, and BBC TV's drama series A Very British Scandal.
Published on Monday, 13th December 2021.
Cat Power performs live.
Published on Thursday, 9th December 2021.
Welsh musician Carwyn Ellis performs live from Cardiff.
Published on Wednesday, 8th December 2021.
Steven Spielberg on his remake of West Side Story.
Published on Tuesday, 7th December 2021.
Political dramatist James Graham on writing his new play, Best of Enemies.
Published on Monday, 6th December 2021.
The Hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino's autobiographical film, reviewed. Plus Aaron Sorkin
Published on Thursday, 2nd December 2021.
Front Row live from the 2021 Turner Prize Ceremony.
Published on Wednesday, 1st December 2021.
We take a deep dive into the decades old dispute around the fate of the Parthenon Marbles.
Published on Tuesday, 30th November 2021.
Musician Kelly Lee Owens, Stephen Sondheim's songwriting, poems by Rowan Williams, BOSS.
Published on Monday, 29th November 2021.
House of Gucci reviewed
Published on Thursday, 25th November 2021.
Artist Suzanne Lacy on standing at the junction of aesthetics and activism, Silent Night.
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Turner Prize nominees Gentle / Radical, Costa Book Awards.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd November 2021.
We review Jane Campion’s new film The Power of the Dog, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
Published on Monday, 22nd November 2021.
We review King Richard, about the Williams sisters and their father, starring Will Smith.
Published on Thursday, 18th November 2021.
Ralph Fiennes on performing in his stage adaptation of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets.
Published on Wednesday, 17th November 2021.
Writer and director Céline Sciamma on her new film Petite Maman.
Published on Tuesday, 16th November 2021.
Lin-Manuel Miranda on making his debut as a film director with tick, tick...BOOM!
Published on Monday, 15th November 2021.
Singer-songwriter Tori Amos plays live from Cornwall.
Published on Thursday, 11th November 2021.
Jen Stout reports on the ancient and modern arts in Shetland.
Published on Wednesday, 10th November 2021.
Venice under threat, the story that inspired Dostoevsky, Dean Stockwell remembered.
Published on Tuesday, 9th November 2021.
Film-maker and musician Jeymes Samuel AKA The Bullitts on his film The Harder They Fall.
Alexandra Shulman and Leila Latif discuss Spencer, the controversial new film about Diana.
Published on Thursday, 4th November 2021.
The winner of the 2021 Booker Prize is announced live from the Radio Theatre at the BBC.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd November 2021.
Little Amal, Anne Carson, Paul McCartney and the future of The National Trust.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd November 2021.
Armando Iannucci discusses his mock-heroic epic poem and Paul McCartney on Penny Lane.
Published on Monday, 1st November 2021.
Michael Donkor and Jan Asante review the film Passing and series Colin in Black and White.
Published on Thursday, 28th October 2021.
Front Row visits Truro to report on the re-opening of the Hall for Cornwall.
Published on Wednesday, 27th October 2021.
Science Museum greenwashing claims: museum director Ian Blatchford responds.
Published on Tuesday, 26th October 2021.
Paul McCartney reveals how he wrote The Beatles’ classic, All My Loving.
Published on Monday, 25th October 2021.
Published on Thursday, 21st October 2021.
Front Row goes to Bradford to check out what’s happening on the arts scene
We announce the winners of BBC National Short Story Award and BBC Young Writers' Award.
Published on Tuesday, 19th October 2021.
Arinzé Kene on playing Bob Marley in the new musical Get Up, Stand Up!
Published on Monday, 18th October 2021.
The RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture is announced
Published on Thursday, 14th October 2021.
Emma Jordan on The Border Game, Omagh's Ulster American Folk Park and Ridley Scott.
Published on Wednesday, 13th October 2021.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.
Published on Tuesday, 12th October 2021.
Joan Collins discusses her memoir My Unapologetic Diaries
Published on Monday, 11th October 2021.
Cush Jumbo as Hamlet, Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah and poet Simon Armitage.
Published on Thursday, 7th October 2021.
The arts in Aberystwyth; The Boy with Two Hearts in Cardiff; Welsh director Craig Roberts
Published on Wednesday, 6th October 2021.
Wole Soyinka on his new novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth.
Published on Tuesday, 5th October 2021.
Hilary Mantel on adapting The Mirror and the Light for the stage.
Published on Monday, 4th October 2021.
Charlie Higson & Naima Khan review the new Bond film No Time To Die.
Published on Friday, 1st October 2021.
Dave Grohl on new memoir "The Storyteller", and Dramatizing Jimmy Savile?
Published on Thursday, 30th September 2021.
Sopranos writer David Chase on new film The Many Saints of Newark.
Published on Wednesday, 29th September 2021.
Kenyan British Comedian Njambi McGrath on her new show Accidental Coconut.
Published on Tuesday, 28th September 2021.
Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, BTS at the UN and new film, The Man Who Sold His Skin.
Published on Monday, 27th September 2021.
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder celebrated.
Published on Friday, 24th September 2021.
Front Row at the Contains Strong Language Festival from Coventry, UK City of Culture 2021
Published on Thursday, 23rd September 2021.
Spiers and Boden have reunited, recorded a new album, and are embarking on a UK tour.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd September 2021.
We announce the winner of the 2021 Art Fund Museum of the Year.
Published on Tuesday, 21st September 2021.
Ellen E Jones reviews Everybody's Talking about Jamie.
Published on Monday, 20th September 2021.
Peter Brathwaite, Indecent play review, Small Bells Ring story barge, Lucy Caldwell.
Published on Friday, 17th September 2021.
Eve Manning co-director of Peaceophobia discusses the show.
Published on Thursday, 16th September 2021.
Anuradha Roy on 'The Earthspinner', Propaganda ceramics, British Ceramics Biennial
Published on Wednesday, 15th September 2021.
Julian Clary on playing Norman in Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser.
Published on Tuesday, 14th September 2021.
Best-selling novelist Liane Moriarty on her new novel Apples Never Fall.
Published on Monday, 13th September 2021.
BBC National Short Story Award shortlist announced, tenor Stuart Skelton, Shang-Chi film.
Published on Friday, 10th September 2021.
Elijah Wood talks about his role as criminal profiler Bill Hagmaier in No Man of God
Published on Thursday, 9th September 2021.
Sandra Oh in The Chair, a US academic comedy drama on Netflix.
Published on Wednesday, 8th September 2021.
Photographer Shirin Neshat on her film directing debut, Land Of Dreams.
Published on Tuesday, 7th September 2021.
Cathy Brady's Wildfire, Mick Fleetwood on Peter Green, Jean Paul Belmondo obit.
Published on Monday, 6th September 2021.
Spencer at the Venice Film Festival, Sally Rooney's Beautiful World review, Mogwai.
Published on Friday, 3rd September 2021.
Quentin Tarantino discusses his debut novel.
Published on Thursday, 2nd September 2021.
Professor John Drury from Sussex University explains the Covid risks posed by large crowds
Published on Wednesday, 1st September 2021.
Hugh Quarshie and Steve Coogan, the Paraorchestra, Daisy Haggard.
Published on Tuesday, 31st August 2021.
Actor Liz Carr looks back at her career, and how it took her from the Wirral to Hollywood.
Published on Monday, 30th August 2021.
Paula Hawkins, Nia DaCosta, Our Ladies film review, and paralympic dressage music.
Published on Friday, 27th August 2021.
Jason deCaires Taylor on his new underwater museum Musan, built off the coast of Cyprus.
Published on Thursday, 26th August 2021.
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood on life in The Rolling Stones.
Published on Wednesday, 25th August 2021.
David Hepworth on the late Charlie Watts, Natalya Romaniw on preparing to play Tosca.
Published on Tuesday, 24th August 2021.
American conductor Kalena Bovell makes her Proms debut with Chineke! Orchestra this week.
Published on Monday, 23rd August 2021.
Nicolas Cage film Pig, Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney at the Proms, comedy The White Lotus
Published on Friday, 20th August 2021.
At last, Cinderella went to the ball! Sarah Crompton reviews Lloyd Webber's musical.
Published on Thursday, 19th August 2021.
Live from The Edinburgh Festival, including film director Isaac Julien.
Published on Wednesday, 18th August 2021.
Coming live from the Edinburgh Festival, with Henning Wehn and playwright Frances Poet
Published on Tuesday, 17th August 2021.
Ahmad Sarmast on hopes for music-making as Afghanistan falls under Taliban control.
Published on Monday, 16th August 2021.
Pianist Vikingur Olafsson is in the studio to talk about audiences, live music, and Mozart
Published on Friday, 13th August 2021.
Director Dominic Cooke talks about creating the new film, The Courier.
Published on Thursday, 12th August 2021.
Russian composer Igor Stravinsky died 50 years ago. Is his influence still felt?
Published on Wednesday, 11th August 2021.
Kae Tempest on Paradise, their adaptation of Sophocles' Philoctetes starring Lesley Sharp.
Published on Tuesday, 10th August 2021.
Phil Wang joins us to discuss his stand-up show, Philly Philly Wang Wang.
Published on Monday, 9th August 2021.
Tom Stoppard on the return of his award-winning play, Leopoldstadt
Published on Friday, 6th August 2021.
Sarah, Duchess of York, talks to Nick Ahad about her novel, Her Heart for a Compass.
Published on Thursday, 5th August 2021.
Repairing artefacts damaged in the Beirut port explosion, one year ago today
Published on Wednesday, 4th August 2021.
Booker Prize shortlisted writer Elif Shafak on her new novel The Island of Missing Trees.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd August 2021.
Kathleen Marshall and Sutton Foster on Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre in London.
Published on Monday, 2nd August 2021.
Laura Snapes reviews the new Billie Eilish album, Happier Than Ever.
Published on Friday, 30th July 2021.
Museum of Making, Derby County Football Club's Poet-in-Residence, Kedleston Hall
Published on Thursday, 29th July 2021.
Tokyo: Art & Photography, and Brett Goldstein and Nick Mohammed on TV series Ted Lasso.
Published on Wednesday, 28th July 2021.
Samira talks to theatre director David Lan live from Gaziantep about The Walk.
Published on Tuesday, 27th July 2021.
Prince's longtime music director Morris Hayes on posthumous new album Welcome 2 America.
Published on Monday, 26th July 2021.
Playwright April De Angelis joins Tom to talk about her new musical, Gin Craze!
Published on Friday, 23rd July 2021.
Susannah Clapp reviews the new production of Hamlet, starring Ian McKellen.
Published on Thursday, 22nd July 2021.
Musician Jon Batiste, Art Fund Museum of the Year shortlist, The Humboldt Forum in Berlin
Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte on his film Night of the Kings, set in a notorious jail
Published on Tuesday, 20th July 2021.
Debbie Harry on a new Blondie album.
Published on Monday, 19th July 2021.
Tarantino in his only UK broadcast interview for the novel 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'
Published on Friday, 16th July 2021.
Composer Anna Meredith on her piece inspired by the random movement of dodgems.
Published on Thursday, 15th July 2021.
Julien Faraut on his documentary on a TV hit, the 1964 Japanese women's volleyball team.
Published on Wednesday, 14th July 2021.
Full Monty producer Uberto Pasolini on directing new movie Nowhere Special.
Published on Tuesday, 13th July 2021.
The Marcus Rashford mural which was defaced is part of a community street art project.
Published on Monday, 12th July 2021.
Llangollen bridge is wrapped in patchwork.
Published on Friday, 9th July 2021.
Laura Mvula's on her new album, Pink Noise
Published on Thursday, 8th July 2021.
Romeo & Juliet director Ola Ince, and harassment and bullying in the acting profession
Published on Wednesday, 7th July 2021.
A look at this year’s Manchester International Festival.
Published on Tuesday, 6th July 2021.
A retrospective of the Portuguese-born artist Paula Rego opens at Tate Britain this week.
Published on Monday, 5th July 2021.
Danish Oscar-winning film Another Round reviewed.
Published on Friday, 2nd July 2021.
Bobby Gillespie on his new album of duets with Jehnny Beth.
Published on Thursday, 1st July 2021.
Mark-Anthony Turnage on setting Arsenal's 1989 title-winning match to music.
Published on Wednesday, 30th June 2021.
Dickens reading his own works, Smart Fund, Randall Goosby's album Roots.
Published on Tuesday, 29th June 2021.
Simon Russell Beale on playing JS Bach on stage.
Published on Monday, 28th June 2021.
Siân Owen on adapting Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood for the National Theatre
Published on Friday, 25th June 2021.
Royal Ballet Principal Ballerina Marianela Núñez on Sleeping Beauty at the ROH.
Published on Thursday, 24th June 2021.
Tanika Gupta on her play about an 19 year old Gandhi studying law in the UK.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd June 2021.
Singer Joan Armatrading on her new album, and composer Erland Cooper.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd June 2021.
Lauryn Redding on Bloody Elle, her musical reopening Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre.
Published on Monday, 21st June 2021.
50 years after last playing Hamlet, Sir Ian McKellen returns to the role.
Published on Friday, 18th June 2021.
We announce the winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
Published on Thursday, 17th June 2021.
Colin Macleod performs, Jason Reynolds, Hanna Flint reviews 'Together'
Published on Wednesday, 16th June 2021.
Actor Timothy Spall on his new painting exhibition, Out of the Storm.
Published on Tuesday, 15th June 2021.
Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on his new musical film, In the Heights
Published on Monday, 14th June 2021.
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, and After Life on stage
Published on Friday, 11th June 2021.
Noel Gallagher on Back the Way We Came, a hits album from a decade with High Flying Birds.
Published on Thursday, 10th June 2021.
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé on her debut, Ace of Spades, which landed a million-dollar book deal
Published on Wednesday, 9th June 2021.
Artist Ai Weiwei on Gilded Cage, his new sculpture at Blenheim Palace.
Published on Tuesday, 8th June 2021.
Florian Zeller on his film The Father starring Anthony Hopkins.
Published on Monday, 7th June 2021.
Actress Joanna Scanlan talks about her role as Mary in After Love.
Published on Friday, 4th June 2021.
Sierra Leonean journalist Sorious Samura on his documentary, Sing, Freetown
Published on Thursday, 3rd June 2021.
Forest for Change created by Es Devlin.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd June 2021.
Animal films Gunda and First Cow reviewed.
Published on Tuesday, 1st June 2021.
Paulette Randall on the London 2012 Olympics and directing the plays of August Wilson.
Published on Monday, 31st May 2021.
Pianist Mitsuko Uchida returns to the Wigmore Hall.
Published on Friday, 28th May 2021.
Chris Addison discusses the new series of his comedy, Breeders.
Published on Thursday, 27th May 2021.
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh discusses Disney's anticipated 101 Dalmatians prequel, Cruella.
Published on Wednesday, 26th May 2021.
The Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam opens a landmark exhibition, Slavery.
Published on Tuesday, 25th May 2021.
Writer-producer David Weil on new Amazon fantasy series, Solos.
Published on Monday, 24th May 2021.
Front Row on Bob Dylan at 80, with Bob Geldof, Ann Powers, Martin Carthy and Kerry Shale
Published on Friday, 21st May 2021.
A look at the largest publlc exhbition of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth's work.
Published on Thursday, 20th May 2021.
Composer Roxanna Panufnik on her new album, Heartfelt.
Published on Wednesday, 19th May 2021.
Julie Hesmondhalgh on theatres reopening, Lie Down and Listen, Photographer James Barnor
Published on Tuesday, 18th May 2021.
Barry Jenkins on his adaptation of Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad
Published on Monday, 17th May 2021.
Cinemas reopen, St Vincent, Maylis de Kerangal, festival ticketing.
Published on Friday, 14th May 2021.
Rachel Maclean on her installation critiquing the decline of the High Street.
Published on Thursday, 13th May 2021.
Theatres in England reopen soon, what will the experience be like for audiences and staff?
Published on Wednesday, 12th May 2021.
Two Distant Strangers, Golden Globes, U.Me: The Musical and Resident Evil Village reviewed
Published on Tuesday, 11th May 2021.
David Hockney's new iPad art, TV drama Three Families and novelist Rónán Hession.
Emily Mortimer on her new adaptation of The Pursuit of Love.
Published on Friday, 7th May 2021.
Don Warrington on playing a grieving father in Radio 4 drama Running with Lions.
Published on Thursday, 6th May 2021.
Anna Kerrigan on her new film, Cowboys.
Published on Wednesday, 5th May 2021.
Novelist Rachel Kushner and poet Kei Miller on the attraction of the essay form.
Published on Tuesday, 4th May 2021.
Artists and writers reflect on recent approaches to memorials.
Published on Monday, 3rd May 2021.
Theresa Lola performs her specially commissioned poem to mark 70 years of the RFH
Published on Friday, 30th April 2021.
Raoul Peck's new documentary, dance photographer Camilla Greenwell and tufting on TikTok
Published on Thursday, 29th April 2021.
Bernadine Evaristo, chair of the Women's Prize juding panel, reveals this year's shortlist
Published on Wednesday, 28th April 2021.
Netflix series Shadow and Bone reviewed, Lemn Sissay's Brighton Festival, Gwendoline Riley
Published on Tuesday, 27th April 2021.
Nicola Benedetti and Mark Simpson on the violin concerto he wrote for her.
Published on Monday, 26th April 2021.
At the age of 80, Tom Jones is releasing a new album in which he reflects back on his life
Published on Friday, 23rd April 2021.
Rose Matafeo on her rom-com Starstruck about a surprise encounter with a famous film star.
Published on Thursday, 22nd April 2021.
Noel Clarke discusses his latest role in the ITV drama Viewpoint
Published on Wednesday, 21st April 2021.
Kayo Chingonyi's new poetry collection, Joyce DiDonato on Schubert’s Winterreise.
Published on Tuesday, 20th April 2021.
London Grammar, Sitcom Frank of Ireland reviewed, Photographer Craig Easton
Published on Monday, 19th April 2021.
Deborah Warner on Peter Grimes, and Helen McCrory remembered.
Published on Friday, 16th April 2021.
Paul Theroux on his new novel, Under The Wave at Waimea.
Published on Thursday, 15th April 2021.
Testament on giving the Greek myth of Orpheus a Yorkshire twist.
Published on Wednesday, 14th April 2021.
We review Kate Winslet's Ammonite loosely based on the life of palaeontologist Mary Anning
Published on Tuesday, 13th April 2021.
We review ITV psychological thriller Too Close, starring Emily Watson.
Published on Monday, 12th April 2021.
A review of Taylor Swift's new album Fearless. Plus David Almond on his latest novel.
Published on Saturday, 10th April 2021.
Peggy Seeger on her new album The First Farewell.
Published on Thursday, 8th April 2021.
Actress Katherine Parkinson talks about writing her play, Sitting, in which she also stars
Published on Wednesday, 7th April 2021.
Riz Ahmed on his Oscar-nominated performance in Sound of Metal
Published on Tuesday, 6th April 2021.
Michael Rosen reflects on his hospitalisation with Covid.
Published on Monday, 5th April 2021.
An exploration of the colour blue in contemporary culture.
Published on Friday, 2nd April 2021.
Director Lee Isaac Chung on Minari, a film inspired by his childhood in rural Arkansas.
Published on Thursday, 1st April 2021.
Leading theatre makers discuss the state of disabled theatre.
Published on Wednesday, 31st March 2021.
International Booker Prize, Joanne Harris and her translator, Who should translate work?
Published on Tuesday, 30th March 2021.
Tahar Rahim in The Mauritanian, The Lip by Charlie Carroll, new audio soap Greenborne.
Published on Monday, 29th March 2021.
New films about Tina Turner and Demi Lovato reviewed.
Published on Friday, 26th March 2021.
Emerald Fennell on her revenge thriller, Promising Young Woman, which stars Carey Mulligan
Published on Thursday, 25th March 2021.
Playwright Mark Ravenhill, The Future of Festivals, 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize.
Published on Wednesday, 24th March 2021.
Orlando Bloom on his film Retaliation, and the Liverpool Biennial gets underway.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd March 2021.
Nile Rodgers discusses his voice-interactive digital portrait.
Published on Monday, 22nd March 2021.
Hamilton's Giles Terera on writing his first play, The Meaning of Zong.
Published on Friday, 19th March 2021.
Michael Rosen's Covid book, The Band Plays On drama, Zack Snyder’s Justice League reviewed
Published on Thursday, 18th March 2021.
No Ordinary Man, Dream, Lofi Hip Hop and James Levine.
Published on Wednesday, 17th March 2021.
One year after theatres closed due to Covid, what was the impact and what is the legacy?
Published on Tuesday, 16th March 2021.
Rocks director Sarah Gavron and writer Theresa Ikoko, and today's Oscar nominations.
Published on Monday, 15th March 2021.
Aria Code podcast, Yaa Gyasi's new novel, Sky drama The Flight Attendant reviewed.
Published on Friday, 12th March 2021.
The joy of cassettes: their rise, decline, near-extinction - and recent resurgence.
Published on Thursday, 11th March 2021.
Netflix drama 'The One', Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist, Samuel West regional theatre.
Published on Wednesday, 10th March 2021.
Hilary Hahn's Paris; the BAFTAs; reading competitively.
Published on Tuesday, 9th March 2021.
Novelist Oana Aristide, Remembering poet Stevie Smith, and Aleks Krotoski explains NFTs.
Published on Monday, 8th March 2021.
David Mamet; The Glorias and Moxie reviewed; Danielle Evans' short story collection.
Published on Friday, 5th March 2021.
MC Grammar on getting children to love reading.
Published on Thursday, 4th March 2021.
Guitarist Pat Metheny on his new album.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd March 2021.
The Anchoress and her new album, Your Honour reviewed and Stories That Get Us Through.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd March 2021.
Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel, Klara and the Sun, reviewed. Can robots have humanity?
Published on Monday, 1st March 2021.
The United States vs Billie Holiday starring Andra Day reviewed
Published on Friday, 26th February 2021.
Artists Gilbert & George on their new online exhibition.
Published on Thursday, 25th February 2021.
Martina Cole has won the Diamond Dagger award for crime writing.
Published on Wednesday, 24th February 2021.
Marking 200 years since the death of John Keats.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd February 2021.
As a prequel to The Great Gatsby is published, we discuss the appeal of the form.
Published on Monday, 22nd February 2021.
Leicester Curve’s recent award-winning revival of the musical The Color Purple reviewed.
Published on Friday, 19th February 2021.
Sarah Connolly on singing in Wagner's epic four opera cycle, The Ring.
Published on Thursday, 18th February 2021.
K-Pop and the South Korean music industry, Kate Fox, touring shows in Europe post Brexit.
Published on Wednesday, 17th February 2021.
Review of new play Good Grief starring Sian Clifford and Nikesh Patel.
Published on Tuesday, 16th February 2021.
What can literature teach us about waiting?
Published on Monday, 15th February 2021.
British Jazz pianist Julian Joseph remembers Chick Corea.
Published on Friday, 12th February 2021.
Ben Hopkins' novel Cathedral, Radio drama Faith, Hope and Glory, Luke Jerram gets creative
Published on Thursday, 11th February 2021.
Documentary-maker Adam Curtis on his newest work, Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.
Published on Wednesday, 10th February 2021.
A review of News of the World, and tributes to Mary Wilson and Jean-Claude Carriere.
Published on Tuesday, 9th February 2021.
Cathy Yan; Michael Landy; Musical responses to news stories; Coventry City of Culture 2021
Published on Monday, 8th February 2021.
Luke Jerram, Malcolm & Marie, and Christopher Plummer remembered
Published on Friday, 5th February 2021.
Sam Neill on new film Rams, a new colour in blue paint, Sarah Maple Gets Creative.
Published on Thursday, 4th February 2021.
Highlights from today's Golden Globe nominations & the first ever online Sundance Festival
Published on Wednesday, 3rd February 2021.
Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald discusses his new YouTube film Life In A Day 2020.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd February 2021.
Jill Halfpenny; Theatre Royal Stratford East archive; queer writing through the centuries.
We review Carey Mulligan's latest film, The Dig; archeology and love in pre-war England.
Published on Friday, 29th January 2021.
We launch our campaign to get you creating beautiful artworks at home.
Published on Thursday, 28th January 2021.
Celeste on her debut album, Not Your Muse.
Published on Wednesday, 27th January 2021.
Craftivism with Jenny Eclair, Gaming sitcom Dead Pixels and Costa Book of the Year winner.
Published on Tuesday, 26th January 2021.
Jonzi D on Black dance, and TS Eliot Prizewinner Bhanu Kapil.
Published on Monday, 25th January 2021.
Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, and the TS Eliot Prize shortlist.
Published on Friday, 22nd January 2021.
We review Russell T Davies' It's a Sin starring Olly Alexander.
Published on Thursday, 21st January 2021.
Schubert's song-cycle Winterreise celebrated by singers Roderick Williams and David Webb.
Published on Wednesday, 20th January 2021.
Patricia Highsmith centenary, Caroline Shaw on her new album, Baby Done comedy reviewed.
Published on Tuesday, 19th January 2021.
Ashley Walters; Erica Wagner; Torrey Peters; Phil Spector's Wall of Sound
Published on Monday, 18th January 2021.
What hopes for music festivals later this year?
Published on Friday, 15th January 2021.
David Bowie film Stardust reviewed, Jenni Fagan novel Luckenbooth, 45,500-year-old artwork
Published on Thursday, 14th January 2021.
Drag kings John Travulva and Don One, and novelist Courttia Newland
Published on Wednesday, 13th January 2021.
Oscar-winner Regina King on her directorial debut One Night In Miami.
Published on Tuesday, 12th January 2021.
Writer Ben Okri on his new anthology, A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn.
Published on Monday, 11th January 2021.
David Bowie's legacy, Costa Award-winning writer Ingrid Persaud, Pieces Of A Woman review.
Published on Friday, 8th January 2021.
BBC Sound of 2021 winner Pa Salieu, Finnish TV drama, children's author Natasha Farrant.
Published on Thursday, 7th January 2021.
Winner of the Costa Biography Award, Lee Lawrence on his memoir The Louder I Will Sing
Published on Wednesday, 6th January 2021.
Tony McNamara on The Great, the "occasionally true story" of Catherine the Great.
Published on Tuesday, 5th January 2021.
Katya Adler on Dante; Costa category winners announced; Costa Novel winner interview.
Published on Monday, 4th January 2021.
Violinist Tasmin Little on her performing career.
Published on Thursday, 31st December 2020.
Dame Evelyn Glennie talks about her new albums and director Tom Shankland on The Serpent
Published on Wednesday, 30th December 2020.
Lang Lang discusses and plays from Bach's Goldberg Variations.
Published on Tuesday, 29th December 2020.
Front Row on poetry in the lock down and beyond, with the Poet Laureate - and new poems.
Published on Monday, 28th December 2020.
Tim Minchin on Matilda, success and failure, and his first solo album
Published on Friday, 25th December 2020.
Death to 2020, Le Gateau Chocolat, Neil Gaiman, winner of Radio 3's carol competition.
Published on Thursday, 24th December 2020.
Mackenzie Crook as Worzel Gummidge, cooperative board games, Janey Godley's video short.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd December 2020.
Chris van Dusen on Bridgerton
Published on Tuesday, 22nd December 2020.
Published on Monday, 21st December 2020.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom director George C Wolfe
Published on Friday, 18th December 2020.
Visionary director David Fincher on Mank.
Published on Thursday, 17th December 2020.
Boris Giltburg plays Beethoven, Christmas films, Scottee on the joys of Abigail's Party
Published on Wednesday, 16th December 2020.
Violinist Jennifer Pike tells us what makes The Lark Ascending the nation's favourite.
Published on Tuesday, 15th December 2020.
John le Carré remembered; The Pin - comedy duo; Aliza Nisenbaum at Tate Liverpool.
Published on Monday, 14th December 2020.
A look back at the career of Barbara Windsor.
Published on Friday, 11th December 2020.
Published on Thursday, 10th December 2020.
George Clooney's The Midnight Sky. Cyberpunk 2077. The debate on the National Trust.
Published on Wednesday, 9th December 2020.
Julia Hart on writing and directing I'm Your Woman, Benjamin Britten's opera Owen Wingrave
Published on Tuesday, 8th December 2020.
Ryan Murphy’s new film starring Meryl Streep, James Corden and Nicole Kidman reviewed.
Published on Monday, 7th December 2020.
Viggo Mortensen's new film, Sports Book of the Year winner, Alex Wheatle's lockdown hobby
Published on Friday, 4th December 2020.
Tracey Emin and Edvard Much at the RA, The Crown controversy, The Announcer reviewed
Published on Thursday, 3rd December 2020.
Singer Katie Melua, and Tate Britain re-opens with the work of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Published on Wednesday, 2nd December 2020.
Musician Yazz Ahmed. Plus Francis Ford Coppola's new recut of The Godfather Part III.
Published on Tuesday, 1st December 2020.
Henry Blake; museums and galleries and Covid; John Mullen on Jane Austen's Emma.
Published on Monday, 30th November 2020.
Avi Avital on the wonders of the mandolin and its repertoire.
Published on Friday, 27th November 2020.
Hollywood actress Amy Adams on her new movie, Hillbilly Elegy.
Published on Thursday, 26th November 2020.
Roy Williams' new drama Death of England, poems from Fred D'Aguiar, Defending Digga D doc.
Published on Wednesday, 25th November 2020.
Simon Russell Beale on Scrooge; Costa Book Awards shortlists announced; Guy Garvey.
Published on Tuesday, 24th November 2020.
Booker prize winner Douglas Stuart on his novel Shuggie Bain.
Tim Minchin on his debut solo album Apart Together, and new gaming consoles.
Published on Friday, 20th November 2020.
A Front Row special live from the Roundhouse, London
Published on Thursday, 19th November 2020.
Gillian Anderson on portraying Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of The Crown.
Published on Wednesday, 18th November 2020.
Belgian film Patrick, Colm Tóibín on James Joyce's The House Of The Dead.
Published on Tuesday, 17th November 2020.
Fela Kuti documentary maker, Biyi Bandele; books dealing with trauma; The Queen's Gambit
Published on Monday, 16th November 2020.
Steve McQueen on his Small Axe films and the enduring popularity of The Simpsons.
Published on Saturday, 14th November 2020.
Booker Prize Book Group, Julian Lloyd Webber on Malcolm Arnold, Nick Park's lockdown life.
Published on Thursday, 12th November 2020.
Tana French on her new novel; Ralph McTell's musical tribute to The Unknown Soldier.
Published on Wednesday, 11th November 2020.
South African cellist and singer Abel Selaocoe's classical, African and contemporary music
Published on Tuesday, 10th November 2020.
Women in classical myths speak in 15 Heroines; Front Row's Book Club with Douglas Stuart
Published on Monday, 9th November 2020.
Ruth Wilson in His Dark Materials; Dame Judie Dench remembers Geoffrey Palmer
Published on Friday, 6th November 2020.
Documentary The Disordered Eye and Booker Book Club with Maaza Mengiste.
Published on Thursday, 5th November 2020.
Poet Alice Oswald discusses Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology, and writing memoirs.
Published on Wednesday, 4th November 2020.
Dame Kristin Scott Thomas discusses the fine details of screen acting with Tom Sutcliffe.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd November 2020.
Cellist Steven Isserlis plays, arts in the new lockdown, Booker shortlisted Avni Doshi.
Published on Monday, 2nd November 2020.
Sam Smith's new album Love Goes, Cold War Steve, American elections on film, JWM Turner.
Published on Friday, 30th October 2020.
Dawn French discusses her latest novel and reflects on a long and varied comedy career.
Tsitsi Dangarembga discusses her novel This Mournable Body in the Booker Prize Book Group
Published on Wednesday, 28th October 2020.
Elisabeth Moss on playing horror writer Shirley Jackson and directing The Handmaid's Tale
Published on Tuesday, 27th October 2020.
Sofia Coppola's new film, Diane Cook’s Booker Book Group, Olivier Awards roundup
Published on Monday, 26th October 2020.
Frankenstein: six young artists challenge how today's society creates its own monsters.
Published on Friday, 23rd October 2020.
Geeta Pendse presents from Nottingham, with local lad James Graham on his new rom-com.
Published on Thursday, 22nd October 2020.
Violinist Tasmin Little, Derry International Choir Festival, Review of Summer of '85.
Published on Wednesday, 21st October 2020.
A collaboration with the Aké Festival: leading black writers and artists in discussion
Published on Tuesday, 20th October 2020.
Nicole Kidman's new thriller, Professional magicians and COVID, Birmingham Royal Ballet
Published on Monday, 19th October 2020.
Roddy Doyle on his new novel Love, and The Kronos Quartet celebrate Pete Seeger.
Published on Friday, 16th October 2020.
Anais Mitchell on Hadestown; Belfast International Arts Festival; Chris Killip remembered.
Published on Thursday, 15th October 2020.
Jodi Picoult on her novel The Book of Two Ways.
Published on Wednesday, 14th October 2020.
Hugh Laurie on new drama Roadkill, Aberdeen Art Gallery, arts degrees during Covid.
Published on Tuesday, 13th October 2020.
As the first of the government grants are awarded we ask if it is going to be enough.
Published on Monday, 12th October 2020.
Alex Wheatle's new novel, Miranda July film Kajillionaire, London Film Festival roundup.
Published on Friday, 9th October 2020.
Skin, the lead vocalist of British band Skunk Anansie, looks back over her life.
Published on Thursday, 8th October 2020.
We consider the future of music making across the UK amidst musicians' protest.
Published on Wednesday, 7th October 2020.
We announce the winners of the National Short Story Award and the Young Writers' Award.
Published on Tuesday, 6th October 2020.
Grace Before Jones: Camera, Disco, Studio - a new exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary.
Published on Monday, 5th October 2020.
Radha Blank in The 40 Year Old Version, Public Enemy's Chuck D, Dana Gioia, Friday Reviews
Published on Friday, 2nd October 2020.
A special half hour Front Row with Graham Norton.
Published on Thursday, 1st October 2020.
Miss Virginia reviewed, and Sarah Nicolls who plays an inside-out vertical grand piano.
Published on Wednesday, 30th September 2020.
The National Gallery's ground-breaking Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition
Published on Tuesday, 29th September 2020.
2020 Booker shortlist, Nicholas Serota, BBC National Short Story Award nominee Sarah Hall.
Mercury Prize winner Michael Kiwanuka, The Boys in the Band film; freelancers in the arts.
Published on Monday, 28th September 2020.
Poets Kate Clanchy, Jacob Polley and Zosia Wand join Katie Popperwell at the festival.
Published on Friday, 25th September 2020.
David McKee, creator of Elmer and Mr Benn, on his BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award.
Published on Thursday, 24th September 2020.
Mike Bartlett's Doctor Foster spinoff, Miss Juneteenth, Susanna Clarke's new novel
Published on Wednesday, 23rd September 2020.
Skin from Skunk Anansie on her new memoir.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd September 2020.
New ITV drama Honour, Jesse Armstrong, Drive in opera, 'Festival of Brexit'.
Published on Monday, 21st September 2020.
Katherine Ryan in The Duchess.
Published on Friday, 18th September 2020.
New film Rocks, Poet Phoebe Stuckes, and the JK Rowling controversy.
Published on Thursday, 17th September 2020.
Tricky on his new album, Fall to Pieces. Plus live theatre returns to Northern Ireland
Published on Wednesday, 16th September 2020.
Writer Dennis Kelly, and theatre producer Nica Burns.
Published on Monday, 14th September 2020.
David Tennant on playing infamous serial killer Dennis Nilsen.
Published on Friday, 11th September 2020.
Mark Gatiss on Diana Rigg and Lang Lang discusses Bach's Goldberg Variations at the piano.
Published on Thursday, 10th September 2020.
The future of Arts broadcasting, Women's Prize For Fiction winner, Antonio Campos.
Published on Wednesday, 9th September 2020.
Andrew O'Hagan on his novel Mayflies. Plus ITV's new drama The Singapore Grip.
Published on Tuesday, 8th September 2020.
Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, Venice Film Festival, Understanding artworks.
Published on Monday, 7th September 2020.
Does Disney's live-action remake of Mulan work?
Published on Friday, 4th September 2020.
The history of the office in culture; Kate Clanchy on her book How to Grow Your Own Poem.
Published on Thursday, 3rd September 2020.
Bernardine Evaristo, Anoushka Shankar at the Proms, Film Les Misérables reviewed.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd September 2020.
Ruth Jones, Roger Kneebone on craft and skills, Game Review, The Tempest.
Published on Tuesday, 1st September 2020.
Robert Macfarlane on his books, collaborating with artists and musicians and campaigning.
Published on Monday, 31st August 2020.
Luke Jerram on In Memoriam - his artwork to commemorate those lost to the pandemic.
Published on Friday, 28th August 2020.
The return of Eastenders & composer Errollyn Wallen on rearranging Jerusalem for the Proms
Published on Thursday, 27th August 2020.
Natalie Haynes on A Thousand Ships; International Booker Prize winner reviewed.
Published on Wednesday, 26th August 2020.
An extended interview with dramatist Lucy Prebble.
Published on Tuesday, 25th August 2020.
Algorithms in art, Composer Hannah Kendall, Daljit Nagra's Poetry Roundup, Cuties film.
The long-awaited Tenet on the big screen - Front Row reviews.
Published on Friday, 21st August 2020.
Thea Sharrock on combining CGI and live action in her family movie about a gorilla.
Published on Thursday, 20th August 2020.
The Wives of Stanley Spencer, the destruction of arts and culture in Beirut.
Published on Wednesday, 19th August 2020.
Making modern work in a Roman theatre; how to create a prequel; yet more arts redundancies
Published on Tuesday, 18th August 2020.
An interview with Jamaican dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, 2020 PEN Pinter Prize winner.
Gloria Estefan on her album Brazil305, a new film version of Pinocchio, poet Shane McCrae.
Published on Friday, 14th August 2020.
Lyricist Don Black on writing songs like Diamonds are Forever and Born Free.
Published on Thursday, 13th August 2020.
TV drama Lovecraft Country, set in 1950s Jim Crow America, reviewed.
Published on Wednesday, 12th August 2020.
Glyndebourne Opera returns. My Rembrandt film. How dangerous is playing the trumpet?
Published on Tuesday, 11th August 2020.
Novelist Xiaolu Guo, Belarus Free Theatre arrests, Bernard Leach's St Ives pottery
Published on Monday, 10th August 2020.
Es Devlin on her artwork marking the 75th anniversary of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Published on Friday, 7th August 2020.
Arts in the Midlands, Love Letters to Scotland, and Soweto Kinch's Lockdown Discovery.
Published on Thursday, 6th August 2020.
Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, shortlisted for the Women's Prize.
Published on Wednesday, 5th August 2020.
Artist, writer, and filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria on Little Birds, and Simon Armitage.
Published on Tuesday, 4th August 2020.
Barbara Kingsolver, designer Es Devlin, and artist Thomas J Price
Published on Monday, 3rd August 2020.
Sir Alan Parker remembered by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
Published on Friday, 31st July 2020.
Heather Phillipson's Trafalgar Square whipped cream sculpture, and Derry Girls' Lisa McGee
Published on Thursday, 30th July 2020.
Hilary Mantel, Electronic at The Design Museum, Ai Wei Wei, the future for the panto?
Published on Wednesday, 29th July 2020.
Shawanda Corbett, The Booker longlist, Claire Oakley
Published on Tuesday, 28th July 2020.
Folk singer Shirley Collins on her album Heart's Ease.
Published on Monday, 27th July 2020.
Director Mira Nair on her television adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel, A Suitable Boy.
Published on Friday, 24th July 2020.
Jimmy McGovern; crime writing; dancing in lockdown; photographer Tyler Mitchell.
Director Oliver Stone on getting into Hollywood chronicled in his memoir Chasing the Light
Published on Thursday, 23rd July 2020.
Nell Dunn on her new memoir The Muse, Kelly O'Sullivan, 846, Q Magazine.
Published on Tuesday, 21st July 2020.
Josephine Mackerras on her film, Alice, about a woman who becomes an escort.
Published on Monday, 20th July 2020.
Alfre Woodard on playing a death row prison warden in Clemency.
Published on Friday, 17th July 2020.
Mike Hodges, director of Get Carter, on his 1989 film Black Rainbow, with Rosanna Arquette
Published on Thursday, 16th July 2020.
Winning back audience trust, the doctor turned novelist, musical collaboration in lockdown
The Chicks, the biggest selling U.S. female band, on their new album Gaslighter.
Published on Tuesday, 14th July 2020.
Review of The Plot Against America, Rachel De-Lahay, Anish Kapoor, Daniel Sloss.
Published on Monday, 13th July 2020.
Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason perform live from their family home.
Published on Friday, 10th July 2020.
Philip Pullman and Northern Lights 25 years on, Simon Schama and a review of Mrs America.
Published on Thursday, 9th July 2020.
US playwright Katori Hall; the future of cinema after lockdown.
Published on Wednesday, 8th July 2020.
Rufus Wainwright, Neil Mendoza, Tate Bursaries and Ringo Starr at 80.
Published on Tuesday, 7th July 2020.
Arts funding - is it enough? Wayne McGregor's new ballet and a tribute to Ennio Morricone.
Published on Monday, 6th July 2020.
Theatres wrapped in pink to campaign for survival.
Published on Friday, 3rd July 2020.
The Secrets She Keeps, Fyzal Boulifa on his new film Lynn + Lucy, Urdu poetry in Bradford.
Published on Thursday, 2nd July 2020.
Werner Herzog on his latest film, Danny Sapani on play Les Blancs, Watford's big bookclub.
Published on Wednesday, 1st July 2020.
Simon Rattle and other leading figures discuss the crisis facing the arts.
Published on Tuesday, 30th June 2020.
Kevin Kwan, author of the Crazy Rich Asians novels, and ENO's Annilese Miskimmon
Published on Monday, 29th June 2020.
Michael Palin on Waiting for Godot
Published on Friday, 26th June 2020.
Theatre Royal Plymouth in crisis, Stuart Evers novel, Eurovision the film, Colston statue.
Published on Thursday, 25th June 2020.
Griselda Pollock, the first art historian to win the prestigious Holberg Prize.
Published on Wednesday, 24th June 2020.
Rethinking the arts for a post Covid-19 world.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd June 2020.
We review the remake of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads and consider the art of the monologue
Published on Monday, 22nd June 2020.
Rebel Wilson on her TV series Last One Laughing, and actor Sir Ian Holm remembered.
Published on Friday, 19th June 2020.
Tributes to Dame Vera Lynn, guitarist Sean Shibe and PlacePrints audio plays reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 18th June 2020.
Judd Apatow on The King of Staten Island, and the Carnegie and Greenaway winners announced
Published on Wednesday, 17th June 2020.
Jean Toomer's Cane adapted, Bloomsday, Alison Brackenbury, Museums in lockdown
Published on Tuesday, 16th June 2020.
Tracey Emin on the artworks she has produced during lockdown.
Published on Monday, 15th June 2020.
TV drama The Salisbury Poisonings, and Víkingur Ólafsson's final performance for Front Row
Published on Friday, 12th June 2020.
Simon Bird on Days of the Bagnold Summer, Whiteness discussed, Ruth Patterson, Tony Walsh
Published on Thursday, 11th June 2020.
Robert Lindsay on his first acting job 50 years ago. Plus BBC DG Tony Hall.
Published on Wednesday, 10th June 2020.
Spike Lee on Da 5 Bloods, his film about African American veterans returning to Vietnam.
Published on Tuesday, 9th June 2020.
Actor and writer Michaela Coel on I May Destroy You, and Bristol's Colston statue.
Published on Monday, 8th June 2020.
Víkingur Ólafsson performs Bach. Plus David Greig's new play.
Published on Friday, 5th June 2020.
Andrew Patterson on The Vast of Night, an homage to 50s sci-fi TV.
Published on Thursday, 4th June 2020.
Staged, starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen, and an anthology of Ethiopian poetry.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd June 2020.
Carrie Mae Weems on the role art can play in the current crisis in the US
Published on Tuesday, 2nd June 2020.
TV drama about the Windrush scandal reviewed and Joanna Briscoe on her new novel Seduction
Published on Monday, 1st June 2020.
Indira Varma on A Room of One's Own.
Published on Friday, 29th May 2020.
Will the finances ever stack up and what is lost when there's no crowd?
Published on Thursday, 28th May 2020.
Bestselling author John Grisham on his latest novel.
Published on Wednesday, 27th May 2020.
Tracee Ellis Ross on The High Note, and Walter Iuzzolino on Walter Presents.
Published on Tuesday, 26th May 2020.
AM Homes, writer of darkly comic fiction, talks about her novels, short stories and memoir
Published on Monday, 25th May 2020.
Little Fires Everywhere and The County reviewed. The Archers and Coronavirus
Published on Friday, 22nd May 2020.
Unprecedented - new plays respond to the pandemic, Rubaiyat Hossain on her new film.
Published on Thursday, 21st May 2020.
We take a close look at the masterpiece as a hyper-resolution photograph of it goes online
Published on Wednesday, 20th May 2020.
Nebula-75 creator Stephen La Rivière, and singer Nancy Kerr.
Published on Tuesday, 19th May 2020.
Inua Ellams, writer of hit play Barber Shop Chronicles, on his life and work.
Netflix drama White Lines, and pianist Víkingur Ólafsson live from Reykjavík
Published on Friday, 15th May 2020.
Benjamin Zephaniah in conversation with Samira Ahmed.
Published on Thursday, 14th May 2020.
Jude Kelly on the first online WOW Festival, Emma Thompson reads poetry by Liz Lochhead.
Published on Wednesday, 13th May 2020.
Alicia Keys on her early life and career, and Vanessa Redgrave performs poetry for VE Day.
Published on Tuesday, 12th May 2020.
Harmonica player Will Pound. Plus the future of television after the lockdown.
Published on Monday, 11th May 2020.
Artist Jeremy Deller looks back at his career and reflects on making art under lockdown.
Published on Friday, 8th May 2020.
George the Poet, and pianist Víkingur Ólafsson.
Published on Thursday, 7th May 2020.
Film-maker, artist and writer Miranda July, The Fall's greatest album discussed.
Published on Wednesday, 6th May 2020.
Alice Wu on her film, The Half of It, a queer love triangle based on Cyrano de Bergerac.
Published on Tuesday, 5th May 2020.
Nicola Benedetti on her new free online tuition sessions and her Elgar album.
Published on Monday, 4th May 2020.
The benefits of craft, Víkingur Ólafsson performs live, Netflix series Hollywood reviewed
Published on Friday, 1st May 2020.
Dame Emma Thompson, and Damien Chazelle on The Eddy.
Published on Thursday, 30th April 2020.
James Bay plays his hit Hold Back the River live, and offers tips on playing the guitar.
Published on Wednesday, 29th April 2020.
Baritone Nmon Ford on new opera Orfeus, which fuses opera with house music.
Published on Tuesday, 28th April 2020.
Randy Newman's new song; Romeo and Juliet performed; the NHS on radio and TV.
Published on Monday, 27th April 2020.
Sophie Raworth and Naomi Alderman on TV drama Normal People. And pianist Víkingur Ólafsson
Published on Friday, 24th April 2020.
Director Oliver Hermanus and Sharon D. Clarke on World Book Night.
Paapa Essiedu's Hamlet, Arts Minister Caroline Dinenage, Turning tragedy into comedy
Published on Wednesday, 22nd April 2020.
Organist Anna Lapwood performs, and we announce The Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist.
Published on Tuesday, 21st April 2020.
Roderick Williams, Jackie Kay, author C Pam Zhang and Killing Eve Season 3
Published on Monday, 20th April 2020.
Adam Macqueen on imagining, in his first novel, that Jeremy Thorpe did murder his lover.
Artist Luke Jerram on replicating Covid-19 in sculpture.
Published on Thursday, 16th April 2020.
Patrick Stewart on his daily performance of Shakespeare's Sonnets.
Published on Wednesday, 15th April 2020.
Russell Howard on his new lockdown TV show made from his childhood bedroom.
Published on Tuesday, 14th April 2020.
Speaking in 2015, the late music hall veteran on his seven-decade career.
Published on Monday, 13th April 2020.
Martin Scorsese in conversation about his latest film, The Irishman
Published on Friday, 10th April 2020.
Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, Front Row's first Artist-in-Residence.
Published on Thursday, 9th April 2020.
James Graham on Quiz, his three-part television drama about the coughing major controversy
Published on Wednesday, 8th April 2020.
AL Kennedy's new short stories and fiddle player Sam Sweeney performs live
Published on Tuesday, 7th April 2020.
Wordsworth anniversary, Kerry Shale on working with Kubrick, composer Nainita Desa.
Published on Monday, 6th April 2020.
Soweto Kinch on Miles Davis's album Bitches Brew, and Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell.
Published on Friday, 3rd April 2020.
Dua Lipa discusses her new album Future Nostalgia.
Published on Thursday, 2nd April 2020.
Kirsty Lang interviews playwright James Graham, author of Quiz, This House and Ink.
Soprano Chen Reiss on her recording of Beethoven's Arias
Published on Tuesday, 31st March 2020.
Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson talks to Front Row and plays live from Reykjavik
Published on Monday, 30th March 2020.
Gloria Gaynor on Grammy-winning album Testimony and on going viral against the virus
Published on Friday, 27th March 2020.
Owen Sheers on adapting The Snow Spider for TV, Nikita Lalwani on her new novel You People
Published on Thursday, 26th March 2020.
Folk musician Eliza Carthy, art galleries under coronavirus, Terrence McNally obituary.
Published on Wednesday, 25th March 2020.
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage on his new collection inspired by Yorkshire.
Published on Tuesday, 24th March 2020.
Rathbones Folio winner; Disney+ launches in the UK; Malory Towers reviewed
Published on Monday, 23rd March 2020.
Gareth Malone, Contraltos, Creative Industries Federation, Louise Wallwein
Published on Friday, 20th March 2020.
Actor and screenwriter Lennie James on the return of his award-winning Sky drama Save Me.
Published on Thursday, 19th March 2020.
Gary Sinyor on his new sitcom The Jewish Enquirer and how everything is ripe for satire.
Published on Wednesday, 18th March 2020.
David Baddiel on reading Saul Bellow, a prize marking social change in the arts, film news
Published on Tuesday, 17th March 2020.
Jennifer Offill, Roy Hudd tribute, Kevin Guthrie, How will theatres cope with PM's advice?
Published on Monday, 16th March 2020.
Kodo drummers perform in studio. Plus novelist Marina Lewycka.
Published on Friday, 13th March 2020.
Dame Judi Dench looks back at her six decade career in theatre and on screen.
Published on Thursday, 12th March 2020.
Cartoonist Steven Appleby, and playwright Sally Abbott.
Published on Wednesday, 11th March 2020.
Misbehaviour, Marian Keyes, Mental health app, McCoy Tyner obituary
Published on Tuesday, 10th March 2020.
Do the arts in the UK accurately represent its people?
Published on Monday, 9th March 2020.
The Mash Report's Rachel Parris on how her personal life inspired her new stand-up show.
Published on Friday, 6th March 2020.
Playwright Hassan Abdulrazzak on his latest work The Special Relationship.
Published on Thursday, 5th March 2020.
The Mirror and the Light from Hilary Mantel's Cromwell trilogy, and women in hip hop
Published on Wednesday, 4th March 2020.
Koby Adom on directing Malorie Blackman's Noughts + Crosses
Published on Tuesday, 3rd March 2020.
Film director Francis Annan, Denise Mina, Amateur dramatics
Published on Monday, 2nd March 2020.
Elisabeth Moss on her new film The Invisible Man and Aravind Adiga on his novel Amnesty
Published on Friday, 28th February 2020.
Céline Sciamma on her film Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and composer André J. Thomas.
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2020.
Viviana Durante on Isadora Duncan, whose radical dancing enthralled audiences in the 1900s
Published on Wednesday, 26th February 2020.
Zadie Smith on reading, British Surrealism, playwright Jingan Young
Published on Tuesday, 25th February 2020.
Todd Haynes- Dark Waters, Bradford Library Funding, Flesh and Blood, Murder 24/7
Published on Monday, 24th February 2020.
Northern Broadsides' Quality Street, Jasdeep Singh Degun, Artist-led hotels.
Published on Friday, 21st February 2020.
Composer Stephen Schwartz on taking DreamWorks animation The Prince of Egypt to the stage
Published on Thursday, 20th February 2020.
George MacKay on his new film The True History of the Kelly Gang.
Published on Wednesday, 19th February 2020.
Al Pacino and Logan Lerman, Antoinette Nwandu, End of the Century, Coronavirus arts impact
Published on Tuesday, 18th February 2020.
Ten tapestries by Raphael return to the Sistine Chapel for the first time since the 1500s.
Published on Monday, 17th February 2020.
Eleanor Catton on her screenplay for Emma. James Taylor on his album American Standard.
Published on Friday, 14th February 2020.
David Mitchell on The Upstart Crow, and opera singer Elizabeth Llewellyn.
Published on Thursday, 13th February 2020.
Geeta Pendse hosts Front Row from Leicester
Published on Wednesday, 12th February 2020.
Tom Stoppard on Leopoldstadt, two decades of Steve McQueen works, South Korean film guide.
Published on Tuesday, 11th February 2020.
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard discusses his play, Leopoldstadt, in an extended interview.
Art Deco By The Sea, The Whip - Juliet Gilkes Romero, Meet The Family - Catherine Bray
Published on Monday, 10th February 2020.
Screenwriter Sarah Phelps on Agatha Christie, and We Will Walk.
Published on Friday, 7th February 2020.
Kirk Douglas tribute, author Daniel Kehlmann, American Dirt controversy.
Published on Thursday, 6th February 2020.
Which artist has taken the biggest risks since 2000? Our panel give their verdict
Published on Wednesday, 5th February 2020.
Korean film Parasite, up for 3 Oscars, reviewed. Eimar McBride on her novel Strange Hotel.
Tom Hanks on A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, artists and risk, Brexit dance piece.
Published on Monday, 3rd February 2020.
Director Agnieszka Holland on her film Mr Jones starring James Norton.
Published on Friday, 31st January 2020.
Robert Pattinson on his new film The Lighthouse, and Greta Gerwig on Little Women.
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2020.
Melina Matsoukas on her film about police violence starring Daniel Kaluuya.
Published on Wednesday, 29th January 2020.
Patrick Stewart on Star Trek: Picard, Costa Book Award winner, New Arts Council strategy
Published on Tuesday, 28th January 2020.
Martin Scorsese - The Irishman, Risk Season continues, Naum Gabo exhibition in St Ives.
Published on Monday, 27th January 2020.
The legendary film director on masculinity, music and redemption in The Irishman.
The Pet Shop Boys talk about their new album Hotspot.
Published on Friday, 24th January 2020.
Creator Guz Khan on the return of Man Like Mobeen, Calculating Risk, Northern Writing.
Published on Thursday, 23rd January 2020.
Remembering the life of former Python Terry Jones with Michael Palin
Published on Wednesday, 22nd January 2020.
Terry Gilliam, Samantha Strauss, Risk in art: Jeremy Deller, Picasso and Paper exhibition
Published on Tuesday, 21st January 2020.
Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) on playing David Copperfield in Armando Iannucci's film
Published on Monday, 20th January 2020.
Chimerica playwright Lucy Kirkwood, and Terrence Malick's latest film A Hidden Life
Published on Friday, 17th January 2020.
Charlize Theron on playing a Fox News presenter who outs her CEO for sexual harassment
Published on Thursday, 16th January 2020.
Three Australian writers on of artists' response to the country's relationship with fire
Published on Wednesday, 15th January 2020.
Michael B Jordan & Jamie Foxx, Spotlight directory, TS Eliot Prize winner Roger Robinson
John talks to Oscar nominees including Florence Pugh, Charlize Theron and Jonathan Pryce
Published on Monday, 13th January 2020.
Jonathan Coe, winner of the Costa Novel Award 2019, discusses Middle England
Published on Friday, 10th January 2020.
Sex Education creator Laurie Nunn, and Costa Poetry winner Mary Jean Chan
Published on Thursday, 9th January 2020.
Freddie Fox on Freddie Fox on playing Jeremy Bamber in ITV's drama White House Farm.
Published on Wednesday, 8th January 2020.
Adam Sandler talks about Uncut Gems and Sara Collins on her gothic novel
Published on Tuesday, 7th January 2020.
Sam Mendes on WWI movie 1917 and we announce the Costa Book Awards 2019 category winners
Published on Monday, 6th January 2020.
Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey on their new Guy Ritchie film The Gentlemen
Published on Friday, 3rd January 2020.
Taika Waititi directs and stars as Adolf Hitler in his Nazi satire Jojo Rabbit - we review
Published on Thursday, 2nd January 2020.
A celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven, marking the composer's 250th anniversary
Published on Wednesday, 1st January 2020.
We test our guests' knowledge of 2019 in the arts.
Published on Tuesday, 31st December 2019.
Boyd Hilton and Eleanor Stanford on how television has changed in the last decade
Published on Monday, 30th December 2019.
An exploration of the evolving role of art in churches and cathedrals
Published on Friday, 27th December 2019.
Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo discuss their dazzling literary year.
Published on Thursday, 26th December 2019.
Legendary Motown songwriters Brian and Eddie Holland
Published on Wednesday, 25th December 2019.
Amanda Coe discusses her screenplay for TV drama The Trial of Christine Keeler
Published on Tuesday, 24th December 2019.
The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting in Leeds, and reviving the high street with culture.
Published on Monday, 23rd December 2019.
JJ Abrams on directing The Rise of Skywalker - the last film in the 42-year Star Wars saga
Published on Friday, 20th December 2019.
Fairview director Nadia Latif and portraitist Lorna May Wadsworth on challenging the gaze
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2019.
Saoirse Ronan on playing Jo March in Little Women, indie publisher calamity, babies in art
Published on Wednesday, 18th December 2019.
Taron Egerton on playing Elton John in the musical film Rocketman.
Published on Tuesday, 17th December 2019.
Mark Gatiss on his TV offerings - Martin's Close for Christmas, and Dracula at New Year
Published on Monday, 16th December 2019.
Jonathan Pryce on playing one of The Two Popes, and survival fiction.
Published on Friday, 13th December 2019.
Ballet star Francesca Hayward on Romeo and Juliet and the new film version of Cats
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2019.
Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing
Published on Wednesday, 11th December 2019.
A darkly comic take on Richard III with Teenage Dick.
Published on Tuesday, 10th December 2019.
Why women artists are hugely under presented in art collections and what to do about this.
Published on Monday, 9th December 2019.
Inua Ellams on transposing Chekhov's Three Sisters to 1960s Nigeria.
Published on Friday, 6th December 2019.
Ferris & Sylvester perform at BBC Music Introducing Live
Published on Thursday, 5th December 2019.
Award-winning actress Lesley Manville talks about her latest film, Ordinary Love
Published on Wednesday, 4th December 2019.
Difficult comedy audiences, Honey Boy, Romesh Gunesekera and Netflix v Cinema?
Published on Tuesday, 3rd December 2019.
Edward Norton on Motherless Brooklyn, TV adaptation of Elizabeth is Missing reviewed
Published on Monday, 2nd December 2019.
A review of new musical The Boy in the Dress based on David Walliams' book
Published on Friday, 29th November 2019.
Poets Ruth Padel and Daljit Nagra on Scheherazade, the storyteller in 1001 Nights
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2019.
Clive James and Sir Jonathan Miller remembered.
Published on Wednesday, 27th November 2019.
We announce the 2019 Costa Book Prize shortlist and Rian Johnson on comedy Knives Out
Published on Tuesday, 26th November 2019.
Wretch 32's memoir Rapthology, and Hamlet on the Faroe Islands
Published on Monday, 25th November 2019.
Stig discusses new albums from Coldplay and the late Leonard Cohen
Published on Friday, 22nd November 2019.
Slave abolitionist Harriet Tubman's story makes it to the big screen, we review.
Published on Thursday, 21st November 2019.
Idina Menzel on reprising her role as Elsa in Frozen II, and surrealist artist Dora Maar
Published on Wednesday, 20th November 2019.
Wonder writer RJ Palacio on her new graphic novel
Published on Tuesday, 19th November 2019.
Hit musical Dear Evan Hansen's co-creator and Sudanese hip-hop star Emmanuel Jal performs
Published on Monday, 18th November 2019.
Northern Ballet at 50, Blackpool's Art B&B, Iced Bodies
Published on Friday, 15th November 2019.
How floods have affected - and been in depicted in - art, and Tom Rosenthal performs
Published on Thursday, 14th November 2019.
Tobias Menzies plays Prince Philip in The Crown; Six, a musical about Henry VIII's wives
Published on Wednesday, 13th November 2019.
Lorna May Wadsworth, Marriage Story, My Mother Said I Never Should, I Feel Pretty
Published on Tuesday, 12th November 2019.
War Of The Worlds re-imagined, Stephen Bourne- Playing Gay, Museum Funding
Published on Monday, 11th November 2019.
Emilio Estevez on his new film The Public which he has written, directed and stars in
Published on Friday, 8th November 2019.
Emilia Clarke on festive film Last Christmas, TV series End of the F***ing World reviewed
Published on Thursday, 7th November 2019.
Alison Balsom talks about her new Baroque trumpet album Royal Fireworks.
Published on Wednesday, 6th November 2019.
Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Abomination opera, Murder In The Cathedral
Published on Tuesday, 5th November 2019.
Scott Z Burns on his docudrama The Report, exploring corruption and subversion in the CIA
Published on Monday, 4th November 2019.
Patti Smith on Year of the Monkey, her memoir of a difficult year.
Published on Friday, 1st November 2019.
Jack Thorne on the task of adapting Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials for the BBC.
Published on Thursday, 31st October 2019.
Ian McKellen on his film The Good Liar. He plays an elderly conman. It's akin to acting.
Published on Wednesday, 30th October 2019.
Sarah Gosling presents a showcase from the Barbican Theatre in Plymouth
Published on Tuesday, 29th October 2019.
David Baddiel, Apple TV+, Welcome Collection's eerie podcasts
Published on Monday, 28th October 2019.
Harry Hill on his new comedy cabaret television programme
Published on Friday, 25th October 2019.
Jack Thorne's new drama The Accident, about the aftershocks of an industrial disaster.
Published on Thursday, 24th October 2019.
Bruce Springsteen's new film Western Stars, and the legacy of the late Harold Bloom.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd October 2019.
Artist Joy Labinjo on her paintings inspired by photos and Francois Ozon's film reviewed.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd October 2019.
David Attenborough's new wildlife series, Bridget Riley exhibition, Forward Poetry Winner
Published on Monday, 21st October 2019.
Scooby Doo is 50 and, Stig Abell discovers, of considerable cultural significance.
Published on Friday, 18th October 2019.
Gavin Hood on his new film Official Secrets starring Keira Knightley.
Published on Thursday, 17th October 2019.
Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, playwright Hannah Khalil
Published on Wednesday, 16th October 2019.
Aisling Bea on her new drama Living with Yourself. Plus Zawe Ashton on her new play.
Published on Tuesday, 15th October 2019.
Booker shortlisted author Margaret Atwood, LA artist Mark Bradford, Peanut Butter Falcon.
Published on Monday, 14th October 2019.
Sienna Miller on American Woman, and Elif Shafak is the guest for the Front Row book group
Published on Friday, 11th October 2019.
Mary Beard meets the acclaimed Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood for Front Row Late
More controversy for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Goldie on Drum'n'Bass, Es Devlin
Published on Thursday, 10th October 2019.
Salman Rushdie answers listeners’ questions about his Booker shortlisted novel Quichotte.
Published on Wednesday, 9th October 2019.
Extinction Rebellion, Staging Shakespeare, The King, Dada Masilo
Published on Tuesday, 8th October 2019.
Director Joe Talbot and star Jimmie Fails on The Last Black Man in San Francisco.
Published on Monday, 7th October 2019.
Booker Prize nominee Chigozie Obioma on his novel An Orchestra of Minorities.
Published on Friday, 4th October 2019.
Debbie Harry on her life and career and her new memoir, Face It
Published on Thursday, 3rd October 2019.
Director Rupert Goold on his Judy Garland biopic starring Renée Zellweger.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd October 2019.
The winners are announced for the 2019 BBC NSSA and the Young Writers' Award.
Published on Tuesday, 1st October 2019.
Helen Mirren on playing Catherine the Great in a new TV miniseries.
Published on Monday, 30th September 2019.
Poetry and performance from Hull's Contains Strong Language festival
Derek Paravicini, the blind autistic savant pianist, performs on Front Row.
Published on Thursday, 26th September 2019.
Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard discusses her first solo album, Jaime.
Published on Wednesday, 25th September 2019.
The logistical challenge of staging Antony Gormley's new exhibition, and Dolly Wells.
Published on Tuesday, 24th September 2019.
Writer Peter Bowker discusses his epic new TV drama World On Fire.
Published on Monday, 23rd September 2019.
Film-maker Lulu Wang on her latest movie The Farewell.
Published on Friday, 20th September 2019.
We explore favourite rotters in fiction and ask why so few of them are women.
Published on Thursday, 19th September 2019.
Soweto Kinch, Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture launch, Sam Fender
Published on Wednesday, 18th September 2019.
Cattelan's solid gold toilet has been stolen from Blenheim Palace.
Published on Tuesday, 17th September 2019.
Alex Kingston on Ibsen, Criminal reviewed, the decline of the piano.
Published on Monday, 16th September 2019.
What happens when Downton Abbey goes from small to big screen and the king comes to stay?
Published on Friday, 13th September 2019.
Lucy Prebble, Temple, NSSA - Lynda Clarke, Ayckbourn's Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present
Published on Thursday, 12th September 2019.
Jamie Barton and Daniel Kidane talk about their Last Night at the Proms performances.
Published on Wednesday, 11th September 2019.
The British Ceramics Biennial reviewed, and US writer Nell Zink on her new novel, Doxology
Published on Tuesday, 10th September 2019.
Lucy Caldwell, Venice Film Festival winners, Etgar Keret, Peter Nichols obituary.
Published on Monday, 9th September 2019.
BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist revealed
Published on Friday, 6th September 2019.
Margaret Atwood's long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid's Tale - The Testaments - reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 5th September 2019.
Events last night in the House of Commons as theatre, and Chrissie Hynde sings jazz.
Published on Wednesday, 4th September 2019.
Lucian Freud's biography, Booker Prize shortlist. The importance of arts to local identity
Published on Tuesday, 3rd September 2019.
BBC TV fake news thriller The Capture - we speak to the creator Ben Chanan.
Published on Monday, 2nd September 2019.
Salman Rushdie on his new novel Quichotte, based on the Cervantes classic, Don Quixote.
Published on Friday, 30th August 2019.
Anna Calvi performs live and talks about her score for Peaky Blinders.
Published on Thursday, 29th August 2019.
Screenwriter Jeff Pope talks about his new ITV drama A Confession starring Martin Freeman.
Published on Wednesday, 28th August 2019.
Colson Whitehead's novel The Nickel Boys, Duke Ellington's Sacred Music, Carnival Row
Published on Tuesday, 27th August 2019.
Edna O'Brien talks about her new novel, her first and her six-decade career.
Published on Monday, 26th August 2019.
Andrew Davies on his television dramatisation of Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon
Published on Friday, 23rd August 2019.
Bafta winner Danny Brocklehurst on new comedy drama Brassic.
Published on Thursday, 22nd August 2019.
Conductor John Wilson on composer Erich Korngold, and the art of interior design.
Published on Wednesday, 21st August 2019.
Antonio Banderas on playing film director Pedro Almodovar in Pain and Glory.
Published on Tuesday, 20th August 2019.
Louise Doughty, Robert Icke's The Doctor and Edinburgh festival highlights.
Published on Monday, 19th August 2019.
The true story behind Jaws, Benjamin Zephaniah, Catherine Cohen, self-care at the Fringe.
Published on Friday, 16th August 2019.
As the Fringe becomes increasingly woke, can artists stay both entertaining and right on?
Published on Thursday, 15th August 2019.
Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio on their film Tarantino's Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Published on Wednesday, 14th August 2019.
Henning Wehn, Ambrose Parry, Travis Alabanza on stage at the Edinburgh Festivals
Published on Tuesday, 13th August 2019.
Poet Lemn Sissay on his new memoir, and Queen Victoria's grand piano
Published on Monday, 12th August 2019.
Cary Grant's Notorious restored, the role of movement directors, Anna Symon on Deep Water
Published on Friday, 9th August 2019.
Paul Antonio on the art of calligraphy, and Proms conductor Martyn Brabbins
Published on Thursday, 8th August 2019.
Sex and the City writer Candace Bushnell, dance about rugby, Paul Robeson drama 8 Hotels
Published on Wednesday, 7th August 2019.
Stig Abell and guests pay tribute to the American writer Toni Morrison.
Published on Tuesday, 6th August 2019.
A new ballet interpretation of The Crucible, and two musical perspectives on a massacre.
We review Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw and Kathy Hinde composes with sounds from a bog
Published on Friday, 2nd August 2019.
k.d. lang reveals that she is retiring from music now that the muse has left her.
Published on Thursday, 1st August 2019.
Notre-Dame's organist Olivier Latry on the recent fire, and film director Gurinder Chadha
Published on Wednesday, 31st July 2019.
The great whaling novel Moby Dick and - is there something to be said for Luddism?
Published on Tuesday, 30th July 2019.
Blacking-up in opera, How to watch Shakespeare, Fiona Kidman's novel and Carlos Cruz-Diez.
Published on Monday, 29th July 2019.
Horrible Histories review, Barbara Strozzi at 400 and Extinction Rebellion at the V&A.
Published on Friday, 26th July 2019.
Oklahoma! at Chichester Festival Theatre. And is audience behaviour getting worse?
Published on Thursday, 25th July 2019.
A look at the 2019 Booker Prize longlist. Plus the influence of TV on high street fashion.
Published on Wednesday, 24th July 2019.
The Current War, culture and relationships, experimental novels, and cool culture
Macy Gray talks, performs work from her latest album, Ruby, and sings her huge hit, I Try.
Published on Monday, 22nd July 2019.
Hip hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy on the hidden black figures of Italian Renaissance art.
Published on Friday, 19th July 2019.
Why the River Thames is about to become the world's longest artwork
Published on Thursday, 18th July 2019.
Karina Canellakis on conducting the first night of the Proms.
Published on Wednesday, 17th July 2019.
The power of knitting as protest and a huge statue of Ed Sheeran is unveiled in Moscow.
Published on Tuesday, 16th July 2019.
Dominic Dromgoole, new theatres, Karina Ramage.
Published on Monday, 15th July 2019.
Deborah Moggach on new novel The Carer
Published on Friday, 12th July 2019.
Pavarotti documentary reviewed, and how our attitudes are reflected in culture.
Published on Thursday, 11th July 2019.
Peter Gynt at the National Theatre reviewed and hard-hitting Welsh drama The Left Behind
Published on Wednesday, 10th July 2019.
Children's laureate Cressida Cowell, Cherie Blair, and Life of Pi on the stage
Published on Tuesday, 9th July 2019.
Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Clara Schumann
Published on Monday, 8th July 2019.
Olly Alexander on gay pop songs and his Glastonbury speech
Published on Friday, 5th July 2019.
Tania Bruguera, Yoko Ono and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
Published on Thursday, 4th July 2019.
New film Vita & Virginia, Noises Off, mental health in gaming, the story of Ode to Joy
Published on Wednesday, 3rd July 2019.
Howard Jacobson, Othello Remixed, MOTY St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff
Published on Tuesday, 2nd July 2019.
Inkheart writer Cornelia Funke on Pan's Labyrinth, a collaboration with Guillermo del Toro
Published on Monday, 1st July 2019.
Todd Douglas Miller on his documentary Apollo 11 which uses previously unseen archive
Published on Friday, 28th June 2019.
Novelist Kate Atkinson on her new Jackson Brodie thriller, Big Sky.
Published on Thursday, 27th June 2019.
In Fabric stars a red dress with murderous intent. Front Row reviews the new horror film.
Published on Wednesday, 26th June 2019.
British-Vietnamese playwright Tuyen Do, Cindy Sherman, Michael Jackson, Queer Books - 80s.
Published on Tuesday, 25th June 2019.
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World winner Andrei Kymach, queer literature of the 1970s
Published on Monday, 24th June 2019.
Richard Curtis on his new film, Yesterday, and The Beatles, the rom-com and time itself
Published on Friday, 21st June 2019.
Abstract expressionist Lee Krasner's life and art discussed
Published on Thursday, 20th June 2019.
Mark Ronson on the break-up album.
Published on Wednesday, 19th June 2019.
Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal winners, sculpture since Hepworth and Moore.
Published on Tuesday, 18th June 2019.
Joseph O’Connor on his latest novel Shadowplay, about the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker
Published on Monday, 17th June 2019.
Tracy K Smith, US Poet Laureate
Published on Friday, 14th June 2019.
Rob Lowe, former Brat Pack star, on his role as a chief constable in Boston, Lincolnshire
Published on Thursday, 13th June 2019.
Bill Nighy on his latest film Sometimes Always Never.
Published on Wednesday, 12th June 2019.
Ai Weiwei discusses his career as an artist and activist
Published on Tuesday, 11th June 2019.
Game of Thrones's Gwendoline Christie on her new stage role in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Published on Monday, 10th June 2019.
Julianne Moore on her new film Gloria Bell
Published on Friday, 7th June 2019.
Comedian Matt Berry on his new TV shows What We Do in the Shadows and Year of the Rabbit
Published on Thursday, 6th June 2019.
Emma Thompson on her first stand-up comedy show and her new film Late Night
Published on Wednesday, 5th June 2019.
Literary events at festivals Okwui Okpokwasili, Tiananmen Square, Apple moves to streaming
Published on Tuesday, 4th June 2019.
Published on Monday, 3rd June 2019.
Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, on new novel City of Girls.
Published on Friday, 31st May 2019.
Alan Menken on creating the music for Disney's Aladdin, The Little Mermaid and Pocahontas
Published on Thursday, 30th May 2019.
Published on Wednesday, 29th May 2019.
Lenny Henry on his latest stage role in King Hedley II, and graphic artist Posy Simmonds
Published on Tuesday, 28th May 2019.
BenDeLaCreme and Jinkx Monsoon, how the moon has inspired artists, RSC's Venice Preserved
Published on Monday, 27th May 2019.
Anish Kapoor on a rare exhibition of his paintings, and Booksmart's Beanie Feldstein.
Published on Friday, 24th May 2019.
John visits rehearsals for Matthew Bourne's new dance work, Romeo and Juliet
Published on Thursday, 23rd May 2019.
Frank Skinner discusses his new comedy tour Showbiz.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd May 2019.
Stephen Poliakoff, Cannes Film Festival update, playwright Selina Thompson
Published on Tuesday, 21st May 2019.
Rocket Man, Jessica Andrews' novel Saltwater, artists as activists, Folio Prize winner.
Published on Monday, 20th May 2019.
Report from the Cannes Film Festival, including Elton John biopic Rocketman
Published on Friday, 17th May 2019.
Stephen Graham discusses working with Shane Meadows on TV drama The Virtues
Published on Thursday, 16th May 2019.
Gentleman Jack review, correcting the contemporary art canon, #BeMoreMartyn and Futbolka.
Published on Wednesday, 15th May 2019.
Fun Lovin' Crime Writers - a band of famous detective story authors perform live
Published on Tuesday, 14th May 2019.
Keanu Reeves on reprising his action role in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.
Published on Monday, 13th May 2019.
Edmund de Waal at the Venice Biennale and debut novelist Elizabeth Macneal.
Published on Friday, 10th May 2019.
Mark Haddon on The Porpoise, his new novel based on Shakespeare's Pericles
Published on Thursday, 9th May 2019.
Songwriter Guy Chambers explains how to write a hit.
Published on Wednesday, 8th May 2019.
Amma Asante, TV drama Years and Years reviewed, Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace concert
Published on Tuesday, 7th May 2019.
Sir David Adjaye discusses his approach to architecture, including his new Ghana Pavilion
Malian singer Rokia Traoré on guest directing this year’s Brighton Festival.
Published on Friday, 3rd May 2019.
The National Theatre's adaptation of Andrea Levy's Small Island reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 2nd May 2019.
The art and legacy of Leonardo da Vinci, on the eve of the 500th anniversary of his death
Published on Wednesday, 1st May 2019.
We assess the work of Boyz n the Hood director John Singleton and review Tolkien biopic
Published on Tuesday, 30th April 2019.
Women's Prize For Fiction shortlist, Kubrick exhibition, Captain Corelli play, Les Murray.
Published on Monday, 29th April 2019.
Avengers: Endgame, and Linda Grant on her new novel A Stranger City
Published on Friday, 26th April 2019.
The Cranberries on finishing their final album after the death of singer Dolores O’Riordan
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2019.
Adeel Akhtar on his new BBC1 series Back to Life
Published on Tuesday, 23rd April 2019.
Al Murray, Eliza Carthy and David Mark on finding inspiration down their local.
Published on Monday, 22nd April 2019.
Tom Gates author Liz Pichon and the quality of books for 6- to-12-year-olds.
Published on Friday, 19th April 2019.
Saxophonist Jess Gillam plays live and talks about the sax in classical music.
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2019.
Homecoming: A film by Beyoncé and Madonna's new Madame X alter-ego is discussed.
Published on Wednesday, 17th April 2019.
Notre-Dame de Paris' artistic and musical significance, plus poet Roger McGough.
Published on Tuesday, 16th April 2019.
Andrew Scott, star of Sherlock and Fleabag, talks about his new film, Steel Country.
Published on Monday, 15th April 2019.
On the eve of what would have been his 80th birthday Front Row on poet Seamus Heaney
Published on Friday, 12th April 2019.
Jenny Saville on her new self-portrait, painted in response to a Rembrandt masterpiece.
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2019.
Gavin Bryars on a 12-hour performance of his 1971 piece Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Published on Wednesday, 10th April 2019.
Useful art, embodying Ruskin, National Theatre for Northern Ireland? Unicorn Store review.
Published on Tuesday, 9th April 2019.
Neil Jordan, Munch at the British Museum, Game of Thrones legacy, great TV series endings.
Published on Monday, 8th April 2019.
A new film about world-renowned ballet dancer Carlos Acosta.
Published on Friday, 5th April 2019.
New York's new multi-purpose £360 million arts venue, The Shed, opens this week.
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2019.
Sir David Attenborough on his TV series Our Planet, and comedian Lee Ridley.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd April 2019.
Toby Jones - Don't Forget the Driver, Shazam!, Bach Passions
Published on Tuesday, 2nd April 2019.
Suzi Quatro on her new album No Control.
Published on Monday, 1st April 2019.
Ian Rankin reviews Local Hero on stage in Edinburgh. Plus the art of the anti-climax.
Published on Friday, 29th March 2019.
Tash Aw on his latest novel We the Survivors. Plus the ethics of arts sponsorship.
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2019.
Scottish artist Katie Paterson on working with scientists researching the cosmic spectrum.
Published on Wednesday, 27th March 2019.
A history of classical music in ten minutes with pianist Jeremy Denk.
Published on Tuesday, 26th March 2019.
At Eternity's Gate, Matthew Herbert's Brexit Big Band, Van Gogh and Britain, Scott Walker.
The power of Pinter's plays today
Published on Friday, 22nd March 2019.
Photographer David Bailey looks back on his six-decade career.
Published on Thursday, 21st March 2019.
Ralph Fiennes' new film The White Crow and tackling contentious issues in the theatre
Published on Monday, 18th March 2019.
Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges on Ben is Back, about a mother and her drug-addicted son.
Published on Friday, 15th March 2019.
Jordan Peele on his new horror film, Us, about a family terrorised by their doppelgangers
Published on Thursday, 14th March 2019.
A review of the film, Girl, the story of a teenage trans girl training to be a ballerina.
Published on Wednesday, 13th March 2019.
Turn Up Charlie, Fisherman's Friends, Cheeky chappies, David Bowie demo.
Published on Monday, 11th March 2019.
Waitress, the first Broadway musical with an all-female creative team, reviewed
Published on Friday, 8th March 2019.
Maggie Gyllenhaal talks about her new film The Kindergarten Teacher.
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2019.
New ITV psychological drama Cheat, and Richard Billingham on his film Ray & Liz
Published on Wednesday, 6th March 2019.
Samuel L Jackson, British-Chinese play Under the Umbrella and the launch of Scala Radio.
Published on Tuesday, 5th March 2019.
Terry Hall on The Specials' new album and we profile baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi.
Published on Monday, 4th March 2019.
Stephen Merchant discusses his new feature film about wrestling
Published on Friday, 1st March 2019.
Rick Gervais on his new series After Life
Published on Thursday, 28th February 2019.
Charlotte Rampling on her five decade career, including new film Hannah.
Published on Wednesday, 27th February 2019.
Should we play Michael Jackson's music? We discuss Leaving Neverland and cultural ethics.
Published on Tuesday, 26th February 2019.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's new series of Fleabag reviewed and Nikki Sixx on Motley Crue film.
Published on Monday, 25th February 2019.
Phyllida Barlow's new exhibition and Jonathan Freedland's latest Sam Bourne thriller.
Published on Friday, 22nd February 2019.
Conductor Odaline de la Martinez on music by overlooked African-American composers.
Published on Thursday, 21st February 2019.
Felicity Jones on playing US Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Published on Wednesday, 20th February 2019.
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Come From Away, short story competitions, Karl Lagerfeld.
Published on Tuesday, 19th February 2019.
Has a desire to appeal to younger audiences changed how sex is represented in culture?
Published on Monday, 18th February 2019.
Gabriela Rodriguez, the producer of Roma
Published on Friday, 15th February 2019.
Ardal O'Hanlon on his new stand-up comedy tour, and novelist Tessa Hadley.
Published on Thursday, 14th February 2019.
French-Moroccan novelist Leïla Slimani, and Diane Arbus: In the Beginning reviewed
Published on Wednesday, 13th February 2019.
A re-imagined Mother Courage, a chat with Terence Blanchard, and horror reappraised
Published on Tuesday, 12th February 2019.
Sara Pascoe's Lads Lads Lads tour, the art of casting directors, Kacey Musgraves
Published on Monday, 11th February 2019.
Director Spike Lee and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, and Albert Finney remembered.
Published on Friday, 8th February 2019.
Chita Rivera on creating the iconic roles of Anita in West Side Story and Velma in Chicago
Published on Thursday, 7th February 2019.
The artistic significance of walls and borders.
Published on Wednesday, 6th February 2019.
The Cutty Sark, 150 this year and now floating on air, considered as a sculptural work.
Published on Monday, 4th February 2019.
Comedian Tiffany Haddish on her latest role in Lego Movie 2
Published on Friday, 1st February 2019.
Leonardo da Vinci's drawings, Green Book reviewed, Sian Edwards on her Opera North debut.
Published on Thursday, 31st January 2019.
Teletubbies and Moon and Me creator Andrew Davenport, and 'the voice of a generation'.
Published on Wednesday, 30th January 2019.
Live daily magazine programme on the arts, literature, film, media and music.
Published on Tuesday, 29th January 2019.
As she turns 80, Germaine Greer reflects on her life as a writer and public intellectual.
Published on Monday, 28th January 2019.
Review of Clint Eastwood's latest film about an elderly drug mule
Published on Friday, 25th January 2019.
The biggest recent TV hits provoking debate, and Bill Viola/Michelangelo reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 24th January 2019.
Oscars 2019 : Roma and The Favourite lead the nominations.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd January 2019.
Nicole Kidman on her film Destroyer, Fanny Hill, Female Old Masters.
Published on Monday, 21st January 2019.
Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright MP discusses his plans to ‘unleash creativity’.
Published on Friday, 18th January 2019.
How Brexit might impact upon the arts. Plus Diane Setterfield's new novel.
Published on Thursday, 17th January 2019.
M Night Shyamalan discusses his new movie Glass, and a major new work by Bridget Riley
Published on Wednesday, 16th January 2019.
Steve Carell discusses new film Beautiful Boy, a father and son story plagued by addiction
Published on Tuesday, 15th January 2019.
Octavian - BBC Music's Sound of 2019, and Soren Sveistrup, creator of The Killing
Published on Monday, 14th January 2019.
Steve Coogan and John C Reilly on playing Laurel and Hardy in Stan & Ollie
Published on Friday, 11th January 2019.
Hugh Jackman on playing scandal-hit 1988 US presidential hopeful Gary Hart.
Published on Thursday, 10th January 2019.
Comedian Nish Kumar, from The Mash Report, on why his new tour is his most political yet.
Published on Wednesday, 9th January 2019.
Keira Knightley on Colette, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, Costa Poetry Award winner
Published on Tuesday, 8th January 2019.
Charlie Brooker on his ground-breaking new interactive film, Bandersnatch
Published on Monday, 7th January 2019.
Robert Zemeckis on new film Welcome to Marwen
Published on Friday, 4th January 2019.
New Brexit drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as leader of the Leave campaign reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 3rd January 2019.
Olivia Colman on her new film The Favourite, and Luther reviewed
Published on Wednesday, 2nd January 2019.
From Bodyguard and The Durrells to Spooks, Keeley Hawes looks back on her career.
Published on Tuesday, 1st January 2019.
We test our guests' knowledge of 2018 in the arts.
Published on Monday, 31st December 2018.
Amos Oz, a look ahead to the arts events of 2019, Spiderman creator Stan Lee.
Published on Friday, 28th December 2018.
Front Row marks the deaths of three great choreographers.
Published on Thursday, 27th December 2018.
Land artist Chris Drury visits his Horizon Line Chamber at Morecambe Bay
Published on Wednesday, 26th December 2018.
A special programme exploring the benefits of choral singing.
Published on Tuesday, 25th December 2018.
Screenwriter Andrew Davies on Les Misérables; Christmas literature; Yuletide poems
Published on Monday, 24th December 2018.
Ben Elton on his fascination with Shakespeare. Plus is art becoming more political?
Published on Friday, 21st December 2018.
Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on his starring role in Mary Poppins Returns.
Published on Thursday, 20th December 2018.
Eileen Atkins looks back over her career, and director Penny Marshall remembered
Published on Wednesday, 19th December 2018.
John Malkovich plays Poirot, why we cry at films and the phenomenon of crime podcasts.
Published on Tuesday, 18th December 2018.
Carole Boyd, Lynda Snell in The Archers, on The Canterbury Tales, with the Ambridge cast.
Published on Monday, 17th December 2018.
Rita Ora on her six-year journey to release her second album, Phoenix.
Published on Friday, 14th December 2018.
Not Going Out's Lee Mack, and Magic Mike on stage
Published on Thursday, 13th December 2018.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Aquaman reviewed, and playwright Mike Bartlett
Published on Wednesday, 12th December 2018.
Mortal Engines reviewed, photographers Ren Hang and Martin Jenkinson discussed.
Published on Tuesday, 11th December 2018.
Actress Tamara Lawrance on BBC One's adaption of Andrea Levy novel The Long Song
Published on Monday, 10th December 2018.
Review of Bruce Springsteen's new film Springsteen on Broadway
Published on Friday, 7th December 2018.
Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern on his new BBC One drama Care, Cuban artist Tania Bruguera
Published on Thursday, 6th December 2018.
Maggi Hambling on her portraits of artists, and Beastie Boys on 40 years in hip hop
Published on Wednesday, 5th December 2018.
David Szalay talks about his new book, Turbulence, an original Radio 4 commission.
Published on Tuesday, 4th December 2018.
Robert Redford's swansong, fictional characters reading fiction and poet Fred D'Aguiar
Published on Monday, 3rd December 2018.
Head Judge Shirley Ballas on the appeal of Strictly and her own dancing career.
Published on Friday, 30th November 2018.
Review of the film Mowgli starring Andy Serkis, Cate Blanchett and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Published on Thursday, 29th November 2018.
Review of the film adaptation of Disobedience, starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams
Published on Wednesday, 28th November 2018.
30 years of William Hill Sports Book of the Year, and 50 of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks
Published on Tuesday, 27th November 2018.
Actor Jamie Dornan, Bernardo Bertolucci remembered, the UK's largest sculpture
Published on Monday, 26th November 2018.
We review Ruth Wilson in the BBC drama Mrs Wilson, in which she plays her own grandmother.
Published on Friday, 23rd November 2018.
We review Japanese film Shoplifters, winner of the 2018 Palme d’Or at the Cannes festival.
Published on Thursday, 22nd November 2018.
Kurt Russell on The Christmas Chronicles, poet Ruth Fainlight
Published on Tuesday, 20th November 2018.
Marianne Faithfull on her new album, Negative Capability.
Published on Monday, 19th November 2018.
Jane Fonda, the two-time Academy Award-winning actress, looks back at her 60-year career.
Published on Friday, 16th November 2018.
Irish writing north and south of the border - a golden age of prose?
Published on Thursday, 15th November 2018.
Stig Abell chairs a debate about the current state of arts education in schools.
Published on Wednesday, 14th November 2018.
Fantastic Beasts 2 review, viruses turned into art, Fernand Léger, Heart of Darkness.
Published on Tuesday, 13th November 2018.
Joel and Ethan Coen on their homage to the western The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Published on Monday, 12th November 2018.
Helena Bonham Carter on how she drew on her own experience of depression for film 55 Steps
Published on Friday, 9th November 2018.
Conductor Marin Alsop on Brahms's A German Requiem, and comedian Russell Howard.
Published on Thursday, 8th November 2018.
White Teeth, the musical, Danny Boyle's Armistice Day tribute, singer Emily Maguire
Published on Wednesday, 7th November 2018.
Steve McQueen on heist thriller Widows.
Published on Monday, 5th November 2018.
Boy George on Culture Club's first album for nearly two decades.
Published on Friday, 2nd November 2018.
Best-selling Irish novelist Cecelia Ahern discusses her new short story collection, Roar
Published on Thursday, 1st November 2018.
Wilfred Owen's life and work remembered through art, 100 years since his death.
Published on Wednesday, 31st October 2018.
Chris Lang's new TV drama Dark Heart reviewed, and Chris Addison on La Traviata.
Published on Tuesday, 30th October 2018.
Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsgård discuss the TV adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl
Published on Monday, 29th October 2018.
If you've listened to an audiobook, can you say you've read the book?
Published on Friday, 26th October 2018.
Biopic of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody, reviewed
Published on Thursday, 25th October 2018.
Mike Leigh discusses his latest film Peterloo, about the 1819 massacre in Manchester
Published on Tuesday, 23rd October 2018.
How have artists used disgust in their work to both enthral and repel the viewer?
Published on Monday, 22nd October 2018.
Python Eric Idle on his autobiography. The 11th film in the Halloween franchise reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 18th October 2018.
Gerard Butler and the male body in movies - is bigger always better?
Published on Wednesday, 17th October 2018.
Playing Linda Loman, Informer review, art inspired by geology, Ciarán Hodgers
Published on Tuesday, 16th October 2018.
One year on from the beginning of the #MeToo movement, what's changed? Daniel York Loh
Published on Monday, 15th October 2018.
Paul Greengrass on 22 July, his film about the Norwegian terrorist attack on a summer camp
Published on Friday, 12th October 2018.
Desiree Akhavan on the challenges of writing, directing and starring in The Bisexual.
Published on Thursday, 11th October 2018.
A special on how reading improves mental health, with Marian Keyes and Russell Kane.
Published on Wednesday, 10th October 2018.
The role that the swimming pool plays in film and art.
Published on Tuesday, 9th October 2018.
Bernard Cribbins on his autobiography and Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy discuss First Man
Published on Monday, 8th October 2018.
Jodie Whittaker on regenerating as the 13th Doctor, and the dark art of Quentin Blake
Published on Friday, 5th October 2018.
Alice Walker, artist Yayoi Kusama and a new poem for National Poetry Day from Sean Street
Published on Thursday, 4th October 2018.
The art and history of physical comedy: why is the unfortunate mishap hilarious?
Published on Wednesday, 3rd October 2018.
We announce the winners of the 2018 BBC Short Story Awards live from Cambridge University
Published on Tuesday, 2nd October 2018.
The Essex Serpent author Sarah Perry discusses her new novel Melmoth, The Cry reviewed
Published on Monday, 1st October 2018.
Front Row live from the Contains Strong Language festival in Hull
Published on Friday, 28th September 2018.
Lord of the Flies with an all-female cast, and the significance of silence in art.
Published on Thursday, 27th September 2018.
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie look back at their 70s cult comedy series
Published on Wednesday, 26th September 2018.
The first major UK exhibition of art from the Pacific, and former Britpop band Suede
New James Bond director Cary Fukanaga discusses his latest Netflix series, Maniac
Published on Friday, 21st September 2018.
Kieran Yates reviews Matangi/Maya/MIA, a documentary about the political rapper MIA
Published on Thursday, 20th September 2018.
Eileen Atkins on her latest stage role in Florian Zeller’s The Height of the Storm
Published on Wednesday, 19th September 2018.
Director Lenny Abrahamson on his film adaption of Sarah Waters’ novel The Little Stranger
Published on Tuesday, 18th September 2018.
Christine and the Queens, Sarah Hall, Tartuffe set in a Birmingham Muslim community
Published on Monday, 17th September 2018.
Killing Eve, the new series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, reviewed.
Published on Friday, 14th September 2018.
Touching the Void at the Bristol Old Vic, Crazy Rich Asians.
Published on Thursday, 13th September 2018.
Sir Michael Caine looks back on his career in Hollywood.
Published on Wednesday, 12th September 2018.
Sally Rooney on her new novel, Normal People, which is winning ecstatic reviews.
Published on Tuesday, 11th September 2018.
Wanderlust's creator Nick Payne, and BAC's Grand Hall re-opens after the fire in 2015.
Published on Monday, 10th September 2018.
Special edition podcast looking back over a five week challenge for three artists.
Published on Friday, 7th September 2018.
Three artists unveil the work they've created for Front Row's Inspire season.
Mike Bartlett and Charlotte Riley on new BBC drama Press; Kate Tempest's new collection.
Published on Thursday, 6th September 2018.
Composer Roxanna Panufnik on her new CD and writing for the Last Night of the Proms.
Published on Wednesday, 5th September 2018.
The Seagull review, Reimagining Shakespeare and Alison Balsom's inspirations.
Published on Tuesday, 4th September 2018.
John Simm on his latest role in TV drama, Strangers.
Published on Monday, 3rd September 2018.
The theatre at Alexandra Palace re-opens after 80 years.
Published on Friday, 31st August 2018.
Nick Leather discusses his TV drama Mother's Day, about the Warrington bomb.
Published on Thursday, 30th August 2018.
Idris Elba on directing his first film, Yardie. Plus, are there too many listed buildings?
Published on Wednesday, 29th August 2018.
Andrew Miller on his new novel, Muses in History (part of our Inspire season), Vanity Fair
Published on Tuesday, 28th August 2018.
Ian McMillan on graveyard inspiration, and the internet as a setting for horror.
Published on Friday, 24th August 2018.
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra disabled-led ensemble, Resound, on their Proms debut.
Published on Thursday, 23rd August 2018.
We review Jed Mercurio's latest TV drama, Bodyguard, starring Richard Madden.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd August 2018.
Spike Lee's film BlacKkKlansman, Helen Lederer, Alison Brackenbury, Esi Edugyan.
Published on Tuesday, 21st August 2018.
Sir Lenny Henry looks back at his career on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
Published on Monday, 20th August 2018.
How people with dwarfism have been represented in art and culture.
Published on Friday, 17th August 2018.
Aretha Franklin, the 'Queen of Soul', has died - Front Row assesses her life and work.
Published on Thursday, 16th August 2018.
Brian May on his passion for Victorian 3D photography, and three Fringe shows by doctors.
Published on Wednesday, 15th August 2018.
Drag queen band Denim, Maggie O'Farrell, and dramatizing our online lives.
Published on Tuesday, 14th August 2018.
Comedians Rosie Jones and Janeane Garofalo discuss their one woman shows.
Published on Monday, 13th August 2018.
Denzel Washington on his vigilante action thriller film, The Equalizer 2.
Published on Friday, 10th August 2018.
We review Disenchantment the new animated series from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening.
Published on Thursday, 9th August 2018.
How sharks are represented in culture and Thea Musgrave marks her 90th birthday.
Published on Wednesday, 8th August 2018.
Opera star Sarah Connolly sings English songs.
The Proclaimers perform live, Gulliver's Travels, Artistic inspiration from the Internet.
Published on Tuesday, 7th August 2018.
Stephen Mangan in Hang Ups and author of best-selling The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron.
Published on Monday, 6th August 2018.
Stella Duffy, Kei Miller, Julian Baggini and Aowen Jin attempt to define inspiration.
Published on Thursday, 2nd August 2018.
Tracy Chevalier and Brian Irvine on why the British landscape inspires so many artists.
Published on Wednesday, 1st August 2018.
Love Island is over, but what is the cultural impact? Plus Melvin Burgess on his new book.
Published on Tuesday, 31st July 2018.
Fifty years of Dad's Army, jazz renaissance on streaming services, and automata on show.
Published on Monday, 30th July 2018.
Iceman, the film inspired by the discovery of Otzi, the prehistoric man.
Published on Friday, 27th July 2018.
Marlon James champions cult novel Oreo and we assess this year's Mercury Prize shortlist.
Published on Thursday, 26th July 2018.
Moonlight actor Andre Holland on playing Othello with Mark Rylance as Iago.
Published on Wednesday, 25th July 2018.
Playwright Patrick Marber on Exit the King, starring Rhys Ifans and Indira Varma.
Published on Tuesday, 24th July 2018.
John Hurt as Artist, and the role of the Fool in King Lear.
Published on Monday, 23rd July 2018.
Morris Robinson, American footballer-turned-opera star, tells his story - and sings.
Published on Friday, 20th July 2018.
Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles on The Lehman Trilogy play.
Published on Thursday, 19th July 2018.
Alan Bennett and director Nicholas Hytner discuss their new play Allelujah!
Published on Wednesday, 18th July 2018.
The verdict on Sacha Baron Cohen's new TV series and rebuilding the Glasgow School of Art.
Published on Tuesday, 17th July 2018.
Pierce Brosnan on his role in the Mamma Mia sequel, and arts funding news from Ireland.
Published on Monday, 16th July 2018.
Agnès Varda on her life in film and art.
Published on Friday, 13th July 2018.
Eve Myles on Welsh-noir thriller Keeping Faith.
Published on Thursday, 12th July 2018.
Olly Alexander from Years and Years discusses the band's new album Palo Santo and performs
Published on Wednesday, 11th July 2018.
Holly Hunter talks to Samira Ahmed about her latest film, Incredibles 2.
Published on Tuesday, 10th July 2018.
Mark Anthony Turnage and Roger Wright remember the life and work of Oliver Knussen.
Published on Monday, 9th July 2018.
Seamus Heaney's wife and daughter talk about gathering his poems in a new collection.
Published on Friday, 6th July 2018.
Rob Brydon on the set of film Swimming With Men, playwright Laura Wade, Claude Lanzmann.
Published on Thursday, 5th July 2018.
Actor Emily Mortimer on a new film adaption of Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop.
Published on Wednesday, 4th July 2018.
Saudi Arabia's first female director, Haifa al-Mansour.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd July 2018.
Maxine Peake on her new play Queens of the Coal Age, and a tribute to Dame Gillian Lynne.
Published on Monday, 2nd July 2018.
We review the stage musical adaption of Alison Bechdel's memoir Fun Home.
Published on Friday, 29th June 2018.
Ryuichi Sakomoto on his extraordinary career in music and beyond.
Published on Thursday, 28th June 2018.
The King and I director Bartlett Sher, and Olivia Laing on her debut novel Crudo.
Published on Wednesday, 27th June 2018.
Michael Jackson's personal photographer Todd Gray talks to John Wilson.
Published on Tuesday, 26th June 2018.
John Taylor and Roger Taylor on 40 years of making music in Duran Duran.
Published on Monday, 25th June 2018.
Fly by Night pigeon art, Tim Winton's new novel, Kate Clanchy and her student poets.
Published on Friday, 22nd June 2018.
James Corden talks to John Wilson about bringing his Late Late Show to London.
Published on Thursday, 21st June 2018.
Singer and GLOW star Kate Nash, and model-turned-photographer Lee Miller and Surrealism.
Published on Wednesday, 20th June 2018.
Caitlin Moran on her latest novel How to be Famous about fame, Britpop and revenge porn.
Published on Tuesday, 19th June 2018.
Vicky Featherstone on Snatches, celebrating the lives of women over the past 100 years.
Published on Monday, 18th June 2018.
The new Frida Kahlo exhibition Making Her Self Up at the V&A and Queer Eye on TV.
Published on Friday, 15th June 2018.
Ocean's 8 reviewed, football kit, hip-hop's lesson for the classics, the art of drawing.
Published on Thursday, 14th June 2018.
Comedian Eddie Izzard talks about why he is reading all of Dickens' novels aloud.
Published on Wednesday, 13th June 2018.
Timothy Spall on playing every part in his new film Stanley, a Man of Variety.
Published on Monday, 11th June 2018.
South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys on his new autobiographical show.
Published on Friday, 8th June 2018.
Rupert Everett on writing, directing and playing Oscar Wilde in The Happy Prince.
Published on Thursday, 7th June 2018.
Front Row announces and interviews the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.
Published on Wednesday, 6th June 2018.
The 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition opens and is reviewed by Jacky Klein.
Published on Tuesday, 5th June 2018.
Playwright David Edgar at 70, Art in the wake of WW1, Women's non-fiction writing.
Published on Monday, 4th June 2018.
Orlando Bloom on his return to the stage as a cop and assassin in Killer Joe.
Published on Friday, 1st June 2018.
A visit to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey.
Published on Thursday, 31st May 2018.
Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo performs live and the film Book Club reviewed.
Published on Wednesday, 30th May 2018.
François Ozon on his latest film, the psychological thriller L'Amant Double.
Published on Tuesday, 29th May 2018.
At the age of 90, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine looks back at her extraordinary career.
Published on Monday, 28th May 2018.
Akram Khan shows us his home studio and discusses a life in dance.
Published on Friday, 25th May 2018.
Designer Orla Kiely on her famous Stem graphics.
Published on Thursday, 24th May 2018.
American novelist Philip Roth, 1933-2018.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd May 2018.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge on being L3, a female droid in the latest Star Wars episode.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd May 2018.
Ian McKellen on life as an actor, review of The Handmaid's Tale Season 2, Tishani Doshi.
Published on Monday, 21st May 2018.
Hamlet and As You Like It, Michelle Terry's first productions at The Globe.
Published on Friday, 18th May 2018.
Photographer Joel Meyerowitz, and a review of The Girl on the Train on stage.
Published on Thursday, 17th May 2018.
Brighton Festival, Laurie Anderson and the poetry of Lou Reed, News from Cannes.
Published on Wednesday, 16th May 2018.
Richard Eyre on his new TV production of King Lear, starring Anthony Hopkins.
Published on Tuesday, 15th May 2018.
Behind the scenes at the Royal Ballet's new production of Swan Lake
Published on Monday, 14th May 2018.
David Nicholls on adapting Patrick Melrose starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
Published on Friday, 11th May 2018.
Why is male full-frontal nudity so rare on screen?
Published on Thursday, 10th May 2018.
Author Neil Gaiman on the film version of his story How To Talk To Girls At Parties.
Published on Wednesday, 9th May 2018.
Ian McEwan on bringing his novel On Chesil Beach to the big screen.
Published on Tuesday, 8th May 2018.
Rose Tremain, Sarah Hall and Sarah Perry on Norwich's thriving literary culture.
Published on Monday, 7th May 2018.
Artist David Shrigley on his Brighton Festival, Novelist Madeline Miller.
Published on Friday, 4th May 2018.
Kate Mosse talks about her latest historical novel The Burning Chambers.
Published on Thursday, 3rd May 2018.
Benjamin Zephaniah, Coronation Street male suicide storyline, I Feel Pretty review.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd May 2018.
The shortlist for the Art Fund Museum of the Year prize 2018 is announced.
Published on Tuesday, 1st May 2018.
Plan B on his new album, Women in Chinese art, plus art reproduced on household items.
Published on Monday, 30th April 2018.
Avengers: Infinity War - the latest offering from Marvel - and the role of libraries today
Published on Friday, 27th April 2018.
Janelle Monae on her new album and her film roles including Hidden Figures and Moonlight.
Published on Thursday, 26th April 2018.
Rodin and the art of ancient Greece at the British Museum.
Published on Wednesday, 25th April 2018.
The first statue of a woman in Parliament Square is unveiled today, but is it any good?
Published on Tuesday, 24th April 2018.
Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, The Shires play live in studio plus poet Sean O'Brien
Published on Monday, 23rd April 2018.
Romola Garai is The Writer, Ladysmith Black Mambazo perform, Guy Gunaratne's debut novel.
Published on Friday, 20th April 2018.
The artistic contribution of the Windrush generation.
Published on Thursday, 19th April 2018.
Tina, the musical telling Tina Turner's life story, hits the stage.
Published on Wednesday, 18th April 2018.
Director Jane Treays discusses her TV documentary The Queen's Green Planet.
Published on Tuesday, 17th April 2018.
Director Mike Newell reflects on a 40-year career in films and discusses his latest movie.
Published on Monday, 16th April 2018.
Singaporean author Sharlene Teo on her praised debut novel Ponti.
Published on Friday, 13th April 2018.
As singer Janelle Monáe's video for PYNK drops, we consider game-changing music videos.
Published on Thursday, 12th April 2018.
Naomie Harris on fighting oversized genetically-modified predators in new film Rampage.
Published on Wednesday, 11th April 2018.
Musician Viv Albertine's new memoir and how BBC Three is attracting young audiences.
Published on Tuesday, 10th April 2018.
Writers Ben Okri and Joanne Harris discuss writing to be read aloud.
Published on Monday, 9th April 2018.
Bob Geldof, Lionel Shriver, Liz Carr, Rae Morris and Testament join the celebrations.
Published on Friday, 6th April 2018.
Actor David Morrissey on starring in BBC 2's new drama The City and The City.
Published on Thursday, 5th April 2018.
Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr on starring onstage in the musical Chicago and his career.
Published on Wednesday, 4th April 2018.
Aminatta Forna on her new novel Happiness a multi-layered story set in modern London.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd April 2018.
Sandeep Mahal explores the art and culture of Nottingham, the 'rebel city'.
Published on Monday, 2nd April 2018.
100 years after Bernstein's birth, his son, biographer and pupil discuss his life and work
Published on Friday, 30th March 2018.
American playwright, director and novelist David Mamet on his book Chicago.
Published on Thursday, 29th March 2018.
Wes Anderson on his film, Isle of Dogs, set on a trash island in Japan.
Published on Wednesday, 28th March 2018.
Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg's return to the sci-fi genre, is reviewed.
Published on Tuesday, 27th March 2018.
Anna Chancellor on her new TV drama, Ordeal by Innocence, and singer Harshdeep Kaur.
Published on Monday, 26th March 2018.
Sonia Boyce discusses her career blazing a trail for black female artists.
Published on Friday, 23rd March 2018.
Rufus Norris and Kit Monkman on Macbeth's relevance to modern times.
Published on Thursday, 22nd March 2018.
Steven Soderbergh on his film Unsane starring Claire Foy, shot entirely on three iphones.
Published on Wednesday, 21st March 2018.
Jimmy Iovine, the man behind hits from Springsteen to Dr Dre, talks about his long career.
Published on Tuesday, 20th March 2018.
A special extended interview with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber as he turns 70.
Published on Monday, 19th March 2018.
Tom Jones and Jennifer Hudson discuss their role as judges on the TV talent show The Voice
Published on Friday, 16th March 2018.
The verdict on the return of video game heroine Lara Croft to the big screen.
Published on Thursday, 15th March 2018.
A review of film Mary Magdalene, and the rich world of Icelandic fiction.
Published on Wednesday, 14th March 2018.
Paddy Considine on Journeyman, Gemma Bodinetz on the Everyman Rep, and integrated casting.
Published on Tuesday, 13th March 2018.
Eleanor Bron at 80, The Great Wave at the National Theatre and the comic art of Ken Dodd.
Published on Monday, 12th March 2018.
Sir Ian McKellen on his career in theatre and on screen.
Published on Friday, 9th March 2018.
Detective Jessica Jones returns to television screens. Have her superpowers diminished?
Published on Thursday, 8th March 2018.
David Attenborough on why he loves the work of painter John Craxton.
Published on Wednesday, 7th March 2018.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Picasso at Tate Modern, David Oyelowo.
Published on Tuesday, 6th March 2018.
Lynne Ramsay's thriller, You Were Never Really Here, reviewed, Percussionist Colin Currie.
Published on Monday, 5th March 2018.
Jess Thom on why Beckett's Not I speaks to her so strongly as someone with Tourette's.
Published on Friday, 2nd March 2018.
We review new TV series Civilisations which explores thousands of years of visual culture.
Published on Thursday, 1st March 2018.
Sharon Horgan in Game Night, Maya Youssef on the qanun and Samantha Harvey's new novel.
Published on Wednesday, 28th February 2018.
A Fantastic Woman reviewed, playing drunk, paintings under paintings, and Lewis Gilbert.
Published on Tuesday, 27th February 2018.
The Assassination of Gianni Versace, All Too Human, Girls on the run in new novel Sal.
Published on Monday, 26th February 2018.
The verdict on Jennifer Lawrence as a prima ballerina-turned-Russian spy in Red Sparrow.
Published on Friday, 23rd February 2018.
Tracey Thorn, rivalry between biographers, licensing museum images and Stormzy.
Published on Thursday, 22nd February 2018.
Carey Mulligan, spoilers discussed, Mosaic and the death of the lead guitar.
Published on Wednesday, 21st February 2018.
I, Tonya reviewed, plus Robin Cousins considers the art and the sport of ice skating.
Published on Tuesday, 20th February 2018.
To mark 100 years since women got the vote we look at suffrage art.
Published on Monday, 19th February 2018.
Writers of two memoirs on how art and literature served as a lifeline in very dark times.
Published on Friday, 16th February 2018.
Ruth Wilson on her latest big screen role in the psychological drama Dark River.
Published on Thursday, 15th February 2018.
Greta Gerwig on her directorial debut film Lady Bird.
Published on Wednesday, 14th February 2018.
Samira Ahmed discusses Guillermo del Toro's Oscar-nominated film The Shape of Water.
Published on Tuesday, 13th February 2018.
Musician Bob Geldof on A Fanatic Heart, his documentary about Irish poet WB Yeats.
Published on Monday, 12th February 2018.
Chadwick Boseman, Black Super-heroes, Shakespeare for Children and Welsh Music - in Welsh.
Published on Friday, 9th February 2018.
Playwright David Hare on his latest TV drama series Collateral.
Published on Thursday, 8th February 2018.
Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz on their new film The Mercy.
Published on Wednesday, 7th February 2018.
Mica Paris sings Ella Fitzgerald, the ethics of funding the arts, author Jim Crace.
Published on Tuesday, 6th February 2018.
Mike Bartlett discusses his new TV drama Trauma, and election artist Cornelia Parker.
Published on Monday, 5th February 2018.
Nicolas Benedetti on rewriting the cadenza of Beethoven's Violin Concerto.
Published on Friday, 2nd February 2018.
Scottish rock band Simple Minds perform live and discuss their 40-year career.
Published on Thursday, 1st February 2018.
Sheldon Harnick on his new musical, 50 years of musicals and artist Olafur Eliasson.
Published on Wednesday, 31st January 2018.
James Graham on his new play about Hull's year as City of Culture.
Published on Tuesday, 30th January 2018.
Nicholas Hytner on Julius Caesar, author Joe Dunthorne, social housing design.
Published on Monday, 29th January 2018.
Kirsty Lang explores the literary scene in Istanbul including Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk.
Published on Friday, 26th January 2018.
Actor Paapa Essiedu on Hamlet, poet Rebecca Watts' criticism of the poetry establishment.
Published on Thursday, 25th January 2018.
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Ursula K Le Guin remembered.
Published on Wednesday, 24th January 2018.
The Oscar nominations for 2018 were announced on Monday, so who's in and who's out?
Published on Tuesday, 23rd January 2018.
Downsizing with Matt Damon reviewed, the logistics of sex scenes, and a satire on ceramics
Published on Monday, 22nd January 2018.
Film director Richard Linklater on Last Flag Flying, Why literary fiction is in decline.
Published on Friday, 19th January 2018.
Recent work by renowned artist Bridget Riley, known for her abstract geometric images.
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2018.
Singer Carleen Anderson on her Cage Street Memorial project and the novelist Elif Shafak.
Published on Wednesday, 17th January 2018.
Will & Grace return 20 years on, the changing face of animation, London Sinfonietta at 50.
Published on Tuesday, 16th January 2018.
Liam Neeson, graphic artist Jamie Hewlett, TS Eliot Poetry Prize winner, fake art.
Published on Monday, 15th January 2018.
Tom Hanks on his new film, The Post, co-starring Meryl Streep.
Published on Friday, 12th January 2018.
Director Vicky Featherstone, philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer, and poet Sasha Dugdale.
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2018.
Melvyn Bragg - 40 years of The Southbank Show, TV arts programmes today, The Fire and Fury
Published on Wednesday, 10th January 2018.
The Vagina Monologues 20 years on and feminist theatre today, French TV crime drama Spiral
Published on Tuesday, 9th January 2018.
A special episode featuring the five category winners of the Costa Book Awards 2017
We review Channel 4 drama Kiri and discuss the events of last night's Golden Globes.
Published on Monday, 8th January 2018.
Christopher Plummer on replacing Kevin Spacey in All the Money in the World.
Published on Friday, 5th January 2018.
Shakespeare's Globe's new artistic director Michelle Terry, and the Costa biography winner
Published on Thursday, 4th January 2018.
Neil Cross, creator of Luther, talks about his new BBC One series Hard Sun.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd January 2018.
The category winners of the Costa Book Awards 2017 are announced exclusively on Front Row.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd January 2018.
How arts organisations root themselves in their local communities.
Published on Monday, 1st January 2018.
Kay Mellor on her new ITV drama Girlfriends.
Published on Friday, 29th December 2017.
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer on their return to TV, plus opera star Angela Gheorghiu.
Published on Thursday, 28th December 2017.
They dominate the box office. Just why are we turning to comic books for today's heroes?
Published on Wednesday, 27th December 2017.
Gary Oldman on his career-defining performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.
Published on Tuesday, 26th December 2017.
Games and performances including impressions, improvised song and poetry readings.
Published on Monday, 25th December 2017.
Emily Watson on the new TV adaptation of Little Women, and older women on screen.
Published on Friday, 22nd December 2017.
Jodie Foster on directing Black Mirror, The Hamilton phenomenon, Christmas film round-up.
Published on Thursday, 21st December 2017.
James Norton on McMafia, Independent magazines, Joe Stilgoe on the new Jungle Book musical
Published on Wednesday, 20th December 2017.
Mavis Staples, Carmen Maria Machado and Christmas ghost stories.
Published on Tuesday, 19th December 2017.
As The League of Gentlemen returns we ask how much has the climate for comedy changed?
Published on Monday, 18th December 2017.
Emily Wilson, the art of literary translation, the Hayward Gallery reopening.
Published on Friday, 15th December 2017.
Theatre director Emma Rice discusses her final production at Shakespeare's Globe.
Published on Thursday, 14th December 2017.
The winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature talks to John Wilson.
Staying in or going out? Festive TV reviewed. And how live music venues could be protected
Published on Tuesday, 12th December 2017.
The Bette Davis/Joan Crawford Feud series, The Twilight Zone on stage and a snow poem.
Published on Monday, 11th December 2017.
Vanessa Redgrave looks back over her long and varied career, and Imperium at the RSC.
Published on Friday, 8th December 2017.
Christopher Nolan, director of Inception and The Dark Knight, looks back at his career.
Published on Thursday, 7th December 2017.
Portrait painter Jonathan Yeo makes his first sculpture using virtual reality.
Published on Wednesday, 6th December 2017.
Claire Foy on playing the Queen in The Crown.
Published on Tuesday, 5th December 2017.
Jake Gyllenhaal in Stronger, the true story of a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Published on Monday, 4th December 2017.
Cecilia Bartoli and Sol Gabetta on their album intertwining voice and cello, Dolce Duello.
Published on Friday, 1st December 2017.
Michael Parkinson's American Songbook, review of Wonder, adaptations of A Christmas Carol.
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2017.
Screenwriter Amy Sherman-Palladino on her new TV comedy drama, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Published on Wednesday, 29th November 2017.
James Franco on new film The Disaster Artist about 'the Citizen Kane of bad films'.
Published on Tuesday, 28th November 2017.
Actor James Bolam talks about his Likely Lads co-star, Rodney Bewes, who died yesterday.
Soprano Joyce DiDonato on tackling the vocal pyrotechnics of Rossini.
Published on Monday, 27th November 2017.
Benjamin Clementine, Oscar Wilde's Women, and David LaChapelle.
Published on Friday, 24th November 2017.
Inua Ellams on his play Barber Shop Chronicles. Plus a review of TV drama Godless.
Published on Thursday, 23rd November 2017.
The announcement of the Costa Book Awards shortlists and Modigliani reviewed.
Published on Tuesday, 21st November 2017.
Priscilla Presley on forty years of looking after Elvis's legacy, plus Cate Blanchett.
Published on Monday, 20th November 2017.
Fenella Fielding, 90, recalls her famous, steamy Carry On moment, and playing Hedda Gabler
Published on Friday, 17th November 2017.
Noel Gallagher discusses his new album.
Published on Thursday, 16th November 2017.
Robert Pattinson, Ian McMillan, the voices behind the puppets, Goldsmith Prize winner.
Published on Wednesday, 15th November 2017.
Dee Rees on her film, Mudbound, which explores the racial divide in 1940s Mississippi.
Published on Tuesday, 14th November 2017.
Annette Bening discusses Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, co-starring Jamie Bell.
Published on Monday, 13th November 2017.
Sheridan Smith on her first solo album.
Published on Friday, 10th November 2017.
Christian Slater and Sam Yates on Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, Animator Ivor Wood's legacy
Published on Thursday, 9th November 2017.
Hugh Grant on how his early stage career equipped him to play the villain in Paddington 2.
Published on Wednesday, 8th November 2017.
Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook, the Louvre in Abu Dhabi plus film director Yorgos Lanthimos
Published on Tuesday, 7th November 2017.
Kenneth Lonergan on his adaptation of EM Forster's Howards End.
Published on Monday, 6th November 2017.
Writers Joanne Harris and Jonathan Coe on their latest work; Film director Luca Guadagnino
Published on Friday, 3rd November 2017.
Kenneth Branagh is Poirot; Josie Lawrence is Mother Courage; Keeping TV secrets.
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2017.
Artist Tracey Emin, author Minette Walters, and a film about French painter Paul Gauguin.
Published on Wednesday, 1st November 2017.
Opera singer Lisette Oropesa, novelist Richard Flanagan, artist Kate MccGwire.
Published on Tuesday, 31st October 2017.
Bill Bailey tries out the Front Row keyboard. Shahidha Bari talks to Philip Pullman.
Published on Monday, 30th October 2017.
Annie Leibovitz on her photographs of a turbulent decade.
Published on Friday, 27th October 2017.
Richard Bean on his new play Young Marx, and Stranger Things 2 reviewed.
Published on Thursday, 26th October 2017.
Have the Harvey Weinstein revelations created a watershed moment?
Published on Wednesday, 25th October 2017.
Taika Waititi takes on the Marvel universe in his new film, Thor: Ragnarok.
Published on Tuesday, 24th October 2017.
Armistead Maupin's memoir, Logical Family; choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan's legacy.
Published on Monday, 23rd October 2017.
Harry Hill's new children's novel, Liza Tarbuck on narrating television shows, and Yoshiki
Published on Friday, 20th October 2017.
Daniel Radcliffe on filming in the jungle.
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2017.
Beth Ditto on her debut solo album; poet Jackie Kay, Scotland's makar, performs new work.
Published on Wednesday, 18th October 2017.
St Vincent on her new album Masseduction, and novelist Andrew Michael Hurley.
Published on Tuesday, 17th October 2017.
Armando Iannucci's Death of Stalin, Kwame Kwei-Armah directs Ibsen's Lady from the Sea.
Published on Monday, 16th October 2017.
Kit Harington on his new drama series about the Gunpowder Plot.
Published on Friday, 13th October 2017.
George Michael's film - Freedom, John Banville, Michael Fassbender and performance art.
Published on Thursday, 12th October 2017.
Dustin Hoffman on his new film, Jon Boden live, Tate St Ives reopens with a new gallery.
Published on Wednesday, 11th October 2017.
Sally Potter on her film The Party, and the composer of Wichita Lineman, Jimmy Webb.
Published on Tuesday, 10th October 2017.
Author Dan Brown discusses the return of Robert Langdon in his latest novel, Origin.
Published on Monday, 9th October 2017.
Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling; Liam Gallagher; Dual roles on screen.
Published on Friday, 6th October 2017.
Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Prize in Literature, Alex Clark assesses his contribution.
Published on Thursday, 5th October 2017.
Kate Winslet interview, Sparks with a new album, Jenny Uglow on her book about Edward Lear
Published on Wednesday, 4th October 2017.
Front Row announces the winners of the BBC National Short Story and Young Writers' Awards.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd October 2017.
Matt Lucas talks to Stig Abell about his memoir. Plus Martin Freeman and Tamsin Greig.
Published on Monday, 2nd October 2017.
Flood, Louise Wallwein, Imtiaz Dharker, Washing Lines poems from the people of Humberside.
Published on Friday, 29th September 2017.
Benny Andersson performs, Sophie Wu on her new play, the healing power of poetry.
Published on Thursday, 28th September 2017.
Carlos Acosta, 400 years of opera at the V&A and On the Road with Michael Winterbottom.
Published on Wednesday, 27th September 2017.
Susheela Raman; Liz Dawn, Tony Booth remembered; the campus in culture; Kwame Kwei Armah.
Published on Tuesday, 26th September 2017.
Romcom director and writer Nancy Meyers, and what makes a literary modern classic.
Published on Monday, 25th September 2017.
Celebrated political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe; new oratorio The Judas Passion.
Published on Friday, 22nd September 2017.
Juliet Stevenson on playing a fierce female aviator in the play Wings.
Published on Thursday, 21st September 2017.
Benedict Cumberbatch talks about bringing Ian McEwan's novel The Child in Time to TV.
Published on Wednesday, 20th September 2017.
The Hollywood actor and cellist Jan Vogler discuss their new classical album.
Published on Tuesday, 19th September 2017.
BBC National Short Story Award shortlisted author Cynan Jones, Jasper Johns retrospective.
Published on Monday, 18th September 2017.
Jack Dee talks to John Wilson about his new sitcom Bad Move.
Published on Friday, 15th September 2017.
Singer Ute Lemper, Welsh play We're Still Here, Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko.
Published on Thursday, 14th September 2017.
Comedian Sara Pascoe on Pride and Prejudice, Man Booker shortlist, actor Robert Lindsay.
Published on Wednesday, 13th September 2017.
Sir Peter Hall, director of theatre, opera and film, remembered by friends and colleagues.
Published on Tuesday, 12th September 2017.
Victoria and Abdul, the last edition of Pears' Cyclopaedia, and Cilla The Musical.
Published on Monday, 11th September 2017.
Downton Abbey's Joanne Froggatt, and Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky.
Published on Friday, 8th September 2017.
Marian Keyes on her new novel The Break, and Tim Roth on Tin Star.
Published on Thursday, 7th September 2017.
Roddy Doyle, Stephen King's IT film, heroes in TV dramas and the art of sports commentary.
Published on Wednesday, 6th September 2017.
Woman's Hour Craft Exhibition at the V&A; poets John Ashbery and Karen McCarthy Woolf.
Published on Tuesday, 5th September 2017.
Doctor Foster is back; Stephen Sondheim's Follies; remembering Steely Dan's Walter Becker.
Published on Monday, 4th September 2017.
Nicole Krauss' new novel, an all-female Lord of the Flies, James Ngcobo on The Suitcase.
Published on Friday, 1st September 2017.
Brian Cox, Omar Robert Hamilton, Game of Thrones legacy and Venice Film Festival.
Published on Thursday, 31st August 2017.
Twelve-year-old composer, pianist and violinist Alma Deutscher talks to Kirsty Lang.
Published on Wednesday, 30th August 2017.
Tanika Gupta play; John Connolly on Stan Laurel; Una review; Ed Skrein & whitewashing row.
Published on Tuesday, 29th August 2017.
Bill Nighy on his acting style, Janet Suzman on Hamlet, and Steve McCurry on Afghanistan.
Published on Monday, 28th August 2017.
Ronnie Wood on his paintings; Cinematic adaptions of Shakespeare; Taylor Swift's new song.
Published on Friday, 25th August 2017.
Illness in comedy series with Peep Show creator Sam Bain.
Published on Thursday, 24th August 2017.
Not-so-famous but better books; Kathryn Bigelow; Eric Ravilious; a great sonnet in Pidgin.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd August 2017.
Peter Kosminsky on his new jihadi drama; Ben Whishaw on playing an aerospace billionaire.
Published on Monday, 21st August 2017.
Comedian Lucy Porter and comedy tutor Jojo Sutherland give John a lesson in stand-up.
Published on Friday, 18th August 2017.
Val McDermid at Edinburgh International Books Festival with Paul Auster and Denise Mina.
Published on Thursday, 17th August 2017.
Live from Edinburgh with guests including Sir John Eliot Gardiner on Monteverdi at 450.
Published on Wednesday, 16th August 2017.
Shappi Khorsandi and Nassim Soleimanpour in front of a live audience in Edinburgh.
Published on Monday, 14th August 2017.
An exploration of the life and legacy of the playwright Joe Orton.
Published on Friday, 11th August 2017.
Henry Goodman as Lucien Freud, YA BAME writers, Isaac Julien, Lawrence Osborne.
Published on Thursday, 10th August 2017.
An interview with architect Daniel Libeskind.
Published on Wednesday, 9th August 2017.
Regina Spektor plays live; author Philippa Gregory; TV's Eden; plus Rebecca Root.
Published on Tuesday, 8th August 2017.
Highlights from Front Row's Queer Icons project, presented by Alan Carr.
Trust Me, posthumous publishing, a review of Atomic Blonde, and Colm Toibin's Queer Icon.
Published on Monday, 7th August 2017.
Irvine Welsh, Bookshop economics, Morrissey's early years and CN Lester's Queer Icon.
Published on Friday, 4th August 2017.
Actor Stockard Channing on her new stage role, feminism and the enduring power of Grease.
Published on Thursday, 3rd August 2017.
Emergency services on screen; plus Sally Hawkins, Josette Bushell-Mingo, and Damian Barr.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd August 2017.
Nicholas Hytner's Queer Icon, writer Bernard MacLaverty, riding the Mail Rail.
Published on Tuesday, 1st August 2017.
David Walliams on Gangsta Granny, and Jeanne Moreau and Sam Shepard remembered.
Published on Monday, 31st July 2017.
Susie Dent on how the arts have entered the English language.
Published on Friday, 28th July 2017.
Patrick Gale, Olly Alexander, Man Booker Prize longlist, Mercury Prize shortlist.
Published on Thursday, 27th July 2017.
Frightening films, crime writer Kathy Reichs and actors-turned-artistic directors.
Published on Wednesday, 26th July 2017.
Actor Daniel Mays on playing gay rights campaigner Peter Wildeblood.
Published on Tuesday, 25th July 2017.
Actor Jack O'Connell on playing Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on the West End stage.
Published on Monday, 24th July 2017.
Jane Campion on Top of the Lake, Chris Smith's Queer Icon, Lucy Kirkwood, and Love Island.
Published on Friday, 21st July 2017.
Richard Long, Stella Duffy's Queer Icon, Daljit Nagra on Liu Xiaobo, the value of art.
Published on Thursday, 20th July 2017.
Mark Rylance discusses his role in Christopher Nolan's new film Dunkirk.
Published on Wednesday, 19th July 2017.
Arts news, interviews and reviews, presented by Samira Ahmed.
Published on Tuesday, 18th July 2017.
Sofia Coppola on The Beguiled, Neil McGregor's Queer Icon, the virtues of Plywood.
Published on Friday, 14th July 2017.
We debate whether dinosaurs or whales have inspired the best art.
Published on Thursday, 13th July 2017.
New Tate boss Maria Balshaw, Alan Carr's Queer Icon and The Sunbathers on the Southbank.
Published on Wednesday, 12th July 2017.
War for Planet of the Apes; Alan Hollinghurst on his Queer Icon; Soul of a Nation at Tate.
Published on Tuesday, 11th July 2017.
Shirley MacLaine looks back on her career.
Published on Monday, 10th July 2017.
Sarah Hall, Antony Sher's Queer Icon, Fatherhood, Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
Published on Friday, 7th July 2017.
Oscar-winning writer Tarell Alvin McCraney; Helen Edmundson on the overlooked Queen Anne.
Published on Thursday, 6th July 2017.
Christine & the Queens, Spider-Man: Homecoming, acting guilty and Lapworth Museum.
Published on Wednesday, 5th July 2017.
Sam Taylor-Johnson on Gypsy; singer Will Young's Queer Icons choice.
Published on Tuesday, 4th July 2017.
Artist Maggi Hambling launches Front Row's new Queer Icons series.
Published on Monday, 3rd July 2017.
Committee Musical, Fair Field - Piers Plowman re-imagined, Museum of the Year, Ebb and Flo
Published on Friday, 30th June 2017.
Manchester International Festival launch with Jeremy Deller.
Published on Thursday, 29th June 2017.
Architect Amanda Levete and V&A director Tristram Hunt on the museum's £40m new project.
Published on Wednesday, 28th June 2017.
Ian Rankin on Rebus, American photographer Gregory Crewdson, National Rural Touring Awards
Published on Tuesday, 27th June 2017.
Edgar Wright, director of Baby Driver; Julie Hesmondhalgh; Alba Arikha.
Published on Monday, 26th June 2017.
The writer Jon Ronson on his film Okja, Harry Potter's impact and the artist Khadija Saye.
Published on Friday, 23rd June 2017.
Director Sam Mendes and playwright Jez Butterworth on The Ferryman.
Published on Thursday, 22nd June 2017.
Joseph Fiennes on the Handmaid's Tale. Plus a new exhibition about Wyndham Lewis.
Published on Wednesday, 21st June 2017.
Broadway star Audra McDonald on Billie Holiday; novelist Paula McGrath.
Published on Tuesday, 20th June 2017.
Diane Keaton on Hampstead, Annie Hall and The Godfather; plus new Netflix drama Glow.
Published on Monday, 19th June 2017.
John Wilson talks to Fleet Foxes lead singer Robin Pecknold.
Published on Friday, 16th June 2017.
Israeli author David Grossman on A Horse Walks into a Bar; pianist Evgeny Kissin's memoirs
Published on Thursday, 15th June 2017.
Hamlet - the opera, a novel with songs, political docudramas and blue plaques for music.
Published on Wednesday, 14th June 2017.
Andrew Scott and Robert Icke on Hamlet, Whitney Houston documentary, author Amanda Craig.
Published on Tuesday, 13th June 2017.
Brian Cox on playing Churchill and a review of The Barbican's sci-fi exhibition.
Published on Monday, 12th June 2017.
Cornelia Parker on being the official election artist, and the Fearless Girl controversy.
Published on Friday, 9th June 2017.
Actress Rachel Weisz, author Arundhati Roy, Grange Park opera, Ed Victor remembered.
Published on Thursday, 8th June 2017.
Writer Stephen Moffat on a career that has seen him helm two of the BBC's biggest shows.
Published on Wednesday, 7th June 2017.
Grayson Perry, the Baileys prize-winner, Helen Dunmore's last poem and Children's Laureate
Michael Sheen on his career, TV drama Ackley Bridge, Robert Plant on his favourite novel.
Published on Monday, 5th June 2017.
'The Discovery of Mondrian' with Jonathan Jones and Alice Birch on Anatomy of a Suicide.
Published on Friday, 2nd June 2017.
Samira Ahmed talks to Salma Hayek and explores Arnold Bennett country.
Published on Thursday, 1st June 2017.
South African soprano Pretty Yende, Dennis Lehane on his new novel Since We Fell.
Published on Wednesday, 31st May 2017.
My Life as a Courgette reviewed, Will Self on his new novel Phone, Raphael drawings.
Published on Tuesday, 30th May 2017.
Sgt. Pepper at 50 arts festival; Jimmy McGovern on his new drama Broken; RIBA North.
Published on Monday, 29th May 2017.
Hay: Elizabeth Strout; Kully Thiarai; Julia Donaldson; Katherine Rundell; Peter Florence.
Published on Friday, 26th May 2017.
3D photos of Queen by Brian May, lost Sylvia Plath poems, Star Wars at 40.
Published on Thursday, 25th May 2017.
Billy Bragg, Hokusai's wave, Jack Sparrow returns, Nicola Benedetti, poetry and atrocity.
Published on Wednesday, 24th May 2017.
The return of Twin Peaks, American crime writer Bill Beverly, tributes to Sir Roger Moore.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd May 2017.
Denise Gough on her TV role in Paula, and 50 years of Fairport Convention.
Published on Monday, 22nd May 2017.
The author, critic and poet Clive James on the poems he thought he'd not live to write.
Published on Friday, 19th May 2017.
Engelbert Humperdinck, The Red Turtle, Welsh opera, and literary festivals with F-ratings.
Published on Thursday, 18th May 2017.
Guy Ritchie on King Arthur, Redwater and spin-offs, true crime dramas, Shore to Shore.
Three Girls screenwriter Nicole Taylor, American artist Mark Bradford and Life of Galileo.
Published on Tuesday, 16th May 2017.
Conn Iggulden on St Dunstan, playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, virtual reality on radio.
Published on Monday, 15th May 2017.
John Wilson reports from the 57th International Art Exhibition, the Venice Biennale.
Published on Friday, 12th May 2017.
Mat Fraser is Richard III; Anne of Green Gables new adaptation; Amy Schumer; Tony Kushner.
Published on Thursday, 11th May 2017.
Film director John Madden, the diction controversy, Pultizer-winning author Richard Ford.
Published on Wednesday, 10th May 2017.
The TV adaptation of a controversial play about the Windsors; the Pink Floyd retrospective
Published on Tuesday, 9th May 2017.
Review of Alien: Covenant; how might museums reflect changing social attitudes.
Published on Monday, 8th May 2017.
Jamaican poet Mervyn Morris, and the future cultural landscape of France.
Published on Friday, 5th May 2017.
John Wilson talks to Samantha Spiro about playing Barbara Windsor in the biopic Babs.
Jude Law, Woody Harrelson, Timothy Spall with Colm Meaney, and the Turner Prize Shortlist.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd May 2017.
Mindhorn, Tony Kushner on Angels in America, Natalie Haynes and Madeline Miller.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd May 2017.
Sound artist and composer Oliver Beer shows John how to make ancient pots sing.
Published on Monday, 1st May 2017.
Kirsty Lang looks at the careers of Christian Bale and Ella Fitzgerald.
Published on Friday, 28th April 2017.
Special programme live from the British Museum.
Dame Judi Dench discusses the life and work of acting giant Sir John Gielgud.
Published on Wednesday, 26th April 2017.
Thomas Ades on The Exterminating Angel, poet Patricia Lockwood, director James Gunn.
Published on Tuesday, 25th April 2017.
Bananarama back together again, and The Wellcome Book Prize winner revealed.
Published on Monday, 24th April 2017.
Actor Gemma Arterton discusses her WWII film Their Finest, plus photographer Martin Parr.
Published on Friday, 21st April 2017.
Joan Bakewell on Keeping in Touch. David Pickard unveils the 2017 Proms.
Published on Thursday, 20th April 2017.
He took those Beyonce photos but Awol Erizku also paints; Robert Macfarlane on dagglers.
Published on Wednesday, 19th April 2017.
Samira Ahmed talks to violinist Kyung Wha Chung and poet Murray Lachlan Young.
Published on Tuesday, 18th April 2017.
Rules Don't Apply starring Warren Beatty reviewed, poet Inua Ellams performs.
Published on Monday, 17th April 2017.
Kirsty Lang talks to the playwright Sir Tom Stoppard.
Published on Friday, 14th April 2017.
Adrian Lester and Deborah Kermode, Frog Stone, Kim Stanley Robinson.
Published on Thursday, 13th April 2017.
The Sense of an Ending on film, I Heard It Through the Grapevine is 50, writing as therapy
Published on Wednesday, 12th April 2017.
Katherine Jenkins on Carousel, and Larry Lamb and Phil Daniels on The Hatton Garden Job.
Published on Tuesday, 11th April 2017.
From the Kinks to Americana; Dreda Say Mitchell on Guerrilla; poets respond to The Odyssey
Published on Monday, 10th April 2017.
Veteran actors Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman discuss their new heist movie.
Published on Friday, 7th April 2017.
Death of a She Devil is Fay Weldon's new novel; Simon Callow directs The Philanthropist.
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2017.
Novelist David Vann, film director Terence Davies, British abstract artist Albert Moore.
Published on Wednesday, 5th April 2017.
Elif Shafak reviews a new film about the poet Neruda, and the art of the casting director.
Published on Tuesday, 4th April 2017.
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist announced, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko remembered.
Published on Monday, 3rd April 2017.
A new adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall, and the poetry of Adrian Mole.
Published on Friday, 31st March 2017.
Hari Kunzru, Mica Levi, Patrick Marber, Turner Prize changes.
Published on Thursday, 30th March 2017.
42nd Street director Mark Bramble, and Anish Kapoor on his new exhibition.
Published on Wednesday, 29th March 2017.
Sir Nicholas Serota on leading Arts Council England, and the Royal Philharmonic plays punk
Published on Tuesday, 28th March 2017.
Arts news, interviews and reviews. Samira Ahmed talks to actor Anthony Head.
Published on Monday, 27th March 2017.
The Hollywood actor discusses his sci-fi movie Life and singing on Broadway.
Published on Friday, 24th March 2017.
Charlotte Rampling, Moira Buffini, The Clearing, and the politics of Eurovision.
Published on Thursday, 23rd March 2017.
Nick Willing on his mother, the artist Paula Rego; Actor Danny Huston; Ghetto Film School.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd March 2017.
Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzalez on the ghosts of the Chateau Marmont Hotel.
Published on Tuesday, 21st March 2017.
Ray Mears reviews the film The Lost City of Z. Chuck Berry remembered.
Published on Monday, 20th March 2017.
Kirsty Lang discusses the work of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott.
Published on Friday, 17th March 2017.
Get Out reviewed,Joan Bakewell on older actors,Compton Verney's Creating The Countryside
Published on Thursday, 16th March 2017.
Bill Condon on making Beauty and the Beast, comedian Dave Spikey's unusual lucky mascot.
Published on Wednesday, 15th March 2017.
John Harle on how to play the saxophone, The Salesman, singer-songwriters.
Published on Tuesday, 14th March 2017.
Turning science into an art form with Brian Cox, and Sarah Dunant responds to Michelangelo
Published on Monday, 13th March 2017.
Paul Weller on composing his first film score, Duncan Macmillan on adapting Paul Auster.
Published on Friday, 10th March 2017.
Classical pianist Imogen Cooper plays live in the studio.
Published on Thursday, 9th March 2017.
Roger McGough and Brian Patten on The Mersey Sound, Lizzie Nunnery, Andrew McMillan.
Published on Wednesday, 8th March 2017.
Authors Judith Kerr and Chris Riddell discuss Dr Seuss; artist Wolfgang Tillmans.
Published on Tuesday, 7th March 2017.
Sean Foley directs Moliere, Malala's UN speech as a choral piece.
Published on Monday, 6th March 2017.
British grime and hip hop artist Stormzy on his new album.
Published on Friday, 3rd March 2017.
Tom Hiddleston on Kong: Skull Island; Charlie and Daisy May Cooper on BBC3's This Country.
Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2017.
Kirsty Lang talks to Hugh Jackman about the film Logan.
Published on Wednesday, 1st March 2017.
It took nine novels before Jojo Moyes found success; fancy being a cygnet in Hull?
Published on Tuesday, 28th February 2017.
Moonlight at the Oscars, Mary Beard, author Ross Raisin, Mary Magdalene in art.
Published on Monday, 27th February 2017.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Jake Arnott on The Fatal Tree, The Tale of Januarie opera.
Published on Friday, 24th February 2017.
Monty Python's John Cleese on farce. Jay Z is inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2017.
David Tennant on Broadchurch, Britain's favourite second novel and are awards irrelevant?
Published on Wednesday, 22nd February 2017.
Gurinder Chadha on her film Viceroy's House, and American Gothic at the Royal Academy.
Published on Tuesday, 21st February 2017.
Patriots Day, playwright Stephen Karam, EU Baroque Orchestra, documentaries about Syria.
Published on Monday, 20th February 2017.
Reassessing body confidence with Gary Barlow as The Girls, his first musical, opens.
Published on Friday, 17th February 2017.
Neil Jordan, See Me Now, Luke Jerram's Treasured City, Robert Siegel on The Founder.
Published on Thursday, 16th February 2017.
John Wilson talks to the American composer John Adams about his life and work.
Published on Wednesday, 15th February 2017.
John Wilson explores the work of the artist Eduardo Paolozzi.
Published on Tuesday, 14th February 2017.
The film Hidden Figures reviewed, and Dirty Dancing writer Eleanor Bergstein 30 years on.
Published on Monday, 13th February 2017.
Keanu Reeves on his three decade career, from Hamlet to action hero John Wick.
Published on Friday, 10th February 2017.
Dark comedy Prevenge, novelist John Boyne, artist Keith Tyson, Shostakovich Symphony No 12
Published on Thursday, 9th February 2017.
The work of Vanessa Bell; the latest film by Ang Lee; Barry Cryer remembers Alan Simpson.
Published on Wednesday, 8th February 2017.
A discussion of The Moorside, a new BBC drama based on the kidnapping of Shannon Matthews.
Published on Tuesday, 7th February 2017.
David Hockney at Tate, Guy Garvey from Elbow, Max Richter.
Published on Monday, 6th February 2017.
Viola Davis on her Oscar-nominated performance in August Wilson's Fences.
Published on Friday, 3rd February 2017.
Diverse casting, Roots remade, Beyonce's pregnancy portrait, poet & novelist John Burnside
Published on Thursday, 2nd February 2017.
Loving reviewed; I, Daniel Blake's Hayley Squires; author Nathan Hill on The Nix.
Published on Wednesday, 1st February 2017.
Deborah McAndrew adapts Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, and we celebrate European cinema.
Published on Tuesday, 31st January 2017.
Matthew McConaughey on his role in Gold, and Charles Dance remembers John Hurt.
David Hare on Denial; John Akomfrah; The Liverpool Everyman repertory company.
Published on Friday, 27th January 2017.
Samira Ahmed talks to percussionist Evelyn Glennie.
Published on Thursday, 26th January 2017.
Hacksaw Ridge, new musical Jamie, author Vic Jame, allure of Napoleon, some Robert Burns.
Published on Wednesday, 25th January 2017.
The 2017 Oscar nominations were revealed today, so who's in and who's out?
Published on Tuesday, 24th January 2017.
Irvine Welsh on T2 Trainspotting, the craft of the playwright, The Bird Tribunal.
Published on Monday, 23rd January 2017.
Sir Peter Bazalgette on his four years as the Chair of Arts Council England.
Published on Friday, 20th January 2017.
Author Michael Chabon; urban myths retold on TV; and Opera North's The Snow Maiden.
Apple Tree Yard starring Emily Watson, Mark-Anthony Turnage, sculptor Elisabeth Frink.
Published on Wednesday, 18th January 2017.
Simon Rattle on his first season with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Published on Tuesday, 17th January 2017.
Natalie Portman as Jackie, TS Eliot Prize and should non-Asian actors play Asian roles?
Published on Monday, 16th January 2017.
Ben Affleck on his new film Live by Night, and today's V&A announcement.
Published on Friday, 13th January 2017.
Cellist Natalie Clein; Lemony Snicket TV drama; The OA; Laura Cumming on Velazquez.
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2017.
Dev Patel on Lion; a new Bobby Moore drama; Our Dancing Town choreographer Steve Elias.
Published on Wednesday, 11th January 2017.
Bafta nominations, Common Sense, 250 years on from Mozart's first opera, Look North.
Published on Tuesday, 10th January 2017.
Samira Ahmed on the huge artwork installed above Hull. Plus the film Manchester by the Sea
Published on Monday, 9th January 2017.
Director Alex Gibney, soul singer Ray BLK, award-winning children's author Brian Conaghan.
Published on Friday, 6th January 2017.
Resurrecting actors using CGI, the writer of new BBC1 drama Taboo, poet Alice Oswald.
Published on Thursday, 5th January 2017.
Damien Chazelle; Bright Lights; David Bowie: The Last Five Years; Keggie Carew.
Published on Wednesday, 4th January 2017.
Remembering John Berger, the Costa Book Awards category winners, Chris Lang on Unforgotten
Published on Tuesday, 3rd January 2017.
John Wilson talks to composers Philip Glass, Steve Reich and John Adams about their work.
Published on Monday, 2nd January 2017.
Actor Liam Neeson; author Christian Jungersen; dancing Mad Hatters; Assassin's Creed.
Published on Friday, 30th December 2016.
John Wilson reports from Hull as it prepares to launch as UK City of Culture 2017.
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2016.
Samira Ahmed celebrates Jane Austen, ahead of next year's 200th anniversary of her death.
Published on Wednesday, 28th December 2016.
With award winners Paul Beatty, Helen Marten, Leonardo DiCaprio and Denise Gough.
Published on Tuesday, 27th December 2016.
Front Row tests knowledge of 2016's cultural events.
Published on Monday, 26th December 2016.
Actor and rapper Riz Ahmed discusses his career and a review of Dawn French in Delicious.
Published on Friday, 23rd December 2016.
Trumpeter Alison Balsom, and a review of Sally Wainwright's Brontë drama To Walk Invisible
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2016.
Dame Helen Mirren, conductor Ed Gardner, poet Kayo Chingonyi, hairy old rockers.
Published on Wednesday, 21st December 2016.
Barry Jenkins, Agatha Christie's The Witness for the Prosecution, Saint Joan, Meilyr Jones
Published on Tuesday, 20th December 2016.
Martin Freeman and Mark Gatiss on the new Sherlock plus best albums of the year.
Published on Monday, 19th December 2016.
Matthew Bourne discusses his stage version of the classic British film The Red Shoes.
Published on Friday, 16th December 2016.
Moomins creator Tove Jansson, and the challenges of performing Der Rosenkavalier.
Published on Thursday, 15th December 2016.
Peter Capaldi on Dr Who, Rogue One - A Star Wars Story, poet Ben Lerner & E R Braithwaite.
Published on Wednesday, 14th December 2016.
Darcey Bussell; Pevsner architectural guides; Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo on Broadway.
Published on Tuesday, 13th December 2016.
The Eagle Huntress, Luke Jerram's hidden treasures of Scunthorpe, John Montague remembered
Published on Monday, 12th December 2016.
Ashley Clarke reviews The Birth of a Nation, Ruth Padel reveals the reality of Christmas.
Published on Friday, 9th December 2016.
Arts news, interviews and reviews.
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2016.
Zaha Hadid's new Science Museum gallery, film editor Anne V Coates, Office Christmas Party
Published on Wednesday, 7th December 2016.
Dreamgirls composer Henry Krieger, Australia's Impressionists and Peter Vaughan remembered
Published on Tuesday, 6th December 2016.
Author Lee Child discusses short stories inspired by Edward Hopper paintings.
Published on Monday, 5th December 2016.
Alison Steadman on Abigail's Party, Pride and Prejudice, and Gavin & Stacey.
Published on Friday, 2nd December 2016.
City Sculpture Projects 1972, Strictly Ballroom the Musical, Moana.
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2016.
Robert Rauschenberg at the Tate, the poetry of Philip Larkin, This is Us reviewed.
Published on Wednesday, 30th November 2016.
A review of Clint Eastwood's 35th film as a director, and novelist Robert Olen Butler.
Published on Tuesday, 29th November 2016.
Rolling Stones new album reviewed, Miles Teller on Bleed For This, The Last Poets.
Published on Monday, 28th November 2016.
Mel Giedroyc, Gemma Wheelan & Maria Friedman showcase new musicals, writer Penelope Lively
Published on Friday, 25th November 2016.
William Finnegan, winner of Sports Book of the Year, and poet Paul Muldoon on Johnny Cash.
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2016.
Mark Rylance and Claire van Kampen on Nice Fish, Anselm Kiefer on Walhalla, Chi-raq review
Published on Wednesday, 23rd November 2016.
Adam Driver; the Costa Book Awards shortlists are announced for the five categories.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd November 2016.
William Trevor obituary, Zadie Smith on her latest novel and Lucy Kirkwood's new play.
Published on Monday, 21st November 2016.
Actor Ed Harris discusses bringing Sam Shepard's play Buried Child to the London stage.
Published on Friday, 18th November 2016.
Who's won the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture? The New Art Gallery Walsall closure.
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2016.
Author Paulo Coelho, Japanese anime film Your Name, Philippe Sands on non-fiction.
Published on Wednesday, 16th November 2016.
Front Row - Paulo Coelho, Your Name, Turner Contemporary, the art of writing non-fiction
David Oyelowo on A United Kingdom, and the controversy of Van Gogh's lost sketchbook.
Published on Tuesday, 15th November 2016.
The filmmakers behind JK Rowling's screenwriting debut and Sex Pistol Steve Jones.
Published on Monday, 14th November 2016.
A rare interview with the singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, whose death was announced today
Published on Friday, 11th November 2016.
The TV adaptation of Zadie Smith's novel NW, and artist Norman Ackroyd in his studio.
Published on Thursday, 10th November 2016.
With Andrew Lloyd Webber on School of Rock, and actor and director Ewan McGregor.
Published on Wednesday, 9th November 2016.
John Wilson explores the role of art in the regeneration of the north east of England.
Published on Tuesday, 8th November 2016.
R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and Mike Mills on the album Out of Time, 25 years after its release
Published on Monday, 7th November 2016.
Actor Michael Fassbender on his new film, Neel Mukherjee reads Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
Published on Friday, 4th November 2016.
Stephen Daldry on The Crown, novelist Linda Grant, Francesca Simon on The Scarlet Letter.
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 2016.
Our Loved Boy, Flaming June returns home, Kit de Waal's unread classic, fireworks as art.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd November 2016.
Actress Amy Adams on sci-fi film Arrival and composer and conductor John Rutter.
Published on Tuesday, 1st November 2016.
Sting on his new album; David Bowie's curator; Ian McDiarmid and Chris Hannan; Mark Haddon
Published on Monday, 31st October 2016.
Superhero film Doctor Strange, Tasmin Little on Vivaldi, Elena Ferrante's new book.
Published on Friday, 28th October 2016.
Michael Longhurst and Lucian Msamati discuss their new NT production of Amadeus.
Published on Thursday, 27th October 2016.
Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston on his memoir, and Bowie's Lazarus on stage.
Published on Wednesday, 26th October 2016.
Changes at Shakespeare's Globe, a new Design Museum, and Boyz n the Hood 25 years on.
Published on Tuesday, 25th October 2016.
Jude Law as pope; painter Paul Nash; The Word; do ballet stories always have to be old?
Published on Monday, 24th October 2016.
Chrissie Hynde on her new Pretenders album Alone, and The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.
Published on Friday, 21st October 2016.
Stella Duffy discusses her novel London Lies Beneath, and Yves Klein in Liverpool.
Published on Thursday, 20th October 2016.
Ali Smith discusses her Brexit-era novel, Autumn, with Samira Ahmed.
Published on Wednesday, 19th October 2016.
Ken Loach on I Daniel Blake; Rodin and Dance at the Courthauld; Suggs on new Madness album
Published on Tuesday, 18th October 2016.
Phil Collins discusses his new memoir, and poets Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke.
Published on Monday, 17th October 2016.
Reaction to Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize for Literature, Dario Fo remembered, Tutankhamun on TV
Pioneer black star Earl Cameron, musician David Gledhill, Simon Callow on David Gascoyne.
Published on Friday, 14th October 2016.
Andrea Arnold's American Honey, playwright Ella Hickson, and George Monbiot on loneliness.
Published on Wednesday, 12th October 2016.
Director Mira Nair and Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o discuss their film Queen of Katwe.
Published on Tuesday, 11th October 2016.
Kwame Kwei-Armah on Cassius Clay, and Kate Tempest describes writing Let Them Eat Chaos.
Published on Monday, 10th October 2016.
Blood Father, Beyond Caravaggio, and Oasis documentary Supersonic.
Published on Friday, 7th October 2016.
Louis Theroux on My Scientology Movie, and PJ Harvey marks National Poetry Day.
Published on Thursday, 6th October 2016.
Picasso Portraits show, Phyllida Lloyd on The Tempest, and Mike Figgis on virtual reality.
Published on Wednesday, 5th October 2016.
The winners of the BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writer's Award are announced.
Published on Tuesday, 4th October 2016.
Tom Stoppard discusses his play Travesties and Brexit plus The Girl on the Train reviewed.
Published on Monday, 3rd October 2016.
Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg on Deepwater Horizon, pianist Melvyn Tan, author Maria Semple
Published on Thursday, 29th September 2016.
As he approaches his 80th birthday, composer Steve Reich looks back over his career.
Published on Wednesday, 28th September 2016.
Samira Ahmed talks to Gillian Anderson about the new series of The Fall.
Published on Tuesday, 27th September 2016.
Actor Dominic Cooper discusses The Libertine, a tour of the Turner Prize shortlist.
Published on Monday, 26th September 2016.
John Wilson talks to ballet star Tamara Rojo and former Vogue director Grace Coddington.
Published on Friday, 23rd September 2016.
Hull's City of Culture 2017 programme, Emma Donoghue's new novel, Ira Sachs, K J Orr.
Published on Thursday, 22nd September 2016.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks on her slave drama.
Published on Wednesday, 21st September 2016.
Daniel Radcliffe on two new films; South African Artist William Kentridge on Thick Time.
Published on Tuesday, 20th September 2016.
Emeli Sande, BBC National Short Story Award, Abstract Expressionism.
Published on Monday, 19th September 2016.
Jimmy Page and the lost Led Zeppelin tracks, and Martin Roth on why he is quitting the V&A
Published on Friday, 16th September 2016.
Sam Neill talks about new film Hunt for the Wilderpeople and his mentor James Mason.
Published on Thursday, 15th September 2016.
Director Ron Howard discusses his documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week.
Published on Wednesday, 14th September 2016.
Man Booker shortlist, Amos Oz, Wilfredo Lam exhibition, and Blair Witch.
Published on Tuesday, 13th September 2016.
Julie Walters on sexual offences, Nicole Farhi on hands, Gillian Slovo on prison letters.
Published on Monday, 12th September 2016.
Reviews of Hell or High Water and Nick Cave's album, and Aravind Adiga on his new novel.
Published on Friday, 9th September 2016.
Bridget Jones director Sharon Maguire, actor and comedian Liz Carr, author Ann Patchett.
Published on Thursday, 8th September 2016.
Katie Mitchell on directing Cleansed, Secret in Their Eyes review, and AB Yehoshua's novel
Looking at a new V&A exhibition, a Ben Hur remake and Maggi Hambling at the British Museum
Published on Wednesday, 7th September 2016.
Viggo Mortensen on Captain Fantastic and Jay McInerney on his new novel set in Manhattan.
Published on Tuesday, 6th September 2016.
Maxine Peake and Sarah Frankcom, Mike Bullen on new Cold Feet, neon art, Star Trek at 50.
Published on Monday, 5th September 2016.
News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, literature, film and music.
Published on Friday, 2nd September 2016.
Art inspired by Reading gaol's most famous inmate, Bjork goes digital at Somerset House.
Published on Thursday, 1st September 2016.
Kenneth Branagh's The Entertainer, Sausage Party review, Herman Koch on his new novel.
Published on Wednesday, 31st August 2016.
Ian McEwan on writing from the point of view of a foetus, and Gene Wilder in his own words
Published on Tuesday, 30th August 2016.
Poldark screenwriter Debbie Horsfield, 150 years of HG Wells, punk activist Joe Corre.
Published on Monday, 29th August 2016.
Antony Sher and Gregory Doran on King Lear. Plus gaming from a writer's point of view.
Published on Friday, 26th August 2016.
Casualty at 30, Madeleine Thien, Bad Moms, Thomas Ostermeier.
Published on Thursday, 25th August 2016.
John Wilson talks to Daisy Goodwin, writer of ITV's new drama series Victoria.
Published on Wednesday, 24th August 2016.
Clive James' passion for box sets, boxer Joe Joyce on painting, and conductor Marin Alsop.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd August 2016.
John Wilson talks to music legend Quincy Jones ahead of his BBC Prom.
Published on Monday, 22nd August 2016.
David Walliams and Francesca Simon on Roald Dahl, Jack and Harry Williams, Picasso's plays
Published on Friday, 19th August 2016.
Tim Minchin's musical of Groundhog Day reviewed and Pedro Almodovar on his film Julieta.
Published on Thursday, 18th August 2016.
The people who scout for talent at the Fringe, plus Scottish singer Karine Polwart.
Published on Wednesday, 17th August 2016.
With Ricky Gervais, Ben Bailey Smith, Henry Naylor, Rory Bremner and Ayesha Hazarika.
Published on Tuesday, 16th August 2016.
John Wilson is in Edinburgh with guests including Philippa Gregory and Liz Lochhead.
Published on Monday, 15th August 2016.
40 years on from the release of Anarchy in the UK, what is the legacy of punk?
Published on Friday, 12th August 2016.
Jamie Cullum at the Proms, Greek crime writer Petros Markaris, artists in residence, Nerve
Published on Thursday, 11th August 2016.
Alexander McCall Smith on The Bertie Project, the latest in his 44 Scotland Street series.
Published on Wednesday, 10th August 2016.
Baz Luhrmann's The Get Down, Krys Lee, Allegro at 70, Windsor racecourse's resident artist
Published on Tuesday, 9th August 2016.
Samira Ahmed talks to artist Conrad Shawcross and reviews The Glass Menagerie.
Published on Monday, 8th August 2016.
Yerma starring Billie Piper, Todd Solondz on Wiener Dog, Kirill Gerstein on Tchaikovsky.
Published on Friday, 5th August 2016.
The Mercury Prize shortlist and playwrights Colin Spencer and Jon Brittain on gay theatre.
Published on Thursday, 4th August 2016.
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, The Little Prince, Brazilian artists, the Macarena at 20
Published on Wednesday, 3rd August 2016.
Brian Cox joins John Wilson to discuss his new film, The Carer.
Front Row visits Rio to find out what the plans are for the Cultural Olympiad.
Published on Friday, 29th July 2016.
Ellen Page in Tallulah, John Cale on tomorrow's David Bowie Prom.
Published on Thursday, 28th July 2016.
Jason Bourne reviewed and a look at this year's Man Booker Prize long list.
Published on Wednesday, 27th July 2016.
Harry Potter on stage, the cultural response to Brexit, Michael Berkeley and Anthony Payne
Published on Tuesday, 26th July 2016.
Artists and writers respond to Brexit in a special edition of Front Row from the RSA.
Published on Monday, 25th July 2016.
Mark Rylance on the BFG, Pixie Lott on Breakfast at Tiffany's, Alpesh Chauhan on his Prom.
Published on Friday, 22nd July 2016.
Julian Joseph reviews a film about Chet Baker, and Antonello Manacorda discusses Berlioz.
Published on Thursday, 21st July 2016.
A new exhibition by the photographer William Eggleston, and novelist Tess Gerritsen.
Published on Wednesday, 20th July 2016.
John Wilson meets former Destiny's Child, Michelle Williams.
Published on Tuesday, 19th July 2016.
Samira Ahmed talks to Simon Pegg, writer and star of Star Trek: Beyond.
Published on Monday, 18th July 2016.
Alistair Beaton on Fracked! Or: Please Don't Use The F-Word, his shale-extraction comedy.
Published on Friday, 15th July 2016.
Writer Tony Marchant talks about adapting Conrad's The Secret Agent for TV.
Published on Thursday, 14th July 2016.
Winona Ryder in Stranger Things reviewed, novelist James Kelman, poet Alice Oswald.
Published on Wednesday, 13th July 2016.
Matt Smith and Anthony Neilson, Sean O'Brien, Summertime film review, Cultural Olympiad.
Published on Tuesday, 12th July 2016.
Samira Ahmed talks to Alan Ayckbourn about his new play in Scarborough.
Published on Monday, 11th July 2016.
Judith Kerr, Mumford & Sons and Baaba Maal, Weiner, Spencer Tunick.
Published on Friday, 8th July 2016.
Front Row visits the city of Liverpool as it prepares for its ninth biennial.
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2016.
Christopher Hampton, Maggie's Plan, Arnolfini, Queens of Syria.
Published on Wednesday, 6th July 2016.
Barry Humphries, National Museums Scotland, Stanley Kubrick exhibition and The Neon Demon.
Published on Tuesday, 5th July 2016.
Samira Ahmed discusses the work of American artist Georgia O'Keefe.
Published on Monday, 4th July 2016.
Artistic responses to the Battle of the Somme, from Jeremy Deller to the Caribbean.
Published on Friday, 1st July 2016.
Absolutely Fabulous director Mandie Fletcher discusses her new film adaptation.
Published on Thursday, 30th June 2016.
John Wilson talks to musician Michael Kiwanuka and pays tribute to guitarist Scotty Moore.
Published on Wednesday, 29th June 2016.
David Hockney at Royal Academy review, choreographer Peter Wright and tenor Gregory Kunde.
Published on Tuesday, 28th June 2016.
Jessie Burton on her new novel and a show celebrating the work of painter Stanley Spencer.
Published on Monday, 27th June 2016.
Damon Albarn and the Orchestra of Syrian Musicians; Inspiring Impressionism exhibition.
Published on Friday, 24th June 2016.
Artist Carsten Holler discusses his new 175m slide for Anish Kapoor's Olympic sculpture.
Published on Thursday, 23rd June 2016.
Ralph Fiennes and director Rupert Goold discuss their new production of Richard III.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd June 2016.
The Meddler review, Henry V, Derby Museums landscapes, Carys Bray and Painters' Paintings.
Published on Tuesday, 21st June 2016.
Roland Emmerich talks to John Wilson about his movie sequel Independence Day: Resurgence.
Published on Monday, 20th June 2016.
John Wilson talks to director Trevor Nunn about A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Published on Friday, 17th June 2016.
Mike Bartlett on Wild, Tale of Tales review, Georgiana Houghton review, Suburra director.
Published on Thursday, 16th June 2016.
Ashley Pharoah's new TV drama plus writing novels in verse, and sound artist Chris Watson.
Published on Wednesday, 15th June 2016.
Tate Modern's new Switch House, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and novelist Emma Cline.
Published on Tuesday, 14th June 2016.
Wrong Crowd is the new album from songwriter Tom Odell; he talks about his inspiration.
Published on Monday, 13th June 2016.
The Power Monkeys co-creator Andy Hamilton talks about his satire about the EU referendum.
Published on Friday, 10th June 2016.
Tate Modern director Frances Morris, sculptor Anish Kapoor, and Embrace of the Serpent.
Published on Thursday, 9th June 2016.
Guy Garvey talks to John Wilson about his Meltdown festival.
Published on Wednesday, 8th June 2016.
Sir Ben Kingsley discusses his film Learning to Drive plus Aladdin director Casey Nicholaw
Published on Tuesday, 7th June 2016.
Peter Shaffer remembered, Don DeLillo on novel Zero K and Anthony Horowitz on New Blood.
Published on Monday, 6th June 2016.
Jimmy McGovern on his TV drama Reg, and independent film-maker James Schamus.
Published on Friday, 3rd June 2016.
John Wilson talks to Nile Rodgers, on the eve of BBC Music Day.
Published on Thursday, 2nd June 2016.
TV drama series Versailles reviewed, and Louisa Young on her new novel Devotion.
Published on Wednesday, 1st June 2016.
Author Nina Stibbe, musician Moby, The Nice Guys reviewed, Michael Pennington on King Lear
Published on Tuesday, 31st May 2016.
Charlotte Church discusses her 'musical fairy tale' which tackles contemporary issues.
The value of new writing for theatre: Front Row marks 60 years of the Royal Court.
With guitarist and songwriter Wilko Johnson talking about surviving terminal cancer.
Published on Thursday, 26th May 2016.
Neil Gaiman on his Likely Stories, poet Liz Lochhead, and playwright Roy Williams.
Published on Wednesday, 25th May 2016.
The Royle Family's Sue Johnston on Rovers, and Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama reviewed.
Published on Tuesday, 24th May 2016.
Russell T Davies, Love and Friendship, Rufus Norris, and Thelma and Louise 25 years on.
Published on Monday, 23rd May 2016.
British actor Jack O'Connell discusses his latest film, financial thriller Money Monster.
Published on Friday, 20th May 2016.
A review of Tom Hanks as a stressed executive in Saudi Arabia in A Hologram For The King.
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2016.
John Wilson talks to poet Ian McMillan. And TV drama endings - too many loose ends?
Published on Wednesday, 18th May 2016.
Sunken Cities, Han Kang's The Vegetarian, Sing Street's John Carney, Christian Blackshaw.
Published on Tuesday, 17th May 2016.
BBC Young Musician of the Year winner discusses Shostakovich and Britain's Got Talent.
Published on Monday, 16th May 2016.
Francis Bacon retrospective in Liverpool, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar.
Published on Friday, 13th May 2016.
Samira Ahmed with novelist Mark Billingham, Turner Prize shortlist, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla.
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2016.
Laurie Anderson on the Brighton Festival, and AL Kennedy on our search for kindness.
Published on Wednesday, 11th May 2016.
A review of TV drama Billions, starring Damian Lewis, and Hugh Bonneville on Malvolio.
Published on Tuesday, 10th May 2016.
Lionel Shriver's latest novel; Richard Linklater's new film; Radiohead's album reviewed.
Published on Monday, 9th May 2016.
Tom Hiddleston talks to Kirsty Lang about his new role as Hank Williams.
Published on Friday, 6th May 2016.
Kirsty Lang talks to Ewan McGregor, and Ben Elton writes a TV a comedy about Shakespeare.
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2016.
Howard Brenton, Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups, Olafur Eliasson, Dorothy Bohm.
Published on Wednesday, 4th May 2016.
Alexander Masters on his book A Life Discarded, plus artist Mona Hatoum.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd May 2016.
Capability Brown, born 300 years ago this year, changed the landscape of Georgian England.
Published on Monday, 2nd May 2016.
Ricky Gervais discusses his latest projects including his film Special Correspondents.
Published on Friday, 29th April 2016.
Mark Gatiss on the novelisations of Doctor Who, and Bryony Lavery on Brideshead Revisited.
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2016.
Samira Ahmed talks to Hugh Bonneville about Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People.
Published on Wednesday, 27th April 2016.
Alain de Botton, Son of Saul, Josie Rourke and Nick Payne, jazz biopics.
Published on Tuesday, 26th April 2016.
Kirsty Lang talks to Hugh Grant about his new film Florence Foster Jenkins.
Published on Monday, 25th April 2016.
Shakespeare died 400 years ago this week. John Wilson marks this anniversary.
Published on Friday, 22nd April 2016.
Mica Paris, biographer Matt Thorne and journalist Kevin Le Gendre on the legacy of Prince.
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2016.
Producer Geoff Posner remembers Victoria Wood. Plus Lucian Msamati on Iago.
Published on Wednesday, 20th April 2016.
Samira Ahmed talks to Will Sharpe about his TV show Flowers. Plus Don Warrington on Lear.
Published on Tuesday, 19th April 2016.
Published on Monday, 18th April 2016.
Criminal and why London attracts so many film-makers. Plus The Comedy About A Bank Robbery
Published on Friday, 15th April 2016.
Eisenstein in Guanajuato, a provocative film by Peter Greenaway, and artist George Shaw.
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2016.
Featuring a review of PJ Harvey's first new album in five years. John Wilson presents.
Published on Wednesday, 13th April 2016.
Including a review of a new, live-action version of The Jungle Book. Samira Ahmed presents
Published on Tuesday, 12th April 2016.
Samira Ahmed reveals the shortlist for 2016's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
Published on Monday, 11th April 2016.
Published on Friday, 8th April 2016.
A review of the Palme d'Or-winning film Dheepan plus German soprano Diana Damrau.
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2016.
Duncan Campbell, Muriel Gray, and Claire Barclay on why Glasgow inspires so many artists.
Published on Wednesday, 6th April 2016.
Timothy Spall in The Caretaker, Catherine Tate, 11.22.63 reviewed, Dutch flowers.
Published on Tuesday, 5th April 2016.
Exhibitionism: The Rolling Stones, Hans Rosenfeldt, Alex Turner, Ian McKellen.
Published on Monday, 4th April 2016.
Kirsty Lang talks to Adrian Lester and Peter Moffat about new TV drama Undercover.
Published on Friday, 1st April 2016.
Kirsty Lang talks to Jeff Nichols about his new film Midnight Special.
Published on Wednesday, 30th March 2016.
Kirsty Lang talks to theatre producer Sonia Friedman about staging Harry Potter.
Published on Tuesday, 29th March 2016.
Samira Ahmed on a new version of Bach's St Matthew Passion sung by homeless people.
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe look back over three decades as Pet Shop Boys.
Published on Monday, 28th March 2016.
The RSC's Hamlet, Ed Vaizey on the Culture White Paper, Batman v Superman, Underworld.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd March 2016.
Glenn Close discusses her role as Norma Desmond in hit musical Sunset Boulevard.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd March 2016.
Kirsty Lang is joined in the studio by Peter Bowker, writer of new drama The A Word.
Published on Monday, 21st March 2016.
Jeremy Irons discusses his new play Long Day's Journey into Night. John Wilson presents.
Published on Friday, 18th March 2016.
Including a look at the Painkiller, starring Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon.
Published on Thursday, 17th March 2016.
In a new show Jane Horrocks sings a selection of new wave hits. Plus a review of High-Rise
Published on Wednesday, 16th March 2016.
Petroc Trelawny reviews Marguerite, a satirical comedy set in 1920s France.
Published on Tuesday, 15th March 2016.
Live daily magazine programme covering arts, literature, film, media and music.
Published on Monday, 14th March 2016.
The Ones Below, Afghan rapper Sonita, Tate funding, Comedy Playhouse, War Horse music.
Published on Friday, 11th March 2016.
Nick Hytner on Ken Adam. Plus Martin Parr, Assemble and Bradford museum controversy.
Published on Thursday, 10th March 2016.
Composer David Arnold and comedian Bernard Cribbins on the late producer George Martin.
Published on Wednesday, 9th March 2016.
With Samira Ahmed, including a review of Anomalis and a look at Seamus Heaney's The Aeneid
Published on Tuesday, 8th March 2016.
Published on Monday, 7th March 2016.
Including a review of the Coen brothers' Hail, Caesar!. Kirsty Lang presents.
Published on Friday, 4th March 2016.
A review of Time Out of Mind, starring Richard Gere as a homeless man. Plus Tanita Tikaram
Published on Thursday, 3rd March 2016.
Gillian Slovo's new novel, Botticelli Reimagined, Tony Warren obituary, Dr Thorne review.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd March 2016.
Architect Peter Cook designs his first building in the UK. John Wilson presents.
Published on Tuesday, 1st March 2016.
AS Byatt discusses the enduring legacy of the Bronte's juvenilia. Samira Ahmed presents.
John Wilson talks to Barney Hoskyns about his book on Woodstock - the town.
Published on Friday, 26th February 2016.
Kirsty Lang talks to The Maids actresses Uzo Aduba, Laura Carmichael and Zawe Ashton.
Published on Thursday, 25th February 2016.
Sacha Baron Cohen's new film Grimsby reviewed and the Globe theatre's Dominic Dromgoole.
Published on Wednesday, 24th February 2016.
Including a review of feature-length ITV drama Churchill's Secret. Samira Ahmed presents.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd February 2016.
Harper Lee remembered, and John le Carre's The Night Manager adapted for TV.
Published on Friday, 19th February 2016.
Presented by Samira Ahmed. David McCallum looks back at his career.
Published on Thursday, 18th February 2016.
Julianne Moore in Freeheld, novelist Anna Hope and singer Jack Garratt.
Published on Wednesday, 17th February 2016.
Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie discusses the band's new album. John Wilson presents.
Published on Tuesday, 16th February 2016.
Mark Wallinger shows John Wilson his art studio, and Yann Martel discusses his new novel.
Published on Monday, 15th February 2016.
Kirsty Lang discusses The People v OJ Simpson and the Pre-Raphaelites in Liverpool.
Published on Friday, 12th February 2016.
Portraying post-apocalyptic worlds in The Survivalist and a ballet inspired by a portrait.
Published on Thursday, 11th February 2016.
Kate Winslet talks to John Wilson about her role as a mafia villain in new film Triple 9.
Published on Wednesday, 10th February 2016.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies reviewed and Alan Partridge revived, with Samira Ahmed.
Published on Tuesday, 9th February 2016.
Reviews of Vinyl and A Bigger Splash, and Melvyn Bragg remembers Margaret Forster.
Published on Monday, 8th February 2016.
Jimi Hendrix's flat opens to the public, and Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig on Zoolander 2.
Published on Friday, 5th February 2016.
Published on Thursday, 4th February 2016.
Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston on playing Dalton Trumbo, and David Hare discusses Ibsen.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd February 2016.
A review of Red Velvet and interviews with Zaha Hadid and John Irving. With John Wilson.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd February 2016.
Oliver Parker and Hamish McColl tell Kirsty Lang about the new Dad's Army film.
Published on Monday, 1st February 2016.
Will Smith on Concussion, Caryl Churchill's Escaped Alone, Ringo Starr on his birthplace.
Published on Friday, 29th January 2016.
Including a review of a new John Dee exhibition. Presented by Samira Ahmed.
Published on Thursday, 28th January 2016.
Featuring Gina McKee and Christopher Hampton on The Mother, and Malian singer Rokia Traore
Published on Wednesday, 27th January 2016.
Kirsty Lang interviews Harvey Keitel about his film Youth and talks to the band Savages.
Published on Tuesday, 26th January 2016.
John Wilson talks to Ian McKellen about Richard III. Plus Monet's garden paintings.
Published on Monday, 25th January 2016.
Featuring Michael Keaton on Spotlight and a review of Simon Stephens's play Herons.
Oscar Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland on The Picture of Dorian Gray and utopias in fiction
Published on Thursday, 21st January 2016.
Elton John tells John Wilson about returning to his rock roots and the school run.
Published on Wednesday, 20th January 2016.
Steve Carell on The Big Short and Fiona Barton on The Widow, plus diversity at the Oscars.
Published on Tuesday, 19th January 2016.
Including The Assassin, Peter May, Attacking the Devil, and Jack Thorne.
Published on Monday, 18th January 2016.
Leonardo DiCaprio talks to Kirsty Lang about The Revenant.
Published on Friday, 15th January 2016.
John Wilson reports on the nominations for the 2016 Oscars.
Published on Thursday, 14th January 2016.
Director Ryan Coogler on working with Stallone in Creed, and 20 artists light up London.
Brookside creator Phil Redmond tells Samira Ahmed why he's taken to writing crime fiction.
Published on Tuesday, 12th January 2016.
Colleagues and fellow artists reflect on the life of David Bowie.
Published on Monday, 11th January 2016.
Emma Donoghue talks to Kirsty Lang about adapting her best-selling novel Room into a film.
Published on Friday, 8th January 2016.
Tim Collins reviews Danish film A War, and Natasha Cooper on the return of Maigret.
Published on Thursday, 7th January 2016.
Pierre Boulez obituary, Costa Biography winner, Tracey Ullman's Show, Bolshoi Babylon
Published on Wednesday, 6th January 2016.
Including a review of David Bowie's new jazz-influenced album Blackstar. With John Wilson.
Published on Tuesday, 5th January 2016.
Samira Ahmed talks to director Quentin Tarantino about The Hateful Eight.
Published on Monday, 4th January 2016.
Samira Ahmed talks to Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper about The Danish Girl.
Published on Friday, 1st January 2016.
John WIlson continues his look at those who have made the headlines in the arts in 2015.
Published on Thursday, 31st December 2015.
The actors, musicians and artists who have been centre stage in 2015
Published on Wednesday, 30th December 2015.
