April De Angelis, Tokyo Olympics, Jordan Tannahill, Neil Mendoza

Playwright April De Angelis joins Tom to talk about her new musical, Gin Craze!

• 41 mins

Morris Hayes on posthumous Prince album, reopenings in Northern Ireland, actor Amir El-Masry on new film Limbo

Prince's longtime music director Morris Hayes on posthumous new album Welcome 2 America.

• 28 mins

David Lan on The Walk, The 2021 Booker Prize longlist, David Livingstone birthplace re-opening

Samira talks to theatre director David Lan live from Gaziantep about The Walk.

• 28 mins

Tokyo: Art & Photography, Brett Goldstein and Nick Mohammed, Wellcome Photography Prize

Tokyo: Art & Photography, and Brett Goldstein and Nick Mohammed on TV series Ted Lasso.

• 28 mins

Derby: 300 Years of Making

Museum of Making, Derby County Football Club's Poet-in-Residence, Kedleston Hall

• 28 mins

Billie Eilish reviewed, Sir James MacMillan on the First Night of the Proms, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edinburgh Art Festival

Laura Snapes reviews the new Billie Eilish album, Happier Than Ever.

• 41 mins

Kathleen Marshall and Sutton Foster, Tim Renkow, Scarlett Johansson suing Disney.

Kathleen Marshall and Sutton Foster on Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre in London.

• 28 mins

Elif Shafak, Jonathon Heyward, Stillwater review

Booker Prize shortlisted writer Elif Shafak on her new novel The Island of Missing Trees.

• 28 mins

Repairing Beirut's museum artefacts, Vivo, DCMS performer Visas

Repairing artefacts damaged in the Beirut port explosion, one year ago today

• 28 mins

Sarah, Duchess of York on her new novel, Max Richter

Sarah, Duchess of York, talks to Nick Ahad about her novel, Her Heart for a Compass.

• 28 mins

Sir Tom Stoppard, Ryan Bancroft, Museum of The Year, Nick Laird

Tom Stoppard on the return of his award-winning play, Leopoldstadt

• 40 mins

Phil Wang, Shape Open exhibiton, All Bound Together, Lost manuscripts of Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Phil Wang joins us to discuss his stand-up show, Philly Philly Wang Wang.

• 28 mins

Paradise, John Boyne, Stuart Semple

Kae Tempest on Paradise, their adaptation of Sophocles' Philoctetes starring Lesley Sharp.

• 28 mins

Celebrating Stravinsky

Russian composer Igor Stravinsky died 50 years ago. Is his influence still felt?

• 28 mins

The Courier, Deceit, 2.22 A Ghost Story review

Director Dominic Cooke talks about creating the new film, The Courier.

• 28 mins

Vikingur Olafsson, Power in publishing, Thackray Museum of Medicine.

Pianist Vikingur Olafsson is in the studio to talk about audiences, live music, and Mozart

• 41 mins

Music in Afghanistan, The Song Project, Manchester Collective

Ahmad Sarmast on hopes for music-making as Afghanistan falls under Taliban control.

• 28 mins

Live from the Edinburgh Festival with Henning Wehn, Frances Poet, Fara and Arusa Qureshi

Coming live from the Edinburgh Festival, with Henning Wehn and playwright Frances Poet

• 28 mins

Live from The Edinburgh Festival, including film-maker Isaac Julien

Live from The Edinburgh Festival, including film director Isaac Julien.

• 28 mins

Cinderella, Sean Shibe, Censor, Firstsite

At last, Cinderella went to the ball! Sarah Crompton reviews Lloyd Webber's musical.

• 28 mins

Nicolas Cage film Pig, Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney, The White Lotus, Sisters

Nicolas Cage film Pig, Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney at the Proms, comedy The White Lotus

• 41 mins

Kalena Bovell, Don Everly, Jack Thorne, Reza Mohammadi

American conductor Kalena Bovell makes her Proms debut with Chineke! Orchestra this week.

• 28 mins

Natalya Romaniw, John Tanner, Josh Azouz, Charlie Watts

David Hepworth on the late Charlie Watts, Natalya Romaniw on preparing to play Tosca.

• 28 mins

Underwater Museum in Cyprus, Poet Fred D'Aguiar, Helen Zaltzman on Answer Me This podcast

Jason deCaires Taylor on his new underwater museum Musan, built off the coast of Cyprus.

• 28 mins

Paula Hawkins, Nia DaCosta, Our Ladies film review, Paralympic dressage music

Paula Hawkins, Nia DaCosta, Our Ladies film review, and paralympic dressage music.

• 41 mins

Actor Liz Carr on Silent Witness and Hollywood

Actor Liz Carr looks back at her career, and how it took her from the Wirral to Hollywood.

• 28 mins

Hugh Quarshie and Steve Coogan, the Paraorchestra, Daisy Haggard

Hugh Quarshie and Steve Coogan, the Paraorchestra, Daisy Haggard.

• 28 mins

Covid pilot events, Ian Rankin, Janine Jansen, Neal Cooper

Professor John Drury from Sussex University explains the Covid risks posed by large crowds

• 28 mins

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino discusses his debut novel.

• 28 mins

Spencer at Venice Film Festival, Sally Rooney review, Mogwai, Redemption through reading, Cornish Ordinalia

Spencer at the Venice Film Festival, Sally Rooney's Beautiful World review, Mogwai.

• 41 mins

Cathy Brady, Mick Fleetwood, Jean Paul Belmondo

Cathy Brady's Wildfire, Mick Fleetwood on Peter Green, Jean Paul Belmondo obit.

• 28 mins

Photographer/film-maker Shirin Neshat, author Yaa Gyasi, Michael K Williams tribute

Photographer Shirin Neshat on her film directing debut, Land Of Dreams.

• 28 mins

The Chair reviewed, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Timespan shortlisted for Museum of the Year, Punchdrunk

Sandra Oh in The Chair, a US academic comedy drama on Netflix.

• 28 mins

Elijah Wood, the future of live streaming, Imriel Morgan

Elijah Wood talks about his role as criminal profiler Bill Hagmaier in No Man of God

• 28 mins

BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist, tenor Stuart Skelton, Shang-Chi film review, Girl Bands now

BBC National Short Story Award shortlist announced, tenor Stuart Skelton, Shang-Chi film.

• 41 mins

Liane Moriarty, Matthew Bourne, Igor Levit

Best-selling novelist Liane Moriarty on her new novel Apples Never Fall.

• 28 mins

Julian Clary, Antonio Pappano, Booker Prize shortlist

Julian Clary on playing Norman in Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser.

• 28 mins

Anuradha Roy, Propaganda ceramics, British Ceramics Biennial, a new Culture Secretary

Anuradha Roy on 'The Earthspinner', Propaganda ceramics, British Ceramics Biennial

• 28 mins

Peaceophobia, Help Review, Georgina Harding, Kurt Elling

Eve Manning co-director of Peaceophobia discusses the show.

• 28 mins

Peter Brathwaite, Indecent play review, Small Bells Ring story barge, Lucy Caldwell

Peter Brathwaite, Indecent play review, Small Bells Ring story barge, Lucy Caldwell.

• 41 mins

Everybody's Talking about Jamie, Rory Gleeson, Grinling Gibbons Exhibition

Ellen E Jones reviews Everybody's Talking about Jamie.

• 28 mins

We announce the winner of the 2021 Art Fund Museum of the Year

We announce the winner of the 2021 Art Fund Museum of the Year.

• 42 mins

Spiers and Boden, music streaming economics, Calvin Kasulke, Danny Rhodes

Spiers and Boden have reunited, recorded a new album, and are embarking on a UK tour.

• 28 mins

The Contains Strong Language Festival

Front Row at the Contains Strong Language Festival from Coventry, UK City of Culture 2021

• 29 mins

Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, Megan Swann, Richard Smyth, The Story of Looking.

Dame Elizabeth Blackadder celebrated.

• 41 mins

Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, K-pop band BTS address the UN and new film, The Man Who Sold His Skin

Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, BTS at the UN and new film, The Man Who Sold His Skin.

• 28 mins

Comedian Njambi McGrath, Turner Prize shortlist review, 25 Years of Buena Vista Social Club

Kenyan British Comedian Njambi McGrath on her new show Accidental Coconut.

• 28 mins

David Chase, Laura Lomas, Betty Campbell statue

Sopranos writer David Chase on new film The Many Saints of Newark.

• 28 mins

Dave Grohl, Jimmy Savile

Dave Grohl on new memoir "The Storyteller", and Dramatizing Jimmy Savile?

• 28 mins

No Time To Die, Soul Train, Karl Ove Knausgaard

Charlie Higson & Naima Khan review the new Bond film No Time To Die.

• 41 mins

Hilary Mantel, Lianne La Havas, Candice Carty Williams, Kieran Hurley

Hilary Mantel on adapting The Mirror and the Light for the stage.

• 42 mins

Wole Soyinka, post-pandemic theatre, Michael Winterbottom

Wole Soyinka on his new novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth.

• 42 mins

The Arts in Aberystwyth, The Boy with Two Hearts in Cardiff and Welsh film director Craig Roberts

The arts in Aberystwyth; The Boy with Two Hearts in Cardiff; Welsh director Craig Roberts

• 42 mins

Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, Cush Jumbo's Hamlet, Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

Cush Jumbo as Hamlet, Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah and poet Simon Armitage.

• 42 mins

Joan Collins, Armistead Maupin and Verbatim Theatre

Joan Collins discusses her memoir My Unapologetic Diaries

• 42 mins

Suzan-Lori Parks, Owen Sheers, stolen artefacts and the portrayal of scientists

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.

• 42 mins

Theatre director Emma Jordan, Omagh's Ulster American Folk Park and Ridley Scott

Emma Jordan on The Border Game, Omagh's Ulster American Folk Park and Ridley Scott.

• 42 mins

The RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture, Succession, John Le Carré’s final novel, The London Film Festival

The RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture is announced

• 42 mins

Arinzé Kene on playing Bob Marley; Clare Norburn sings John Dowland; the first Working Class Writers Festival

Arinzé Kene on playing Bob Marley in the new musical Get Up, Stand Up!

• 42 mins

BBC National Short Story Award and BBC Young Writers' Award winners

We announce the winners of BBC National Short Story Award and BBC Young Writers' Award.

• 43 mins

Bradford Postcard; Ron’s Gone Wrong; Re-directing a play

Front Row goes to Bradford to check out what’s happening on the arts scene

• 42 mins

Booker Prize Book Group: Anuk Arudpragasam on A Passage North

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

• 42 mins

Paul McCartney, Paul Muldoon, Booker Prize Book Group on The Promise

Paul McCartney reveals how he wrote The Beatles’ classic, All My Loving.

• 42 mins

Booker shortlisted novelist Patricia Lockwood, Science Museum director Ian Blatchford, Paul McCartney

Science Museum greenwashing claims: museum director Ian Blatchford responds.

• 42 mins

The reopening of the Hall for Cornwall, Paul McCartney on Eleanor Rigby and Booker Prize nominated author Nadifa Mohamed

Front Row visits Truro to report on the re-opening of the Hall for Cornwall.

• 42 mins

Passing film, Colin in Black and White, Booker Prize book group on Bewilderment, Paul McCartney

Michael Donkor and Jan Asante review the film Passing and series Colin in Black and White.

• 42 mins

Armando Iannucci, Booker shortlisted author Maggie Shipstead, Paul McCartney on Penny Lane

Armando Iannucci discusses his mock-heroic epic poem and Paul McCartney on Penny Lane.

• 42 mins

Little Amal, Anne Carson, Paul McCartney and The National Trust

Little Amal, Anne Carson, Paul McCartney and the future of The National Trust.

• 42 mins

The 2021 Booker Prize Ceremony

The winner of the 2021 Booker Prize is announced live from the Radio Theatre at the BBC.

• 42 mins

Spencer, Alan Cumming and Paul McCartney

Alexandra Shulman and Leila Latif discuss Spencer, the controversial new film about Diana.

• 42 mins

Jeymes Samuel on The Harder They Fall, author Sofi Oksanen, John Gilchrist of UK Theatre, Paul McCartney

Film-maker and musician Jeymes Samuel AKA The Bullitts on his film The Harder They Fall.

• 42 mins

Venice and climate change, the story that inspired Dostoevsky, Dean Stockwell remembered

Venice under threat, the story that inspired Dostoevsky, Dean Stockwell remembered.

• 42 mins

Art in Shetland, Timothy Ogene, Sharon Heal and Paul McCartney

Jen Stout reports on the ancient and modern arts in Shetland.

• 42 mins

Tori Amos performs, The Courtauld Gallery reopening and Dopesick series reviewed, Heidi Stephens live blogs

Singer-songwriter Tori Amos plays live from Cornwall.

• 42 mins

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Climate Fiction, Kayleigh Llewellyn

Lin-Manuel Miranda on making his debut as a film director with tick, tick...BOOM!

• 42 mins

Céline Sciamma on her film Petite Maman, author Sarah Moss on The Fell, diversity in folk arts

Writer and director Céline Sciamma on her new film Petite Maman.

• 42 mins

Ralph Fiennes on Four Quartets, Songlines exhibition, art postcard from Plymouth

Ralph Fiennes on performing in his stage adaptation of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets.

• 42 mins

King Richard, Wheel of Time and new Zadie Smith play reviewed, Playwright Moira Buffini

We review King Richard, about the Williams sisters and their father, starring Will Smith.

• 42 mins

The Power of the Dog film review; Turner Prize nominees Cooking Sections; South African literature today

We review Jane Campion’s new film The Power of the Dog, starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

• 42 mins

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Turner Prize nominees Gentle / Radical, Costa Book Awards

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Turner Prize nominees Gentle / Radical, Costa Book Awards.

• 42 mins

Suzanne Lacy, Bishop Auckland, Silent Night

Artist Suzanne Lacy on standing at the junction of aesthetics and activism, Silent Night.

• 42 mins

House of Gucci, Adele's 30 and The Every by Dave Eggers

House of Gucci reviewed

• 42 mins

Kelly Lee Owens, Stephen Sondheim, Rowan Williams, Black Obsidian Sound System

Musician Kelly Lee Owens, Stephen Sondheim's songwriting, poems by Rowan Williams, BOSS.

• 42 mins

The Parthenon Marbles; Get Back documentary review; Turner Prize nominees Project Artworks; the literary canon

We take a deep dive into the decades old dispute around the fate of the Parthenon Marbles.

• 42 mins

The 2021 Turner Prize Ceremony

Front Row live from the 2021 Turner Prize Ceremony.

• 42 mins

The Hand of God and Dürer exhibition reviewed, Aaron Sorkin on Lucille Ball

The Hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino's autobiographical film, reviewed. Plus Aaron Sorkin

• 42 mins

Playwright James Graham on Best of Enemies; Lamb film review; The Belarus Free Theatre; remembering actor Antony Sher

Political dramatist James Graham on writing his new play, Best of Enemies.

• 41 mins

Steven Spielberg, Working Class Heritage, Will Sharpe

Steven Spielberg on his remake of West Side Story.

• 42 mins

Musician Carwyn Ellis performs; The Rules of Art? exhibition; filmmaker Rosemary Baker; Port Talbot postcard

Welsh musician Carwyn Ellis performs live from Cardiff.

• 42 mins

Cat Power performs live. Amanda Gorman poetry, Sex And The City follow up and Drive My Car reviewed

Cat Power performs live.

• 42 mins

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Sarah Phelps, puppetry on stage

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, and BBC TV's drama series A Very British Scandal.

• 42 mins

Colm Tóibín

Covid-related theatre closures and a dance round-up with Sarah Crompton.

• 42 mins

Postcard from Scarborough, Derek Jarman Protest!, Benjamin Cleary

Derek Jarman Protest opens at the Manchester Art Gallery and Benjamin Cleary on Swan Song.

• 42 mins

Don't Look Up, Around the World in 80 Days, Cutting It Fine

Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio in Adam McKay's satire Don't Look Up reviewed.

• 42 mins

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kehinde Wiley, Christmas book gifts

Maggie Gyllenhaal on her new film, The Lost Daughter.

• 42 mins

Anything Goes, Live arts venues under Omicron, The Princess Bride

Anything Goes, Live arts venues under Omicron, The Princess Bride

• 42 mins

Paul Thomas Anderson, Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, Postcard from Doncaster

Paul Thomas Anderson talks about his new film Licorice Pizza.

• 42 mins

Joan Didion remembered, Call the Midwife, The Tragedy of Macbeth and a review of the year in culture

Call the Midwife writer and creator Heidi Thomas on the art of the Christmas special.

• 42 mins

The Costa Book Awards, Julia Ducournau on Titane, disabled access to arts and culture

We announce the winners of the 50th annual Costa Book Awards.

• 42 mins