Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Kerry Shale, Tiffany Jenkins and Shahidha Bari as well as listeners around the country who choose the best of the arts from 2017 from across the genres.

FILM
Dunkirk
Bladerunner 2049
78/52
Manchester by the Sea
La-La Land
Get Out
Elle
Frantz
Land of Mine
Wonder Woman
Atomic Blonde

THEATRE
Boudica at the Globe
Barbershop Chronicles
Follies at the National Theatre
Hamlet at the Pinter Theatre
The Best Thing
Finding Joy
Gloria at Hampstead Theatre
Network at the National Theatre
Flight Pattern at the Royal Opera House
The Ferryman at Royal Court
The End of Hope at Orange Tree Theatre
Consent at the National Theatre
Girl From The North Country at the Old Vic
Angels in America at the National Theatre
The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca at Hull Truck

BOOK
The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman
4321 by Paul Auster
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
To Kill the President by Sam Bourne
Stranger in Their Own Land by Arlie Hochschild
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Homegoing Yaa Gyasi
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor

ART
Blade Nayan Kulkarni
Jasper Johns at the Royal Academy of Arts
Howard Hodgkin: Paintng India at the Hepworth Gallery
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at Tate Modern
JW Anderson: Disobedient Bodies at the Hepworth Gallery
Revolutionary Russia at the Royal Academy
Kathe Kollwitz at Icon Gallery
Frank Quitely at Kelvingrove Museum Glasgow
Michelangelo and Sebastiano at the National Gallery
Hokusai at the Victoria and Albert Museum

TELEVISION
The Handmaid's Tale
Schitt's Creek
GLOW
Detectorists
The Leftovers
Mindhunter
Ken Burn's The Vietnam War
Wormwood
The Good Fight
Alias Grace
Back

The producer is Hilary Dunn. Show less