Original version

BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

Front Row

Magazines & Reviews

Factual: Arts, Culture & the Media

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

BBC Radio 4 LW

Daniel Mays

Dreda Say Mitchell

Asifa Lahore

Helen Mort

Samira Ahmed

Kate Bullivant

Front Row: Daniel Mays, Girls Trip, Asifa Lahore's Queer Icon, Young Poets competition

you-and-yours_250717_e_pp.jpg

25/07/2017

Daniel Mays, Girls Trip, Asifa Lahore's Queer Icon, Young Poets competition

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Daniel Mays, Girls Trip, Asifa Lahore's Queer Icon, Young Poets competition

Actor Daniel Mays on playing gay rights campaigner Peter Wildeblood.

Actor Daniel Mays on playing gay rights campaigner Peter Wildeblood, Girl Trip reviewed, the UK's first out Muslim drag queen Asifa Lahore, a competition for young poets.

Daniel Mays, the actor who came to prominence for his roles in Vera Drake, Line of Duty, Life on Mars and Mrs Biggs, discusses his new BBC drama Against The Law. He plays Peter Wildeblood, a man imprisoned for homosexual acts in the 1950s, who then went on to campaign for a change in the law. 

Queen Latifah and Jada Pinkett Smith star in Girls Trip, a film where four old friends reunite for a wild weekend away. It has had a strong opening weekend at the US box office, which the director Malcolm D Lee ascribes to 'black girl magic'. Dreda Say Mitchell gives her verdict. 

Asifa Lahore, the UK's first out Muslim drag queen, chooses Dana International's Eurovision-winning song Diva for our Queer Icons series.

Helen Mort has been described by Carol Ann Duffy as 'among the brightest stars in the sparkling new constellation of British poets'. But she first came to prominence in 1998 as one of the winners of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award. Helen Mort tells Samira Ahmed why young people should enter the competition this year. 

Presenter Samira Ahmed 
Producer Kate Bullivant.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Front Row

Daniel Mays, Girls Trip, Asifa Lahore's Queer Icon, Young Poets competition

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4