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

Kirsty Lang

Rebecca Armstrong

Front Row: Sharon Horgan, Maya Youssef, Samantha Harvey

Sharon Horgan, Maya Youssef, Samantha Harvey

28/02/2018

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Sharon Horgan, Maya Youssef, Samantha Harvey

Sharon Horgan in Game Night, Maya Youssef on the qanun and Samantha Harvey's new novel.

Sharon Horgan on new film, Game Night, Maya Youssef performs on the qanun and Samantha Harvey discusses her latest novel, The Western Wind.

Sharon Horgan, the comedy actress and writer behind Pulling, Motherhood and Catastrophe features in her first major Hollywood film, Game Night. She tells Kirsty about the difference between working on American movies and British television and why series like Catastrophe aren't , in fact, sitcoms. 

Syrian musician Maya Youssef brings her qanun into the studio and performs from her album Syrian Dreams. 

Samantha's Harvey's latest novel, The Western Wind, is a literary medieval whodunit with an ingenious construction. She discusses its palindromic form and explains the significance of setting it in 1491.

Presenter: Kirsty Lang 
Producer: Rebecca Armstrong.

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

Sharon Horgan, Maya Youssef, Samantha Harvey

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4