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

Front Row: Jimmy McGovern, Tania Bruguera, Arts and insomnia

Boots Riley, Alfonso Cuaron

Jimmy McGovern, Tania Bruguera, Arts and insomnia

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Jimmy McGovern, Tania Bruguera, Arts and insomnia

Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern on his new BBC One drama Care, Cuban artist Tania Bruguera

Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern on his new BBC One drama Care; Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera explains why she is continuing to protest a new law in Cuba; arts and insomnia

Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern talks about his new BBC One drama Care, starring Sheridan Smith, Alison Steadman and Sinead Keenan, which looks at the personal challenges of caring for a parent with dementia and the struggle to find good and affordable care.

Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera talks to us from her home in Havana and explains why she is continuing to protest over Decree 349, a new law that will require artists to obtain a government licence, despite Bruguera being arrested twice this week by the authorities. BBC Correspondent in Havana, Will Grant, explains the context and implications of the new law. 

How can the arts help people with insomnia? We speak to two artists making work to fall asleep to – Richard Talbot of band Marconi Union, who worked with a sound therapist to write the soporific track Weightless, and Phoebe Smith, Sleep Storyteller-in-Residence for the sleep app Calm.

Presenter John Wilson
Producer Edwina Pitman

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

Jimmy McGovern, Tania Bruguera, Arts and insomnia

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4