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Saturday Live

Larry Lamb

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Suzy Klein and Richard Coles are joined in the studio by actor and presenter Larry Lamb. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Suzy Klein
Presenter:
Richard Coles
Interviewed Guest:
Larry Lamb
Interviewed Guest:
Katherine Mills
Interviewed Guest:
Joy Ballard
Interviewed Guest:
John Dalby
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Armitage
Producer:
Maire Devine

Front Row

The Walk, Simon Armitage, Unforgotten, Bernard Sumner

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Featuring reviews of The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and ITV crime drama Unforgotten, poet Simon Armitage on The Odyssey, and Bernard Sumner on New Order's new album. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Sophia McDougall
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Armitage
Interviewed Guest:
Dreda Say Mitchell
Interviewed Guest:
Bernard Sumner

Front Row

Harper Lee remembered, The Night Manager, Simon Armitage, Zelda

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news with Kirsty Lang. Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman, is remembered by Elaine Showalter and Christopher Bigsby. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Elaine Showalter
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Bigsby
Interviewed Guest:
Susanne Bier
Interviewed Guest:
David Farr
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Hunter
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Armitage
Interviewed Guest:
Naomi Alderman
Producer:
Angie Nehring

Start the Week

Lost and Found: Ancient Egypt to Modern Art

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Cultural discussion show. Andrew Marr with Simon Armitage, Cornelia Parker, Cyprian Broodbank and Aurelia Masson-Berghoff. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Marr
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Armitage
Interviewed Guest:
Cornelia Parker
Interviewed Guest:
Cyprian Broodbank
Interviewed Guest:
Aurelia Masson-Berghoff
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Front Row

Hidden Figures, Dirty Dancing writer, Muslim Othello, Simon Armitage

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Hidden Figures reviewed, Eleanor Bergstein on 30 years of Dirty Dancing, Simon Armitage on Branwell Bronte, Muslim Othello. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Sue Nelson
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Armitage
Interviewed Guest:
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Interviewed Guest:
Jerry Brotton
Presenter:
Samira Ahmed

Free Thinking

Festival 2017

Episode 13: Writing Life

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Poet Simon Armitage and writer Alexandra Harris join Philip Dodd and audience at Sage Gateshead to discuss time and place in modern Britain. Show more

Free Thinking

Rowan Williams and Simon Armitage

Duration: 44 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has written about Auden, Dostoevsky and tragedy. At Hay Festival he talks to poet Simon Armitage about landscape in poetry. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Rana Mitter
Interviewed Guest:
Rowan Williams
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Armitage
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Start the Week

Simon Armitage on Greek Tragedy

Duration: 43 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Anne McElvoy discusses the legacy of Greek myth with poets Simon Armitage and Frank McGuinness, classicist Natalie Haynes and writer Kenan Malik. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Armitage
Interviewed Guest:
Frank McGuinness
Interviewed Guest:
Natalie Haynes
Interviewed Guest:
Kenan Malik
Producer:
Katy Hickman