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Front Row

Khaled Hosseini; Michael Landy; DJs in film; Cultural Exchange with AS Byatt

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news. Mark Lawson reports on Michael Landy's new kinetic sculptures of saints, talks to Kite Runner novelist Khaled Hosseini and hears AS Byatt's choice for Cultural Exchange. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Interviewed Guest:
Khaled Hosseini
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Landy
Interviewed Guest:
AS Byatt
Interviewed Guest:
Andrew Collins

Front Row

The art and craft of translating fiction

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Novelist Naomi Alderman reports on the art of translating fiction, with writers Ian McEwan, AS Byatt, Ali Smith and David Baddiel, and joins three translators tackling Jules Verne. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Naomi Alderman
Interviewed Guest:
Ian McEwan
Interviewed Guest:
AS Byatt
Interviewed Guest:
Ali Smith
Interviewed Guest:
David Baddiel
Producer:
Nicki Paxman

Front Row

Tom Hanks; Alice Munro; Dana Schutz

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Tom Hanks on the film Captain Phillips, the tale of a hijacking by Somali pirates; AS Byatt on Alice Munro, who today won the Nobel Prize for Literature; artist Dana Schutz. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Interviewed Guest:
AS Byatt
Interviewed Guest:
Tom Hanks
Interviewed Guest:
Hermione Lee
Interviewed Guest:
Dana Schutz

Front Row

Line of Duty; Tom Rob Smith; Oh, What a Lovely War!

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

A review of the revival of the 1963 stage classic Oh, What a Lovely War!; Tom Rob Smith on his novel The Farm; a review of the second series of Line of Duty; Chinese censorship. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Kathryn Hughes
Interviewed Guest:
Tom Rob Smith
Interviewed Guest:
MJ Hyland
Interviewed Guest:
Jonathan Fenby
Interviewed Guest:
Jenny Robson
Interviewed Guest:
Qiu Xiaolong
Interviewed Guest:
AS Byatt

Duration: 28 minutes

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

Booker Prize-winning novelist AS Byatt presents a selection of her favourite pieces of poetry and prose, with the help of actor Peter Eyre. From Beatrix Potter to Terry Pratchett. Show more

Duration: 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Four

Mark Lawson talks to AS Byatt after her Booker Prize nomination for The Children's Book. Byatt talks about her passion for literature and how she combines family life with writing. Show more

The Culture Show

2011/2012

Episode 6: The Culture Show at the Edinburgh Festival - Part 1

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Sue Perkins presents highlights from 2011's Edinburgh Festival. Marc Almond explains his acting role in a new musical, Ten Plagues, and AS Byatt talks about her latest novel. Show more

Front Row

The Brontes, Malian kora player Ballake Sissoko and French cellist Vincent Segal, Truth reviewed

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news with Samira Ahmed, including AS Byatt on the enduring legacy of the Brontes' juvenilia, and Malian kora player Ballake Sissoko and French cellist Vincent Segal. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
AS Byatt
Interviewed Guest:
Sophia McDougall
Interviewed Guest:
Tom Burke
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Carlson
Interviewed Guest:
Ballake Sissoko
Interviewed Guest:
Vincent Segal
Producer:
Dixi Stewart

Free Thinking

European Cities on the Brink of War

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Anne McElvoy explores the cultural environment in Paris, Berlin, London, St Petersburg and Vienna before World War I with AS Byatt, Alexandra Harris, Neil Brand and Philip Blom. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Neil Brand
Interviewed Guest:
AS Byatt
Interviewed Guest:
Alexandra Harris