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Front Row

Civilisations, Wendy Cope, Contemporary Chinese Art

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

We review new TV series Civilisations, poet Wendy Cope on her new collection and how political is contemporary Chinese art? Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Chris Dunkley
Interviewed Guest:
Natalie Haynes
Interviewed Guest:
Tiffany Leung
Interviewed Guest:
Wendy Cope
Interviewed Guest:
Aowen Jin
Producer:
Harry Parker

Front Row

Jimmy Iovine, Donal Ryan, Glyndebourne Opera Cup, Spring equinox poems

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Record producer Jimmy Iovine, author Donal Ryan, the Glyndebourne Opera Cup competition and spring equinox poetry from Caleb Femi and Jackie Kay. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Producer:
Harry Parker
Interviewed Guest:
Jimmy Iovine
Interviewed Guest:
Donal Ryan
Interviewed Guest:
Maria Mot
Interviewed Guest:
Caleb Femi
Interviewed Guest:
Jackie Kay

Saturday Review

Henry V, Elvis and Nixon, The Girls, Sculpture in the City, The Border

Duration: 45 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Tom Sutcliffe and Ellah Allfrey, Linda Grant and Nikesh Shukla discuss the film Elvis & Nixon, a female-led Henry V, Polish TV drama The Border and The Girls by Emma Cline. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Ellah Allfrey
Interviewed Guest:
Linda Grant
Interviewed Guest:
Nikesh Shukla
Producer:
Harry Parker

Saturday Live

Nicholas Parsons; the inheritance tracks of Steve Earle

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Richard Coles and Anita Anand meet chairman extraordinaire Nicholas Parsons and hear the Inheritance Tracks of country singer Steve Earle. Show more

Saturday Live

Lyricist Don Black and Sir Cliff Richard's Inheritance Tracks

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Richard Coles and Anita Anand with lyricist Don Black and Sir Cliff Richard's Inheritance Tracks. And Lost actor Jeff Fahey tells them about his work with refugees in Syria. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Coles
Presenter:
Anita Anand
Interviewed Guest:
Don Black
Interviewed Guest:
Cliff Richard
Interviewed Guest:
Jeff Fahey
Producer:
Harry Parker

Start the Week

Hay Festival: Spooks, war and genocide

Duration: 43 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Tom Sutcliffe at Hay Festival with Michael Hayden, Philippe Sands, Janine di Giovanni and Harry Parker. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Tom Sutcliffe
Interviewed Guest:
Michael Hayden
Interviewed Guest:
Philippe Sands
Interviewed Guest:
Janine di Giovanni
Interviewed Guest:
Harry Parker
Producer:
Katy Hickman

Saturday Live

Linda Nolan

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Morning magazine show. Richard Coles and Anita Anand with singer Linda Nolan and Richard Eyre's Inheritance Tracks. Show more

Front Row

Sir Lenny Henry, Alan Cumming in Instinct, Divine inspiration in the arts

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Sir Lenny Henry looks back at his career on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Alan Cumming in TV cop show Instinct, and divine inspiration in the arts. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Stig Abell
Interviewed Guest:
Lenny Henry
Interviewed Guest:
Janina Ramirez
Interviewed Guest:
Laura-Jane Foley
Interviewed Guest:
AN Wilson
Producer:
Harry Parker

Front Row

Patrick Gale's Man in an Orange Shirt, Olly Alexander's Queer Icon, Man Booker Prize longlist, Mercury Prize shortlist

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Patrick Gale on his first television play Man in an Orange Shirt. Plus Olly Alexander's Queer Icon, the Man Booker Prize longlist and the Mercury Prize shortlist. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Alex Clark
Interviewed Guest:
Toby Lichtig
Interviewed Guest:
Tom Ravenscroft
Interviewed Guest:
Olly Alexander
Producer:
Harry Parker

Front Row

Tomb Raider, Lisa Halliday, Immersive theatre

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Is Lara Croft a feminist icon in the new Tomb Raider film? Plus author Lisa Halliday talks about how her novel Asymmetry echoes her relationship with Philip Roth. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Muir
Interviewed Guest:
Julia Hardy
Interviewed Guest:
Lisa Halliday
Interviewed Guest:
Alexander Wright
Interviewed Guest:
Maureen Beattie
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Hemming
Producer:
Harry Parker

Front Row

Kate Mosse, Kanye West, Loewe Craft Prize

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Kate Mosse talks about her new novel The Burning Chambers. Plus a discussion on Kanye West's controversial remarks. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Mosse
Participant:
Katie Puckrik
Interviewed Guest:
Jonathan Anderson
Interviewed Guest:
Deyan Sudjic
Producer:
Harry Parker

Front Row

Ocean's 8, Football kit design, Tacita Dean on drawing, Classical pianist Alexis Ffrench on hip-hop

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Heist film Ocean's 8 reviewed, the design of football kit, classical pianist Alexis Ffrench on hip-hop and Tacita Dean on the art of drawing. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Doonan
Interviewed Guest:
Alexis Ffrench
Interviewed Guest:
Stephanie Straine
Interviewed Guest:
Olivia Kemp
Interviewed Guest:
Tacita Dean
Producer:
Harry Parker

Front Row

BlacKkKlansman, Helen Lederer, Alison Brackenbury, Esi Edugyan

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Spike Lee's film BlacKkKlansman reviewed, Helen Lederer on a new women's comedy fiction prize, Esi Edugyan on her novel Washington Black, Alison Brackenbury on her poem's progress. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Natty Kasambala
Interviewed Guest:
Esi Edugyan
Interviewed Guest:
Alison Brackenbury
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Lederer
Producer:
Harry Parker

Front Row

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Shebeen in Nottingham, Will Sharpe, Vampyr video game

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition reviewed; Shebeen, a play about the 1950s immigrant community in Nottingham; Will Sharpe of dark comedy Flowers; and Vampyr video game tested. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Stig Abell
Interviewed Guest:
Jacky Klein
Interviewed Guest:
Mufaro Makubika
Interviewed Guest:
Matthew Xia
Interviewed Guest:
Will Sharpe
Interviewed Guest:
Jordan Erica Webber
Producer:
Harry Parker

Front Row

Julius Caesar, the Grammys, Joe Dunthorne, architect Neave Brown

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Nicholas Hytner on his production of Julius Caesar at London's Bridge Theatre, the Grammys unpacked, author Joe Dunthorne and a discussion of Neave Brown and social housing design. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Nicholas Hytner
Interviewed Guest:
Ruth Barnes
Interviewed Guest:
Joanne McCafferty
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Karakusevic
Interviewed Guest:
Joe Dunthorne
Producer:
Harry Parker

Front Row

Woman's Hour Craft Exhibition, Lloyd Dorfman, Karen McCarthy Woolf, John Ashbery

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Woman's Hour Craft Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum; arts benefactor Lloyd Dorfman; poets Karen McCarthy Woolf and the late John Ashbery. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Jane Garvey
Interviewed Guest:
Alun Graves
Interviewed Guest:
Annie Warburton
Interviewed Guest:
Lloyd Dorfman
Interviewed Guest:
John Ashbery
Interviewed Guest:
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Producer:
Harry Parker

Front Row

Christian Bale, Ella Fitzgerald, Theatre artistic directors

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Kirsty Lang looks at the careers of Christian Bale and Ella Fitzgerald and the role of artistic directors in the theatre. Show more

Front Row

David Walliams, Jeanne Moreau and Sam Shepard remembered, Zinzi Clemmons, Jukebox musicals

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

David Walliams on his play Gangsta Granny; Jeanne Moreau and Sam Shepard remembered; Zinzi Clemmons's novel What We Lose; jukebox musicals. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
David Walliams
Interviewed Guest:
Agnes Poirier
Interviewed Guest:
Zinzi Clemmons
Interviewed Guest:
Matt Wolf
Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Producer:
Harry Parker

Front Row

Salma Hayek, Anna of the Five Towns and Wonder Woman Merchandising

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Samira Ahmed talks to Salma Hayek, explores Arnold Bennett country and looks at how comedians and musicians really make their money and the marketing of film merchandise. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Producer:
Harry Parker
Interviewed Guest:
Salma Hayek
Interviewed Guest:
Miguel Arteta
Interviewed Guest:
Brett Vincent
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Thornton
Interviewed Guest:
Louise Blain

Front Row

Sofia Coppola on The Beguiled, Neil McGregor, Plywood, Children's Poetry prizewinner

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Sofia Coppola on The Beguiled, Neil McGregor's Queer Icon, the virtues of Plywood, and Kate Wakeling, winner of the CLiPPA Children's Poetry prize. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Sofia Coppola
Interviewed Guest:
Neil MacGregor
Interviewed Guest:
Corrine Julius
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Wakeling
Producer:
Harry Parker