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Front Row

Morecambe and Wise, Kate Tempest, Poets' Corner, the return of Blofeld

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. Morecambe and Wise remembered, performance poet and rapper Kate Tempest, the CS Lewis memorial in Poets' Corner, and the return of Blofeld. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Ian Ashpitel
Interviewed Guest:
Jonty Stephens
Interviewed Guest:
Kae Tempest
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong
Interviewed Guest:
Dr John Hall

Front Row

Leonardo DiCaprio, The Rack Pack, Elizabeth

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Leonardo DiCaprio talks to Kirsty Lang about The Revenant, and choreographer Will Tucket and playwright Alasdair Middleton discusses dance drama Elizabeth. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Leonardo DiCaprio
Interviewed Guest:
Alyson Rudd
Interviewed Guest:
Andrew Collins
Interviewed Guest:
Cathy Rentzenbrink
Interviewed Guest:
Will Tuckett
Interviewed Guest:
Alasdair Middleton

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

David Gilmour, An Inspector Calls, La Famille Bélier, Future Conditional

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Kirsty Lang meets up with Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and his wife, novelist Polly Samson. Plus the latest adpatation of An Inspector Calls and the French movie La Famille Bélier. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Dave Gilmour
Interviewed Guest:
Polly Samson
Interviewed Guest:
David Benedict
Interviewed Guest:
William Mager
Interviewed Guest:
Matthew Warchus
Interviewed Guest:
Tamsin Oglesby

Front Row

Judith Kerr on The Cat in the Hat; Wolfgang Tillmans; Snow in Midsummer

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Judith Kerr and Chris Riddell discuss Dr. Seuss and his influence on their own books; Wolfgang Tillmans on portraits, projections and politics; playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Judith Kerr
Interviewed Guest:
Chris Riddell
Interviewed Guest:
David Austen
Interviewed Guest:
Wolfgang Tillmans
Interviewed Guest:
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Presenter:
Samira Ahmed

Free Thinking

Acting Arthur Miller, Free Speech on Campus

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Zoe Wanamaker, David Suchet and Antony Sher talk about interpreting Arthur Miller's works with Philip Dodd. Plus a discussion about free speech and debate on university campuses. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Zoe Wanamaker
Interviewed Guest:
David Suchet
Interviewed Guest:
Antony Sher
Interviewed Guest:
Matthew Tariq Wilkinson
Interviewed Guest:
Helen Lewis
Interviewed Guest:
Anthony Julius
Presenter:
Philip Dodd

Free Thinking

Winston Churchill and Englishness

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

David Reynolds, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Simon Heffer and David Edgar join Philip Dodd to discuss Winston Churchill through the lens of Englishness. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
David Reynolds
Interviewed Guest:
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Heffer
Interviewed Guest:
David Edgar

Free Thinking

Violence in Culture

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Philip Dodd considers violence in culture with crime writer Frances Fyfield, historian Professor Richard Bessel, forensic psychiatrist Mayura Deshpande and writer Peter Stanford. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Dodd
Interviewed Guest:
Frances Fyfield
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Bessel
Interviewed Guest:
Mayura Deshpande
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Stanford

Free Thinking

Tim Minchin, Shami Chakrabarti, David Cronenberg

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Presented by Matthew Sweet. With David Cronenberg on his new film and first novel, Shami Chakrabarti on working as a human rights campaigner and Tim Minchin on his graphic novel. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
David Cronenberg
Interviewed Guest:
Shami Chakrabarti
Interviewed Guest:
Tim Minchin
Interviewed Guest:
Giles Fraser
Interviewed Guest:
Cleo Van Velsen

Front Row

Chris Chibnall, Viktoria Mullova; Honour; Pangaea

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall on his new play, Russian violinist Viktoria Mullova, Shan Khan's Honour reviewed, and Pangaea, contemporary art from Africa and South America. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Chris Chibnall
Interviewed Guest:
Kamila Shamsie
Interviewed Guest:
Viktoria Mullova

Front Row

25/10/2013

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, including an interview with writer Elizabeth Gilbert, James Corden as Paul Potts in One Chance, and Robert Webb and Tamzin Outhwaite in Raving. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Elizabeth Gilbert
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Thornton

Front Row

Anne-Marie Duff, Women's Prize for Fiction, RA Summer Exhibition, Sarah Hall

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

Anne-Marie Duff on O'Neill's play Strange Interlude, the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, and Sarah Hall on Blade Runner. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Interviewed Guest:
Anne-Marie Duff
Interviewed Guest:
Eva Jiricna
Interviewed Guest:
Norman Ackroyd
Interviewed Guest:
Sarah Hall

Front Row

Tom Hollander, Emma Donoghue, Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news with John Wilson, including Tom Hollander on the return of Rev, author Emma Donoghue on her new book Frog Music, and a review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Tom Hollander
Interviewed Guest:
Emma Donoghue
Interviewed Guest:
Naomi Alderman
Interviewed Guest:
Harriet Walter

Front Row

19/06/2014

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Actor Don Johnson on the art of the comeback, novelist and former Mormon Carys Bray, new Pablo Neruda poems discovered, and why established authors are choosing to self-publish. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Don Johnson
Interviewed Guest:
Carys Bray
Interviewed Guest:
Adam Feinstein
Interviewed Guest:
Kate Pullinger
Interviewed Guest:
Cathy Rentzenbrink

Front Row

New Doctor Who Reviewed; Simon Pegg

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

With Damian Barr. Jason Dittmer reviews the new Doctor Who, Simon Pegg talks about his new film Hector and the Search for Happiness, and author Alison Moore on her new novel. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Damian Barr
Interviewed Guest:
Jason Dittmer
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Pegg
Interviewed Guest:
Alison Moore
Interviewed Guest:
Katie Paterson

Front Row

Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil on Miss Saigon and Les Miserables

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news, reveiws and interviews. John Wilson talks to composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyricist Alain Boublil about their musicals Miss Saigon and Les Misérables. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Claude-Michel Schonberg
Interviewed Guest:
Alain Boublil

Front Row

Ai Weiwei, Everest, Leona Lewis

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news with John Wilson, including Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei, singer Leona Lewis and a review of the biographical thriller Everest starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Ai Weiwei
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Eccleston
Interviewed Guest:
Leona Lewis

Front Row

Museum of the Year 2013

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

John Wilson has news of the winner of the Museum of the Year prize, as he presents the programme live from the ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Show more

Front Row

Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen, Jafar Panahi's Taxi, Guy Garvey

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news with John Wilson. Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen discuss their TV adaptation of Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser, and Jafar Panahi's Taxi is reviewed. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Anthony Hopkins
Interviewed Guest:
Ian McKellen
Interviewed Guest:
Kamin Mohammadi
Interviewed Guest:
Guy Garvey

Front Row

Sin City 2, Tom Conti on Abraham Lincoln, Erasure

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news with John Wilson, including Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Tom Conti on Abraham Lincoln, Andy Bell and Vince Clarke from Erasure, and unscripted crime drama in Suspects. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Tom Conti
Interviewed Guest:
Andy Bell
Interviewed Guest:
Vince Clarke