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Twelve-year-old composer, pianist and violinist Alma Deutscher tells Kirsty Lang about her new piano concerto and opera Cinderella. Plus a review of the game Last Days of June. Show more
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Fran Healy of Travis, back with a new album after a six-year gap; Simon Bird and Jonny Sweet on their TV comedy Chickens; crime writers discuss how to make characters disappear. Show more
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Samira Ahmed talks to the comedian, actor and music hall veteran, Roy Hudd, as he approaches his 80th birthday by playing a dame for the first time in Panto. Show more
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Emma Donoghue talks to Kirsty Lang about adapting her novel Room into a Bafta-nominated film. Plus Costa winner Andrew Michael Hurley discusses his first novel The Loney. Show more
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Kirsty Lang discusses a huge exhibition of Scottish contemporary art, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich on headlining Glastonbury and the novel Dr Zhivago as ideological weapon. Show more
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Kirsty Lang talks to artist and puppet-maker Peter Firmin, whose iconic children's TV characters include Bagpuss, Basil Brush and The Clangers. Show more
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Samira Ahmed on The Blade, a major artwork installed in the heart of Hull as part of UK City of Culture 2017. Plus a review of the film Manchester By the Sea. Show more
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Arts news, interviews and reviews. Samira Ahmed talks to Salman Rushdie about his new novel Two Years Eight Months, and Cyndi Lauper discusses her new musical Kinky Boots. Show more
30 minutes
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Arts news, interviews and reviews. John Wilson talks to Sir Tom Jones as he publishes his autobiography and releases a new album. Show more
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Matthew d'Ancona talks to Jon Ronson about the film Frank, reviews 24, speaks to Julian Anderson about his opera Thebans, and discusses Comics Unmasked at the British Library. Show more
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Guy Garvey talks to John Wilson about the Meltdown festival he is curating at London's Southbank Centre. Plus a review of The Go-Between musical, starring Michael Crawford. Show more
30 minutes
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Arts news, interviews and reviews. John Wilson talks to musician Michael Kiwanuka about his new album. Plus a look at the depiction of war in films. Show more
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Samira Ahmed talks to Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper about his new film The Danish Girl, starring Eddie Redmayne. Plus a reconstruction of JS Bach's first Christmas in Leipzig. Show more
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Oliver Parker and Hamish McColl tell Kirsty Lang about the new Dad's Army film, plus Annie Nightingale on Janis Joplin and Dawn Walton on A Raisin In The Sun. Show more
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Hugh Jackman discusses his role in the film thriller Prisoners; the verdict on TV comedy The Wrong Mans, starring James Corden and Mathew Baynton; BBC National Short Story Award. Show more
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Arts news with John Wilson, including Naughty Boy, Lovelace reviewed, Harry Nilsson's biographer and Front Row's 2002 interview with Elmore Leonard whose death was announced today. Show more
30 minutes
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Arts news with Mark Lawson, including news of the shortlist for the Mercury Prize for album of the year. Plus the long-awaited final book in Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel trilogy. Show more
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News of the nominations for the 2015 Oscars, including interviews with nominees and analysis of the runners and riders. Presented by John Wilson. Show more
30 minutes
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Kit Harington talks about playing his own ancestor in the new BBC1 drama series about the Gunpowder Plot. Arts news, reviews and interviews, presented by Stig Abell. Show more
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Keanu Reeves talks to John Wilson about his three decade career, from Hamlet to action hero John Wick. Musician Rag'n'Bone Man discusses his debut album Humans. Show more
