Arts news. Mark Lawson discusses the music of John Tavener, the final Poirot episode and Georges Simenon's first Maigret novel. Plus Bel Mooney reviews the film Don Jon. Show more
Arts news. Mark Lawson talks to Martin Freeman, star of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and reviews the new musical American Psycho, in which Matt Smith plays a serial killer. Show more
Christos Tsiolkas, author of the Man Booker-longlisted The Slap, discusses his new novel Barracuda; new film Tim's Vermeer; violinist Maxim Vengerov; and two new US TV cop shows. Show more
Arts news with John Wilson, including Glenn Close on her role as Norma Desmond in the musical Sunset Boulevard and a review of Rowan Atkinson in ITV's Maigret Sets a Trap. Show more
Kirsty Lang reviews the film St Vincent, which stars Bill Murray as a reluctant babysitter. Plus the winners from the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Show more