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The Review Show

Review Show Special: British TV

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

In a Review Show special, Kirsty Wark and guests including Peter Bazalgette and Daisy Goodwin discuss the future of television. Can the medium survive another decade of upheavals? Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Wark
Participant:
Peter Bazalgette
Participant:
Stephen Armstrong
Participant:
Daisy Goodwin
Participant:
Heather Croall

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Joyce Carol Oates; Special effects on screen; The Musketeers

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Arts news. Joyce Carol Oates on a half-century of writing; the enduring appeal of The Three Musketeers; Gravity's special effects; and photography by Warhol, Burroughs and Lynch. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Joyce Carol Oates
Interviewed Guest:
Charlotte Mullins
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong
Interviewed Guest:
Tim Webber
Producer:
Ellie Bury

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Andrew Sachs; Martin Carthy; Awards speeches

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. John Wilson talks to Andrew Sachs about his new autobiography, and to Martin Carthy on a lifetime of folk music. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewed Guest:
Andrew Sachs
Interviewed Guest:
Martin Carthy
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong

Saturday Live

Irma Kurtz

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 Aasmah Mir with agony aunt Irma Kurtz, the inheritance tracks of Jack Whitehall and 10-year-old Harry Hamer on his grandparents flying the nest. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Coles
Presenter:
Aasmah Mir
Interviewed Guest:
Irma Kurtz
Interviewed Guest:
Harry Hamer
Interviewed Guest:
Jean Singfield
Interviewed Guest:
JP Devlin
Interviewed Guest:
Kirsty Wark
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong
Interviewed Guest:
Jack Whitehall
Interviewed Guest:
Darren Swift
Producer:
Maire Devine

Front Row

Jim Broadbent; Young Adult Fiction; Tena Stivicic; Comedy DVDs

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Jim Broadbent on playing Father Christmas in Get Santa, plus young adult fiction, the Elgin Marbles, Croatian playwright Tena Stivicic, and Stephen Armstrong's pick of comedy DVDs. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Jim Broadbent
Interviewed Guest:
Matt Haig
Interviewed Guest:
Katherine Woodfine
Interviewed Guest:
Peter Aspden
Interviewed Guest:
Tena Stivicic
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong

Front Row

Music of Sherlock Holmes, Simon Pegg in Absolutely Anything, Paul Neagu, Edinburgh Comedy

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Presented by Samira Ahmed. The music of Sherlock Holmes; Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale in Absolutely Anything; sculptor Paul Neagu's work; and a round-up of Edinburgh Comedy. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
David Arnold
Interviewed Guest:
Matthew Sweet
Interviewed Guest:
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Interviewed Guest:
Roger Clarke
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong
Producer:
Jack Soper

Front Row

Grandma, Val Wood, Theatrical wigs, Best stand-up comedy DVDs

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 a review of new comedy Grandma, Val Wood on her fascination with her home city of Hull and a pick of the best stand-up comedy DVDs of 2015. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Catherine Bray
Interviewed Guest:
Val Wood
Interviewed Guest:
Giuseppe Cannas
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong
Producer:
Angie Nehring

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Mira Nair and Lupita Nyong'o, Divorce, Great Exhibition of the North, Janet Plater, The Vulgar

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Director Mira Nair and Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o discuss Queen of Katwe, a film about an African chess prodigy. Stephen Armstrong reviews Sarah Jessica Parker's sitcom Divorce. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Mira Nair
Interviewed Guest:
Lupita Nyong'o
Interviewed Guest:
Carol Bell
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong
Interviewed Guest:
Janet Plater
Interviewed Guest:
Shahidha Bari

Front Row

Der Rosenkavalier, Adventures in Moominland, Peter Mullan in Quarry

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Moomins creator Tove Jansson remembered by her niece Sophia, the challenges of performing Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier at the ROH, and Stephen Armstrong reviews TV drama Quarry. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Renee Fleming
Interviewed Guest:
Alice Coote
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong
Interviewed Guest:
Sophia Jansson
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Denton
Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Producer:
Angie Nehring

Front Row

Composer Alma Deutscher, Bake Off's return, Controversial statues, Last Days of June

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

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

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Alma Deutscher
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong
Interviewed Guest:
Lucy Mangan
Interviewed Guest:
Jordan Erica Webber
Interviewed Guest:
Afua Hirsch
Interviewed Guest:
Griselda Pollack
Presenter:
Kirsty Lang

Front Row

Steven Soderbergh's Unsane, America's Cool Modernism, Life after the Double Act, Stage Blood

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Steven Soderbergh on his film Unsane starring Claire Foy, shot entirely on three iphones; Art - America's Cool Modernism: O'Keeffe to Hopper; the art of stage blood and going solo. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Stig Abell
Interviewed Guest:
Steven Soderbergh
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong
Interviewed Guest:
Sam Marlowe
Interviewed Guest:
Giuseppe Carnas
Producer:
Julian May

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BSO Resound at the Proms, Edinburgh Comedy Awards shortlist, Creativity and the brain, Melissa Harrison

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

James Rose, founder of the BSO's Resound, on their Proms debut, the Edinburgh Comedy Awards shortlist, Paul Howard Jones on the brain, and Melissa Harrison on her new novel. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Kirsty Lang
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong
Interviewed Guest:
Paul Howard-Jones
Interviewed Guest:
Melissa Harrison

Front Row

Mark Ruffalo, Monty Python Reunion, Yael Farber, one-handed pianist Nicholas McCarthy

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Actor Mark Ruffalo on playing drunk, Monty Python's reunion tour reviewed, playwright and director Yael Farber on re-imagining The Crucible, one-handed pianist Nicholas McCarthy. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Samira Ahmed
Interviewed Guest:
Mark Ruffalo
Interviewed Guest:
Yael Farber
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong
Interviewed Guest:
Nicholas McCarthy
Interviewed Guest:
Alexander Waugh

Front Row

Guy Pearce; Joseph O'Neill; Edinburgh Comedy

Duration: 30 minutes

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

Available for over a year

Damian Barr talks to actor Guy Pearce about his new film The Rover. Plus Joseph O'Neill on his novel The Dog, longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Damian Barr
Interviewed Guest:
Guy Pearce
Interviewed Guest:
Joseph O'Neill
Interviewed Guest:
Stephen Armstrong
Interviewed Guest:
Naomi Alderman

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