Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Live from the Edinburgh Festivals
Henning Wehn, Ambrose Parry, Travis Alabanza on stage at the Edinburgh Festivals
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Lemn Sissay, Queen Victoria's piano, Euphoria
Poet Lemn Sissay on his new memoir, and Queen Victoria's grand piano
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Cary Grant and Notorious, Festival cancellations, Movement directors, Anna Symon
Cary Grant's Notorious restored, the role of movement directors, Anna Symon on Deep Water
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The art of calligraphy, conductor Martyn Brabbins, Playmobil: The Movie
Paul Antonio on the art of calligraphy, and Proms conductor Martyn Brabbins
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Candace Bushnell, Dance about rugby, Concern over the captioning of audiobooks, New play 8 Hotels
Sex and the City writer Candace Bushnell, dance about rugby, Paul Robeson drama 8 Hotels
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Toni Morrison remembered, the Sound of Space in Music
Stig Abell and guests pay tribute to the American writer Toni Morrison.
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The Crucible, the music of Peterloo, Patrick Bronte and DA Pennebaker
A new ballet interpretation of The Crucible, and two musical perspectives on a massacre.
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Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw, Téa Obreht, Kathy Hinde, Dalia Stasevska
We review Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw and Kathy Hinde composes with sounds from a bog
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k.d. lang, paying inheritance tax with art, ceramicist Magdalene Odundo
k.d. lang reveals that she is retiring from music now that the muse has left her.
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Notre-Dame organist Olivier Latry, Gurinder Chadha, Rupert Everett's Uncle Vanya
Notre-Dame's organist Olivier Latry on the recent fire, and film director Gurinder Chadha
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Herman Melville and Moby Dick, Luddite rebellion on stage, TV's I Am the Night
The great whaling novel Moby Dick and - is there something to be said for Luddism?
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Blacking-up in opera, How to watch Shakespeare, Fiona Kidman, Carlos Cruz-Diez
Blacking-up in opera, How to watch Shakespeare, Fiona Kidman's novel and Carlos Cruz-Diez.
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Horrible Histories, Barbara Strozzi at 400, Barney Norris, V&A and Extinction Rebellion
Horrible Histories review, Barbara Strozzi at 400 and Extinction Rebellion at the V&A.
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Oklahoma!, Audience behaviour, Mercury Prize shortlist
Oklahoma! at Chichester Festival Theatre. And is audience behaviour getting worse?
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The Booker Prize Longlist, A Tea Journey at Compton Verney gallery, Fashion influenced by TV
A look at the 2019 Booker Prize longlist. Plus the influence of TV on high street fashion.
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The Current War, How culture affects relationship expectations, Experimental novels, Cool culture
The Current War, culture and relationships, experimental novels, and cool culture
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Macy Gray, Morris Dance Protest at Parliament, Libraries - Threatened and Reprieved
Macy Gray talks, performs work from her latest album, Ruby, and sings her huge hit, I Try.
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Fab 5 Freddy, Laurie Anderson, Summer reads, film trailers
Hip hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy on the hidden black figures of Italian Renaissance art.
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Illuminated River, Jon Favreau on The Lion King, RIBA Stirling shortlist
Why the River Thames is about to become the world's longest artwork
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Conductor Karina Canellakis, a review of Channel 4 drama series I Am... and the director of cricket documentary The Edge
Karina Canellakis on conducting the first night of the Proms.
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Philip Glass and Phelim McDermott, Political knitting, Black women in theatre, Statues of performers
The power of knitting as protest and a huge statue of Ed Sheeran is unveiled in Moscow.
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Dominic Dromgoole, new theatres, Karina Ramage
Dominic Dromgoole, new theatres, Karina Ramage.
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Deborah Moggach, Elsinore computer game, Ivo van Hove, Can high notes shatter glass?
Deborah Moggach on new novel The Carer
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Pavarotti documentary, Wendell Berry, Port Eliot Festival closure, How our attitudes are reflected in culture
Pavarotti documentary reviewed, and how our attitudes are reflected in culture.
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Peter Gynt, how to listen to opera, The Left Behind, Rip Torn
Peter Gynt at the National Theatre reviewed and hard-hitting Welsh drama The Left Behind
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Cressida Cowell, the new children's laureate; Cherie Blair goes into film
Children's laureate Cressida Cowell, Cherie Blair, and Life of Pi on the stage
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Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Clara Schumann, Dark Money, Tree authorship row
Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Clara Schumann
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Olly Alexander, Midsommar, Britain's First Female Artists, Leon Kossoff obituary
Olly Alexander on gay pop songs and his Glastonbury speech
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Manchester International Festival
Tania Bruguera, Yoko Ono and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
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Chanya Button on Vita & Virginia, Michael Frayn's Noises Off, Mental health in gaming, Ode to Joy
New film Vita & Virginia, Noises Off, mental health in gaming, the story of Ode to Joy