Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Ready Player One, Church Ministers for the Arts, Mental Institutions in Film, The York Realist
Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg's return to the sci-fi genre, is reviewed.
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Anna Chancellor, Harshdeep Kaur, Hilton Als
Anna Chancellor on her new TV drama, Ordeal by Innocence, and singer Harshdeep Kaur.
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Sonia Boyce, Debussy, Black Men Walking
Sonia Boyce discusses her career blazing a trail for black female artists.
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Macbeth, The British Council, Performing couples who tour
Rufus Norris and Kit Monkman on Macbeth's relevance to modern times.
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Steven Soderbergh's Unsane, America's Cool Modernism, Life after the Double Act, Stage Blood
Steven Soderbergh on his film Unsane starring Claire Foy, shot entirely on three iphones.
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Jimmy Iovine, Donal Ryan, Glyndebourne Opera Cup, Spring equinox poems
Jimmy Iovine, the man behind hits from Springsteen to Dr Dre, talks about his long career.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
A special extended interview with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber as he turns 70.
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Tom Jones and Jennifer Hudson on The Voice, Art galleries on screen
Tom Jones and Jennifer Hudson discuss their role as judges on the TV talent show The Voice
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Tomb Raider, Lisa Halliday, Immersive theatre
The verdict on the return of video game heroine Lara Croft to the big screen.
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Mary Magdalene, Icelandic fiction, Joseph Morpurgo, Stephen Hawking in culture
A review of film Mary Magdalene, and the rich world of Icelandic fiction.
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Paddy Considine, Gemma Bodinetz, Integrated Casting
Paddy Considine on Journeyman, Gemma Bodinetz on the Everyman Rep, and integrated casting.
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Eleanor Bron, The Great Wave, Ken Dodd
Eleanor Bron at 80, The Great Wave at the National Theatre and the comic art of Ken Dodd.
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Ian McKellen, A Wrinkle in Time, Disability Champion Andrew Miller, Aida Muluneh
Sir Ian McKellen on his career in theatre and on screen.
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Jessica Jones, Women's Prize for Fiction nominees, The Cherry Orchard, Redressing the gender balance in the music industry
Detective Jessica Jones returns to television screens. Have her superpowers diminished?
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David Attenborough on painter John Craxton, Wonder Wheel, #MeToo poetry anthology
David Attenborough on why he loves the work of painter John Craxton.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Picasso at the Tate, David Oyelowo
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Picasso at Tate Modern, David Oyelowo.
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You Were Never Really Here, Colin Currie, Charlotte Salomon
Lynne Ramsay's thriller, You Were Never Really Here, reviewed, Percussionist Colin Currie.
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Jess Thom on Beckett's Not I, Disbelieved women in fiction, Deep Throat Choir
Jess Thom on why Beckett's Not I speaks to her so strongly as someone with Tourette's.
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Civilisations, Wendy Cope, Contemporary Chinese Art
We review new TV series Civilisations which explores thousands of years of visual culture.
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Sharon Horgan, Maya Youssef, Samantha Harvey
Sharon Horgan in Game Night, Maya Youssef on the qanun and Samantha Harvey's new novel.
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A Fantastic Woman, playing drunk, Lewis Gilbert and paintings under paintings
A Fantastic Woman reviewed, playing drunk, paintings under paintings, and Lewis Gilbert.
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The Assassination of Gianni Versace, All Too Human exhibition, Debut novelist Mick Kitson
The Assassination of Gianni Versace, All Too Human, Girls on the run in new novel Sal.
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Red Sparrow, Adapting novels for the stage, Neanderthal art
The verdict on Jennifer Lawrence as a prima ballerina-turned-Russian spy in Red Sparrow.
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Tracey Thorn, Rival Biographers, Image Licensing, Stormzy
Tracey Thorn, rivalry between biographers, licensing museum images and Stormzy.
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Carey Mulligan, Spoiler Alert!, Mosaic and the Death of the Lead Guitar
Carey Mulligan, spoilers discussed, Mosaic and the death of the lead guitar.
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I, Tonya; Robin Cousins on the art of ice skating; Jess Kidd
I, Tonya reviewed, plus Robin Cousins considers the art and the sport of ice skating.
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Suffrage art and a celebration of female artists
To mark 100 years since women got the vote we look at suffrage art.
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Art in response to trauma: Louise Allen and Maude Julien
Writers of two memoirs on how art and literature served as a lifeline in very dark times.
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Ruth Wilson on Dark River, Cal McCrystal on ENO's Iolanthe, Creative Scotland funding decisions
Ruth Wilson on her latest big screen role in the psychological drama Dark River.
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Greta Gerwig, Opportunities for disabled actors, National Short Story Award
Greta Gerwig on her directorial debut film Lady Bird.