Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Costa Book Awards winners, Elizabeth Friedlander, musical interpolation
The category winners of the Costa Book Awards 2017 are announced exclusively on Front Row.
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Making Culture At Home
How arts organisations root themselves in their local communities.
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Kay Mellor, Frankenstein, Swimming with Men
Kay Mellor on her new ITV drama Girlfriends.
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Vic and Bob, Angela Gheorghiu, Theatre ghost stories
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer on their return to TV, plus opera star Angela Gheorghiu.
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Incredible! The unstoppable rise of the comic book superhero
They dominate the box office. Just why are we turning to comic books for today's heroes?
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Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman on his career-defining performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.
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Christmas Party with Jon Culshaw, Josie Lawrence, Austentatious, Patience Agbabi, Inua Ellams and Steve Edis
Games and performances including impressions, improvised song and poetry readings.
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Emily Watson, Older women on screen, Christmas songs
Emily Watson on the new TV adaptation of Little Women, and older women on screen.
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Jodie Foster, Molly's Game, Christmas film round-up, Hamilton, Imtiaz Dharker
Jodie Foster on directing Black Mirror, The Hamilton phenomenon, Christmas film round-up.
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James Norton, Independent Magazines, New Jungle Book Musical
James Norton on McMafia, Independent magazines, Joe Stilgoe on the new Jungle Book musical
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Mavis Staples, Carmen Maria Machado, Christmas ghost stories
Mavis Staples, Carmen Maria Machado and Christmas ghost stories.
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The League Of Gentlemen, Gina Yashere, Jenny Eclair, Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World
As The League of Gentlemen returns we ask how much has the climate for comedy changed?
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The Hayward Gallery reopening, Emily Wilson, The art of literary translation
Emily Wilson, the art of literary translation, the Hayward Gallery reopening.
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Emma Rice, John Boyega, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Theatre director Emma Rice discusses her final production at Shakespeare's Globe.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
The winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature talks to John Wilson.
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Christmas TV, Theatre from the Calais Jungle, Protecting live music.
Staying in or going out? Festive TV reviewed. And how live music venues could be protected
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The Bette Davis/Joan Crawford Feud, The Twilight Zone, A Snow Poem
The Bette Davis/Joan Crawford Feud series, The Twilight Zone on stage and a snow poem.
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Vanessa Redgrave, Imperium, French African artefacts, Sally Rooney
Vanessa Redgrave looks back over her long and varied career, and Imperium at the RSC.
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Christopher Nolan, Guys and Dolls, City of Culture 2021
Christopher Nolan, director of Inception and The Dark Knight, looks back at his career.
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Jonathan Yeo, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Designing awards
Portrait painter Jonathan Yeo makes his first sculpture using virtual reality.
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Claire Foy, Bryan Hymel, Film Heritage
Claire Foy on playing the Queen in The Crown.
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Stronger, Shashi Kapoor, Douglas Henshall, Tokio Myers
Jake Gyllenhaal in Stronger, the true story of a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Cecilia Bartoli, The Face, Louis CK film
Cecilia Bartoli and Sol Gabetta on their album intertwining voice and cello, Dolce Duello.
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Sir Michael Parkinson, Wonder, A Christmas Carol
Michael Parkinson's American Songbook, review of Wonder, adaptations of A Christmas Carol.
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Amy Sherman-Palladino, Hollywood Film Awards Season, Costume Workers
Screenwriter Amy Sherman-Palladino on her new TV comedy drama, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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Chinese characters on TV, Actor James Franco, Sports Book of the Year
James Franco on new film The Disaster Artist about 'the Citizen Kane of bad films'.
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Joyce DiDonato, European Capital of Culture, Puppets in theatre
Soprano Joyce DiDonato on tackling the vocal pyrotechnics of Rossini.
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Benjamin Clementine performs live
Benjamin Clementine, Oscar Wilde's Women, and David LaChapelle.
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Inua Ellams on Barber Shop Chronicles, Battle of the Sexes, Charles Causley, Godless
Inua Ellams on his play Barber Shop Chronicles. Plus a review of TV drama Godless.
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James Bolam on Rodney Bewes, Gilbert & George, Marnie the opera
Actor James Bolam talks about his Likely Lads co-star, Rodney Bewes, who died yesterday.