Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Handel Water Music at 300 celebration; Grace Evangeline Mason
Front Row is live from a boat on the Thames on the tricentennial of Handel's Water Music.
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Sofia Coppola on The Beguiled, Neil McGregor, Plywood, Children's Poetry prizewinner
Sofia Coppola on The Beguiled, Neil McGregor's Queer Icon, the virtues of Plywood.
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Whales vs dinosaurs in art; A.Dot; Nick Laird; Igor Levit
We debate whether dinosaurs or whales have inspired the best art.
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Alan Carr's Queer Icon, New Tate boss Maria Balshaw, The role of the understudy, The Sunbathers on The Southbank
New Tate boss Maria Balshaw, Alan Carr's Queer Icon and The Sunbathers on the Southbank.
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War for Planet of the Apes, Alan Hollinghurst's Queer Icon, Soul of a Nation exhibition
War for Planet of the Apes; Alan Hollinghurst on his Queer Icon; Soul of a Nation at Tate.
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Shirley MacLaine, Bolshoi Ballet, Paris Lees' Queer Icon, baritone and composer Roderick Williams
Shirley MacLaine looks back on her career.
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Sarah Hall, Antony Sher, Fatherhood, Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Sarah Hall, Antony Sher's Queer Icon, Fatherhood, Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
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Tarell Alvin McCraney's Queer Icon; Romola Garai and Helen Edmundson on Queen Anne; Jamaica's Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison
Oscar-winning writer Tarell Alvin McCraney; Helen Edmundson on the overlooked Queen Anne.
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Christine and the Queens' Queer Icon; Spider-Man: Homecoming; Acting Guilty; Museum of the Year - 5th contender
Christine & the Queens, Spider-Man: Homecoming, acting guilty and Lapworth Museum.
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Sam Taylor-Johnson, Will Young, Stage and screen violence, Museum of the Year finalist
Sam Taylor-Johnson on Gypsy; singer Will Young's Queer Icons choice.
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The launch of Queer Icons; Maggi Hambling; Nitin Sawhney; Museum of the Year finalist
Artist Maggi Hambling launches Front Row's new Queer Icons series.
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Newmarket's Museum of the Year, Committee Musical, Fair Field - Piers Plowman re-imagined, Ebb and Flow
Committee Musical, Fair Field - Piers Plowman re-imagined, Museum of the Year, Ebb and Flo
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Manchester International Festival, Poet turned novelist Kenneth Steven, Museum of the Year nominee Hepworth Wakefield
Manchester International Festival launch with Jeremy Deller.
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V&A Exhibition Road Quarter, Assange documentary Risk, Anthony Cartwright's Brexit novel
Architect Amanda Levete and V&A director Tristram Hunt on the museum's £40m new project.
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Ian Rankin, Photographer Gregory Crewdson, National Rural Touring Awards
Ian Rankin on Rebus, American photographer Gregory Crewdson, National Rural Touring Awards
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Baby Driver, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Scaffold art controversy, Alba Arikha
Edgar Wright, director of Baby Driver; Julie Hesmondhalgh; Alba Arikha.
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Khadija Saye remembered, Jon Ronson, Harry Potter 20 years on
The writer Jon Ronson on his film Okja, Harry Potter's impact and the artist Khadija Saye.
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Jez Butterworth and Sam Mendes on The Ferryman
Director Sam Mendes and playwright Jez Butterworth on The Ferryman.
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Joseph Fiennes, Daljit Nagra, Wyndham Lewis, Catriona Morison
Joseph Fiennes on the Handmaid's Tale. Plus a new exhibition about Wyndham Lewis.
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Audra McDonald, John Singer Sargent watercolours, Paula McGrath
Broadway star Audra McDonald on Billie Holiday; novelist Paula McGrath.
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Diane Keaton, Glow, 2017 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Award winners
Diane Keaton on Hampstead, Annie Hall and The Godfather; plus new Netflix drama Glow.
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Fleet Foxes, Marianne Elliott, Fahrelnissa Zeid
John Wilson talks to Fleet Foxes lead singer Robin Pecknold.
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Evgeny Kissin; Man Booker International Prize 2017 winners David Grossman and Jessica Cohen; artist David Mach
Israeli author David Grossman on A Horse Walks into a Bar; pianist Evgeny Kissin's memoirs
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Hamlet - the opera, Novelist Laura Barnett with singer Kathryn Williams, Political docudramas, Blue plaques for music
Hamlet - the opera, a novel with songs, political docudramas and blue plaques for music.
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Andrew Scott and Robert Icke, Whitney Houston documentary, Amanda Craig
Andrew Scott and Robert Icke on Hamlet, Whitney Houston documentary, author Amanda Craig.
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Brian Cox; Helen McCrory; Sci-fi at the Barbican; Rebooting film franchises
Brian Cox on playing Churchill and a review of The Barbican's sci-fi exhibition.
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New York's Fearless Girl, Lawrence Brownlee, Cornelia Parker, Daljit Nagra
Cornelia Parker on being the official election artist, and the Fearless Girl controversy.
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'My Cousin Rachel' Weisz, Arundhati Roy, Bamber Gascoigne's opera house, Literary agent Ed Victor remembered
Actress Rachel Weisz, author Arundhati Roy, Grange Park opera, Ed Victor remembered.
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Artist Grayson Perry, Baileys winner, Helen Dunmore's final poem, new Children's Laureate
Grayson Perry, the Baileys prize-winner, Helen Dunmore's last poem and Children's Laureate
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Steven Moffat at the Hay Festival
Writer Stephen Moffat on a career that has seen him helm two of the BBC's biggest shows.