Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Professor Brian Cox, Sarah Dunant on Michelangelo, My Country, The UK charts
Turning science into an art form with Brian Cox, and Sarah Dunant responds to Michelangelo
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Paul Weller, Duncan Macmillan on City of Glass, Catfight, My Feral Heart
Paul Weller on composing his first film score, Duncan Macmillan on adapting Paul Auster.
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Howard Hodgkin remembered; Imogen Cooper; Edward Albee
Classical pianist Imogen Cooper plays live in the studio.
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Roger McGough and Brian Patten on 50 years of The Mersey Sound, Lizzie Nunnery, Andrew McMillan
Roger McGough and Brian Patten on The Mersey Sound, Lizzie Nunnery, Andrew McMillan.
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Judith Kerr on The Cat in the Hat; Wolfgang Tillmans; Snow in Midsummer
Authors Judith Kerr and Chris Riddell discuss Dr Seuss; artist Wolfgang Tillmans.
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Sean Foley directs The Miser, Kate Whitley sets Malala's speech to music, Sonia Friedman and David Babani
Sean Foley directs Moliere, Malala's UN speech as a choral piece.
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Stormzy, Cornelia Parker, Krzysztof Penderecki
British grime and hip hop artist Stormzy on his new album.
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Tom Hiddleston, This Country, Certain Women, Gustav Metzger remembered
Tom Hiddleston on Kong: Skull Island; Charlie and Daisy May Cooper on BBC3's This Country.
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Hugh Jackman, National Poet of Wales Ifor ap Glyn, Richard Bean
Kirsty Lang talks to Hugh Jackman about the film Logan.
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Jojo Moyes, Prime Suspect 1973, Independent bookstores, Swan Lake in Hull
It took nine novels before Jojo Moyes found success; fancy being a cygnet in Hull?
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Moonlight at the Oscars, Mary Beard, Author Ross Raisin, Mary Magdalene in art
Moonlight at the Oscars, Mary Beard, author Ross Raisin, Mary Magdalene in art.
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Sadiq Khan, Jake Arnott, The Tale of Januarie opera
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Jake Arnott on The Fatal Tree, The Tale of Januarie opera.
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John Cleese, A first for Jay Z, Electricity: The spark of life
Monty Python's John Cleese on farce. Jay Z is inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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David Tennant, second novels, Brits and Oscars - who are they for?
David Tennant on Broadchurch, Britain's favourite second novel and are awards irrelevant?
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Gurinder Chadha on Viceroy's House, America after the Fall, Christopher Bailey
Gurinder Chadha on her film Viceroy's House, and American Gothic at the Royal Academy.
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Patriots Day, Stephen Karam, EU Baroque Orchestra, Syria documentaries
Patriots Day, playwright Stephen Karam, EU Baroque Orchestra, documentaries about Syria.
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Gary Barlow's The Girls, SS-GB, Sidney Nolan, The Great Wall
Reassessing body confidence with Gary Barlow as The Girls, his first musical, opens.
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The Founder, Neil Jordan, See Me Now, Luke Jerram's Treasured City
Neil Jordan, See Me Now, Luke Jerram's Treasured City, Robert Siegel on The Founder.
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John Adams
John Wilson talks to the American composer John Adams about his life and work.
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Eduardo Paolozzi, Self-publishing, Neil Gaiman
John Wilson explores the work of the artist Eduardo Paolozzi.
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Hidden Figures, Dirty Dancing writer, Muslim Othello, Simon Armitage
The film Hidden Figures reviewed, and Dirty Dancing writer Eleanor Bergstein 30 years on.
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Keanu Reeves, Chad Stahelski, Petrograd Madonna, Rag'n'Bone Man
Keanu Reeves on his three decade career, from Hamlet to action hero John Wick.
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Artist Keith Tyson, dark comedy Prevenge, novelist John Boyne, Shostakovich Symphony No 12
Dark comedy Prevenge, novelist John Boyne, artist Keith Tyson, Shostakovich Symphony No 12
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Vanessa Bell exhibition, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Alan Simpson remembered, The poetry of Anna Akhmatova
The work of Vanessa Bell; the latest film by Ang Lee; Barry Cryer remembers Alan Simpson.
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The Moorside, 20th Century Women, Peter Greenaway on Russian Revolution at 100
A discussion of The Moorside, a new BBC drama based on the kidnapping of Shannon Matthews.
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David Hockney, Guy Garvey from Elbow, Max Richter
David Hockney at Tate, Guy Garvey from Elbow, Max Richter.
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Viola Davis, Rory Gleeson, Phil Manzanera and Waterstones' revival
Viola Davis on her Oscar-nominated performance in August Wilson's Fences.
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Diverse casting in historical dramas, Roots returns, Beyonce's pregnancy portrait, John Burnside
Diverse casting, Roots remade, Beyonce's pregnancy portrait, poet & novelist John Burnside
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Loving, Hayley Squires, Nathan Hill
Loving reviewed; I, Daniel Blake's Hayley Squires; author Nathan Hill on The Nix.
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Cyrano, Víkingur Ólafsson plays Philip Glass, Toni Erdmann
Deborah McAndrew adapts Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, and we celebrate European cinema.