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Beryl Cook at 100
Artist Beryl Cook would have been 100 this year - famed for her cheeky paintings of large ladies and people having fun, there's a new exhibition openi...
Reviewing Heated Rivalry, novel Jackson Alone, and the British Museum's Hawai'i exhibition
In the Front Row review programme, author Emily Itami and critic Tim Robey assess the steamy Canadian drama Heated Rivalry, which has caused a sensati...
Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Wayne McGregor and Emmylou Harris
Sir Ian McKellen talks about performing Laurie Slade's one-man play Equinox - about an older man wrestling with his past and conflicting desires - at...
Blue celebrate 25 years in pop and perform in the studio
The boyband Blue perform one of the biggest early hits - One Love - and talk to Tom Sutcliffe about celebrating 25 years together with new album Refle...
Screenwriter Eric Roth on his play High Noon
Screenwriter Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Benjamin Button, Dune) on his West End stage adaptation of High Noon
50 years since her death, we ask whet...
Jessie Buckley on her starring role in the film Hamnet
Jessie Buckley talks to Tom Sutcliffe about her role in the historical drama Hamnet, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's book which explores the origins o...
American Ira Sach on his latest film Peter Hujar's Day
American Ira Sachs' latest film is Peter Hujar's Day, which brings to life the transcripts from an unused 1974 interview that photographer Peter Hujar...
Innovations in book clubs, sitcoms by women and a new BBC One prison drama
We hear from award-winning writer Dennis Kelly, the man behind Matilda the Musical and comedy show Pulling. In his new BBC One series Waiting for the...
How is David Bowie remembered?
As the tenth anniversary of David Bowie’s death approaches, Alexander Larman - author of Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie – and Jonathan Stia...
Hogmanay live from Glasgow with Belle & Sebastian
As Scottish indie pop legends Belle & Sebastian prepare to celebrate 30 years of musicmaking, they look back at what got them here. Plus they help rin...
Joachim Trier on Sentimental Value, plus the films of Brigitte Bardot
Director Joachim Trier on his latest film Sentimental Value, which is nominated for eight Golden Globes, including Best Picture and Best Director.
Who are the Founding Fathers and Mothers of American Culture?
In 1776, the Founding Fathers of America signed the Declaration of Independence, embarking on a new experiment in how to build a nation.
On the...
Reviews of the film Marty Supreme, Into the Woods on stage and Natalie Haynes on Immersive Exhibitions
Scott Bryan and Rhianna Dhillon join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss sports drama Marty Supreme which stars Timothée Chalamet as a table tennis hustler who d...
Actor Will Sharpe on playing Mozart in Amadeus
As a new adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus begins on Sky, actor Will Sharpe speaks to Front Row about he researched the role of Mozart, and music...
Jane Austen at 250 special
Jane Austen is often seen as an isolated genius who appeared from nowhere, or she is treated with a simplistic cult-like reverance which overlooks the...
The great works of Rob Reiner
Hollywood giant Rob Reiner was found dead alongside his wife Michele at their Los Angeles Home this morning. Telegraph film critic Robbie Collin joins...
Reviewing Ella McCay plus the film's Oscar-winning writer and director James L. Brooks
Film producer Jason Solomons and literary journalist Suzi Feay join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss the contemporary thriller Lurker which shows what happens...
96-year-old actress June Squibb on her lead role in Scarlett Johansson's Eleanor the Great
Actress June Squibb on her lead role in Scarlett Johansson's debut feature Eleanor the Great, in which a woman in her 90s moves back from Florida to M...
2025 Turner Prize winner; remembering Martin Parr; Bradford’s year as the UK City of Culture
Tonight, the winner of the 2025 Turner Prize will be announced in Bradford, this year’s City of Culture. Joining Nick to discuss the runners and rider...
Kate Winslet on Goodbye June
Kate Winslet speaks to Samira Ahmed about her directorial debut, Goodbye June. With a screenplay written by her son Joe Anders, the film portrays comp...
Reviewing Paddington The Musical, Jafar Panahi's latest film, and Russell Tovey meets the Sea Devils
Tom and guests Arifa Akbar and Nick Hilton consider Paddington The Musical. It's the latest step for a beloved British institution... How does he work...
Composer Sir John Rutter
John Rutter on his first purely orchestral album in almost 60 years, which also marks the composer and conductor's 80th birthday.
Novelist Sean...
Updating A Christmas Carol; new sculpture exhibition by blind artists and curators; 2025’s funniest novel
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens has been transformed into a piece of hip hop dance at London’s Sadler's Wells East, and a Bollywood infused song...
Front Row remembers Tom Stoppard
A celebration of the life and work of one of Britain’s greatest modern playwrights, Sir Tom Stoppard, who died at the weekend. He was 88.
We he...
Review Show: Blue Moon film plus Turner and Constable at Tate Britain
Nancy Durrant and Michael Donkor join Tom Sutcliffe to review Richard Linklater’s Broadway break up film Blue Moon, starring Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Har...
The lead writer of Grand Theft Auto, Dan Houser on his debut novel, about a video game which goes horribly wrong.
Dan Houser, lead writer of Grand Theft Auto, on his debut dystopian novel A Better Paradise, about a video game which goes wrong.
Renowned dir...
Sydney Sweeney and Pasolini
Actor Sydney Sweeney on her role in the boxing biopic Christie.
Olivia Laing, author of The Silver Book, and Adrian Wootton discuss Italian fil...
Stranger Things creators The Duffer Brothers on the show's final season
Show creators Matt and Ross Duffer talk to Samira Ahmed about the final season of Stranger Things.
So how much of the success of a Booker winner...
Review Show: The Death of Bunny Munro; TV adaptation of Nick Cave's novel
Louisa Buck and Robbie Collin join Tom Sutcliffe to review the TV adaptation of Nick Cave’s novel The Death of Bunny Munro with Matt Smith playing a c...
Actor Joel Edgerton on his new film Train Dreams
Actor Joel Edgerton on his role as an itinerant lumberjack in 1900s Idaho, in Clint Bentley's Train Dreams, an adaptation of a novel by Denis Johnson...
Vince Gilligan on creating Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Pluribus
Screenwriter Vince Gilligan is the creative mind behind the multi-awardwinning television dramas Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. His latest offeri...
Actors Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Also, director Jon M Chu
Actors Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste discuss their production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons.
Director Jon M Chu reveals the influe...
We review The Hunger Games on stage, Nuremberg on film and Wild Cherry on TV
Tom and guests review The Hunger Games... now a stage play at a brand new theatre in London's Canary Wharf.
The new film Nuremberg, starring Rus...
Actor Fiona Shaw on her new film Park Avenue
Actor Fiona Shaw discusses her latest film Park Avenue, director Gaby Dellal's 'tense and witty drama about mother-daughter relationships set in New Y...
Edgar Wright on The Running Man
Do Vermeer's paintings contain hidden religious symbolism? Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon argues that the enigmatic painter's membership of a radic...
Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize announced live from the ceremony
Samira Ahmed presents live from Old Billingsgate in London, where the announcement of the winner of the 2025 Booker Prize is taking place.
The n...
All the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025
The six authors shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize discuss their novels ahead of tonight's ceremony, which is broadcast live on Radio 4 at 9.30p...
Daniel Day Lewis on his return to the big screen
On this week's Front Row review, we discuss a new production of Othello with David Harewood as the Moor and Toby Jones as Iago.
Tom speaks wit...
Benedict Cumberbatch on The Thing with Feathers
Benedict Cumberbatch speaks to Kate Molleson about the new film adaptation of Max Porter's Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, an exploration of loss an...
Sarah Snook, Riz Ahmed and return of Play for Today
Riz Ahmed is one of his generation’s great British actors. He starred alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler, before landing roles in big budget fi...