Front Row
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Manhunt play by Robert Icke, new Edwardians exhibition, film director Waris Hussein
42 mins; April 07, 2025
Reviews of Mobland, The Most Precious of Cargoes and Giuseppe Penone exhibition
42 mins; April 03, 2025
Tilda Swinton, Michael Sheen on the new Welsh National Theatre, Richard Burton's influential teacher
42 mins; April 02, 2025
Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker, Design Council at 80, The Women of Llanrumney
42 mins; April 01, 2025
Freedom of Expression in the Arts
42 mins; March 31, 2025
Review: The Studio, Grayson Perry, La Cocina
42 mins; March 27, 2025
Peter Capaldi's new album, the great Ossian myth, Brian Friel's short stories
42 mins; March 26, 2025
Peter Mullan as Bill Shankly, 100 years of Art Deco, Jonathan Pie
42 mins; March 25, 2025
Bryan Ferry, Disney's Snow White, the impact of cash prizes on creativity
42 mins; March 24, 2025
Review: Clueless the Musical, Oscar winning animated film Flow, Robert de Niro in The Alto Knights. Plus poetry from Seán Hewitt
42 mins; March 20, 2025
Francois Ozon's new film When Autumn Falls, Pierre Boulez Centenary, Shona McCarthy on leaving Edinburgh Festival's Fringe
42 mins; March 19, 2025
Julian Barnes's new book Changing My Mind, Victor Hugo's artwork, Emma Donoghue's novel The Paris Express
42 mins; March 18, 2025
Vikingur Olafsson's lockdown piano performance, how the pandemic changed The Arts, Liz Pichon's interactive world of The Mubbles
42 mins; March 17, 2025
Review: Edvard Munch portraits, Indian film Sister Midnight, Chekhov's The Seagull with Cate Blanchett
42 mins; March 13, 2025
Former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins performs, Torrey Peters' new book, centenary of Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay
42 mins; March 12, 2025
The Leopard, Natasha Brown, Manchester International Festival, Elizabeth Fritsch
42 mins; March 11, 2025
Jack Thorne and Philip Barantini on Adolescence, Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi
42 mins; March 10, 2025
Review: film Mickey 17, David Szalay’s novel Flesh, Get Millie Black TV series
42 mins; March 06, 2025
Jessica Lange, Welsh National Opera's new joint leaders, artist Alison Watt
42 mins; March 05, 2025
Raoul Peck on photographer Ernest Cole, the death of Bill Dare, 14th-century art in Siena, Colum McCann's novel Twist
42 mins; March 04, 2025
Daniel Evans as Edward II, Laura Carreira's film On Falling, last night's Oscar winners
42 mins; March 03, 2025
Review: Leigh Bowery exhibition, The Summer with Carmen film, Michael Amherst's novel The Boyhood of Cain
42 mins; February 27, 2025
Anjelica Huston, Tim Roth and British Museum Director Nicholas Cullinan
41 mins; February 26, 2025
New medical drama Berlin ER, Stacy L Smith, German Elections, Santanu Bhattacharya
42 mins; February 25, 2025
25 Years of 21st Century: Theatre
42 mins; February 24, 2025
Review: A Thousand Blows, Richard II, Perspectives by Laurent Binet
42 mins; February 20, 2025
25 Years of 21st Century: how art and architecture have changed since the year 2000
42 mins; February 19, 2025
Muhammad Ali in South Shields, Sheila Fell exhibition in Cumbria, Dame Myra Hess
42 mins; February 18, 2025
Walter Salles on I'm Still Here, Matt Goss performs live, The Face magazine exhibition at National Portrait Gallery
42 mins; February 17, 2025
Review: Bridget Jones; Linder Stirling exhibition; Memoir of a Snall animation
42 mins; February 13, 2025
Future of TV soaps, Joseph O'Connor's new book, stage version of Murakami short stories
42 mins; February 12, 2025
25 Years of 21st Century: Books
42 mins; February 11, 2025
Robert de Niro, Gladiators exhibition, Festen: Mark Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall's new opera
42 mins; February 10, 2025
Review: The Last Showgirl, Oedipus, Nobel author Han Kang's novel We Do Not Part
42 mins; February 06, 2025
September 5 director Tim Fehlbaum, new Motherland spin-off TV series Amandaland, the history of Slapstick
41 mins; February 05, 2025
25 Years of 21st Century: Film and Television
41 mins; February 04, 2025
Director Coralie Fargeat on The Substance, Josephine Baker's autobiography, poet Anne Carson on Elektra on stage
42 mins; February 04, 2025
Review: Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Inside No. 9 on stage, film Saturday Night
42 mins; January 31, 2025
The Great Gatsby centenary, The Testament of Gideon Mack, A New Prize for Contemporary Dance
42 mins; January 29, 2025
Jane Austen's sister, artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman, football in fiction
42 mins; January 28, 2025
Samira Ahmed on the seismic transformation of music and the music industry so far this century
42 mins; January 27, 2025
Review: supernatural thriller film Presence, Edmund White's sex memoir and Brazil! Brazil! at the Royal Academy
43 mins; January 23, 2025
James Graham on Brian & Maggie, The Merchant of Venice, Live music from Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart
42 mins; January 22, 2025
Anora director Sean Baker, Caryl Phillips's new novel, Somerset House exhibition on Soil
42 mins; January 21, 2025
The Brutalist director Brady Corbet and star Adrien Brody, Sidney Poitier season at BFI
42 mins; January 20, 2025
Review: Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, TS Eliot prize poetry, Italian wartime film Vermiglio
42 mins; January 16, 2025
Franz Ferdinand play in the studio, Richard Price on his new novel Lazarus Man, verdict on BAFTA nominations
42 mins; January 15, 2025
Vivaldi's Four Seasons reimagined, impact of L.A. fires on culture, Leigh Whannell's new horror film, Dead Ink Books
42 mins; January 14, 2025
Michael Sheen, Matthew Bourne on Oliver! and ghostwriting
42 mins; January 13, 2025
Review: Angelina Jolie's Maria, AL Kennedy's novel Alive in the Merciful Country, Architecton documentary
42 mins; January 09, 2025
Asif Kapadia's dystopian film 2073, anthology comic marks 25 years since armed forces "gay ban" lifted, Nick Frost in Get Away
42 mins; January 08, 2025
Jesse Eisenberg & Kieran Culkin on their film A Real Pain, improving visual literacy in school, how Jerry Springer changed TV
42 mins; January 07, 2025
Nicole Kidman on Babygirl, Brian Eno on art and Herod
42 mins; January 06, 2025
Review: Nosferatu, Lockerbie, Nickel Boys
42 mins; January 02, 2025
Front Row on the Shipping Forecast, at the Cutty Sark
41 mins; January 01, 2025
Front Row Hogmanay live from Glasgow
42 mins; December 31, 2024
Bradford UK City of Culture 2025
42 mins; December 30, 2024
Review: Better Man, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and How to make Millions before Grandma Dies
42 mins; December 19, 2024
Chris McCausland, Lauren Mayberry and Barry Jenkins
42 mins; December 18, 2024
Simon Russell Beale, Rufus Wainwright and Kate Garner
42 mins; December 17, 2024
Call The Midwife creator Heidi Thomas, Nick Park on new Wallace & Gromit film, Organs discussion
43 mins; December 16, 2024
Review: The Devil Wears Prada, 100 Years of Solitude, The Universal Theory
42 mins; December 12, 2024
Jesus and Mary Chain, The politics of pantomime & Video games of the year
42 mins; December 11, 2024
Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino, Public Service Broadcasting perform live
42 mins; December 10, 2024
Kelsey Mann on Inside Out 2, Humphrey Bogart documentary, Susan Chardy
42 mins; December 09, 2024
Review: Rumours, The Importance of Being Earnest, Grand Theft Hamlet
42 mins; December 05, 2024
New Makar, future of musical theatre, arts funding in Scotland
42 mins; December 04, 2024
Richard Curtis's new film, Purple Heart Warriors audio drama, Turner Prize announcement
42 mins; December 03, 2024
Reopening of Notre-Dame, Jacob Collier, Marshall Brickman, King Winter's Birthday
42 mins; December 02, 2024
Review: Beatles 64, Electric Dreams @ Tate Modern, The Agency
42 mins; November 29, 2024
Donny Osmond, Orhan Pamuk, Puccini's centenary
42 mins; November 27, 2024
Edward Berger on Conclave, Ganavya performs, Tim Robey on film flops
42 mins; November 26, 2024
Sigourney Weaver & Selina Cadell, Art forgery on the rise? Nitin Sawhney
42 mins; November 25, 2024
Review: Wicked, Cher's memoir, Maddaddam ballet
42 mins; November 21, 2024
Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream, Celebrity Children's Books and the Art and Writing of Maud Sulter
41 mins; November 20, 2024
Kathryn Tickell, Liverpool's carbon neutral gigs, drag queen romance film Layla
42 mins; November 19, 2024
Malala Yousafzai, The art of writing recipes, Rebecca Hall
42 mins; November 18, 2024
Paul Mescal on Gladiator II, Murakami's latest novel, Test Tube baby drama Joy
42 mins; November 14, 2024
American guitarist Pat Metheny, New initiatives to encourage musical theatre, and Does Glasgow look after its built heritage?
41 mins; November 13, 2024
Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize announced live from the ceremony
28 mins; November 12, 2024
Booker Shortlisted Authors
41 mins; November 12, 2024
Ronnie Wood, the rise and fall of boybands, Mishka Momen
42 mins; November 11, 2024
Review: The Piano Lesson, Florence 1504, Jonathan Coe's The Proof of My Innocence
42 mins; November 07, 2024
Pauline Black, Waters Rising at Perth Museum, and Posthumously Completing a Loved One's Creative Work
42 mins; November 06, 2024
Christopher Reeve documentary, Booker author Samantha Harvey on Orbital, Art auction news
42 mins; November 05, 2024
Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch, political satire in US elections, how to write a book
42 mins; November 04, 2024
Review: film: Anora; theatre: Dr. Strangelove; book: Ali Smith's Gliff
42 mins; October 31, 2024
Billy Crystal, Marina Diamandis, Nordic Music Festival
42 mins; October 30, 2024
Hugh Grant on Heretic, Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep, future of housing design
42 mins; October 29, 2024
Steve McQueen on Blitz, Italian Renaissance drawings, Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake
42 mins; October 28, 2024
Tim Burton on his exhibition at Design Museum, Review: films Emilia Perez and Dahomey
42 mins; October 24, 2024
Musician and novelist Malachy Tallack, Cities of Literature and Textile Art.
42 mins; October 23, 2024
Artist William Kentridge, British film industry expansion, Playing Brian Epstein
42 mins; October 22, 2024
Pedro Almodovar, Vanessa Bell, Richard Bean
42 mins; October 21, 2024
Review: TV - The Franchise, Film - The Crime is Mine, Book - Juice by Tim Winton
42 mins; October 17, 2024
Rupert Everett, Scotland's Female Bands, artist Everlyn Nicodemus
42 mins; October 16, 2024
Jodie Whittaker, Japanese food art, Booker writer Anne Michaels
42 mins; October 15, 2024
Bronski Beat Age of Consent 40th Anniversary, Percival Everett, Horror on stage
42 mins; October 14, 2024
Review: Film - Timestalker, Theatre - The Other Place, TV - Disclaimer
42 mins; October 10, 2024
Booker author Charlotte Wood, Surrealism discussion & playwright Tim Price on Odyssey '84
42 mins; October 09, 2024