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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...
Zadie Smith and Brenda Blethyn live in studio
Zadie Smith talks about the art of the essay, as she publishes a non-fiction collection, Dead and Alive.
Brenda Blethyn discusses her new film...
Review Show: Bugonia, Salman Rushdie stories, The Line of Beauty
Tahmima Anam and Tristram Fane Saunders join Tom Sutcliffe to review The Eleventh Hour, a collection of five short stories from Salman Rushdie in his...
Live from Derry: two of the stars of police drama Blue Lights
Live from Derry.
As the climax of the current series approaches, actors Dearbháile McKinney and Martin McCann, two of the cast of hit police se...
Prunella Scales, Palestine 36 film, Making Documentaries with World Leaders
In tribute to Prunella Scales, whose death was announced today, Front Row rebroadcasts an interview with the Fawlty Towers star from 2012, recorded on...
Reese Witherspoon on her novel and Colin Farrell on his new film
Actor Reese Witherspoon on why she's teamed up with thriller writer Harlan Coben to write a novel called Gone Before Goodbye, about a struck-off army...
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - Tom and guests deliver their verdict
Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the Bruce Springsteen film, Deliver Me From Nowhere, which tells the story of his recording of the album Nebraska
John Grisham on his new thriller, The Widow
Bestselling thriller writer John Grisham on his latest book, The Widow, in which a smalltown lawyer from Virginia finds himself accused of a serious c...
Steve Martin and Alison Brown talk bluegrass and banjos
Comedy giant Steve Martin on making new bluegrass music with pioneering banjo player Alison Brown with their new album, Safe, Sensible, and Sane.
Cathy Tyson on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Cathy Tyson stars in the Leicester Curve Theatre production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee. She talks about the demanding, drunken...
Guillermo Del Toro discusses his new Frankenstein film
Guillermo Del Toro talks about his new Frankenstein film and our critics deliver their verdict.
Julia Roberts plays a college professor whose c...
Richard Ashcroft on his new album
Singer songwriter Richard Ashcroft - former frontman of The Verve - talks about the material on his new album Lovin You, and about supporting Oasis on...
Sam Ryder performs live
Sam Ryder talks to Samira about his career, gaining Eurovision success with Space Man and he performs the song Armour live, a track from his forthcomi...
Lang Lang plays in studio
Pianist Lang Lang's 2019 album Piano Book was one of the best selling classical albums that year, with over a billion streams and counting. He’s now f...
Review Show: I Swear film and The Poems of Seamus Heaney
Alexander Larman and Susannah Clapp join Tom to discuss I Swear, a film which tells the life story of John Davidson MBE who was diagnosed with Tourett...
Tamsin Greig on her role in Sally Wainwright's Riot Women
Actor Tamsin Greig discusses her role in Sally Wainwright's latest drama series, Riot Women, in which a group of middle-aged women in Hebden Bridge, W...
Marina Abramović on her dream creation - Balkan Erotic Epic
Artist Marina Abramović on the world premiere of her largest-scale performance artwork - Balkan Erotic Epic - at Aviva Studios in Manchester.
B...
Kathryn Bigelow and Kiran Desai
Film director Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar for The Hurt Locker. She discusses her new film A House of Dynamit...
Review Show: The Smashing Machine film and Ben Elton’s autobiography
The Smashing Machine director Benny Safdie talks to Tom Sutcliffe about making his biographical drama about the life of mixed martial arts fighter Mar...
Steve Coogan on the return of Alan Partridge
Steve Coogan on his new spoof documentary series. in which his alter ego Alan Partridge returns from some time in Saudia Arabia to tackle one of the m...
BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award
Tom Sutcliffe hosts the ceremony for the 2025 BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award live from BBC Broadcasting House.
Judges W...
Actors Matthew McConaughey and Harris Dickinson on their latest films
Actor Matthew McConaughey talks with Samira about The Lost Bus; a nerve shredding film based on a true story about a school bus driver who rescued 22...
Leonardo DiCaprio comes on Front Row to talk about One Battle After Another
Leonardo DiCaprio and director Paul Thomas Anderson tell Tom about their new film One Battle After Another.
Our reviewers tonight are film crit...
Will & Grace star Eric McCormack on his latest TV role.
Will & Grace star Eric McCormack tells us about his latest screen role – in the new BBC One thriller series Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue. McCormac...
Stephen Knight on House of Guinness
Peaky Blinders' screenwriter Stephen Knight on his new TV series, House of Guinness.
Indhu Rubasingham talks about her vision as the new Artisti...
Late-night shows under fire
Johnny Carson, David Letterman and Jay Leno made the late night talk wildly popular viewing for American audiences for decades, but those days are fad...
Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival in Bradford
A special edition of Front Row live from the Contains Strong Language Festival, the BBC's annual celebration of poetry, performance and the spoken wor...
Review Show: Ian McEwan's new novel and Small Acts of Love at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre
In our weekly review show, Kirsty Wark is joined by writer and critic Hannah McGill and writer and journalist Alan Taylor to discuss What Can We Know,...
Robert Redford remembered, Mark Ronson and Picasso on stage
As news has broken of the death of Robert Redford aged 89, Front Row looks back over his astonishing career, from roles in iconic films such as All Th...
Robert Plant and Alan Moore
Robert Plant on his journey from Led Zeppelin to his latest album of folk songs.
Creator of V for Vendetta and Watchmen, Alan Moore is probably...
Review Show: David Bowie Centre and the BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist
Writer Jenny McCartney and journalist and screenwriter Sarfraz Manzoor join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss the David Bowie Centre at the V&A East Storehouse...
The Grand Finale of Downton Abbey
As the Downton Abbey franchise comes to an end after fifteen years, with the cinema release of Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale this Friday, we discuss...
Marks and Gran on Freud and Hitler, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason performance, Medea on stage and screen
Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran have created some of comedy's most beloved characters, including Birds of a Feather's Sharon and Tracey, and The New S...
Maxine Peake on Mary Whitehouse, West End star Marisha Wallace
Maxine Peake talks about starring in the Nottingham Playhouse's new show The Last Stand of Mary Whitehouse, which explores the life of the 60s conserv...
Review Show: CMAT's new album, The Office spin-off series The Paper, Jacob Elordi in On Swift Horses
Critics William Lee Adams and Laura Barton join Samira to review the new album from Irish popstar CMAT which reflects on her home country, the sexist...
Bryan Adams’ new album, plus writer Damian Barr
Canadian rock and pop legend Bryan Adams on his new studio album – Roll With The Punches. He talks to Kirsty Wark about the inspiration for his lyrics...
Aaron Sorkin on adapting Harper Lee's novel To Kill Aa Mockingbird for the stage
West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin talks to Nick Ahad about his award winning and record-breaking adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's semina...
Sebastian Faulks' memoir
The subtitle of Sebastian Faulks' latest book is "Ten Essays in Place of a Memoir". Fires Which Burned Brightly tells of his childhood, schooldays, dr...
Review: Historical TV epic King and Conqueror, and Boudicca's Daughter by Elodie Harper
Critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Medieval English Literature lecturer Dr Eleanor Parker join Samira Ahmed to discuss the BBC’s historical epic King and...
Indigenous Australian didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton performs live
Theatre producer Nica Burns, who has run the Edinburgh Comedy Awards since 1984, and judge Ashley Davies discuss the acts shortlisted for this year's...