Review Show: Irvine Welsh's new novel and Glenn Close's new film
Suzi Feay and John-Paul Stonard join Samira to review: Can Nothing Save Us?, the new novel from Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, a state-o...
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20 of 2,060 episodesLive from the Edinburgh Festivals: Stockard Channing on directing Krapp's Last Tape
In the first of our special programmes from the Edinburgh Festivals, actress Stockard Channing - star of Grease, Six Degrees of Separation a...
Magic live in the studio
Samira is joined by two magicians live in the studio, from the stage show "Now You See Me Live". And then she takes part in a trick and is b...
John Hannah on his new comedy crime drama set in Benidorm
John Hannah plays a washed-up former detective who has moved to Spain to run a pub in the new Channel 5 comedy drama Benidorm is Murder. He...
Review show: Childhood in War, Children of Wolves and kids in Luton
Rhianna Dhillon and Sarfraz Manzoor join Tom Sutcliffe to review: Childhood in War, an exhibition at the Imperial War Musuem exploring how c...
How the opiod crisis inspired an opera
Composer Missy Mazzoli discusses her opera The Galloping Cure, which fuses a live orchestra with electronic beats and features a charismatic...
Mary Beard reveals the Booker Prize longlist, plus Bill Pullman on taking on Chekhov
Professor Dame Mary Beard reveals the 2026 Booker longlist and how she has found the process of being Chair of the judges. British contempor...
Bill Oddie, remembered by his friend Graeme Garden
Graeme Garden remembers his friend and Goodies colleague, Bill Oddie. Frank Miller reimagined Batman as a tougher, grittier sort of comic bo...
Review Show: Trainspotting the Musical, Colson Whitehead's new novel
Hanna Flint and Chris Power join Tom Sutcliffe to review: The new stage musical adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting, featuring...
Andrew Ridgeley on Wham in China
In 1985, Wham were the first Western pop group to perform in communist China, and the tour changed people's lives. As a new documentary abou...
Ruth Madeley on new TV drama The Rapture, Nadine Shah on her BBC Prom
Actor Ruth Madeley on starring in new TV drama The Rapture - a psychological thriller where the competing interests of an oil company, a rel...
The first PM with an English degree, plus a new museum of WWII espionage
Trent Park, the House of Secrets is a new museum in north London which explores the story of the secret listeners who eavesdropped on the co...
Review: Christopher Nolan's film The Odyssey with Matt Damon and Zendaya
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by film critic Tim Robey and classicist Edith Hall to discuss: Christopher Nolan's much anticipated film version of...
Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman
The coming-of-age series Heartstopper has been a phenomenon with young readers and viewers in recent years. Its creator Alice Oseman joins u...
Christopher Nolan on his film The Odyssey, Little House on the Prairie, novelist Candice Carty-Williams
British director Christopher Nolan discusses his biggest cinematic blockbuster yet: The Odyssey, which stars Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom...
Diane Morgan on playing a robot in TV comedy Ann Droid.
Diane Morgan on her BBC TV comedy series Ann Droid, in which she stars as the eponymous robot helper to Sue Johnston. We pay tribute to acto...
Review Show: The Rolling Stones album Foreign Tongues
Critic and columnist Dr Kate Maltby and author Michael Donkor join Tom Sutcliffe to review Robota, the inaugural large-scale production at t...
Lynval Golding of The Specials on the band's swansong album
Lynval Golding of two-tone and ska legends The Specials , on the band’s final album, Live from the Cathedral, which was recorded in Coventry...
Ai Weiwei in Manchester
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has just created his largest site-specific exhibition - Ai Weiwei: Button Up! - which has now opened at A...
Madonna's Confessions II album, Daphne du Maurier, Sky's anticipated takeover of ITV
Confessions II is Madonna's first album in 7 years. Novelist Matt Cain and journalist and broadcaster Miranda Sawyer discuss going back to t...