Linda Perry sings live, and we celebrate Mel Brooks' 100th birthday
Linda Perry came to fame as lead singer of the all-female band Four Non-Blondes. She went on to be a hugely successful songwriter and produc...
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20 of 2,033 episodesReview: Anish Kapoor, Virginia Woolf's Night and Day, Toy Story 5
Writer Stephanie Merritt and Telegraph film critic Robbie Collin join Tom to review Anish Kapoor’s immersive exhibition at the Hayward Galle...
As midsummer approaches, we ask why poets, writers and musicians are so drawn to rain
Priya Parmar's novel The Original tells the story of how actor Katharine Hepburn set out to become one of the true movie icons of the 20th c...
A new Brian Epstein biography and how Estonia is protecting its cultural treasures from potential attack
The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, is widely regarded as the man who helped the band break through. He's inspired plays, films, and even a...
David Hockney special
Tom Sutcliffe presents a special edition of Front Row on the art of David Hockney. The artists Maggi Hambling and Tacita Dean and Andrew Mar...
Review: Steven Spielberg's alien film Disclosure Day
Film producer Jason Solomons and Guardian columnist Zoe Williams join Tom Sutcliffe to discuss Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day – a film wh...
Scotland's National Poet Peter Mackay honours the country's football team
Scotland's Makar Peter Mackay on his poems honouring Scotland's football team as they head to the FIFA World Cup - one, his own work, the ot...
Barry Manilow brings the Manilow magic to Front Row
Barry Manilow on maintaining his musical curiosity as he releases his 33rd studio album, What A Time, and what it's like to have one of his...
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter, Pan African art and John Taverner's opera Krishna
Samira Ahmed talks to Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter about their new album Mirage Ekow Eshun, writer and broadcaster, and Polly Savage, Lectur...
Review: High Society and film Savage House
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by writer Alexander Larman and critic Arifa Akbar to discuss: A new production of High Society, Cole Porter's musica...
Live from the Belfast Book Festival
As the Belfast Book Festival opens Kirsty Wark is joined by a range of guests at the Crescent Arts Centre. She'll be discussing reading and...
Rivals writer Sophie Goodhart on new TV series Alice and Steve; depictions of dogs in art
Award winning jazz saxophonist and broadcaster Soweto Kinch and writer and director of new film Köln 75, Ido Fluk, join Tom to explore the i...
Marilyn Monroe at 100
On what would have been her 100th birthday, we look at the enduring popularity of Marilyn Monroe, with film journalist and fan Kim Morgan an...
Review Show: Paul McCartney, Russell T Davies, Maggie O'Farrell
Rachel Lloyd, Deputy Culture Editor of The Economist, and writer Lawrence Norfolk join Tom to discuss Channel 4's new queer drama Tip Toe, w...
Ann Patchett, plus why launch an all-male publishing house?
Nashville-based novelist Ann Patchett tells us about her tenth novel, Whistler, in which a chance encounter between a woman and her stepfath...
Jazz legend Miles Davis at 100
Writer and broadcaster Kevin Le Gendre, and trumpeter and composer Yazz Ahmed on 100 years of Miles Davis - the musician regarded as the Pic...
Live from Hay with Jack Thorne and Val McDermid
Live from Hay, celebrating reading and writing in many different forms, Samira is joined on stage by Jack Thorne - multi-award-winning scree...
Review Show: Douglas Stuart's John of John and Cannes Film Festival
Samira Ahmed is joined by writer Matt Cain and critic Suzi Feay to review: Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart's new...
Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid
Canadian author Rachel Reid talks to us about the the phenomenon which has followed the publication of her books about the romantic relation...
Winston Churchill: The Painter, and Smoggie Queens creator and star Phil Dunning
The paintings of Winston Churchill are being exhibited at the Wallace Collection in London. Xavier Bray, Director of the Wallace Collection,...