Front Row - The Arts in Crisis - BBC Sounds

Director Werner Herzog, actor Danny Sapani, Watford bookclub

Werner Herzog on his latest film, Danny Sapani on play Les Blancs, Watford's big bookclub.

• 28 mins

The Secrets She Keeps, Fyzal Boulifa, Urdu poetry in Bradford

The Secrets She Keeps, Fyzal Boulifa on his new film Lynn + Lucy, Urdu poetry in Bradford.

• 28 mins

Theatres in pink, David Pickard on the BBC Proms, Friday Review on Hamilton, Decolonising arts curriculum in school

Theatres wrapped in pink to campaign for survival.

• 41 mins

Funding for the arts, Wayne McGregor, Ennio Morricone

Arts funding - is it enough? Wayne McGregor's new ballet and a tribute to Ennio Morricone.

• 28 mins

Rufus Wainwright, Neil Mendoza, Tate Bursaries, Ringo at 80

Rufus Wainwright, Neil Mendoza, Tate Bursaries and Ringo Starr at 80.

• 28 mins

Katori Hall; cinema after lockdown; documenting empty arts spaces

US playwright Katori Hall; the future of cinema after lockdown.

• 28 mins

Philip Pullman on Northern Lights 25 years on, Mrs America reviewed, Simon Schama

Philip Pullman and Northern Lights 25 years on, Simon Schama and a review of Mrs America.

• 28 mins

The Kanneh-Masons, Minack Theatre, Imran Perretta

Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason perform live from their family home.

• 41 mins

Anish Kapoor, The Plot Against America, Rachel De-Lahay, drive in comedy

Review of The Plot Against America, Rachel De-Lahay, Anish Kapoor, Daniel Sloss.

• 28 mins

The Chicks, Hammed Animashaun, Liz Johnson Artur

The Chicks, the biggest selling U.S. female band, on their new album Gaslighter.

• 28 mins

Winning back audience trust, the doctor turned novelist, musical collaboration in lockdown

Winning back audience trust, the doctor turned novelist, musical collaboration in lockdown

• 28 mins

Get Carter director Mike Hodges, Tate Bursary artist Oreet Ashery, the plight of arts freelancers in the pandemic

Mike Hodges, director of Get Carter, on his 1989 film Black Rainbow, with Rosanna Arquette

• 28 mins

Alfre Woodard, film Come As You Are and Ellie Goulding album Brightest Blue reviewed, Richard Herring

Alfre Woodard on playing a death row prison warden in Clemency.

• 41 mins

Josephine Mackerras, Sean Edwards, summer theatre round-up, John Mullan on Mansfield Park

Josephine Mackerras on her film, Alice, about a woman who becomes an escort.

• 28 mins

Nell Dunn, Kelly O'Sullivan, 846, Q Magazine

Nell Dunn on her new memoir The Muse, Kelly O'Sullivan, 846, Q Magazine.

• 28 mins

Tom Sutcliffe talks to screenwriter and film director Oliver Stone about his memoir Chasing the Light

Director Oliver Stone on getting into Hollywood chronicled in his memoir Chasing the Light

• 28 mins

Jimmy McGovern; crime writing prize; dancing in lockdown; photographer Tyler Mitchell

Jimmy McGovern; crime writing; dancing in lockdown; photographer Tyler Mitchell.

• 28 mins

Mira Nair on A Suitable Boy, Taylor Swift's album Folklore, the film How to Build a Girl, Alberta Whittle and Theatre News

Director Mira Nair on her television adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel, A Suitable Boy.

• 41 mins

Shirley Collins, Kit de Waal, Caine Prize for African Writing winner, Olivia de Havilland remembered

Folk singer Shirley Collins on her album Heart's Ease.

• 28 mins

Shawanda Corbett, Booker longlist 2020, Claire Oakley

Shawanda Corbett, The Booker longlist, Claire Oakley

• 28 mins

Hilary Mantel, Electronic at The Design Museum, Ai Wei Wei, the future for the panto?

Hilary Mantel, Electronic at The Design Museum, Ai Wei Wei, the future for the panto?

• 28 mins

Whipped cream on The Fourth Plinth, Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee, and Booker Prize nominated Avni Doshi

Heather Phillipson's Trafalgar Square whipped cream sculpture, and Derry Girls' Lisa McGee

• 28 mins

Sir Alan Parker remembered, Beyoncé's Black is King, Prodigal Son, Natasha Trethewey, Don Hahn

Sir Alan Parker remembered by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

• 41 mins

Barbara Kingsolver as poet, Es Devlin's Lockdown Discovery, Sculptor Thomas J. Price, pianist Leon Fleisher remembered

Barbara Kingsolver, designer Es Devlin, and artist Thomas J Price

• 28 mins

Little Birds writer Sophia Al-Maria, Simon Armitage, Summer reads, Tara Gbolade

Artist, writer, and filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria on Little Birds, and Simon Armitage.

• 28 mins

Maggie O'Farrell, Singing in Choirs and Covid, Mark Billingham's Lockdown Discovery

Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, shortlisted for the Women's Prize.

• 28 mins