Dawn French talks about her comedy and novel writing careers

Dawn French discusses her latest novel and reflects on a long and varied comedy career.

• 27 mins

Sam Smith, Turner's Modern World, Cold War Steve, US elections on film

Sam Smith's new album Love Goes, Cold War Steve, American elections on film, JWM Turner.

• 41 mins

Cellist Steven Isserlis plays, the lockdown's impact on the arts and Booker shortlisted Avni Doshi

Cellist Steven Isserlis plays, arts in the new lockdown, Booker shortlisted Avni Doshi.

• 28 mins

Kristin Scott Thomas talks about playing Mrs Danvers in Rebecca

Dame Kristin Scott Thomas discusses the fine details of screen acting with Tom Sutcliffe.

• 28 mins

Alice Oswald's Weather Anthology, What a Carve Up!, Memoir writing

Poet Alice Oswald discusses Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology, and writing memoirs.

• 27 mins

Could being visually impaired enhance an artist’s work?

Documentary The Disordered Eye and Booker Book Club with Maaza Mengiste.

• 28 mins

Dame Judi Dench and Wendy Craig remember Geoffrey Palmer; Ruth Wilson; Graeae; Kylie and Little Mix albums; Ted Hughes's Crow

Ruth Wilson in His Dark Materials; Dame Judie Dench remembers Geoffrey Palmer

• 41 mins

The Voices of the Women in Classical Myths in 15 Heroines; Front Row's Book Group with Booker Nominee Douglas Stuart

Women in classical myths speak in 15 Heroines; Front Row's Book Club with Douglas Stuart

• 28 mins

Abel Selaocoe, Billie Holiday, Edoardo Ponti on Sophia Loren

South African cellist and singer Abel Selaocoe's classical, African and contemporary music

• 28 mins

Tana French, Mary Wollstonecraft statue, Industry, Ralph McTell's The Unknown Warrior

Tana French on her new novel; Ralph McTell's musical tribute to The Unknown Soldier.

• 28 mins

Booker Prize Book Group, Julian Lloyd Webber on Malcolm Arnold, Nick Park's lockdown discovery

Booker Prize Book Group, Julian Lloyd Webber on Malcolm Arnold, Nick Park's lockdown life.

• 28 mins

Steve McQueen, The Simpsons, Brutal North, Jenny Sturgeon

Steve McQueen on his Small Axe films and the enduring popularity of The Simpsons.

• 41 mins

Fela Kuti documentary; writing and reading trauma; The Queen's Gambit review

Fela Kuti documentary maker, Biyi Bandele; books dealing with trauma; The Queen's Gambit

• 28 mins

Patrick, Colm Tóibín on James Joyce, Amy Macdonald, Christopher Reid

Belgian film Patrick, Colm Tóibín on James Joyce's The House Of The Dead.

• 28 mins

Gillian Anderson, South Georgia artist commission, the role of literary prizes

Gillian Anderson on portraying Margaret Thatcher in the fourth season of The Crown.

• 28 mins

The 2020 Booker Prize Ceremony

A Front Row special live from the Roundhouse, London

• 43 mins

Tim Minchin, Jan Morris remembered, new gaming consoles, Nicholas Pinnock

Tim Minchin on his debut solo album Apart Together, and new gaming consoles.

• 40 mins

Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart on Shuggie Bain

Booker prize winner Douglas Stuart on his novel Shuggie Bain.

• 28 mins

Simon Russell Beale; Costa Book Awards shortlists; Guy Garvey

Simon Russell Beale on Scrooge; Costa Book Awards shortlists announced; Guy Garvey.

• 28 mins

Playwright Roy Williams, Poet Fred D'Aguiar, Defending Digga D documentary

Roy Williams' new drama Death of England, poems from Fred D'Aguiar, Defending Digga D doc.

• 28 mins

Hollywood star Amy Adams, Corrie at 60 and Musician Jake Blount

Hollywood actress Amy Adams on her new movie, Hillbilly Elegy.

• 28 mins

Mandolin player Avi Avital, Marina Abramović, Possessor reviewed

Avi Avital on the wonders of the mandolin and its repertoire.

• 41 mins

Henry Blake on County Lines; museums and galleries post Covid; re-reading Jane Austen's Emma

Henry Blake; museums and galleries and Covid; John Mullen on Jane Austen's Emma.

• 28 mins

Yazz Ahmed, Lucy Bailey, The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone

Musician Yazz Ahmed. Plus Francis Ford Coppola's new recut of The Godfather Part III.

• 28 mins

Katie Melua, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Crimes Against Christmas

Singer Katie Melua, and Tate Britain re-opens with the work of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

• 28 mins

New Tracey Emin exhibition, The Crown controversy, Walter Presents: The Announcer

Tracey Emin and Edvard Much at the RA, The Crown controversy, The Announcer reviewed

• 28 mins

Viggo Mortensen, Alex Wheatle, William Hill Sports Book of the Year

Viggo Mortensen's new film, Sports Book of the Year winner, Alex Wheatle's lockdown hobby

• 42 mins

Ryan Murphy’s new film starring Meryl Streep, James Corden and Nicole Kidman, reviewed

Ryan Murphy’s new film starring Meryl Streep, James Corden and Nicole Kidman reviewed.

• 28 mins

Julia Hart on her film I'm Your Woman, Benjamin Britten's Owen Wingrave

Julia Hart on writing and directing I'm Your Woman, Benjamin Britten's opera Owen Wingrave

• 28 mins

George Clooney's The Midnight Sky. Cyberpunk 2077. The debate on the National Trust

George Clooney's The Midnight Sky. Cyberpunk 2077. The debate on the National Trust.

• 28 mins

10/12/2020

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

• 28 mins

Barbara Windsor remembered, Vaughan Williams, Cultural Recovery Fund loans, American Utopia reviewed, Zaina Arafat

A look back at the career of Barbara Windsor.

• 41 mins

John le Carré tribute; Comedy double act The Pin; Aliza Nisenbaum

John le Carré remembered; The Pin - comedy duo; Aliza Nisenbaum at Tate Liverpool.

• 28 mins

The Lark Ascending at 100, Wonder Woman 1984 reviewed, reading outside your comfort zone

Violinist Jennifer Pike tells us what makes The Lark Ascending the nation's favourite.

• 28 mins

Boris Giltburg, Christmas films, Party season substitutes

Boris Giltburg plays Beethoven, Christmas films, Scottee on the joys of Abigail's Party

• 28 mins

David Fincher

Visionary director David Fincher on Mank.

• 28 mins

George C Wolfe on Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Let Him Go reviewed, Winifred Atwell celebrated

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom director George C Wolfe

• 41 mins

21/12/2020

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

• 28 mins

Bridgerton, Rachel Joyce, The custodians of our cultural institutions

Chris van Dusen on Bridgerton

• 28 mins

Mackenzie Crook, Collaborative board games, Janey Godley, Zing Tsjeng's party choice

Mackenzie Crook as Worzel Gummidge, cooperative board games, Janey Godley's video short.

• 28 mins

Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones - Death to 2020

Death to 2020, Le Gateau Chocolat, Neil Gaiman, winner of Radio 3's carol competition.

• 27 mins

Australian composer, musician and actor, Tim Minchin

Tim Minchin on Matilda, success and failure, and his first solo album

• 41 mins

A poetry edition, with Simon Armitage, Vanessa Kisuule, Anthony Anaxagorou, Em Power, Anna Selby, Daphne Astor, talking, reading

Front Row on poetry in the lock down and beyond, with the Poet Laureate - and new poems.

• 41 mins

Pianist Lang Lang on Bach's Goldberg Variations

Lang Lang discusses and plays from Bach's Goldberg Variations.

• 28 mins

Evelyn Glennie, The Serpent's Tom Shankland, chosen families in culture

Dame Evelyn Glennie talks about her new albums and director Tom Shankland on The Serpent

• 28 mins

Art that brightened the year - violinist Tasmin Little, Baillie Gifford winner Craig Brown, actress Rochenda Sandall

Violinist Tasmin Little on her performing career.

• 28 mins

Dante's Divine Comedy 700 years on with Katya Adler; Costa Book Awards category winners

Katya Adler on Dante; Costa category winners announced; Costa Novel winner interview.

• 28 mins

The Great, Eavan Boland, the origin of the blues

Tony McNamara on The Great, the "occasionally true story" of Catherine the Great.

• 28 mins

Lee Lawrence, the impact of Brexit on classical music, Twelfth Night tradition at Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Winner of the Costa Biography Award, Lee Lawrence on his memoir The Louder I Will Sing

• 28 mins

BBC Sound of 2021 Winner Pa Salieu, Finnish TV drama, Natasha Farrant

BBC Sound of 2021 winner Pa Salieu, Finnish TV drama, children's author Natasha Farrant.

• 28 mins

We commemorate the fifth anniversary of David Bowie's death and consider his continuing musical influence and legacy

David Bowie's legacy, Costa Award-winning writer Ingrid Persaud, Pieces Of A Woman review.

• 41 mins

Ben Okri, The Pembrokeshire Murders, Michael Berkeley

Writer Ben Okri on his new anthology, A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn.

• 28 mins

Regina King, classical music for kids, Northern Irish literature

Oscar-winner Regina King on her directorial debut One Night In Miami.

• 28 mins

Drag kings, Courttia Newland, wintry podcasts

Drag kings John Travulva and Don One, and novelist Courttia Newland

• 28 mins

Stardust, The world's oldest painting, Jenni Fagan, Arts Students

David Bowie film Stardust reviewed, Jenni Fagan novel Luckenbooth, 45,500-year-old artwork

• 28 mins

Music festivals, Keeley Hawes, WandaVision reviewed

What hopes for music festivals later this year?

• 41 mins

Ashley Walters makes his directorial debut

Ashley Walters; Erica Wagner; Torrey Peters; Phil Spector's Wall of Sound

• 28 mins

Patricia Highsmith centenary, Caroline Shaw, Baby Done comedy reviewed

Patricia Highsmith centenary, Caroline Shaw on her new album, Baby Done comedy reviewed.

• 28 mins

Schubert's Winterreise, novelist Olivia Sudjic, new US administration and the arts, performers' travel post-Brexit

Schubert's song-cycle Winterreise celebrated by singers Roderick Williams and David Webb.

• 28 mins

It's a Sin, how Aids has been depicted in culture, Glastonbury Festival cancellation, London International Mime Festival

We review Russell T Davies' It's a Sin starring Olly Alexander.

• 28 mins

The White Tiger, the TS Eliot Prize shortlist, sculptor Denise Dutton

Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, and the TS Eliot Prize shortlist.

• 41 mins

Jonzi D and Pawlet Brookes on Black dance, TS Eliot Prizewinner Bhanu Kapil, portraying politicians

Jonzi D on Black dance, and TS Eliot Prizewinner Bhanu Kapil.

• 28 mins

Jenny Eclair, Jon Brown, Costa Book of the Year winner

Craftivism with Jenny Eclair, Gaming sitcom Dead Pixels and Costa Book of the Year winner.

• 28 mins

Celeste, poet Brian Bilston, new film Palmer reviewed

Celeste on her debut album, Not Your Muse.

• 28 mins