Front Row Episodes Available now
The art of physical comedy, Damien Hirst, Andre Aciman, The impact of the arts on mental health
The art and history of physical comedy: why is the unfortunate mishap hilarious?
BBC National Short Story Award Winner
We announce the winners of the 2018 BBC Short Story Awards live from Cambridge University
Sarah Perry, The Cry, Cultural First Aid
The Essex Serpent author Sarah Perry discusses her new novel Melmoth, The Cry reviewed
Contains Strong Language festival, Sean Scully, A Northern Soul
Front Row live from the Contains Strong Language festival in Hull
Lord of the Flies, Silence in art, Javier Marias
Lord of the Flies with an all-female cast, and the significance of silence in art.
The Goodies, Holst's The Planets at 100, Debris Stevenson
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie look back at their 70s cult comedy series
Oceania exhibition, Suede, How the police help crime writers
The first major UK exhibition of art from the Pacific, and former Britpop band Suede
Glenn Close in The Wife, Little Women in 2018
New Glenn Close film, Little Women in 2018, composer Jocelyn Pook, Chas Hodges remembered
Cary Fukanaga, Royal Opera House CEO, Nureyev Documentary
New James Bond director Cary Fukanaga discusses his latest Netflix series, Maniac
MIA, Man Booker Shortlist, Short Story Award nominee Nell Stevens, Playwright Stephen Jeffreys remembered.
Kieran Yates reviews Matangi/Maya/MIA, a documentary about the political rapper MIA