Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Radio 4,·4294 episodes
BBC National Short Story Award shortlist announced, tenor Stuart Skelton, Shang-Chi film.
10 Sep 2021,·41 mins
Elijah Wood talks about his role as criminal profiler Bill Hagmaier in No Man of God
09 Sep 2021,·28 mins
Sandra Oh in The Chair, a US academic comedy drama on Netflix.
08 Sep 2021,·28 mins
Photographer Shirin Neshat on her film directing debut, Land Of Dreams.
07 Sep 2021,·28 mins
Cathy Brady's Wildfire, Mick Fleetwood on Peter Green, Jean Paul Belmondo obit.
06 Sep 2021,·28 mins
Spencer at the Venice Film Festival, Sally Rooney's Beautiful World review, Mogwai.
03 Sep 2021,·41 mins
Quentin Tarantino discusses his debut novel.
02 Sep 2021,·28 mins
Professor John Drury from Sussex University explains the Covid risks posed by large crowds
01 Sep 2021,·28 mins
Hugh Quarshie and Steve Coogan, the Paraorchestra, Daisy Haggard.
31 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Actor Liz Carr looks back at her career, and how it took her from the Wirral to Hollywood.
30 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Paula Hawkins, Nia DaCosta, Our Ladies film review, and paralympic dressage music.
27 Aug 2021,·41 mins
Jason deCaires Taylor on his new underwater museum Musan, built off the coast of Cyprus.
26 Aug 2021,·28 mins
David Hepworth on the late Charlie Watts, Natalya Romaniw on preparing to play Tosca.
24 Aug 2021,·28 mins
American conductor Kalena Bovell makes her Proms debut with Chineke! Orchestra this week.
23 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Nicolas Cage film Pig, Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney at the Proms, comedy The White Lotus
20 Aug 2021,·41 mins
At last, Cinderella went to the ball! Sarah Crompton reviews Lloyd Webber's musical.
19 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Live from The Edinburgh Festival, including film director Isaac Julien.
18 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Coming live from the Edinburgh Festival, with Henning Wehn and playwright Frances Poet
17 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Ahmad Sarmast on hopes for music-making as Afghanistan falls under Taliban control.
16 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Pianist Vikingur Olafsson is in the studio to talk about audiences, live music, and Mozart
13 Aug 2021,·41 mins
Director Dominic Cooke talks about creating the new film, The Courier.
12 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Russian composer Igor Stravinsky died 50 years ago. Is his influence still felt?
11 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Kae Tempest on Paradise, their adaptation of Sophocles' Philoctetes starring Lesley Sharp.
10 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Phil Wang joins us to discuss his stand-up show, Philly Philly Wang Wang.
09 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Tom Stoppard on the return of his award-winning play, Leopoldstadt
06 Aug 2021,·40 mins
Sarah, Duchess of York, talks to Nick Ahad about her novel, Her Heart for a Compass.
05 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Repairing artefacts damaged in the Beirut port explosion, one year ago today
04 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Booker Prize shortlisted writer Elif Shafak on her new novel The Island of Missing Trees.
03 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Kathleen Marshall and Sutton Foster on Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre in London.
02 Aug 2021,·28 mins
Laura Snapes reviews the new Billie Eilish album, Happier Than Ever.
30 Jul 2021,·41 mins