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Paul Hartnoll of Orbital on the band's Brown album, and a new biography of Muriel Spark.
Paul Hartnoll of Orbital on the band's Brown album, and a new biography of Muriel Spark.
28 May 2025,42 mins
Will Butler formerly of Arcade Fire on his play set in a recording studio
Stereophonic play, Skin from Skunk Anansie on their new album, Joseph Wright exhibition.
27 May 2025,42 mins
Alison Steadman live from Hay Festival
Live from the Hay Festival, Alison Steadman talks to Samira about her career
26 May 2025,42 mins
Mission Impossible & Benicio Del Toro
Benicio Del Toro on his role in Wes Anderson's film The Phoenician Scheme.
22 May 2025,42 mins
Shirley Manson of Garbage
Shirley Manson of Garbage, Winner of the International Booker Prize, Artist Jeremy Deller.
21 May 2025,42 mins
Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé
Musician Rhiannon Giddens returns to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé.
20 May 2025,42 mins
Joanne Harris on the return of Chocolat
Joanne Harris on the return of Chocolat, Cannes Film Festival, and art from ancient India.
19 May 2025,42 mins
Review: Sondheim's final musical Here We Are, The Marching Band, Daniel Kehlmann's The Director
Stephen Sondheim's final musical, Here We Are, is one of the week's highlights reviewed.
15 May 2025,42 mins
Ocean with Attenborough, Garden Design, Turning Contemporary Politics into Opera
Ocean with Attenborough, the history and future of gardens, new opera inspired by politics
14 May 2025,42 mins
Morcheeba perform, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway 100th anniversary
Writer Elif Şhafak on Mrs Dalloway at 100, Morcheeba's acoustic version of Call For Love.
13 May 2025,42 mins
Suzanne Vega sings in the studio, P Diddy trial, Mother Courage in County Durham
Suzanne Vega performs a track from her new album, in the Front Row studio.
12 May 2025,42 mins
Review, The Wedding Banquet, Isabel Allende, The Brightening Air
Reviews of a new remake of The Wedding Banquet, and a new Isabel Allende novel.
08 May 2025,42 mins
Leni Riefenstahl, Queen Elizabeth Memorial, Keli
Leni Riefenstahl documentary, digital designs for Queen Elizabeth's memorial and Keli.
07 May 2025,42 mins
Hamlet Radiohead mashup, Stoke-on-Trent pottery in crisis
A new production of Hamlet created in collaboration with Thom Yorke from Radiohead
06 May 2025,42 mins
A snapshot of culture on VE Day 1945
The music, books, films and theatre that defined VE Day 1945.
05 May 2025,42 mins
Review: John Lennon docs, Tina Fey's The Four Seasons and The Great Gatsby musical
John Lennon's life after The Beatles explored in two documentaries, plus The Great Gatsby.
01 May 2025,41 mins
King James VI & I, Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, The Extraordinary Miss Flower
An exhibition about James VI of Scotland and I of England sheds new light on the monarch.
30 Apr 2025,41 mins
Noddy Holder of Slade, Stephen Rea and Simone de Beauvoir
Stephen Rea on performing Beckett, and Noddy Holder discusses cult film Slade in Flame.
29 Apr 2025,41 mins
Universal Theme Park, Olivier award-winning play Giant, Two to One
Mark Rosenblatt talks about his Olivier award-winning play about Roald Dahl, Giant.
28 Apr 2025,42 mins
Review: Self Esteem's album A Complicated Woman; RSC's Much Ado About Nothing; Julie Keeps Quiet tennis film
Reviews of Self Esteem's third album and the RSC's football-themed Much Ado About Nothing.
24 Apr 2025,42 mins
The ethics of publishing posthumous diaries, Pianist Igor Levit, and Memorials to great women.
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
23 Apr 2025,42 mins
Dante's Inferno in Jamaica, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time re-examined, Shakespeare's first theatre
Jamaica's former poet laureate, Lorna Goodison on Dante's Inferno.
22 Apr 2025,42 mins
JMW Turner: 250th anniversary of Britain's greatest painter
Mike Leigh and Alvaro Barrington on the life and influence of landscape artist JMW Turner.
21 Apr 2025,42 mins
Review: Alex Garland's film Warfare, Audition by Katie Kitamura, Shanghai Dolls by Amy Ng on stage
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
17 Apr 2025,42 mins
Photographer Susan Meiselas, The Impact of Trump's Tariffs on Musical Instrument Manufacturers, Author Ewan Morrison.
Kirsty Wark speaks to documentary photographer Susan Meiselas and author Ewan Morrison.
16 Apr 2025,42 mins
Ryan Coogler on Sinners, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, Book Bans in the US
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
15 Apr 2025,42 mins
Muriel's Wedding the Musical, Dr Who, Anthony Horowitz on Marble Hall Murders
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
14 Apr 2025,42 mins
Review: Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes in The Return, On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, Holy Cow film
Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes plus reviews of The Return and French drama Holy Cow.
10 Apr 2025,42 mins
Tracy Chapman, the Arthur Miller moment in UK theatres, Rock Royalty
Tracy Chapman, the Arthur Miller moment in UK theatres, Rock Royalty.
09 Apr 2025,42 mins
Kym Marsh on Abigail's Party, Severance creator Dan Erickson, film franchises in flux
Kym Marsh on Abigail's Party, Severance creator Dan Erickson, film franchises in flux.
08 Apr 2025,42 mins