Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Duran Duran, The Bradford Literature Festival, Stained Glass artist Brian Clarke, and the Poetry of Sun and Summer
John Taylor and Roger Taylor on 40 years of making music in Duran Duran.
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Fly by Night, Tim Winton, Poems by teenagers, Music discovered in a painting
Fly by Night pigeon art, Tim Winton's new novel, Kate Clanchy and her student poets.
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James Corden, Poet Raymond Antrobus, Arts Minister Michael Ellis
James Corden talks to John Wilson about bringing his Late Late Show to London.
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Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain, GLOW star Kate Nash, Pop-up arts
Singer and GLOW star Kate Nash, and model-turned-photographer Lee Miller and Surrealism.
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Caitlin Moran, Beyonce and Jay-Z's new album, National Youth Folk Ensemble, Frank Styles
Caitlin Moran on her latest novel How to be Famous about fame, Britpop and revenge porn.
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Snatches, Carnegie Prize Winner, Best New Video Games, Glasgow School of Art fire
Vicky Featherstone on Snatches, celebrating the lives of women over the past 100 years.
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Frida Kahlo, Fly by Night, Queer Eye, Cats in literature
The new Frida Kahlo exhibition Making Her Self Up at the V&A and Queer Eye on TV.
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Ocean's 8, Football kit design, Tacita Dean on drawing, Classical pianist Alexis Ffrench on hip-hop
Ocean's 8 reviewed, football kit, hip-hop's lesson for the classics, the art of drawing.
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Eddie Izzard, Wilko Johnson and novelist Benjamin Markovits
Comedian Eddie Izzard talks about why he is reading all of Dickens' novels aloud.
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Rosemary's Baby at 50, scary movies, James Joyce's daughter Lucia
Film critic Kim Newman explores the impact of Polanski's chiller Rosemary's Baby.
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Timothy Spall, Tracy Chapman's Fast Car turns 30, Novelist Lissa Evans
Timothy Spall on playing every part in his new film Stanley, a Man of Variety.
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Pieter-Dirk Uys, Joan Bakewell and Christopher Frayling on older audiences, Gaël Faye
South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys on his new autobiographical show.
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Rupert Everett, Abir Mukherjee, Sex and the City 20 years on
Rupert Everett on writing, directing and playing Oscar Wilde in The Happy Prince.
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Women's Prize for Fiction winner, Jurassic World, Sunderland musician Nadine Shah, The Future Library
Front Row announces and interviews the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Shebeen in Nottingham, Will Sharpe, Vampyr video game
The 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition opens and is reviewed by Jacky Klein.
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David Edgar, Women's non-fiction writing, Art in the aftermath of World War One
Playwright David Edgar at 70, Art in the wake of WW1, Women's non-fiction writing.
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Orlando Bloom, Grief as muse, Antony Gormley, Novello Award-winning rapper Dave.
Orlando Bloom on his return to the stage as a cop and assassin in Killer Joe.
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Westminster Abbey, The culture of the countryside, Gillian Allnutt
A visit to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey.
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Angélique Kidjo, Book Club reviewed, Roseanne controversy, novelist Anuradha Roy
Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo performs live and the film Book Club reviewed.
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François Ozon's L'Amant Double, Patrick Heron, Rachel Kushner
François Ozon on his latest film, the psychological thriller L'Amant Double.
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Dame Cleo Laine
At the age of 90, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine looks back at her extraordinary career.
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Akram Khan, Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman exhibition, soldier-turned-novelist Kevin Powers
Akram Khan shows us his home studio and discusses a life in dance.
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Orla Kiely, British Asian theatre, Belinda Bauer
Designer Orla Kiely on her famous Stem graphics.
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Novelist Philip Roth remembered
American novelist Philip Roth, 1933-2018.
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Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge on Star Wars, Andrew Sean Greer, Comic novels
Phoebe Waller-Bridge on being L3, a female droid in the latest Star Wars episode.
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Ian McKellen, The Handmaid's Tale Season 2, Bill Gold remembered, Tishani Doshi
Ian McKellen on life as an actor, review of The Handmaid's Tale Season 2, Tishani Doshi.
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Hamlet and As You Like It at Shakespeare's Globe, Mysterious Marginalia, Morris Dance Music
Hamlet and As You Like It, Michelle Terry's first productions at The Globe.
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Joel Meyerowitz, The Girl on the Train on stage, the Famous Women Dinner Service
Photographer Joel Meyerowitz, and a review of The Girl on the Train on stage.
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Brighton Festival, Laurie Anderson on the poetry of Lou Reed, Cannes Film Festival
Brighton Festival, Laurie Anderson and the poetry of Lou Reed, News from Cannes.
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King Lear, Tom Wolfe remembered, Deadpool 2, Royal Academy at 250
Richard Eyre on his new TV production of King Lear, starring Anthony Hopkins.