Podcast Episodes

Dancer and choreographer Gene Kelly's wife and biographer Patricia Ward Kelly on Starstruck

Scottish Ballet's Starstruck honours Gene Kelly's creative legacy and his passion for creating "dance for the common man". His wife Patricia Ward Kel…

5 months, 1 week ago

Jack Savoretti sings live, plus Turner Prize winner Veronica Ryan

Jack Savoretti sings a song from his latest album We Will Always Be The Way We Were, which is leading the race to top the charts this week.

David Sza…

5 months, 1 week ago

Mark Gatiss at the RSC and novelist Margaret Drabble

Mark Gatiss takes on the role he's always wanted to play, the lead in Brecht's Hitler satire The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

As the Government cons…

5 months, 1 week ago

Reviewing new work from Francois Ozon, Amitav Ghosh and Jim Jarmusch

We review Francois Ozon's film: The Stranger. Based on the Albert Camus novel which has often been described as unfilmable...how well has he done? Am…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

W1A writer John Morton on his new series Twenty Twenty Six

Writer and director John Morton, one of the team behind 2012 and W1A, on the new comedy Twenty Twenty Six, set in the run up to this year's football …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

A darker side of a royal marriage

Writer Daisy Goodwin on Victoria: A Queen Unbound. Was the marriage between Victoria and Albert as idyllic as it has been portrayed? Her new play exp…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

The Birth of Television: A Forgotten History

100 years ago, inventor John Logie Baird demonstrated his new 'televisor' to the public for the first time. In this special edition of Front Row, Sam…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Review: The Drama starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya

Tom Sutcliffe is joined by critics Tim Robey and Nancy Durrant to review:

Robert Pattinson and Zendaya's new film The Drama about a young couple in th…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Trash Cinema Icon Mink Stole

In venues around the UK and here on BBC Radio 4 and on BBC Sounds, it’s Live Comedy Day today – a celebration of live comedy and grassroots clubs. W…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Robert MacFarlane on the revelations to be found underground

Writer Robert MacFarlane on the world underground as a new documentary, Underland, inspired by his award-winning book of the same name is released in…

5 months, 3 weeks ago