Podcast Episodes

Bradford Postcard; Ron’s Gone Wrong; Re-directing a play

Producer-director Sarah Smith made her animation debut with the festive favourite, Arthur Christmas. Ten years on she’s back with Ron’s Gone Wrong, a…

4 years, 11 months ago

BBC National Short Story Award and BBC Young Writers' Award winners

We announce the winners of the BBC National Short Story Award 2021 and the BBC Young Writers' Award 2021. Kirsty Lang is joined for the show by Natio…

4 years, 11 months ago

Arinzé Kene on playing Bob Marley; Clare Norburn sings John Dowland; the first Working Class Writers Festival

Arinzé Kene talks to Samira Ahmed about playing Bob Marley in the new musical Get Up, StandUp!

Singer Clare Norburn is live in the studio to perform a…

4 years, 11 months ago

The RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture, Succession, John Le Carré’s final novel, The London Film Festival

Front Row goes live to Coventry to announce the winner of the 2021 Riba Stirling Prize and discuss the shortlist with BBC Arts and Media corresponden…

4 years, 11 months ago

Theatre director Emma Jordan, Omagh's Ulster American Folk Park and Ridley Scott

Theatre director Emma Jordan discusses The Border Game, a new play to mark 100 years of the Irish border.

We hear from Omagh in County Tyrone as rep…

4 years, 11 months ago

Suzan-Lori Parks, Owen Sheers, stolen artefacts and the portrayal of scientists

Suzan-Lori Parks, the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama on her play White Noise, which has its the UK premier tonight.…

4 years, 11 months ago

Joan Collins, Armistead Maupin and Verbatim Theatre

Joan Collins discusses her memoir My Unapologetic Diaries.

Tales of the City author and activist Armistead Maupin on his national tour and why he has …

4 years, 11 months ago

Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, Cush Jumbo's Hamlet, Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

Cush Jumbo’s long-awaited performance as Hamlet and debbie tucker green’s film ear for eye come under the critical gaze of Ekow Eshun, Vanessa Kisuul…

4 years, 11 months ago

The Arts in Aberystwyth, The Boy with Two Hearts in Cardiff and Welsh film director Craig Roberts

Broadcaster Huw Stephens sends an audio postcard from Aberystwyth, the small seaside town with the big arts centre mounting exhibitions and concerts,…

4 years, 11 months ago

Wole Soyinka, post-pandemic theatre, Michael Winterbottom

Wole Soyinka, the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells Samira Ahmed about what impelled him to write his first new novel …

4 years, 11 months ago