Podcast Episodes

Review Show: The Smashing Machine film and Ben Elton’s autobiography

The Smashing Machine director Benny Safdie talks to Tom Sutcliffe about making his biographical drama about the life of mixed martial arts fighter Ma…

8 months, 1 week ago

Steve Coogan on the return of Alan Partridge

Steve Coogan on his new spoof documentary series. in which his alter ego Alan Partridge returns from some time in Saudia Arabia to tackle one of the …

8 months, 1 week ago

BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award

Tom Sutcliffe hosts the ceremony for the 2025 BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award live from BBC Broadcasting House.

Judges William…

8 months, 1 week ago

Actors Matthew McConaughey and Harris Dickinson on their latest films

Actor Matthew McConaughey talks with Samira about The Lost Bus; a nerve shredding film based on a true story about a school bus driver who rescued 22…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Leonardo DiCaprio comes on Front Row to talk about One Battle After Another

Leonardo DiCaprio and director Paul Thomas Anderson tell Tom about their new film One Battle After Another.

Our reviewers tonight are film critic Tim…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Will & Grace star Eric McCormack on his latest TV role.

Will & Grace star Eric McCormack tells us about his latest screen role – in the new BBC One thriller series Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue. McCorma…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Stephen Knight on House of Guinness

Peaky Blinders' screenwriter Stephen Knight on his new TV series, House of Guinness.

Indhu Rubasingham talks about her vision as the new Artistic Dire…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Late-night shows under fire

Johnny Carson, David Letterman and Jay Leno made the late night talk wildly popular viewing for American audiences for decades, but those days are fa…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival in Bradford

A special edition of Front Row live from the Contains Strong Language Festival, the BBC's annual celebration of poetry, performance and the spoken wo…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

Review Show: Ian McEwan's new novel and Small Acts of Love at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre

In our weekly review show, Kirsty Wark is joined by writer and critic Hannah McGill and writer and journalist Alan Taylor to discuss What Can We Know…

8 months, 3 weeks ago