Front Row Episodes Available now
Jennifer Saunders; The Commitments on stage; Elizabethan portraits
Jennifer Saunders reflects with Mark Lawson on her career so far as she publishes a memoir
BBC National Short Story Award; Mark Lewisohn on The Beatles; The Fifth Estate
John Wilson reports live from the BBC National Short Story Award ceremony.
John Eliot Gardiner, Le Week-End, Breathless
Le Week-End and Breathless reviewed, and John Eliot Gardiner on his new book about Bach.
Anoushka Shankar; TV drama Truckers; Frank Auerbach
Anoushka Shankar on her new album, TV's Truckers reviewed and Frank Auerbach painting.
James McAvoy in Filth; Dizzee Rascal; director Lucy Walker; young Poets Laureate
Arts news with John Wilson, including the verdict on James McAvoy in Filth.
Saoirse Ronan; Thatcher meets the Queen; Erotic art from Japan
Mark Lawson meets actress Saoirse Ronan, who stars in the film How I Live Now.
David Tennant and Gregory Doran; Bill Bryson; Sex on film and TV
Mark Lawson talks to David Tennant as he prepares to play Richard II at the RSC, Stratford
Sunshine on Leith; Adil Ray; Malcolm Mackay; Art Under Attack
Mark Lawson reports on Art Under Attack, an exhibition about physical attacks on artworks.
Austenland, Stephen Poliakoff, Hannah Kent, Elmgreen and Dragset
Kirsty Lang talks to Stephen Poliakoff, and Viv Groskop reviews romantic comedy Austenland
Atlantis; Michael Morpurgo; Hannah Arendt; BBC National Short Story Award
Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including a review of the new family drama Atlantis.
