All Episodes

Review: The Stranger and Jim Jarmusch's Father Mother Sister Brother

W1A creator John Morton on Twenty Twenty Six

Was Queen Victoria coercively controlled by Prince Albert?

The Birth of Television: A Forgotten History

Review: The Drama starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya

SNL UK Cast, plus Trash Cinema Icon Mink Stole

Robert MacFarlane on the revelations to be found underground

Lesley Manville, and what do astronauts listen to in space?

Review: Riz Ahmed comedy Bait, Schiaparelli at the V&A

Actor Forbes Masson on the stage production of cult sitcom The High Life

Noah Wyle on hit hospital drama The Pitt

Saturday Night Live arrives in the UK

Review: La Grazia, the latest film from The Great Beauty director Paolo Sorrentino

Sylvia Plath's final year, and Hue and Cry perform Labour of Love

Gentleman Jack ballet, BTS reunited, Irish myths - a feminist retelling, Len Deighton remembered

The Oscars, Ryan Gosling, Self Esteem performs

Review: David Hockney in Normandy, and Asako Yuzuki's new novel

James McAvoy on his directorial debut, California Schemin'

Howard Jacobson's new book, Howl

Cillian Murphy on Peaky Blinders, plus Timothee Chalamet's opera backlash

Review: The Bride! Maggie Gyllenhaal's film about the bride of Frankenstein

Will Self on The Quantity Theory of Morality

Author Julia Quinn on Bridgerton

Pixar at 40

Review: Tracey Emin: A Second Life at Tate Modern

Arthur Sze, the poet laureate of the United States, and award-winning director Felipe Bustos Sierra

Ukraine Unbroken - New Plays Responding to the War

Neve Campbell on being Hollywood's Scream Queen, and BAFTAs lowdown

Review: Cynthia Erivo in Dracula, Charli XCX mockumentary, The Secret Agent

Amanda Seyfried and Mona Fastvold on their film The Testament of Ann Lee

Playwright Jim Cartwright on his groundbreaking debut play Road

Baz Luhrman on Elvis in concert, and 75 Years of The Archers

Review: Wuthering Heights film and Jack Thorne's Lord of the Flies

Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee on her new series

Yes Minister creator Jonathan Lynn on revisiting the characters in his new play

Kristen Stewart on her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water

Review: Mark Haddon's memoir - Leaving Home, Twinless film, Mackenzie Crook's Small Prophets

Musician Martin Carthy on retiring from performing live

Jared Bush, head of Walt Disney Animation Studios, on his record-breaking film Zootropolis 2

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - on stage

Reviewing Is This Thing On? Guess How Much I Love You? and George Saunders

John Carter Cash on his musical production The Ballad of Johnny & June

Michael Sheen, Laurel & Hardy, writer Patrick Charnley

Richard Linklater on Nouvelle Vague

Review of films No Other Choice, The History of Sound and Julian Barnes' final novel

Actor Claire Foy on her role in H Is For Hawk

Comedian John Bishop on his life story inspiring a Hollywood movie

Beryl Cook at 100

Reviewing Heated Rivalry, novel Jackson Alone, and the British Museum's Hawai'i exhibition

Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Wayne McGregor and Emmylou Harris

Blue celebrate 25 years in pop and perform in the studio

Screenwriter Eric Roth on his play High Noon

Jessie Buckley on her starring role in the film Hamnet

Film-maker Ira Sachs on his latest screen project: Peter Hujar's Day

Innovations in book clubs, sitcoms by women and a new BBC One prison drama

David Bowie's late-career renaissance

Hogmanay live from Glasgow with Belle & Sebastian

Joachim Trier on Sentimental Value, plus the films of Brigitte Bardot

Who are the Founding Fathers and Mothers of American Culture?

Reviews of the film Marty Supreme, Into the Woods on stage and Natalie Haynes on Immersive Exhibitions

Actor Will Sharpe on playing Mozart in Amadeus

Jane Austen at 250 special

The great works of Rob Reiner

Reviewing Ella McCay plus the film's Oscar-winning writer and director James L. Brooks

96-year-old actress June Squibb on her lead role in Scarlett Johansson's Eleanor the Great

2025 Turner Prize winner; remembering Martin Parr; Bradford’s year as the UK City of Culture

Kate Winslet on Goodbye June

Reviewing Paddington The Musical, Jafar Panahi's latest film, and Russell Tovey meets the Sea Devils

Composer Sir John Rutter

Updating A Christmas Carol; new sculpture exhibition by blind artists and curators; 2025’s funniest novel

Front Row remembers Tom Stoppard

Review Show: Blue Moon film plus Turner and Constable at Tate Britain

The lead writer of Grand Theft Auto, Dan Houser, on his debut novel.

Sydney Sweeney and Pasolini

Stranger Things creators The Duffer Brothers on the show's final season

Review Show: The Death of Bunny Munro; TV adaptation of Nick Cave's novel

Actor Joel Edgerton on his new film Train Dreams

Vince Gilligan on creating Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Pluribus

Actors Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Also, director Jon M Chu

We review The Hunger Games on stage, Nuremberg on film and Wild Cherry on TV

Actor Fiona Shaw on her new film Park Avenue

Edgar Wright on The Running Man

Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize announced live from the ceremony

All the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025

Daniel Day Lewis on his return to the big screen

Benedict Cumberbatch on The Thing with Feathers

Sarah Snook, Riz Ahmed and return of Play for Today

Zadie Smith and Brenda Blethyn live in studio

Review Show: Bugonia, Salman Rushdie stories, The Line of Beauty

Live from Derry: two of the stars of police drama Blue Lights

Prunella Scales, Palestine 36 film, Making Documentaries with World Leaders

Reese Witherspoon on her novel and Colin Farrell on his new film

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - Tom and guests deliver their verdict

John Grisham on his new thriller, The Widow

Steve Martin and Alison Brown talk bluegrass and banjos

Cathy Tyson on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Guillermo Del Toro discusses his new Frankenstein film

Richard Ashcroft on his new album

Sam Ryder performs live

Lang Lang plays in studio

Review Show: I Swear film and The Poems of Seamus Heaney

Tamsin Greig on her role in Sally Wainwright's Riot Women

Marina Abramović on her dream creation - Balkan Erotic Epic

Kathryn Bigelow and Kiran Desai

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

Steve Coogan on the return of Alan Partridge

BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award

Actors Matthew McConaughey and Harris Dickinson on their latest films

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

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

Stephen Knight on House of Guinness

Late-night shows under fire

Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival in Bradford

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

Robert Redford remembered, Mark Ronson and Picasso on stage

Robert Plant and Alan Moore

Review Show: David Bowie Centre and the BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist

The Grand Finale of Downton Abbey

Marks and Gran on Freud and Hitler, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason performance, Medea on stage and screen

Maxine Peake on Mary Whitehouse, West End star Marisha Wallace

Review Show: CMAT's new album, The Office spin-off series The Paper, Jacob Elordi in On Swift Horses

Bryan Adams’ new album, plus writer Damian Barr

Aaron Sorkin on adapting Harper Lee's novel To Kill Aa Mockingbird for the stage

Sebastian Faulks' memoir

Review: Historical TV epic King and Conqueror, and Boudicca's Daughter by Elodie Harper

Indigenous Australian didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton performs live

Tom Hiddleston on becoming a dancing accountant in new Stephen King film, The Life of Chuck

Should Stephen Fry play Lady Bracknell? Author R.F. Kuang and Marlowe and Shakespeare

Review show: Brigadoon at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Our critics' guide to the best theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Norwich Castle reopening, plus director Adrian Noble

Peter Sellers at 100

Review: Alien Earth series plus Rom-Com Materialists

Special edition from the Edinburgh Festivals with guests including Emmy and Olivier Award-winning actor Brian Cox

Sean Hayes, from Will & Grace, on his Tony Award-winning stage show Good Night, Oscar

Freakier Friday

Review Show: The Naked Gun, Madonna, Paul Weller, The Assassin

Artist Andy Goldsworthy on his five-decade retrospective exhibition.

Motherland writer Helen Serafinowicz on making her debut as a playwright with a Liverpool legend

Tom Lehrer remembered, plus Nick Drake's unreleased songs

Review Show: Burlesque the Musical

Prison-themed stage productions, Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and the composer Bruckner's fascination with death masks

Jimmy McGovern on Unforgivable and Has Marvel cracked the superhero reboot?

Mark Gatiss on Bookish

Review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North TV Series

How Scandinavian design has influenced our homes

Football and Art - united in a new work created by former footballer Edgar Davids and artist Paul Pfeiffer

Gruelling film productions - stories from the sets of Apocalypse now and Fitzcarraldo

Review Show: Wet Leg's new album and Johnny Depp's artist biopic Modigliani

Kat Sadler, creator of BAFTA-winning sitcom Such Brave Girls

Superman is back on the big screen

Oasis comeback tour reviewed

Review: RSC's The Constant Wife

Reaction to the Sean 'Diddy' Combs court case verdicts, and Back to the Future at 40

Tim Key on his sleeper hit The Ballad of Wallis Island

Jurassic World Rebirth director Gareth Edwards

Review Programme: Van Gogh and Anselm Kiefer

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy

Billy Porter on activism and artists

Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer on F1 starring Brad Pitt

Review Show: Pixar's new film Elio

Mercury Prize-shortlisted pianist Fergus McCreadie plays live, plus poet and Edinburgh Makar Michael Pedersen on his new novel

The producers of RuPaul's Drag Race, plus pianist Alfred Brendel remembered

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland on 28 Years Later

Review Show: Pulp's new album More

Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys remembered.

Was 1975 the best year for music?

Twin Peaks creator plus Ian Rankin on Frederick Forsyth

Review show: Paris Lees drama What It Feels Like for a Girl

Daisy Goodwin on her play about the late Queen and her dresser

Nick Mohammed on comedy and improvisation

Fiddler on the Roof returns to the stage

Imelda Staunton in Mrs Warren's Profession

Paul Hartnoll of Orbital on the band's Brown album, and a new biography of Muriel Spark.

Alison Steadman live from Hay Festival

Will Butler formerly of Arcade Fire on his play set in a recording studio

Mission Impossible & Benicio Del Toro

Shirley Manson of Garbage

Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé

Joanne Harris on the return of Chocolat

Review: Sondheim's final musical Here We Are, The Marching Band, Daniel Kehlmann's The Director

Ocean with Attenborough, Garden Design, Turning Contemporary Politics into Opera

Morcheeba perform, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway 100th anniversary

Suzanne Vega sings in the studio, P Diddy trial, Mother Courage in County Durham

Review, The Wedding Banquet, Isabel Allende, The Brightening Air

Leni Riefenstahl, Queen Elizabeth Memorial, Keli

Hamlet Radiohead mashup, Stoke-on-Trent pottery in crisis

A snapshot of culture on VE Day 1945

Ryan Coogler on Sinners, The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz, Book Bans in the US

Review: John Lennon docs, Tina Fey's The Four Seasons and The Great Gatsby musical

King James VI & I, Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, The Extraordinary Miss Flower

Noddy Holder of Slade, Stephen Rea and Simone de Beauvoir

Universal Theme Park, Olivier award-winning play Giant, Two to One

Review: Self Esteem's album A Complicated Woman; RSC's Much Ado About Nothing; Julie Keeps Quiet tennis film

The ethics of publishing posthumous diaries, Pianist Igor Levit, and Memorials to great women.

Dante's Inferno in Jamaica, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time re-examined, Shakespeare's first theatre

JMW Turner: 250th anniversary of Britain's greatest painter

Review: Alex Garland's film Warfare, Audition by Katie Kitamura, Shanghai Dolls by Amy Ng on stage

Photographer Susan Meiselas, The Impact of Trump's Tariffs on Musical Instrument Manufacturers, Author Ewan Morrison.

Muriel's Wedding the Musical, Dr Who, Anthony Horowitz on Marble Hall Murders

Review: Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes in The Return, On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle, Holy Cow film

Tracy Chapman, the Arthur Miller moment in UK theatres, Rock Royalty

Kym Marsh on Abigail's Party, Severance creator Dan Erickson, film franchises in flux

Manhunt play by Robert Icke, new Edwardians exhibition, film director Waris Hussein

Reviews of Mobland, The Most Precious of Cargoes and Giuseppe Penone exhibition

Tilda Swinton, Michael Sheen on the new Welsh National Theatre, Richard Burton's influential teacher

Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker, Design Council at 80, The Women of Llanrumney

Freedom of Expression in the Arts

Review: The Studio, Grayson Perry, La Cocina

Peter Capaldi's new album, the great Ossian myth, Brian Friel's short stories

Peter Mullan as Bill Shankly, 100 years of Art Deco, Jonathan Pie

Bryan Ferry, Disney's Snow White, the impact of cash prizes on creativity

Review: Clueless the Musical, Oscar winning animated film Flow, Robert de Niro in The Alto Knights. Plus poetry from Seán Hewitt

Francois Ozon's new film When Autumn Falls, Pierre Boulez Centenary, Shona McCarthy on leaving Edinburgh Festival's Fringe

Julian Barnes's new book Changing My Mind, Victor Hugo's artwork, Emma Donoghue's novel The Paris Express

Vikingur Olafsson's lockdown piano performance, how the pandemic changed The Arts, Liz Pichon's interactive world of The Mubbles

Review: Edvard Munch portraits, Indian film Sister Midnight, Chekhov's The Seagull with Cate Blanchett

Former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins performs, Torrey Peters' new book, centenary of Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay

The Leopard, Natasha Brown, Manchester International Festival, Elizabeth Fritsch

Jack Thorne and Philip Barantini on Adolescence, Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi

Review: film Mickey 17, David Szalay’s novel Flesh, Get Millie Black TV series

Jessica Lange, Welsh National Opera's new joint leaders, artist Alison Watt

Raoul Peck on photographer Ernest Cole, the death of Bill Dare, 14th-century art in Siena, Colum McCann's novel Twist

Daniel Evans as Edward II, Laura Carreira's film On Falling, last night's Oscar winners

Review: Leigh Bowery exhibition, The Summer with Carmen film, Michael Amherst's novel The Boyhood of Cain

Anjelica Huston, Tim Roth and British Museum Director Nicholas Cullinan

New medical drama Berlin ER, Stacy L Smith, German Elections, Santanu Bhattacharya

25 Years of 21st Century: Theatre

Review: A Thousand Blows, Richard II, Perspectives by Laurent Binet

25 Years of 21st Century: Art and Architecture

Muhammad Ali in South Shields, Sheila Fell exhibition in Cumbria, Dame Myra Hess

Walter Salles on I'm Still Here, Matt Goss performs live, The Face magazine exhibition at National Portrait Gallery

Review: Bridget Jones; Linder Stirling exhibition; Memoir of a Snall animation

Future of TV soaps, Joseph O'Connor's new book, stage version of Murakami short stories

25 Years of 21st Century: Books

Robert de Niro, Gladiators exhibition, Festen: Mark Anthony Turnage and Lee Hall's new opera

Review: The Last Showgirl, Oedipus, Nobel author Han Kang's novel We Do Not Part

September 5 director Tim Fehlbaum, new Motherland spin-off TV series Amandaland, the history of Slapstick

25 Years of 21st Century: Film and Television

Director Coralie Fargeat on The Substance, Josephine Baker's autobiography, poet Anne Carson on Elektra on stage

Review: Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Inside No. 9 on stage, film Saturday Night

Jane Austen's sister, artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman, football in fiction

25 Years of 21st Century: Music

Review: supernatural thriller film Presence, Edmund White's sex memoir and Brazil! Brazil! at the Royal Academy

James Graham on Brian & Maggie, The Merchant of Venice, Live music from Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart

Anora director Sean Baker, Caryl Phillips's new novel, Somerset House exhibition on Soil

The Brutalist director Brady Corbet and star Adrien Brody, Sidney Poitier season at BFI

Review: Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, TS Eliot prize poetry, Italian wartime film Vermiglio

Franz Ferdinand play in the studio, Richard Price on his new novel Lazarus Man, verdict on BAFTA nominations

Vivaldi's Four Seasons reimagined, impact of L.A. fires on culture, Leigh Whannell's new horror film, Dead Ink Books

Michael Sheen, Matthew Bourne on Oliver! and ghostwriting

Review: Angelina Jolie's Maria, AL Kennedy's novel Alive in the Merciful Country, Architecton documentary

Asif Kapadia's dystopian film 2073, anthology comic marks 25 years since armed forces "gay ban" lifted, Nick Frost in Get Away

Jesse Eisenberg & Kieran Culkin on their film A Real Pain, improving visual literacy in school, how Jerry Springer changed TV

Nicole Kidman on Babygirl, Brian Eno on art and Herod

Review: Nosferatu, Lockerbie, Nickel Boys

Front Row on the Shipping Forecast, at the Cutty Sark

Front Row Hogmanay live from Glasgow

Bradford UK City of Culture 2025

Review: Better Man, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and How to make Millions before Grandma Dies

Chris McCausland, Lauren Mayberry and Barry Jenkins

Simon Russell Beale, Rufus Wainwright and Kate Garner

Call The Midwife creator Heidi Thomas, Nick Park on new Wallace & Gromit film, Organs discussion

Review: The Devil Wears Prada, 100 Years of Solitude, The Universal Theory

Jesus and Mary Chain, The politics of pantomime & Video games of the year

Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino, Public Service Broadcasting perform live

Kelsey Mann on Inside Out 2, Humphrey Bogart documentary, Susan Chardy

Review: Rumours, The Importance of Being Earnest, Grand Theft Hamlet

New Makar, future of musical theatre, arts funding in Scotland

Richard Curtis's new film, Purple Heart Warriors audio drama, Turner Prize announcement

Reopening of Notre-Dame, Jacob Collier, Marshall Brickman, King Winter's Birthday

Review: Beatles 64, Electric Dreams @ Tate Modern, The Agency

Donny Osmond, Orhan Pamuk, Puccini's centenary

Edward Berger on Conclave, Ganavya performs, Tim Robey on film flops

Sigourney Weaver & Selina Cadell, Art forgery on the rise? Nitin Sawhney

Review: Wicked, Cher's memoir, Maddaddam ballet

Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream, Celebrity Children's Books and the Art and Writing of Maud Sulter

Kathryn Tickell, Liverpool's carbon neutral gigs, drag queen romance film Layla

Malala Yousafzai, The art of writing recipes, Rebecca Hall

Paul Mescal on Gladiator II, Murakami's latest novel, Test Tube baby drama Joy

American guitarist Pat Metheny, Tribute to actor Timothy West, and Does Glasgow look after its built heritage?

Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize announced live from the ceremony

Booker Shortlisted Authors

Ronnie Wood, the rise and fall of boybands, Mishka Momen

Review: The Piano Lesson, Florence 1504, Jonathan Coe's The Proof of My Innocence

Pauline Black, Waters Rising at Perth Museum, and Posthumously Completing a Loved One's Creative Work

Christopher Reeve documentary, Booker author Samantha Harvey on Orbital, Art auction news

Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch, political satire in US elections, how to write a book

Review: film: Anora; theatre: Dr. Strangelove; book: Ali Smith's Gliff

Billy Crystal, Marina Diamandis, Nordic Music Festival

Hugh Grant on Heretic, Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep, future of housing design

Sir Steve McQueen on Blitz, Italian Renaissance drawings, Rachel Kushner on Creation Lake

Tim Burton on his exhibition at Design Museum, Review: films Emilia Perez and Dahomey

Musician and novelist Malachy Tallack, Cities of Literature and Textile Art

Artist William Kentridge, British film industry expansion, Playing Brian Epstein

Pedro Almodovar, Vanessa Bell, Richard Bean

Review: TV The Franchise; Film The Crime is Mine; Book Juice by Tim Winton

Rupert Everett, Scotland's Female Bands, artist Everlyn Nicodemus

Jodie Whittaker, Japanese food art, Booker writer Anne Michaels

Bronski Beat Age of Consent 40th Anniversary, Percival Everett, Horror on stage

Review: Film - Timestalker, Theatre - The Other Place, TV - Disclaimer

Booker author Charlotte Wood, Surrealism discussion & playwright Tim Price on Odyssey '84

Rick Astley, The West Wing at 25, Barbara Walker

Alison Moyet, Leigh Bowery exhibition, Adrian Sutton

Review: Film: Joker Folie a Deux; Book: Alan Hollinghurst's Our Evenings

Paula Hawkins, Photojournalism, Tape Letters Archive project

The BBC National Short Story Award 2024 with Cambridge University

David Oyelowo, Regulating the entertainment industry, Ralph Steadman

Review: art - Monet; book: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney; Joe Lycett's art book

David Mitchell on Ludwig, poet Kathleen Jamie and the world premiere of Helen Grime's Folk

Chilly Gonzales performs, Dickens adaptations, Horror films

John Boorman, Anya Gallaccio, The Halfway Kid performs

Review: film The Substance, Art Michael Craig-Martin, Book The Empusium

A Very Royal Scandal, Glasgow Cathedral Festival & crime writer Peter May.

David Peace, new plays crisis, Booker Prize 2024 shortlist

Edward Enninful, Lady Blackbird performs, Booker prize shortlist

REVIEW: Film: The Critic, Exhibition: Van Gogh, Book: Garth Greenwell's Small Rain

Jacqueline Wilson, JRR Tolkien poetry, BBC TV thriller Nightsleeper

Australian Front Row with Paul Kelly, Simon Armitage, Jazz Money and Shankari Chandran

Richard O'Brien & Jason Donovan on 50 years of Rocky Horror, Bella Mackie

REVIEW: Film: Firebrand; BOOK: Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake; TV: Kaos

Jeremy Denk, Scottish Arts Crisis, Harry Mould

TV: Colin from Accounts; Musical: Why Am I So Single? Hak Baker performs

Michael Keaton; The The play live; Tim Minchin on life, art and success

Review: film: Kneecap, TV: Bad Monkey, book: Ootlin by Jenni Fagan

James Graham, Alexander McCall Smith, the art of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham

Fran Healy, affordable artists' studios, climate change storytelling

Pat Barker, the films of Alain Delon, Proms played by memory, Orlando Weeks

The Outrun, Gwyneth Paltrow dramas, Comedy Roundup, Rebels & Patriots

David Morrissey, Relaxed performances, Alien: Romulus

Nish Kumar, Miriam Margolyes, Rose Matafeo, Teenage Fanclub

Emily Tesh and the Hugo Awards; Dating shows; Kelly Jones

Pericles, Babes, Michael Longley

Sky Peals film, documentary Doom Scroll, & could a book written 100 years ago be the ultimate millennial read?

Joan Baez, Shakespeare in British Sign Language, Charlotte Mendelson

Kensuke Kingdom, best Young Adult Fiction reads, do film trailers reveal too much?

Didi and Echoes by Evie Wyld reviewed; Benjamin Grosvenor performs Busoni

Dramatizing MPs, Jon Savage on LGBTQ and music, Stirling Prize shortlist, Screenwriters v AI

Deadpool v Wolverine, Cherry Jones, Leyla McCalla

Deadpool & Wolverine, Cherry Jones, Leyla McCalla

James Baldwin Centenary Special

Review: theatre: Hello Dolly; TV: The Decameron; film: About Dry Grasses

Keanu Reeves & China Miéville, The Cultural Olympiad in Paris, Making in Blackburn

Arts Sponsorship in Crisis?

Fangirls musical, countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski, Sam West

Review: TV: Those About To Die, Film: Thelma, Theatre: ECHO

Danny Dyer and Pete Bellotte on his hits for Donna Summer

Disco Prom, fast-food themed immersive art, arts funding crisis in Wales, Bill Viola remembered

Anne-Marie Duff, Al Murray, Melvyn Hayes, Billboard art

Review Show: Theatre: Slave Play, Film: Fly Me To The Moon, TV: Sunny

Museum of the Year winner announced

Chariots of Fire staged, Pompidou Centre redeveloped, My Native Land republished

Laurie Anderson's album Amelia, what's in the new Culture Secretary's in-tray?

Review: Starlight Express, Anita Desai's book Rosarita, film: The Nature of Love

Poet Paul Muldoon, film Unicorns and writer Stefan Zweig.

The Bear, Moonchild Sanelly, Dundee Contemporary Gallery

Lynda la Plante, AI and copyright, funding literary festivals

Reviews - Douglas is Cancelled, Ronald Moody Sculptures, The Importance of Being Earnest

Next to Normal, British TV history, In the Eye of the Storm

The Marilyn Conspiracy, Rachel Podger, Emma Glass

Kyoto, Nathaniel Rateliff, Midsummer Day poetry

Review: Film Green Border, Exhibition Stories of Henry VIII's Queens, TV: Federer: Twelve Final Days. Plus Joseph Coelho

Graham Gouldman, Jaws anniversary, queering Shakespeare

Stephen Fry, New Comedians, Questlove

Kiss Me Kate, UK election: culture policies, Persephone Books

Review of films Sasquatch Sunset and Ama Gloria and a look at Vivienne Westwood's clothes

James Shapiro, BEKA, Molly Bloomsday

Liverpool's Taylor Swift Art Trail, Les Dennis, the state of UK festivals

Jon Bon Jovi, Clare Pollard & Marina Warner, Viggo Mortensen and Vikki Krieps

Review: Film - Rosalie, TV - Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, Book - The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship

Queenie, Female pirates, dating dramas

Richard Linklater, Ultimate 90s Bollywood Song, Esther Swift

Review: The Beast, We Are Lady Parts, Beyond Fashion exhibition

Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett, Degas exhibitions, Chigozie Obioma

Bernard Butler, Kafka, Benedict Cumberbatch

Hay Festival 2024 - Young Adult Fiction

The Sympathizer, Ivor Novello Awards, Michelle Terry on Richard III

Vicky McClure, LS Lowry and the sea, International Booker Prize 2024

Colm Tóibín, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron, Iain Sinclair on John Deakin

George Miller, Miranda July, Orchestral Qawwali Project

Review: Big Cigar on AppleTV, Elton John’s photos at V&A, animated/live action film If

John Cleese's Fawlty Towers on stage, Beatrice Harrison, Cannes

Withnail and I on stage, Women & Art at Tate Britain, Alan Murrin

Damian Barr on Maggie & Me, Italian neorealist film, A.I. and Fake Art

La Chimera, Bodkin, a new novel called Great Expectations reviewed

Sir Stephen Hough, Arab Strap, can authors make money?

Party Games play, 200 years of Beethoven’s 9th, literary editing

Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Jeremy Deller, Scarborough Spa Orchestra

The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Marc Quinn at Kew, The Fall Guy,

Spirited Away at London Coliseum, Eurovision build-up, terminal diagnosis films

Michelangelo exhibition at British Museum, Jembaa Groove perform, Inside Number 9

Hanif Kureishi, Ingrid Persaud, Arts Council funding

Pet Shop Boys, review of Challengers film and Expressionists exhibiition

The Legend of Ned Ludd, Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, Mohammad Barrangi

Women and Shakespeare, best beach reads, Black British music exhibition

Designer Sir Kenneth Grange, Taylor Swift's new album, Venice Art Biennale

London Tide with music by PJ Harvey, Salman Rushdie's story of survival: Knife and tenor Ian Bostridge

Lionel Shriver's new book Mania, Tyrell Williams on Red Pitch

Sir John Akomfrah, bicentenary of Byron's death and sped-up music

The Book of Clarence, Liberation Squares, Northern Ireland's filming boom

Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black and Percival Everett's James reviewed

Folk musician Martin Simpson, movie icon Anna May Wong, and classical music leaders criticise Arts Council England

Nathan Hill, Maggie Rogers, International Booker shortlist

Yinka Shonibare, Sean Shibe, cinema and digital decay

Beyonce’s new album Cowboy Carter, Netflix drama Ripley, Io Capitano movie reviewed

50 years of ABBA’s Waterloo, Harewood House exhibition, Trevor Griffiths remembered, the rise of eco fiction and drama

Dev Patel on Monkey Man, which books are on the curriculum?

The National Gallery at 200

Steven Knight drama This Town reviewed, The Perth Museum re-opening

Big Mood, how does comedy work? Bach St John Passion

Norah Jones performs, Sir Ian McKellen on Player Kings, Keisha Thompson

Poet Nikki Giovanni, Andrew Buchan on TV drama Passenger

Kristen Wiig drama Palm Royale and animation Robot Dreams reviewed, Michael Ondaatje on his new poetry collection

Kazuo Ishiguro on jazz, March hares and film ratings

Marjane Satrapi, using AI for alternative history, and the Harlow Sculpture Trail

Architect Daniel Libeskind, composer Karl Jenkins

Keir Starmer, Monster and Reading Genesis reviewed

Paul Theroux on Orwell, Patsy Rodenburg on training actors, musician Sam Lee

Philippa Gregory on Richard III, Blackpool's Showtown, has the superhero franchise bubble burst?

Beth Ditto of Gossip, Ethan Coen on Drive-Away Dolls, Michael Donkor

Jordan Harvey in session, Nye and Copa 71 reviewed

Ava DuVernay on Origin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julianne Moore

Kate Rusby, Edward Bond, Eve Steele and the decline of female filmmakers

Ray Winstone, K Patrick, Ferris & Sylvester

Dune 2, Brian Bilston, Angelica Kauffman RA, Nachtland

Benjamin Britten, director Kaouther Ben Hania, music from Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell

The Jury: Murder Trial, Bhangra Nation, Bluestockings

Sheridan Smith. Movement Coaches and Sexism in French Cinema

Minority Report at Nottingham Playhouse, Wicked Little Letters, and TV series Boarders reviewed

Wim Wenders, Len Pennie and Angus Robertson

Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Sarsgaard, Casting Directors

Sir Peter Blake, David Harewood, John Logan

Jed Mercurio on Breathtaking, Yoko Ono retrospective reviewed

Ukraine drama A Small Stubborn Town, Emma Rice, The Hugo Awards

Stephen Sanchez, Godzilla turns 70

Reinaldo Marcus Green on One Love, Bryce Dessner of The National

One Day, American Fiction, Beyond Form

The Chosen, Cymande, Tayari Jones

The Reytons, Phoebe Eclair-Powell, Andrew McMillan

Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, Jez Butterworth and Declan McKenna

Legion exhibition at the British Museum and Mr and Mrs Smith reviewed

Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone, author Leo Vardiashvili and the Great Escapes exhibition at Kew

Jonny Greenwood of The Smile, Self Esteem on music industry report, Artes Mundi prize winner

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Gruff Rhys, Colin Barrett

The Color Purple reviewed, and the pop concert as cinema phenomenon

Masters of the Air, Ronan Bennett on his Top Boy novel, hobbies and DIY art

Oscar Nominations, Howard Jacobson, Culture Funding Cuts

Andrew Haigh on All of Us Strangers, Lulu Wang on Expats starring Nicole Kidman

Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne on The Holdovers and reivews of The Vulnerables and The Artful Dodger

Daniel Kaluuya, the arts in Wales, shelving big budget films discussion, Jane Jin Kaisen

Poor Things, Jodie Comer, RSC new season, TS Eliot poetry prize

Jonathan Glazer, history of radio drama, Molly Tuttle

Mean Girls and Hisham Matar’s My Friends reviewed

Jack Rooke on TV sitcom Big Boys, Eliza Carthy goes wassailing

Ins Choi on Kim’s Convenience, why are so many films set in a dystopian future?

Golden Globe winner Poor Things reviewed, new deal for Warhammer 40,000

Priscilla and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Kagami reviewed

Dan Levy, National Poetry Library at 70, Clarke Peters

George Clooney, writer Gwyneth Hughes, The Scala Cinema

Final Ghosts, Tennant's Macbeth, Next Goal Wins, National Theatre of Wales

The Unthanks, Lucinda Coxon, the North East Cultural Partnership

Movie stars Adam Driver and Bill Nighy, author AL Kennedy, and the Process of Poetry

Helena Bonham Carter and Russell T Davies, Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Front Row reviews Cold War the musical and Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan on Maestro, Noel Coward's Songs, Wien Museum reopens

Margaret Cavendish, Margareth Olin, Christmas TV

Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland on Ulster American, Panto and Gender Roles, Graphic Novels with Rachel Cooke and Ian Dunt

Benjamin Zephaniah, Wim Wenders' Anselm,The Famous Five, Xmas Ads

Paul King on directing Wonka, Best non-fiction books of 2023, British pop art artist Pauline Boty

Shane Meadows on the British film industry, Children’s books round-up, the Turner Prize

Julia Roberts on Leave the World Behind, guitarist MILOŠ, The Peasants

Front Row reviews Eileen and The House of Bernarda Alba

Billie Marten, Yinka Shonibare, Richard Mantle on Opera North

AI and publishing, terrible record covers, Fred D'Aguiar

Maria Callas, Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane, Rory Pilgrim

The Booker Prize Ceremony 2023

Maestro, reality TV Squid Game, Brutalist architecture

Joanna Hogg, map making, Ghislaine Leung

Ridley Scott's Napoleon, Albert Hall tickets resales, Bob Mortimer's winning comedy fiction

The Alehouse Boys, Sarah Bernstein and AS Byatt

Annette Bening and Jodie Foster

The Barber of Seville in Yorkshire dialect, Art as experience, Turner Prize nominee Jesse Darling, Northern Creative Corridor

Emerald Fennell, Lucy Frazer and Paul Harding

Todd Haynes, Trevor Horn, new galleries at the Imperial War Museum

Anatomy of a Fall, Pete McKee, Wu-Tang Clan 30th anniversary

Front Row reviews 1623, to mark the anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

Billy Bragg, Paul Murray, feminist art of the 1970s

Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem, Judi Jackson, the rise of the Ghanaian art scene

Kenneth Branagh in King Lear, Andrew Motion on Elegies

Henry Winkler, Northern Ballet, David Fennessey

Duran Duran, Dobrivoje Beljkasic at 100 and Sandra Newman on retelling Orwell’s 1984

Backstairs Billy, Jonathan Escoffery, National Theatre Wales

David Fincher’s The Killer and the week’s highlights reviewed

A history of 2 Tone, actor Martin Shaw remembers producer Bill Kenwright, Booker-shortlisted author Chetna Maroo, Lyonesse

Patrick Stewart, Steven Isserlis, The art of skateboard design

Aviva Studios, The Chemical Brothers, Rufus Norris on 60 years of the National Theatre, Danny Boyle's Free Your Mind

The Rolling Stones; Foe; television food consultant; Doctors axed

Bonnie Langford performs Sondheim, film director Maysoon Pachachi, the portrayal of nuns in culture

Front Row from Belfast with writer Paul Lynch and singer Cara Dillon

Martin Scorsese film, John le Carré’s legacy, Madonna on Tour

Front Row reviews the Frasier reboot and performance from folk musician Martin Hayes

Lubaina Himid, Richard Armitage, David Pountney’s new opera

Nigel Kennedy, art gallery labels, how do museums recover stolen art?

Piper Kathryn Tickell performs, film director Terence Davies remembered, author Jhumpa Lahiri, £200 million for Heritage Places

Front Row reviews Philip Guston at the Tate Modern and new film Golda

The Streets, the British Textile Biennial, Kate Prince on her mentor

Patsy Ferran, Rubens & Women, the portrayal of black men in British film

Claudette Johnson, ghosts in literature, the Dutch Golden Age

Víkingur Ólafsson on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Ken Loach’s The Old Oak

James Graham on Boys from the Blackstuff, and are maestros behaving badly?

Front Row hosts the BBC National Short Story Award Ceremony

Philip Barantini on Boiling Point, The Archers cast on Lark Rise to Ambridge

Live from the Contains Strong Language festival

Marina Abramovic and The Long Shadow reviewed, Dmitry Glukhovsky's The White Factory

Carlos Acosta on the Black Sabbath ballet; Birmingham arts funding; the business of British fashion

Jane Austen fashion, poet Daljit Nagra, musician Alice Phoebe Lou performs live

Paul Simon and Charlie Mackesy, the V&A’s Chanel exhibition and author Kamila Shamsie.

Katherine Rundell on Impossible Creatures, the rise of crafts on social media

The impact of the Hollywood strikes, author K Patrick, the iconic chant from the Halo video game

The British Museum’s missing gems, a drinking game drama, National Short Story Award

Lise Davidsen, film Past Lives and Black Atlantic: power, people, resistance exhibition

Sir Ken Dodd exhibition; RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture shortlist; A Life on the Farm documentary

Stephen Lawrence anniversary drama; small publishers; Pablo Larrain on his film El Conde; RAAC in theatres

Anna Wintour on Vogue World; Bloomsbury Group fashion; BBC Singers conductor Sofi Jeannin

Front Row reviews new British film Scrapper, French writer director Louis Garrel

Authors Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché, Stewart Lee on Macbeth, musician Connie Converse rediscovered

Louise Doughty, sign language at music festivals, The Missing Madonna podcast

Corinne Bailey Rae, playwright Peter Arnott, new short story collections

Edinburgh Festival review: The Grand Old Opera House Hotel; Funeral; Kieran Hodgson: Big In Scotland; Vanessa 5000; AI Art; Food

TV's I Claudius; Jules Buckley's Stevie Wonder Prom; the difficulty buying concert tickets

Live from the Edinburgh Festival: Nicola Benedetti, Colson Whitehead, Karine Polwart, Susie McCabe, Andrew O’Hagan

Christy Lefteri's The Book of Fire, Artistic Directors in theatre, Palestinian Embroidery

Composer György Ligeti, L'immensità starring Penelope Cruz, La Cage Aux Folles

Anohni, artists' intellectual property, Bruntwood Prize-winning play Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz

Bruce Lee, mental health in reality TV, poet Sean Street on birdsong

Lucy Prebble on The Effect, Welsh band Adwaith perform and Is the Critic Dead?

Soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha; Joy Ride film and Ann Patchett’s novel Tom Lake reviewed; composer Carl Davis

Welsh Fleabag, Social media and comedy in Edinburgh; Moon Palace in Leeds

The Booker Prize longlist; Freddie Mercury's costume archive, Scottish theatre

West End producer unmasked, Reassessing the poetry of Virgil, Adjani Salmon on Dreaming Whilst Black

Cellist Ana Carla Maza performs, the Mercury Music Prize shortlist

Sinéad O'Connor tribute, Edinburgh Fringe previews, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Efua Traoré on children’s books

Pianist Christian Blackshaw, tech-inspired funding for artists, playwright Rabiah Hussain

Elizabeth Fremantle on Artemisia Gentileschi, French horn player Felix Klieser, logo design

Sarah Phelps on BBC drama The Sixth Commandment, Blur's new album reviewed

Christopher Nolan on Oppenheimer, what is Cynghanedd?, club culture under threat

20 years of Podcasting, Black Venus, AI Songwriting Challenge

Greta Gerwig, Tudor tapestry, Tanika Gupta, Jane Birkin farewell

Mission Impossible, Herzog & de Meuron, Walter Murch

Remembering Milan Kundera, author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Northern Soul Prom, the winner of the Art Fund Museum of the Year

Film-maker Sally Potter on her first music album, the British Library turns 50, romance in later life on stage

PJ Harvey, the Scapa Flow museum, pianist Benjamin Grosvenor performs

Kwame Kwei-Armah, Disney Pixar film Elemental reviewed

Manchester International Festival Special

Ben Okri, film director Shamira Raphaela, Leighton House Museum

The legendary Dolly Parton and celebrating children's books

Front Row reviews Indiana Jones; author Brandon Taylor; Young V&A reviewed

Playwright Kimber Lee, the art of pattern discussed, Elgan Llŷr Thomas on queer culture in classical song

Michael R Jackson on his hit musical, Ray BLK on Champion, the Natural History Museum

Wes Anderson on Asteroid City, Bob Stanley on his biography of the Bee Gees

Elliot Page, Wicker Man music, Jewish Museum and Holocaust Memorial

National Portrait Gallery refurbishment and play Dear England reviewed, violinist Rachel Podger

The winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, the MAC in Belfast and does the UK need more music arenas?

The Beatles at Stowe, Nick Drake, Maggi Hambling

Glenda Jackson remembered, Wayne McGregor, Black Mirror reviewed

The Burrell Collection, Accordion Quartet, Women's Prize Winner Barbara Kingsolver, Folk Film Gathering

Two debuts: novelist Cecilia Rabess, film director Dionne Edwards; the cost of maintaining arts organisations' buildings

Mad Musicals, Eric Whitacre, Women's Prize - Laline Paull

Film Chevalier and new TV drama Significant Other reviewed

Dave Johns on I, Daniel Blake; the Liverpool Biennial; why Dario Fo's plays speak to this moment?

Rufus Wainwright, hairdressing film Medusa Deluxe, the rise of the understudy

Author Maggie O’Farrell, New opera Giant, The consumerism in creativity

Punk exhibition reviewed, Reality film director, TV drama White House Plumbers reviewed

Shane Meadows on The Gallows Pole, and GoGo Penguin perform live

Chita Rivera, a new funding model for the arts discussed, Priscilla Morris

The 75th anniversary of the Windrush - the cultural legacy of a generation

Jhalak Book Prize, Tate Britain Rehang, The Little Mermaid, Cannes

Playing Putin on stage in Patriots, DJ Taylor on Orwell, new V&A Photography Centre

Sparks, EM Forster adaptations, nature mystery writer Bob Gilbert

Arlo Parks, Martin Amis remembered, depicting The Troubles

Caleb Azumah Nelson, Reviews of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret & China's Hidden Century

Chuck D of Public Enemy on watercolours; author Jacqueline Crooks; artist Andy Holden

Contemporary sari design; the politics of museum labelling; Mat Osman's novel The Ghost Theatre

Brokeback Mountain on stage, Venice architecture biennale, author Tan Twan Eng

June Givanni on the PanAfrican cinema archive, Gwen John at Pallant House Gallery reviewed

Author Louise Kennedy, Royal patronage in the arts, beatboxer SK Shlomo

Dennis Potter’s newly discovered play, Cathi Unsworth on goth culture, artist Isaac Julien

Eurovision comes to Liverpool

Playwright Jonathan Harvey on A Thong for Europe, Tom Hanks’s new novel reviewed

Writer Jack Thorne, Derek Jarman’s Blue reimagined, music for the King’s coronation

Sir Lenny Henry on his new play, music from the Tashi Lhunpo monastery, publishing and net zero

Rachmaninoff - the 20th century's great romantic

Patrick Bringley on being a museum guard and TV drama Citadel reviewed

The making of the new RSC production of Cymbeline

Playwright Ryan Calais Cameron, musician Stewart Copeland and is Morris dancing having a moment?

Patrick Radden Keefe on the Sackler family, Iestyn Davies performs live, sustainable theatre

Everything But the Girl, French film Pacifiction and TV drama The Diplomat reviewed

Opera composer Jeanine Tesori, Margaret MacMillan on Paris 1919, new ideas in architecture

Jazz singer Georgia Cecile, the controversy surrounding Barcelona’s La Sagrada Família

Colin Currie performs live, author Catherine Lacey, the influence of Noel Coward

Front Row reviews Hamnet at the RSC and TV drama Obsession; Michael Frayn on his memoir

Max Porter on new novel Shy, Chris Killip exhibition at the Baltic, Kevin Sampson on The Hunt for Raoul Moat

Wade Davis on George Mallory, Benbrick on AI and creativity

The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

Ai Weiwei at the Design Museum and TV drama Rise of the Pink Ladies

Boris Becker documentary, Commemorating the Good Friday Agreement in art, Artist-led organisations

Joe Pearlman on his Lewis Capaldi film, author Craig Brown, Tartan at the V&A

Ria Zmitrowicz on The Power, The ENO’s The Dead City and God’s Creatures reviewed

Cash Carraway on BBC drama Rain Dogs, the might of the UK gaming industry, Kidnapped on stage

Musician Natalie Merchant, poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley, library funding

Barbara Demick on North Korea; Dungeons and Dragons controversy; folk musicians Hack-Poets Guild

Steven Knight on Great Expectations, After Impressionism at the National Gallery

Touchstones Rochdale art gallery's radical 80s history, James Shapiro on Shakespeare

Danny Lee Wynter and play Black Superhero; badly behaved theatre audiences; violinist Pekka Kuusisto

Lisa O’Neill performs live, Dance of Death from the National Theatre of Norway

Richard Eyre on his film Allelujah, and climate change TV drama Extrapolations reviewed

Scottish-Iranian film Winners, playwright Calum L MacLeòid, neurodiversity and creativity

Diversity at the Oscars and Baftas; plays and the cost of living; children's books; Phyllida Barlow

Author Percival Everett, director Pravesh Kumar on Little English

Film My Sailor, My Love; Atwood’s Old Babes In The Wood; Baillie Gifford prize; Nicole Flattery

Pioneering play Top Girls turns 40, do publishers owe a duty of care to memoirists? and the benefits of stopping the show

Daniel Mays on a new production of Guys and Dolls, and how accessible are venues and film sets for performers?

Steven Moffat and Lucy Caldwell on writing about the Hadron Collider

Daisy Jones & The Six on TV. Lukas Dhont’s film Close. Edmund De Waal on potter Lucie Rie

Barry Male Voice Choir, new play Romeo and Julie, WNO’s Blaze of Glory and Welsh culture minister Dawn Boden

Tracy-Ann Oberman, Director Michael B Jordan, Oldham Coliseum

Conductor Antonio Pappano on Puccini’s Turandot and the Ukrainian cabaret artists performing in exile

Immersive David Hockney art and Korean film Broker reviewed; artist Mike Nelson; AI-generated writing

New film The Strays, artists Chila Kumari Singh Burman and Dawinder Bansal, Janet Malcolm’s photography memoir

Michael Douglas, culture in Ukraine a year after invasion, visual effects and animation in the UK

Hugh Jackman, Kevin Jared Hosein, the future of opera

Marcel The Shell With Shoes On, Alice Neel, Spitting Image

Asif Kapadia's dance film Creature; the Barbellion Book Prize winner; South Asian and South East Asian galleries in Manchester

Tracy Chevalier on Vermeer exhibition; live v streaming theatre audiences; American poet A. E. Stallings; The King's Singers

Kate Prince on her suffragette musical, the art of casting, set design at the Brits.

Georgia Oakley director of Blue Jean, Burt Bacharach obituary, Salman Rushdie's Victory City and Peter Doig exhibition reviewed

The Reytons, film-maker Saim Sadiq, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Les Dennis and Mina Anwar, writer Tania Branigan, Kerry Shale on Yentl

Costume designer Sandy Powell, playwright Chris Bush, Donatello sculptures at the V&A

TV drama Nolly and film The Whale reviewed, director M Night Shyamalan

Sonia Boyce, The Quiet Girl, Theatre Freelance Pay, Oldham Coliseum

Beethoven's Für Elise, playwright Garry Lyons, film director Rajkumar Santoshi

Film director Sarah Polley, novelist Ann-Helen Laestadius and deep fakes on TV

The Fabelmans and Noises Off reviewed, Joe Cornish on new TV drama Lockwood and Co.

Mel C on dancing with Jules Cunningham, film-maker Laura Poitras, musician Rasha Nahas

Artist John Akomfrah, Oscar Nominations, Arts Council England responds

The play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons; conductor Alice Farnham; the short film An Irish Goodbye.

Spain and the Hispanic World exhibition, new film Holy Spider, artist Clarke Reynolds

Hepworth, Moore, landscape and cows' backs; fiddle player John McCusker; novelist Victoria MacKenzie

Poet Anthony Joseph, new novels about witches and the fall in female film-makers

Rebecca Frecknall on A Streetcar Named Desire, Rick Rubin, Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh

The Last of Us & Enys Men reviewed

Filmmaker Todd Field on Tár, Glyndebourne tour cancellation, Debut novelist Jyoti Patel

How AI is changing art, the TS Eliot Prize for poetry and the folk music of wassailing

The Light in the Hall, The Shipping Forecast photographs, Nell Zink

Two of the year's major films, Till and Empire of Light, reviewed and John Preston on his TV drama Stonehouse.

Vocal ensemble Stile Antico, Fay Weldon obituary, director John Strickland

Tom Hanks On A Man Called Otto, Author Deepti Kapoor, The London Ticket Bank

Leeds 2023 Year of Culture

The Pale Blue Eye and Happy Valley reviewed, Artist Alexander Creswell

Marie Kreutzer on the film Corsage, Film director Mike Hodges remembered, Artistic buzzwords, The T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry

Terry Hall remembered, state of UK theatre, board games of the last 40 years

Lucy Prebble, immersive experiences, what next for ENO

Quentin Blake discussion, reviews of Avatar and Magdalena Abakanowicz

Neil Gaiman, China's art censorship in Europe, Decline of the working class in the creative industries

Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody; Qatar art, architecture & the World Cup; Hannah Khalil

Zadie Smith on The Wife of Willesden, David Tennant on Litvinenko and Rick Wakeman's stolen gear

Orlando starring Emma Corrin & Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio reviewed, Damian Lewis on A Spy Among Friends

The Turner Prize winner, poet Kim Moore, Razorlight's Johnny Borrell

Antoine Fuqua on Emancipation, NDAs in film and TV casting, playwright April De Angelis

Fergus McCreadie, Leyla Josephine, Scottish National Gallery

Veronica Ryan - shortlisted for the Turner Prize, reviews of new Stormzy album and film White Noise

Maxine Peake on Betty! A Sort of Musical, Turner Prize nominee Heather Phillipson, Signal Film and Media in Barrow-in-Furness

Clint Dyer on Othello, Turner Prize nominee Ingrid Pollard, should museums close controversial galleries?

Turner Prize nominee Sin Wai Kin, Katherine Rundell on John Donne, Ballet Black

Joan Armatrading, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye exhibition and film She Said reviewed

Lady Chatterley's Lover reviewed, Jake Heggie on It's A Wonderful Life, casting Ukrainian actors, Wilko Johnson

Matthew Warchus on Matilda, Kapil Seshasayee performs, climate protests in galleries

Director Luca Guadagnino on Bones and All, Gainsborough’s House, writer Ronald Blythe at 100

The Wonder, Making Modernism, Frantic Assembly, Opera and elitism

Football Inspired Art, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Bruntwood Playwriting Prize winner, Chornobyldorf opera

BBC Centenary, The Art of Radio, Joy Whitby, Climate Fiction

The Crown, Jafar Panahi's No Bears, Jez Butterworth, Goldsmiths Prize

Black Panther Director Ryan Coogler, Photographer Craig Easton

Jennifer Lawrence, mandolin player Chris Thile, Chokepoint Capitalism

Arts Council Funding, the art of the infographic, film director Tas Brooker

The English and Living reviewed, Royal Opera's Director of Opera Oliver Mears

Live from Cardiff with Connor Allen, Zoë Skoulding and music from Catrin Finch and Aoife Ni Bhriain

Nick Hornby, dancer Cecilia Iliesiu, Derek Owusu and Anthony Anaxagorou

Alison Lapper on Sarah Biffin, Ric Renton, Plastics at the V&A Dundee

Tammy Faye musical, Paul Newman's memoir, Daniel Arsham, Simon Armitage

Turn It Up: The Power of Music exhibition; The Turner Prize at Tate Liverpool; Linton Kwesi Johnson

Eliza Carthy, Ruben Östlund, Brutalist Architecture

Taylor Swift and Arctic Monkeys

Front Row reviews popular culture of 1922

Martin McDonagh on The Banshees of Inisherin and The Royal National Mòd

New theatre @sohoplace, director Edward Berger, Jenny Beavan on fair pay for costume designers

The Booker Prize for Fiction 2022

Hieroglyphs at the British Museum, Emily Brontë biopic, Shehan Karunatilaka

Live from Belfast with Ruth McGinley, Conor Mitchell, Claire Keegan

Camilla George, Elizabeth Strout and Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari

Alan Garner Booker Shortlisted, Orfeo Reimagined, Baz Luhrmann on Peter Brook

Booker-nominated author Percival Everett, The Lost King reviewed

Björk, NoViolet Bulawayo, James Bond at 60

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

Viola Davis in The Woman King, playwright Rona Munro and artist Amy Sherald

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Shakespeare North Playhouse and artist Samson Kambalu

The Blackwater Lightship, Filmmaker Kirsty Bell, Black Art

Anthony Roth Costanzo, Unboxed's See Monster, and the cost of living crisis

Michael Winterbottom, Welsh arts project GALWAD, Hilary Mantel remembered

Blonde and Inside Man reviewed, Anna Bailey interview

Beth Orton, Jodi Picoult, South Korean Art

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Louise Doughty on her BBC drama Crossfire, singer-songwriter Miki Berenyi from Lush, author Jenn Ashworth

Ticket to Paradise film, Winslow Homer exhibition, National Short Story Award shortlist announcement

Cellist Abel Selaocoe, Art & History, Curlews In Music

Richard Eyre's The Snail House; Sylvia Anderson and women in TV; the late Jean-Luc Godard

Eileen Cooper, Northern Ireland Opera, Basic Income For The Arts In Ireland, Roger McGough

Trumpet player Alison Balsom and the campaign to revive the works of author Jack Hilton

Loudon Wainwright III performs live, the Booker Prize shortlist, studying English Literature

David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, Venice Film Festival, Booker Longlisted Shehan Karunatilaka, Tom Chaplin

Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power; Three Thousand Years of Longing; Nick Drnaso; the Edinburgh Festivals

Joyce Carol Oates, The comeback of Jungle, RIOPY

Best-selling book charts, author Ann Cleeves and Composer James B.Wilson on the last night of the Proms

Shelea, Reviewing Official Competition and Red Rose, Gus Casely-Hayford

Gregory Doran and the RSC, WASWASA – Whispers in Prayer performance, Taiwan's new cultural landmark

Anne-Marie Duff on Bad Sisters, Returning the Benin Bronzes, Public Service Broadcasting's Prom

Jacob Collier and Lizzy McAlpine, Abdul Shayek and Ishy Din, Threats to writers

Edinburgh Festival: Burn, Counting & Cracking, Aftersun, Festival picks

Immy Humes and Aindrea Emelife, Charlotte Higgins and David Greig, Stefan Golaszewski

Live from the Edinburgh Festival: Matt Forde, Anne Sofie von Otter, Exodus

Jordan Peele on Nope, trombonist Peter Moore, Where Is Anne Frank film review, Edinburgh Art Festival

Bullet Train & Mohsin Hamid's The Last White Man reviewed, conductor Semyon Bychkov

The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Ted Gioia on Duke Ellington, musician Carolina Eyck performs

Disabled-access ticket booking, Writer Will Ashon, Artists Jane Darke and Andrew Tebbs

Beyoncé's album Renaissance, poet Don Paterson, the New Diorama Theatre, Free-for-All exhibition, Nichelle Nichols remembered

Hit the Road & Mercury Pictures Presents reviewed, Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, Bernard Cribbins remembered

Sister Act, Dramatising the Ugandan Asian exodus, David Olusoga

Mercury Music and Booker Prize longlists; museums’ funding; new LGBTQ+ museum

Singer Bella Hardy, Poet Thomas Lynch, Birmingham 2022 Festival

Notre-Dame On Fire and novel Milk Teeth reviewed; Jennifer Walshe performs live; writer Alan Grant remembered

Where The Crawdads Sing; On Sonorous Seas; Maison Margiela's Cinema Inferno

Jean Paul Gaultier, Much Ado About Nothing, Music Tours

Kraftwerk's Karl Bartos, the Spooky Men’s Chorale, playwright Lucy Kirkwood

Persuasion & Patriots reviewed, Durham Brass Festival, Museum of the Year winner

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham, The Railway Children Return

Hildur Guðnadóttir, National Plan for Music Education, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Jack Absolute Flies Again, Joe Stilgoe, Cattelan / Druet

The Story Museum, The Waste Land and Brian and Charles reviewed, Grand Theft Hamlet

New national poet of Wales, Lucian Freud show, The Royal Cornwall Museum, The Blue Woman opera

Claudia Rankine, Derby's Museum of Making, Streamer Fatigue

Peter Brook; Gone With The Wind; new children’s laureate Joseph Coelho

All Our Yesterdays, Sun & Sea, Laura Veirs

In the Black Fantastic exhibition; Maya Youssef performs live; visual artist Colin Davidson's exhibition

Arthur Hughes as Richard III, Literary Prizes, Dadaist Interventions

Stephen Beresford, A harp concerto about bees, James Graham, Peter Kosminsky

Reviews of the plays Rock, Paper, Scissors and documentary Studio Electrophonique, The People's History Museum, Michael Rosen

Rowan Atkinson, Windrush Sculptures, Susanne Bier

Live music festivals; Roy Williams' play The Fellowship; The Horniman Museum

Baz Lurhmann on Elvis, new productions of Carmen and Tom, Dick and Harry

Circle of Fifths, reviews of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and The Lazarus Project

Freddie De Tommaso, Women’s Prize For Fiction Winner, John Byrne, Ukrainian Antiquities

Theaster Gates, Lightyear, Dean Atta, Music Back Catalogues

George Ezra performs, TV drama Sherwood reviewed, Norway's National Museum opens

Reviews of the film All My Friends Hate Me and the play Cancelling Socrates; the Women's Prize for Fiction nominee Ruth Ozeki

Paula Rego Remembered, Cressida Cowell, Elif Shafak, Stones In His Pockets

Ayanna Witter Johnson performs, Clement Ishmael, digital theatre

Africa Oyé, Queer Poetry, Maggie Shipstead

Front Row reviews 1952

Tracey Emin, Anthony Joseph, Bergman Island

Rory Kinnear on the film Men, Lord Parkinson on the new UK City of Culture, The Duchess of Cornwall, Mo Abudu on Blood Sisters

Refik Anadol, Jasdeep Singh Degun, The British Art Show

Reviews of The Midwich Cuckoos, Pistol and Edvard Munch, Meg Mason on Sorrow and Bliss

The Art of Burning Man, dementia on stage, dogs on screen at Cannes

ABBA Voyage, Terence Davies, Zaffar Kunial's poem for George Floyd

The Cannes Film Festival, John Godber's Teechers, the winner of the British Book Awards

Cornelia Parker and Emergency reviewed, The Wreckers, Ivor Novello Awards

Joanna Scanlan; director Indu Rubasingham; the Norfolk and Norwich Festival

Kay Mellor remembered

Top Gun Maverick, Joseph Wright of Derby Painting, Kingsway Tram Subway, Louise Erdrich

Oklahoma! on stage and Conversations with Friends on TV reviewed; The Bob Dylan Centre; The Florence Nightingale Museum reopens

The directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once

Eurovision; BookTok and young adult publishing; Waldemar Januszczak on art in Ukraine

Clio Barnard, Belle and Sebastian, Lisa Allen-Agostini

PJ Harvey, Radical Landscapes exhibition and TV show The Terror-Infamy reviewed

Deesha Philyaw, Tristan Sharps, County Durham bid for City of Culture

Nathaniel Price, Alex Heffes, Actors and AI

Caryl Lewis, Gwenno, Anthony and Kel Matsena

The Corn is Green play and Walter Sickert exhibition reviewed, Cherylee Houston

Raphael exhibition; The Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist; poet Valzhyna Mort

Tim Foley, Heartstopper, The Proms, Lawrence Power performs

Punchdrunk's The Burnt City, John Morton on Ten Percent, musician Jack Savoretti

Atlantis and The Young Pretender reviewed, Martin Green, Venice Biennale

Sarah Solemani on TV's Chivalry; male soprano Samuel Marino performs; Bradford's bid for UK City of Culture

Robert Eggers on The Northman, Oliver Jeffers, the late Sir Harrison Birtwistle

Abdulrazak Gurnah and the Big Jubilee Read from the Library of Birmingham

Benedetta film and Let the Song Hold Us exhibition reviewed; Slung Low Theatre

Jude Owusu, Operation Mincemeat, Wrexham's bid for UK City of Culture 2025

Photographer Edward Burtynsky; Turner Prize shortlist; Novelist Patrick McCabe; Staying well on stage discussion

Richard Cadell and The Sooty Show; The Handmaid’s Tale opera; actor Liz Carr; gender neutral dance calling

Jeremy O. Harris's play Daddy, Walt Disney exhibition & Navalny documentary reviewed; musician Kizzy Crawford

Ocean Vuong, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore reviewed, Southampton UK City of Culture bid, Nadifa Mohamed

Mike Bartlett, Hannah Hodgson, Nick Laird

Rae Morris performs live, author Ashley Hickson-Lovence, video artist Rachel Maclean

A Clockwork Orange, the National Poetry Competition winner announced, Slow Horses and Coppelia reviewed

Glasgow's Burrell Collection reopens; Orphans the musical; Yoga Concerto; Edinburgh’s new Makar Hannah Lavery

How to refill theatres; the 2022 Windham Campbell Prizes; crime writing duo Dreda Say Mitchell and Ryan Carter

Sonia Boyce, Cellist Laura van der Heijden, the Oscars

The Hermit of Treig film and Anne Tyler's novel French Braid reviewed; Erich Hatala Matthes on art and morality

Bridgerton showrunner Chris van Dusen, choreographer Ivan Michael Blackstock, William Morris wallpaper

Joachim Trier, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Angus Robertson

Hew Locke, Ivo Van Hove, Danielle De Niese, Ernesto Ottone and Dr Maya Goodfellow

Mark Rylance, Julian Knight, Reviews of Hockney's Eye, The Dropout and WeCrashed

Olga reviewed, David Hare on Straight Line Crazy, audio postcard from York

Liv Ullmann, Hilary McGrady, Literary Translation

The National Theatre's Rufus Norris, smoking on screen, Alison Brackenbury's poetry collection Thorpeness

Colin Barrett, reviews of Servant of the People, Run Rose Run and Warsan Shire's new poetry collection

Larry Achiampong, Zinnie Harris, Thomas Sanderling

Howard Jacobson, Russian Cultural Philanthropy, Women's Fiction Prize, Turning Red

Sean Baker, The Shires, Kaveh Akbar

The 50 year anniversary of The Godfather, Our Generation reviewed, Paul Dano on his role in the new Batman

Jane Campion on The Power of the Dog, Ukrainian artist Pavlo Makov

Tears for Fears, English Heritage, Unboxed Festival, Welsh poetry on St. David's Day

Ali & Ava reviewed, Cultural Responses to Ukraine, Cherry Jezebel

Mark Neville photographing Ukraine, Whistler's Woman in White exhibition and The Duke film reviewed, Adam McKay on Don't Look Up

David Byrne, Arts Minister Lord Parkinson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Agnès Poirier on culture in Paris

Samuel Bailey, Sensitivity Readers, Social Media Satire

Kit Harington, Chris Riddell on Jan Pieńkowski, Jamal Edwards, Surrealism

Living Sculpture Daniel Lismore, Severance and The Real Charlie Chaplin reviewed, Lady Joker crime thriller

Richard Bean on Hull Truck at 50, portrayal of autism on screen, Sheila Heti

British dance post-pandemic, Pissarro, Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton

Michael Morpurgo's Private Peaceful on stage, Barbellion prize-winning author Lynn Buckle, singer-conductor Barbara Hannigan

Drive My Car film review, Shakespeare's problem plays, the Great Yarmouth arts scene

The resurgence of black and white films, Oscar nominations and Hannah Silva

Yard Act's debut album, writer Esi Edugyan, Jason Katims on the TV series As We See It

The Eyes of Tammy Faye & novel They reviewed, Brass Eye anniversary

Erin Doherty on new drama Chloe, Andrei Kurkov on culture in Ukraine, true crime podcasts

Bastille perform live, independent book sellers, Costa Book Awards Book of the Year Winner

Van Gogh Self Portraits, Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir Part II, Dr Semmelweis

Romola Garai, Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers & Francis Bacon: Man and Beast reviewed

Isabel Allende on her new novel Violeta, Freya McClements on the play The White Handkerchief, William Sitwell and Façade,

Martin Freeman on The Responder and Cultural Levelling Up

Olly Alexander, Honorée Fannone Jeffers, Femi Elufowoju jr on Rigoletto

Ciarán Hinds, Nightmare Alley and The Gilded Age reviewed, the latest Serpentine exhibition on the gaming platform Fortnite

Munich: The Edge of War, Australia, Jo Browning Wroe on her novel, A Terrible Kindness

Tilda Swinton, secrecy in screen casting, proposed cuts at Stoke museums

Adrian Lester on Trigger Point; Heal and Harrow perform live; northern writing prizes

Boiling Point and Hanya Yanagihara's To Paradise reviewed, Costa Children's Award winner Manjeet Mann

Ascension, John Preston on Robert Maxwell and is vinyl manufacturing at breaking point?

Winner of TS Elliot Prize for Poetry, Unboxed, Folk at the Hampstead Theatre

Sheffield Crucible Theatre at 50, Philosophy in the Gallery, Self Esteem

Joe Wright on Cyrano, Costa poetry winner Hannah Lowe, A Hero

Andrea Arnold, Claire Fuller, Afghanistan National Institute of Music

The Costa Book Awards, Julia Ducournau on Titane, disabled access to arts and culture

Joan Didion remembered, Call the Midwife, The Tragedy of Macbeth and a review of the year in culture

Paul Thomas Anderson, Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden, Postcard from Doncaster

Anything Goes, Live arts venues under Omicron, The Princess Bride

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kehinde Wiley, Christmas book gifts

Don't Look Up, Around the World in 80 Days, Cutting It Fine

Postcard from Scarborough, Derek Jarman Protest!, Benjamin Cleary

Colm Tóibín

Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Sarah Phelps, puppetry on stage

Cat Power performs live. Amanda Gorman poetry, Sex And The City follow up and Drive My Car reviewed

Musician Carwyn Ellis performs; The Rules of Art? exhibition; filmmaker Rosemary Baker; Port Talbot postcard

Steven Spielberg, Working Class Heritage, Will Sharpe

Playwright James Graham on Best of Enemies; Lamb film review; The Belarus Free Theatre; remembering actor Antony Sher

The Hand of God and Dürer exhibition reviewed, Aaron Sorkin on Lucille Ball

The 2021 Turner Prize Ceremony

The Parthenon Marbles; Get Back documentary review; Turner Prize nominees Project Artworks; the literary canon

Kelly Lee Owens, Stephen Sondheim, Rowan Williams, Black Obsidian Sound System

House of Gucci, Adele's 30 and The Every by Dave Eggers

Suzanne Lacy, Bishop Auckland, Silent Night

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Turner Prize nominees Gentle / Radical, Costa Book Awards

The Power of the Dog film review; Turner Prize nominees Cooking Sections; South African literature today

King Richard, Wheel of Time and new Zadie Smith play reviewed, Playwright Moira Buffini

Ralph Fiennes on Four Quartets, Songlines exhibition, art postcard from Plymouth

Céline Sciamma on her film Petite Maman, author Sarah Moss on The Fell, diversity in folk arts

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Climate Fiction, Kayleigh Llewellyn

Tori Amos performs, The Courtauld Gallery reopening and Dopesick series reviewed, Heidi Stephens live blogs

Art in Shetland, Timothy Ogene, Sharon Heal and Paul McCartney

Venice and climate change, the story that inspired Dostoevsky, Dean Stockwell remembered

Jeymes Samuel on The Harder They Fall, author Sofi Oksanen, John Gilchrist of UK Theatre, Paul McCartney

Spencer, Alan Cumming and Paul McCartney

The 2021 Booker Prize Ceremony

Little Amal, Anne Carson, Paul McCartney and The National Trust

Armando Iannucci, Booker shortlisted author Maggie Shipstead, Paul McCartney on Penny Lane

Passing film, Colin in Black and White, Booker Prize book group on Bewilderment, Paul McCartney

The reopening of the Hall for Cornwall, Paul McCartney on Eleanor Rigby and Booker Prize nominated author Nadifa Mohamed

Booker shortlisted novelist Patricia Lockwood, Science Museum director Ian Blatchford, Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney, Paul Muldoon, Booker Prize Book Group on The Promise

Booker Prize Book Group: Anuk Arudpragasam on A Passage North

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joan Collins, Armistead Maupin and Verbatim Theatre

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

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

Wole Soyinka, post-pandemic theatre, Michael Winterbottom

Hilary Mantel, Lianne La Havas, Candice Carty Williams, Kieran Hurley

No Time To Die, Soul Train, Karl Ove Knausgaard

Dave Grohl, Jimmy Savile

David Chase, Laura Lomas, Betty Campbell statue

Comedian Njambi McGrath, Turner Prize shortlist review, 25 Years of Buena Vista Social Club

Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, K-pop band BTS address the UN and new film, The Man Who Sold His Skin

Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, Megan Swann, Richard Smyth, The Story of Looking.

The Contains Strong Language Festival

Spiers and Boden, music streaming economics, Calvin Kasulke, Danny Rhodes

We announce the winner of the 2021 Art Fund Museum of the Year

Everybody's Talking about Jamie, Rory Gleeson, Grinling Gibbons Exhibition

Peter Brathwaite, Indecent play review, Small Bells Ring story barge, Lucy Caldwell

Peaceophobia, Help Review, Georgina Harding, Kurt Elling

Anuradha Roy, Propaganda ceramics, British Ceramics Biennial, a new Culture Secretary

Julian Clary, Antonio Pappano, Booker Prize shortlist

Liane Moriarty, Matthew Bourne, Igor Levit

BBC National Short Story Award Shortlist, tenor Stuart Skelton, Shang-Chi film review, Girl Bands now

Elijah Wood, the future of live streaming, Imriel Morgan

The Chair reviewed, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, Timespan shortlisted for Museum of the Year, Punchdrunk

Photographer/film-maker Shirin Neshat, author Yaa Gyasi, Michael K Williams tribute

Cathy Brady, Mick Fleetwood, Jean Paul Belmondo

Spencer at Venice Film Festival, Sally Rooney review, Mogwai, Redemption through reading, Cornish Ordinalia

Quentin Tarantino

Covid pilot events, Ian Rankin, Janine Jansen, Neal Cooper

Hugh Quarshie and Steve Coogan, the Paraorchestra, Daisy Haggard

Actor Liz Carr on Silent Witness and Hollywood

Paula Hawkins, Nia DaCosta, Our Ladies film review, Paralympic dressage music

Underwater Museum in Cyprus, Poet Fred D'Aguiar, Helen Zaltzman on Answer Me This podcast

The Rolling Stones in conversation with John Wilson

Natalya Romaniw, John Tanner, Josh Azouz, Charlie Watts

Kalena Bovell, Don Everly, Jack Thorne, Reza Mohammadi

Nicolas Cage film Pig, Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney, The White Lotus, Sisters

Cinderella, Sean Shibe, Censor, Firstsite

Live from The Edinburgh Festival, including film-maker Isaac Julien

Live from the Edinburgh Festival with Henning Wehn, Frances Poet, Fara and Arusa Qureshi

Music in Afghanistan, The Song Project, Manchester Collective

Vikingur Olafsson, Power in publishing, Thackray Museum of Medicine.

The Courier, Deceit, 2.22 A Ghost Story review

Celebrating Stravinsky

Paradise, John Boyne, Stuart Semple

Phil Wang, Shape Open exhibiton, All Bound Together, Lost manuscripts of Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Sir Tom Stoppard, Ryan Bancroft, Museum of The Year, Nick Laird

Sarah, Duchess of York on her new novel, Max Richter

Repairing Beirut's museum artefacts, Vivo, DCMS performer Visas

Elif Shafak, Jonathon Heyward, Stillwater review

Kathleen Marshall and Sutton Foster, Tim Renkow, Scarlett Johansson suing Disney.

Billie Eilish reviewed, Sir James MacMillan on the First Night of the Proms, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edinburgh Art Festival

Derby: 300 Years of Making

Tokyo: Art & Photography, Brett Goldstein and Nick Mohammed, Wellcome Photography Prize

David Lan on The Walk, The 2021 Booker Prize longlist, David Livingstone birthplace re-opening

Morris Hayes on posthumous Prince album, reopenings in Northern Ireland, actor Amir El-Masry on new film Limbo

April De Angelis, Tokyo Olympics, Jordan Tannahill, Neil Mendoza

McKellen's Hamlet reviewed, Mercury Prize nominees, Alex Von Tunzelmann on statues

Jon Batiste, Museum of the Year shortlist, The Humboldt

Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte on his film Night of the Kings, Best Pick podcast, Tirtzah Bassel Canon in Drag

Debbie Harry on a new Blondie album, 'Reclaiming Amy', Reassessing Amy Winehouse's musical legacy

Quentin Tarantino, YA Fiction, Report from Cannes, The Vegetable Seller

Anna Meredith on Bumps Per Minute, British Podcast Awards, Generational Differences in Publishing

Documentary Witches of the Orient, Antonia Fraser's verse and who should be writing book reviews?

Nowhere Special, Art and ecology with George Monbiot and Ruth Maclennan, "Mid-list" novelist Chris Paling

Marcus Rashford mural, Ian McMillan, gender split in publishing

Llangollen bridge wrapped in patchwork for its Eisteddfod, Cannes Film Festival, Zaida Bergroth on film Tove

Laura Mvula, Michael Spicer, Anthony Bolton

Ola Ince on Romeo & Juliet, harassment and bullying in the acting profession, BFI's Ben Roberts

Manchester International Festival

Paula Rego at Tate Britain, Black Widow, Cultural Recovery Fund a year on

Giles Terera, Chi-chi Nwanoku, The 2021 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Reviewing Another Round

Bobby Gillespie, Karla Black, Audience Anxiety

Mark-Anthony Turnage, V&A East, Patricia Lockwood

Dickens readings, Smart Fund, Randall Goosby

Simon Russell Beale, French Exit, Lisa Taddeo

Siân Owen on Under Milk Wood, Nick Broomfield, Essex stereotypes in culture

Marianela Núñez, Charlotte Perriand exhibition review, Latitude Festival

The Overseas Student, Cherie Jones, India's Parliamentary District row

Joan Armatrading, Erland Cooper, EU cultural quotas

Lauryn Redding, Claire Barnett-Jones, Supernova film, Venice Biennale

Ian McKellen on playing Hamlet

Lisa Dwan on Beckett's Happy Days, the winner of the Walter Scott Prize

Colin Macleod, Jason Reynolds, Hanna Flint reviews 'Together'

Timothy Spall, Shaan Sahota, Universal Basic Income for artists

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gerda Stevenson, Implications of the Covid restrictions extension

Simon Armitage, After Life, The Disciple

Noel Gallagher, Amanda Whittington, Mount Recyclemore

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Danny Elfman, Emily Davison statue

Ai Weiwei, Claire Fuller, Seamus Heaney's poetry on location

Florian Zeller on The Father; Jeffrey Boakye; Ita O'Brien

Joanna Scanlan, Kneehigh, Chibundu Onuzo, Time Review

Sorious Samura, Susanna Clarke, Edinburgh Fringe, Liverpool Biennial

Es Devlin on Forest for Change, artist Phoebe Boswell, Covid amateur choirs update

Films Gunda and First Cow reviewed, Actor and writer Amy Trigg, Composer Dan Jones

Paulette Randall

Pianist Mitsuko Uchida, Bolton Octagon reopens, Ghazal poetry, Anne Boleyn reviewed

Chris Addison on Breeders; Nadifa Mohamed's new novel; BBC Proms 2021 debuts

101 Dalmations prequel, Cruella; Two Tone Exhibition in Coventry, City of Culture; new play The Merthyr Stigmatist

Slavery exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Grime artist Bugzy, the decline or resurgence of crafts