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Joe Lycett on his first solo exhibition, Everything Must Go

2

Review Show: Tony, film about the early life of chef Anthony Bourdain

3

The best theatre at this year's Edinburgh Festivals

4

Steph McGovern on how to buy art

5

Game of Thrones at the RSC first night review

6

Review Show: Irvine Welsh's new novel and Glenn Close's new film

7

Live from the Edinburgh Festivals: Stockard Channing on directing Krapp's Last Tape

8

Magic live in the studio

9

John Hannah on his new comedy crime drama set in Benidorm

10

Review show: Childhood in War, Children of Wolves and kids in Luton

11

How the opiod crisis inspired an opera

12

Mary Beard reveals the Booker Prize longlist, plus Bill Pullman on taking on Chekhov

13

Bill Oddie, remembered by his friend Graeme Garden

14

Review Show: Trainspotting the Musical, Colson Whitehead's new novel

15

Andrew Ridgeley on Wham in China

16

Ruth Madeley on new TV drama The Rapture, Nadine Shah on her BBC Prom

17

The first PM with an English degree, plus a new museum of WWII espionage

18

Review: Christopher Nolan's film The Odyssey with Matt Damon and Zendaya

19

Heartstopper creator Alice Oseman

20

Christopher Nolan on his film The Odyssey, Little House on the Prairie, novelist Candice Carty-Williams

21

Diane Morgan on playing a robot in TV comedy Ann Droid.

22

Review Show: The Rolling Stones album Foreign Tongues

23

Lynval Golding of The Specials on the band's swansong album

24

Ai Weiwei in Manchester

25

Madonna's Confessions II album, Daphne du Maurier, Sky buying ITV

26

Review Show: Penélope Cruz in The Invite, Pride the Musical

27

Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro on his passion for films featuring trains

28

Dave Eggers on his new novel Contrapposto and Supergirl director Craig Gillespie

29

Penelope Keith tribute, Russell Tovey, Katherine Rundell on fairy tales

30

Review Show: Frida Kahlo, Mads Mikkelsen in The Last Viking, Museum of the Year

31

Lauren Child on 25 years of Charlie & Lola

32

Bill Nighy on acting, podcasting and style tips

33

Linda Perry sings live, and we celebrate Mel Brooks' 100th birthday

34

Review: Anish Kapoor, Virginia Woolf's Night and Day, Toy Story 5

35

Katherine Hepburn novel, plus the Obama Presidential Center opens

36

A new Brian Epstein biography and how Estonia is protecting its cultural treasures from potential attack

37

David Hockney special

38

Review: Steven Spielberg's alien film Disclosure Day

39

Scotland's National Poet Peter Mackay honours the country's football team

40

Barry Manilow brings the Manilow magic to Front Row

41

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter, Pan African art and John Tavener's opera Krishna

42

Review: High Society and film Savage House

43

Live from the Belfast Book Festival

44

Rivals writer Sophie Goodhart on new TV series Alice and Steve; depictions of dogs in art

45

Marilyn Monroe at 100

46

Review Show: Paul McCartney, Russell T Davies, Maggie O'Farrell

47

Ann Patchett, plus why launch an all-male publishing house?

48

Jazz legend Miles Davis at 100

49

Live from Hay with Jack Thorne and Val McDermid

50

Review Show: Douglas Stuart's John of John and Cannes Film Festival

51

Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid

52

Winston Churchill: The Painter, and Smoggie Queens creator and star Phil Dunning

53

White Lotus and Bridget Jones star Leo Woodall on his new film

54

Review Show: Rivals and Ian McKellen in The Christophers

55

Mark Cousins on his 16-hour epic documentary

56

The rock star architect of the Baroque age, Sir John Vanbrugh

57

Highs, lows and naked jet-skiers at the Venice Biennale

58

Reviewing The Sheep Detectives, Elizabeth Strout and Henry Moore at Kew

59

Author Siri Hustvedt on her memoir, Ghost Stories

60

Antony Gormley in 2D

61

Celebrating the art of Illustration, with Sir Quentin Blake and Posy Simmonds

62

Review: Spanish master Zurbarán at the National Gallery

63

Paul Weller on his musical evolution

64

Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce on the new Children's Booker Prize

65

Review: Is it ok to film theatre curtain calls on your phone?

66

W1A creator John Morton on Twenty Twenty Six

67

Was Queen Victoria coercively controlled by Prince Albert?

68

The Birth of Television: A Forgotten History

69

Review: The Drama starring Robert Pattinson and Zendaya

70

SNL UK Cast, plus Trash Cinema Icon Mink Stole

71

Robert Macfarlane on the revelations to be found underground

72

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

73

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

74

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

75

Noah Wyle on hit hospital drama The Pitt

76

Saturday Night Live arrives in the UK

77

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

78

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

79

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

80

The Oscars, Ryan Gosling, Self Esteem performs

81

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

82

James McAvoy on his directorial debut, California Schemin'

83

Howard Jacobson's new book, Howl

84

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

85

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

86

Will Self on The Quantity Theory of Morality

87

Author Julia Quinn on Bridgerton

88

Pixar at 40

89

Review: Tracey Emin: A Second Life at Tate Modern

90

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

91

Ukraine Unbroken - New Plays Responding to the War

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

Playwright Jim Cartwright on his groundbreaking debut play Road

96

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

97

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

98

Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee on her new series

99

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

100

Kristen Stewart on her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water

101

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

102

Musician Martin Carthy on retiring from performing live

103

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

104

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - on stage

105

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

106

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

107

Michael Sheen, Laurel & Hardy, writer Patrick Charnley

108

Richard Linklater on Nouvelle Vague

109

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

110

Actor Claire Foy on her role in H Is For Hawk

111

Comedian John Bishop on his life story inspiring a Hollywood movie

112

Beryl Cook at 100

113

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

114

Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Wayne McGregor and Emmylou Harris

115

Blue celebrate 25 years in pop and perform in the studio

116

Screenwriter Eric Roth on his play High Noon

117

Jessie Buckley on her starring role in the film Hamnet

118

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

119

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

120

David Bowie's late-career renaissance

121

Hogmanay live from Glasgow with Belle & Sebastian

122

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

123

Who are the Founding Fathers and Mothers of American Culture?

124

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

125

Actor Will Sharpe on playing Mozart in Amadeus

126

Jane Austen at 250 special

127

The great works of Rob Reiner

128

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

129

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

130

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

131

Kate Winslet on Goodbye June

132

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

133

Composer Sir John Rutter

134

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

135

Front Row remembers Tom Stoppard

136

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

137

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

138

Sydney Sweeney and Pasolini

139

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

140

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

141

Actor Joel Edgerton on his new film Train Dreams

142

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

143

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

144

The Hunger Games on stage, Nuremberg on film, Wild Cherry on TV

145

Actor Fiona Shaw on her new film Park Avenue

146

Edgar Wright on The Running Man

147

Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize announced live from the ceremony

148

All the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025

149

Daniel Day Lewis on his return to the big screen

150

Benedict Cumberbatch on The Thing with Feathers

151

Sarah Snook, Riz Ahmed and return of Play for Today

152

Zadie Smith and Brenda Blethyn live in studio

153

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

154

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

155

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

156

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

157

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

158

John Grisham on his new thriller, The Widow

159

Steve Martin and Alison Brown talk bluegrass and banjos

160

Cathy Tyson on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

161

Guillermo Del Toro discusses his new Frankenstein film

162

Richard Ashcroft on his new album

163

Sam Ryder performs live

164

Lang Lang plays in studio

165

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

166

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

167

Marina Abramović on her dream creation - Balkan Erotic Epic

168

Kathryn Bigelow and Kiran Desai

169

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

170

Steve Coogan on the return of Alan Partridge

171

BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award

172

Actors Matthew McConaughey and Harris Dickinson on their latest films

173

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

174

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

175

Stephen Knight on House of Guinness

176

Late-night shows under fire

177

Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival in Bradford

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

179

Robert Redford remembered, Mark Ronson and Picasso on stage

180

Robert Plant and Alan Moore

181

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

182

The Grand Finale of Downton Abbey

183

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

184

Maxine Peake on Mary Whitehouse, West End star Marisha Wallace

185

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

186

Bryan Adams’ new album, plus writer Damian Barr

187

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

188

Sebastian Faulks' memoir

189

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

190

Indigenous Australian didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton performs live

191

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

192

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

193

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

194

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

195

Norwich Castle reopening, plus director Adrian Noble

196

Peter Sellers at 100

197

Review: Alien Earth series plus Rom-Com Materialists

198

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

199

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

200

Freakier Friday

201

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

202

Artist Andy Goldsworthy on his five-decade retrospective exhibition.

203

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

204

Tom Lehrer remembered, plus Nick Drake's unreleased songs

205

Review Show: Burlesque the Musical

206

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

207

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

208

Mark Gatiss on Bookish

209

Review: The Narrow Road to the Deep North TV Series

210

How Scandinavian design has influenced our homes

211

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

212

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

213

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

214

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

215

Superman is back on the big screen

216

Oasis comeback tour reviewed

217

Review: RSC's The Constant Wife

218

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

219

Tim Key on his sleeper hit The Ballad of Wallis Island

220

Jurassic World Rebirth director Gareth Edwards

221

Review Programme: Van Gogh and Anselm Kiefer

222

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy

223

Billy Porter on activism and artists

224

Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer on F1 starring Brad Pitt

225

Review Show: Pixar's new film Elio

226

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

227

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

228

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland on 28 Years Later

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Review Show: Pulp's new album More

230

Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys remembered.

231

Was 1975 the best year for music?

232

Twin Peaks creator plus Ian Rankin on Frederick Forsyth

233

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

234

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

235

Nick Mohammed on comedy and improvisation

236

Fiddler on the Roof returns to the stage

237

Imelda Staunton in Mrs Warren's Profession

238

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

239

Alison Steadman live from Hay Festival

240

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

241

Mission Impossible & Benicio Del Toro

242

Shirley Manson of Garbage

243

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

244

Joanne Harris on the return of Chocolat

245

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

246

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

247

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

248

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

249

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

250

Leni Riefenstahl, Queen Elizabeth Memorial, Keli

251

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

252

A snapshot of culture on VE Day 1945

253

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

254

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

255

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

256

Noddy Holder of Slade, Stephen Rea and Simone de Beauvoir

257

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

258

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

259

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

260

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

261

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

262

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

263

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

264

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

265

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

266

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

267

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

268

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

269

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

270

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

271

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

272

Freedom of Expression in the Arts

273

Review: The Studio, Grayson Perry, La Cocina

274

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

275

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

276

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

277

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

278

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

279

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

280

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

281

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

282

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

283

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

284

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

285

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

286

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

287

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

288

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

289

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

290

Anjelica Huston, Tim Roth and British Museum Director Nicholas Cullinan

291

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

292

25 Years of 21st Century: Theatre

293

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

294

25 Years of 21st Century: Art and Architecture

295

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

296

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

297

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

298

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

299

25 Years of 21st Century: Books

300

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

301

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

302

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

303

25 Years of 21st Century: Film and Television

304

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

305

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

306

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

307

25 Years of 21st Century: Music

308

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

309

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

310

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

311

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

312

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

313

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

314

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

315

Michael Sheen, Matthew Bourne on Oliver! and ghostwriting

316

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

317

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

318

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

319

Nicole Kidman on Babygirl, Brian Eno on art and Herod

320

Review: Nosferatu, Lockerbie, Nickel Boys

321

Front Row on the Shipping Forecast, at the Cutty Sark

322

Front Row Hogmanay live from Glasgow

323

Bradford UK City of Culture 2025

324

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

325

Chris McCausland, Lauren Mayberry and Barry Jenkins

326

Simon Russell Beale, Rufus Wainwright and Kate Garner

327

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

328

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

329

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

330

Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino, Public Service Broadcasting perform live

331

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

332

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

333

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

334

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

335

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

336

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

337

Donny Osmond, Orhan Pamuk, Puccini's centenary

338

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

339

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

340

Review: Wicked, Cher's memoir, Maddaddam ballet

341

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

342

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

343

Malala Yousafzai, The art of writing recipes, Rebecca Hall

344

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

345

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

346

Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize announced live from the ceremony

347

Booker Shortlisted Authors

348

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

349

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

350

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

351

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

352

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

353

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

354

Billy Crystal, Marina Diamandis, Nordic Music Festival

355

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

356

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

357

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

358

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

359

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

360

Pedro Almodovar, Vanessa Bell, Richard Bean

361

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

362

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

363

Jodie Whittaker, Japanese food art, Booker writer Anne Michaels

364

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

365

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

366

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

367

Rick Astley, The West Wing at 25, Barbara Walker

368

Alison Moyet, Leigh Bowery exhibition, Adrian Sutton

369

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

370

Paula Hawkins, Photojournalism, Tape Letters Archive project

371

The BBC National Short Story Award 2024 with Cambridge University

372

David Oyelowo, Regulating the entertainment industry, Ralph Steadman

373

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

374

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

375

Chilly Gonzales performs, Dickens adaptations, Horror films

376

John Boorman, Anya Gallaccio, The Halfway Kid performs

377

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

378

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

379

David Peace, new plays crisis, Booker Prize 2024 shortlist

380

Edward Enninful, Lady Blackbird performs, Booker prize shortlist

381

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

382

Jacqueline Wilson, JRR Tolkien poetry, BBC TV thriller Nightsleeper

383

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

384

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

385

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

386

Jeremy Denk, Scottish Arts Crisis, Harry Mould

387

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

388

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

389

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

390

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

391

Fran Healy, affordable artists' studios, climate change storytelling

392

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

393

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

394

David Morrissey, Relaxed performances, Alien: Romulus

395

Nish Kumar, Miriam Margolyes, Rose Matafeo, Teenage Fanclub

396

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

397

Pericles, Babes, Michael Longley

398

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

399

Joan Baez, Shakespeare in British Sign Language, Charlotte Mendelson

400

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

401

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

402

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

403

Deadpool v Wolverine, Cherry Jones, Leyla McCalla

404

Deadpool & Wolverine, Cherry Jones, Leyla McCalla

405

James Baldwin Centenary Special

406

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

407

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

408

Arts Sponsorship in Crisis?

409

Fangirls musical, countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski, Sam West

410

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

411

Danny Dyer and Pete Bellotte on his hits for Donna Summer

412

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

413

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

414

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

415

Museum of the Year winner announced

416

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

417

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

418

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

419

Poet Paul Muldoon, film Unicorns and writer Stefan Zweig.

420

The Bear, Moonchild Sanelly, Dundee Contemporary Gallery

421

Lynda la Plante, AI and copyright, funding literary festivals

422

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

423

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

424

The Marilyn Conspiracy, Rachel Podger, Emma Glass

425

Kyoto, Nathaniel Rateliff, Midsummer Day poetry

426

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

427

Graham Gouldman, Jaws anniversary, queering Shakespeare

428

Stephen Fry, New Comedians, Questlove

429

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

430

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

431

James Shapiro, BEKA, Molly Bloomsday

432

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

433

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

434

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

435

Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship

436

Queenie, Female pirates, dating dramas

437

Richard Linklater, Ultimate 90s Bollywood Song, Esther Swift

438

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

439

Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett, Degas exhibitions, Chigozie Obioma

440

Bernard Butler, Kafka, Benedict Cumberbatch

441

Hay Festival 2024 - Young Adult Fiction

442

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

443

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

444

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

445

George Miller, Miranda July, Orchestral Qawwali Project

446

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

447

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

448

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

449

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

450

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

451

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

452

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

453

Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Jeremy Deller, Scarborough Spa Orchestra

454

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

455

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

456

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

457

Hanif Kureishi, Ingrid Persaud, Arts Council funding

458

Pet Shop Boys, review of Challengers film and Expressionists exhibiition

459

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

460

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

461

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

462

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

463

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

464

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

465

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

466

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

467

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

468

Nathan Hill, Maggie Rogers, International Booker shortlist

469

Yinka Shonibare, Sean Shibe, cinema and digital decay

470

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

471

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

472

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

473

The National Gallery at 200

474

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

475

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

476

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

477

Poet Nikki Giovanni, Andrew Buchan on TV drama Passenger

478

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

479

Kazuo Ishiguro on jazz, March hares and film ratings

480

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

481

Architect Daniel Libeskind, composer Karl Jenkins

482

Keir Starmer, Monster and Reading Genesis reviewed

483

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

484

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

485

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

486

Jordan Harvey in session, Nye and Copa 71 reviewed

487

Ava DuVernay on Origin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julianne Moore

488

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

489

Ray Winstone, K Patrick, Ferris & Sylvester

490

Dune 2, Brian Bilston, Angelica Kauffman RA, Nachtland

491

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

492

The Jury: Murder Trial, Bhangra Nation, Bluestockings

493

Sheridan Smith. Movement Coaches and Sexism in French Cinema

494

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

495

Wim Wenders, Len Pennie and Angus Robertson

496

Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Sarsgaard, Casting Directors

497

Sir Peter Blake, David Harewood, John Logan

498

Jed Mercurio on Breathtaking, Yoko Ono retrospective reviewed

499

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

500

Stephen Sanchez, Godzilla turns 70

501

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

502

One Day, American Fiction, Beyond Form

503

The Chosen, Cymande, Tayari Jones

504

The Reytons, Phoebe Eclair-Powell, Andrew McMillan

505

Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, Jez Butterworth and Declan McKenna

506

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

507

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

508

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

509

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

510

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

511

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

512

Oscar Nominations, Howard Jacobson, Culture Funding Cuts

513

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

514

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

515

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

516

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

517

Jonathan Glazer, history of radio drama, Molly Tuttle

518

Mean Girls and Hisham Matar’s My Friends reviewed

519

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

520

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

521

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

522

Priscilla and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Kagami reviewed

523

Dan Levy, National Poetry Library at 70, Clarke Peters

524

George Clooney, writer Gwyneth Hughes, The Scala Cinema

525

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

526

The Unthanks, Lucinda Coxon, the North East Cultural Partnership

527

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

528

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

529

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

530

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

531

Margaret Cavendish, Margareth Olin, Christmas TV

532

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

533

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

534

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

535

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

536

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

537

Front Row reviews Eileen and The House of Bernarda Alba

538

Billie Marten, Yinka Shonibare, Richard Mantle on Opera North

539

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

540

Maria Callas, Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane, Rory Pilgrim

541

The Booker Prize Ceremony 2023

542

Maestro, reality TV Squid Game, Brutalist architecture

543

Joanna Hogg, map making, Ghislaine Leung

544

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

E
545

The Alehouse Boys, Sarah Bernstein and AS Byatt

546

Annette Bening and Jodie Foster

547

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

548

Emerald Fennell, Lucy Frazer and Paul Harding

549

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

550

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

E
551

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

552

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

553

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

554

Kenneth Branagh in King Lear, Andrew Motion on Elegies

555

Henry Winkler, Northern Ballet, David Fennessey

556

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

557

Backstairs Billy, Jonathan Escoffery, National Theatre Wales

558

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

559

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

560

Patrick Stewart, Steven Isserlis, The art of skateboard design

561

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

562

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

563

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

564

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

565

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

566

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

567

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

568

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

569

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

570

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

571

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

572

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

573

Claudette Johnson, ghosts in literature, the Dutch Golden Age

574

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

E
575

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

576

Front Row hosts the BBC National Short Story Award Ceremony

577

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

578

Live from the Contains Strong Language festival

579

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

580

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

581

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

582

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

583

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

584

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

585

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

586

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

587

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

588

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

589

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

590

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

591

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

592

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

593

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

594

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

595

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

596

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

597

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

598

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

599

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

600

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

601

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

602

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

603

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

604

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

605

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

606

Cellist Ana Carla Maza performs, the Mercury Music Prize shortlist

607

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

608

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

609

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

610

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

611

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

612

20 years of Podcasting, Black Venus, AI Songwriting Challenge

613

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

614

Mission Impossible, Herzog & de Meuron, Walter Murch

615

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

616

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

617

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

618

Kwame Kwei-Armah, Disney Pixar film Elemental reviewed

619

Manchester International Festival Special

620

Ben Okri, film director Shamira Raphaela, Leighton House Museum

621

The legendary Dolly Parton and celebrating children's books

622

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

623

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

624

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

625

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

626

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

627

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

628

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

629

The Beatles at Stowe, Nick Drake, Maggi Hambling

630

Glenda Jackson remembered, Wayne McGregor, Black Mirror reviewed

631

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

632

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

633

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

634

Film Chevalier and new TV drama Significant Other reviewed

635

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

636

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

637

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

638

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

639

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

640

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

641

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

642

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

643

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

644

Sparks, EM Forster adaptations, nature mystery writer Bob Gilbert

645

Arlo Parks, Martin Amis remembered, depicting The Troubles

646

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

647

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

648

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

649

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

650

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

651

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

652

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

653

Eurovision comes to Liverpool

654

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

655

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

656

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

657

Rachmaninoff - the 20th century's great romantic

658

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

659

The making of the new RSC production of Cymbeline

660

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

661

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

662

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

663

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

664

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

665

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

666

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

667

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

668

Wade Davis on George Mallory, Benbrick on AI and creativity

669

The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio

670

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

671

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

672

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

673

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

674

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

675

Musician Natalie Merchant, poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley, library funding

676

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

677

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

678

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

679

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

680

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

681

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

682

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

683

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

684

Author Percival Everett, director Pravesh Kumar on Little English

685

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

686

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

687

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

688

Steven Moffat and Lucy Caldwell on writing about the Hadron Collider

689

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

690

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

691

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

692

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

693

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

694

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

695

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

696

Hugh Jackman, Kevin Jared Hosein, the future of opera

697

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

698

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

699

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

700

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

701

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

702

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

703

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

704

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

705

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

706

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

707

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

708

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

709

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

710

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

711

Artist John Akomfrah, Oscar Nominations, Arts Council England responds

712

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

713

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

714

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

715

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

716

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

717

The Last of Us & Enys Men reviewed

718

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

719

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

720

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

721

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

722

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

723

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

724

Leeds 2023 Year of Culture

725

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

726

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

727

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

728

Lucy Prebble, immersive experiences, what next for ENO

729

Quentin Blake discussion, reviews of Avatar and Magdalena Abakanowicz

730

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

731

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

732

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

733

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

734

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

735

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

736

Fergus McCreadie, Leyla Josephine, Scottish National Gallery

737

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

738

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

739

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

740

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

741

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

742

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

743

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

744

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

745

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

746

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

747

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

748

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

749

Black Panther Director Ryan Coogler, Photographer Craig Easton

750

Jennifer Lawrence, mandolin player Chris Thile, Chokepoint Capitalism

751

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

752

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

753

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

754

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

755

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

756

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

757

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

758

Eliza Carthy, Ruben Östlund, Brutalist Architecture

759

Taylor Swift and Arctic Monkeys

760

Front Row reviews popular culture of 1922

761

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

762

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

763

The Booker Prize for Fiction 2022

764

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

765

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

766

Camilla George, Elizabeth Strout and Iranian artist Soheila Sokhanvari

767

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

768

Booker-nominated author Percival Everett, The Lost King reviewed

769

Björk, NoViolet Bulawayo, James Bond at 60

770

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

771

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

772

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

773

The Blackwater Lightship, Filmmaker Kirsty Bell, Black Art

774

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

775

Michael Winterbottom, Welsh arts project GALWAD, Hilary Mantel remembered

776

Blonde and Inside Man reviewed, Anna Bailey interview

777

Beth Orton, Jodi Picoult, South Korean Art

778

Ralph Vaughan Williams

779

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

780

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

781

Cellist Abel Selaocoe, Art & History, Curlews In Music

782

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

783

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

784

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

785

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

786

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

787

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

788

Joyce Carol Oates, The comeback of Jungle, RIOPY

789

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

790

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

791

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

792

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

793

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

794

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

795

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

796

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

797

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

798

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

799

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

800

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

801

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

802

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

803

Sister Act, Dramatising the Ugandan Asian exodus, David Olusoga

804

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

805

Singer Bella Hardy, Poet Thomas Lynch, Birmingham 2022 Festival

806

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

807

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

808

Jean Paul Gaultier, Much Ado About Nothing, Music Tours

809

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

810

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

811

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

812

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

813

Jack Absolute Flies Again, Joe Stilgoe, Cattelan / Druet

814

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

815

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

816

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

817

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

818

All Our Yesterdays, Sun & Sea, Laura Veirs

819

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

820

Arthur Hughes as Richard III, Literary Prizes, Dadaist Interventions

821

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

822

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

823

Rowan Atkinson, Windrush Sculptures, Susanne Bier

824

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

825

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

826

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

827

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

828

Theaster Gates, Lightyear, Dean Atta, Music Back Catalogues

829

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

830

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

831

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

832

Ayanna Witter Johnson performs, Clement Ishmael, digital theatre

833

Africa Oyé, Queer Poetry, Maggie Shipstead

834

Front Row reviews 1952

835

Tracey Emin, Anthony Joseph, Bergman Island

836

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

837

Refik Anadol, Jasdeep Singh Degun, The British Art Show

838

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

839

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

840

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

841

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

842

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

843

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

844

Kay Mellor remembered

845

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

846

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

847

The directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once

848

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

849

Clio Barnard, Belle and Sebastian, Lisa Allen-Agostini

850

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

851

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

852

Nathaniel Price, Alex Heffes, Actors and AI

853

Caryl Lewis, Gwenno, Anthony and Kel Matsena

854

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

855

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

856

Tim Foley, Heartstopper, The Proms, Lawrence Power performs

857

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

858

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

859

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

860

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

861

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

862

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

863

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

864

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

865

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

866

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

867

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

868

Mike Bartlett, Hannah Hodgson, Nick Laird

869

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

870

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

E
871

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

E
872

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

873

Sonia Boyce, Cellist Laura van der Heijden, the Oscars

874

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

875

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

876

Joachim Trier, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Angus Robertson

877

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

878

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

879

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

880

Liv Ullmann, Hilary McGrady, Literary Translation

881

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

882

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

883

Larry Achiampong, Zinnie Harris, Thomas Sanderling

884

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

885

Sean Baker, The Shires, Kaveh Akbar

886

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

887

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

888

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

889

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

890

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

891

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

892

Samuel Bailey, Sensitivity Readers, Social Media Satire

893

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

894

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

895

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

896

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

897

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

898

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

899

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

900

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

901

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

902

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

903

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

904

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

905

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

906

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

907

Martin Freeman on The Responder and Cultural Levelling Up

908

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

909

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

910

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

911

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

912

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

913

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

914

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

915

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

916

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

917

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

918

Andrea Arnold, Claire Fuller, Afghanistan National Institute of Music

919

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

920

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

921

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

922

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

923

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kehinde Wiley, Christmas book gifts

924

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

925

Postcard from Scarborough, Derek Jarman Protest!, Benjamin Cleary

926

Colm Tóibín

927

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

928

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

929

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

930

Steven Spielberg, Working Class Heritage, Will Sharpe

931

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

932

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

933

The 2021 Turner Prize Ceremony

934

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

935

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

936

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

937

Suzanne Lacy, Bishop Auckland, Silent Night

938

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

939

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

940

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

941

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

942

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

943

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Climate Fiction, Kayleigh Llewellyn

944

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

945

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

946

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

947

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

948

Spencer, Alan Cumming and Paul McCartney

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949

The 2021 Booker Prize Ceremony

950

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

951

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

952

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

953

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

954

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

955

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

956

Booker Prize Book Group: Anuk Arudpragasam on A Passage North

957

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

958

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

959

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

960

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

961

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

962

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

963

Joan Collins, Armistead Maupin and Verbatim Theatre

964

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

965

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

966

Wole Soyinka, post-pandemic theatre, Michael Winterbottom

967

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

968

No Time To Die, Soul Train, Karl Ove Knausgaard

969

Dave Grohl, Jimmy Savile

970

David Chase, Laura Lomas, Betty Campbell statue

971

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

972

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

973

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

974

The Contains Strong Language Festival

975

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

976

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

977

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

978

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

979

Peaceophobia, Help Review, Georgina Harding, Kurt Elling

980

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

981

Julian Clary, Antonio Pappano, Booker Prize shortlist

982

Liane Moriarty, Matthew Bourne, Igor Levit

983

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

984

Elijah Wood, the future of live streaming, Imriel Morgan

985

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

986

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

987

Cathy Brady, Mick Fleetwood, Jean Paul Belmondo

988

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

989

Quentin Tarantino

990

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

991

Hugh Quarshie and Steve Coogan, the Paraorchestra, Daisy Haggard

992

Actor Liz Carr on Silent Witness and Hollywood

993

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

994

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

995

The Rolling Stones in conversation with John Wilson

996

Natalya Romaniw, John Tanner, Josh Azouz, Charlie Watts

997

Kalena Bovell, Don Everly, Jack Thorne, Reza Mohammadi

998

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

999

Cinderella, Sean Shibe, Censor, Firstsite

1000

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