Will Pound, Future of Television, Royal Albert Hall

Harmonica player Will Pound. Plus the future of television after the lockdown.

• 28 mins

Alicia Keys, Vanessa Redgrave

Alicia Keys on her early life and career, and Vanessa Redgrave performs poetry for VE Day.

• 28 mins

Jude Kelly, Emma Thompson, how to write a musical, online art games reviewed

Jude Kelly on the first online WOW Festival, Emma Thompson reads poetry by Liz Lochhead.

• 28 mins

Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah in conversation with Samira Ahmed.

• 28 mins

White Lines, Víkingur Ólafsson, How to write a play, Eliza Hittman

Netflix drama White Lines, and pianist Víkingur Ólafsson live from Reykjavík

• 41 mins

Tom Sutcliffe talks to playwright and poet Inua Ellams

Inua Ellams, writer of hit play Barber Shop Chronicles, on his life and work.

• 28 mins

Stephen La Rivière, Nancy Kerr, Silas Marner

Nebula-75 creator Stephen La Rivière, and singer Nancy Kerr.

• 28 mins

Simon Schama on Rembrandt's The Night Watch, can the performing arts survive coronavirus?

We take a close look at the masterpiece as a hyper-resolution photograph of it goes online

• 28 mins

Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation, Rubaiyat Hossain, Abigail Pogson, Martin Green

Unprecedented - new plays respond to the pandemic, Rubaiyat Hossain on her new film.

• 28 mins

The County & Little Fires Everywhere; The Archers; Víkingur Ólafsson; poetry to console

Little Fires Everywhere and The County reviewed. The Archers and Coronavirus

• 41 mins

Kirsty Lang talks to American writer AM Homes

AM Homes, writer of darkly comic fiction, talks about her novels, short stories and memoir

• 28 mins

Tracee Ellis Ross, Walter Iuzzolino, Southbank Centre

Tracee Ellis Ross on The High Note, and Walter Iuzzolino on Walter Presents.

• 28 mins

John Grisham, re-opening of museums and galleries, the best of theatre online

Bestselling author John Grisham on his latest novel.

• 28 mins

Can arts venues survive social distancing?

Will the finances ever stack up and what is lost when there's no crowd?

• 28 mins

Indira Varma, Víkingur Ólafsson, Snowpiercer and The Lockdown Plays reviewed, DJ Mr Switch, Tom Morris

Indira Varma on A Room of One's Own.

• 41 mins

Sitting in Limbo, Joanna Briscoe, Christo, The Uncertain Kingdom

TV drama about the Windrush scandal reviewed and Joanna Briscoe on her new novel Seduction

• 28 mins

Carrie Mae Weems, Liz Lochhead, How will museums reflect the pandemic

Carrie Mae Weems on the role art can play in the current crisis in the US

• 28 mins

David Tennant and Michael Sheen in Staged, Ethiopian poetry, Talking About Race

Staged, starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen, and an anthology of Ethiopian poetry.

• 28 mins

Andrew Patterson, Writing about Race, Mark Damazer Chair of Booker Prize Foundation

Andrew Patterson on The Vast of Night, an homage to 50s sci-fi TV.

• 28 mins

Víkingur Ólafsson, David Greig, El Presidente, Inclusive publishing

Víkingur Ólafsson performs Bach. Plus David Greig's new play.

• 41 mins

Michaela Coel, The Comedy Women in Print Prize, Bristol's Colston statue

Actor and writer Michaela Coel on I May Destroy You, and Bristol's Colston statue.

• 28 mins

Spike Lee; Hope Mirrlees' Paris - A Poem; and are we being more creative in lockdown?

Spike Lee on Da 5 Bloods, his film about African American veterans returning to Vietnam.

• 28 mins

Robert Lindsay, Tony Hall, How to make a new musical

Robert Lindsay on his first acting job 50 years ago. Plus BBC DG Tony Hall.

• 28 mins

Simon Bird, Whiteness, Ruth Patterson, Tony Walsh

Simon Bird on Days of the Bagnold Summer, Whiteness discussed, Ruth Patterson, Tony Walsh

• 34 mins

The Salisbury Poisonings, Víkingur Ólafsson, Walter Scott Prize, Pilgrims

TV drama The Salisbury Poisonings, and Víkingur Ólafsson's final performance for Front Row

• 41 mins

Tracey Emin, Alison Brackenbury, Book Covers

Tracey Emin on the artworks she has produced during lockdown.

• 28 mins

Jean Toomer's Cane adapted, Bloomsday, Alison Brackenbury, Museums in lockdown

Jean Toomer's Cane adapted, Bloomsday, Alison Brackenbury, Museums in lockdown

• 28 mins

Judd Apatow, Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for children's literature, job losses in theatre, Alison Brackenbury

Judd Apatow on The King of Staten Island, and the Carnegie and Greenaway winners announced

• 28 mins

Vera Lynn remembered, guitarist Sean Shibe, PlacePrints audio plays reviewed, Poetry from Alison Brackenbury

Tributes to Dame Vera Lynn, guitarist Sean Shibe and PlacePrints audio plays reviewed.

• 28 mins

Rebel Wilson, Ian Holm remembered, Bob Dylan, The Luminaries

Rebel Wilson on her TV series Last One Laughing, and actor Sir Ian Holm remembered.

• 41 mins

Talking Heads, Jarvis Cocker, Thomas Clay

We review the remake of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads and consider the art of the monologue

• 29 mins

Rethink The Arts

Rethinking the arts for a post Covid-19 world.

• 28 mins

Griselda Pollock

Griselda Pollock, the first art historian to win the prestigious Holberg Prize.

• 28 mins

Crisis in theatre, Stuart Evers new novel, Eurovision the film, Bristol’s Colston statue

Theatre Royal Plymouth in crisis, Stuart Evers novel, Eurovision the film, Colston statue.

• 28 mins

Michael Palin, The Last of Us Part II reviewed, Anthony Thwaite, Rethink - Nicola Triscott, Roadmap to Reopening Theatres

Michael Palin on Waiting for Godot

• 41 mins

Kevin Kwan, Annilese Miskimmon of ENO, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

Kevin Kwan, author of the Crazy Rich Asians novels, and ENO's Annilese Miskimmon

• 28 mins

The Arts in Crisis

Simon Rattle and other leading figures discuss the crisis facing the arts.

• 43 mins

Director Werner Herzog, actor Danny Sapani, Watford bookclub

Werner Herzog on his latest film, Danny Sapani on play Les Blancs, Watford's big bookclub.

• 28 mins

The Secrets She Keeps, Fyzal Boulifa, Urdu poetry in Bradford

The Secrets She Keeps, Fyzal Boulifa on his new film Lynn + Lucy, Urdu poetry in Bradford.

• 28 mins

Theatres in pink, David Pickard on the BBC Proms, Friday Review on Hamilton, Decolonising arts curriculum in school

Theatres wrapped in pink to campaign for survival.

• 41 mins

Funding for the arts, Wayne McGregor, Ennio Morricone

Arts funding - is it enough? Wayne McGregor's new ballet and a tribute to Ennio Morricone.

• 28 mins

Rufus Wainwright, Neil Mendoza, Tate Bursaries, Ringo at 80

Rufus Wainwright, Neil Mendoza, Tate Bursaries and Ringo Starr at 80.

• 28 mins

Katori Hall; cinema after lockdown; documenting empty arts spaces

US playwright Katori Hall; the future of cinema after lockdown.

• 28 mins

Philip Pullman on Northern Lights 25 years on, Mrs America reviewed, Simon Schama

Philip Pullman and Northern Lights 25 years on, Simon Schama and a review of Mrs America.

• 28 mins

The Kanneh-Masons, Minack Theatre, Imran Perretta

Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason perform live from their family home.

• 41 mins

Anish Kapoor, The Plot Against America, Rachel De-Lahay, drive in comedy

Review of The Plot Against America, Rachel De-Lahay, Anish Kapoor, Daniel Sloss.

• 28 mins

The Chicks, Hammed Animashaun, Liz Johnson Artur

The Chicks, the biggest selling U.S. female band, on their new album Gaslighter.

• 28 mins

Winning back audience trust, the doctor turned novelist, musical collaboration in lockdown

Winning back audience trust, the doctor turned novelist, musical collaboration in lockdown

• 28 mins

Get Carter director Mike Hodges, Tate Bursary artist Oreet Ashery, the plight of arts freelancers in the pandemic

Mike Hodges, director of Get Carter, on his 1989 film Black Rainbow, with Rosanna Arquette

• 28 mins

Alfre Woodard, film Come As You Are and Ellie Goulding album Brightest Blue reviewed, Richard Herring

Alfre Woodard on playing a death row prison warden in Clemency.

• 41 mins

Josephine Mackerras, Sean Edwards, summer theatre round-up, John Mullan on Mansfield Park

Josephine Mackerras on her film, Alice, about a woman who becomes an escort.

• 28 mins

Nell Dunn, Kelly O'Sullivan, 846, Q Magazine

Nell Dunn on her new memoir The Muse, Kelly O'Sullivan, 846, Q Magazine.

• 28 mins

Tom Sutcliffe talks to screenwriter and film director Oliver Stone about his memoir Chasing the Light

Director Oliver Stone on getting into Hollywood chronicled in his memoir Chasing the Light

• 28 mins

Jimmy McGovern; crime writing prize; dancing in lockdown; photographer Tyler Mitchell

Jimmy McGovern; crime writing; dancing in lockdown; photographer Tyler Mitchell.

• 28 mins

Mira Nair on A Suitable Boy, Taylor Swift's album Folklore, the film How to Build a Girl, Alberta Whittle and Theatre News

Director Mira Nair on her television adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel, A Suitable Boy.

• 41 mins

Shirley Collins, Kit de Waal, Caine Prize for African Writing winner, Olivia de Havilland remembered

Folk singer Shirley Collins on her album Heart's Ease.

• 28 mins

Shawanda Corbett, Booker longlist 2020, Claire Oakley

Shawanda Corbett, The Booker longlist, Claire Oakley

• 28 mins

Hilary Mantel, Electronic at The Design Museum, Ai Wei Wei, the future for the panto?

Hilary Mantel, Electronic at The Design Museum, Ai Wei Wei, the future for the panto?

• 28 mins

Whipped cream on The Fourth Plinth, Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee, and Booker Prize nominated Avni Doshi

Heather Phillipson's Trafalgar Square whipped cream sculpture, and Derry Girls' Lisa McGee

• 28 mins

Sir Alan Parker remembered, Beyoncé's Black is King, Prodigal Son, Natasha Trethewey, Don Hahn

Sir Alan Parker remembered by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

• 41 mins

Barbara Kingsolver as poet, Es Devlin's Lockdown Discovery, Sculptor Thomas J. Price, pianist Leon Fleisher remembered

Barbara Kingsolver, designer Es Devlin, and artist Thomas J Price

• 28 mins

Little Birds writer Sophia Al-Maria, Simon Armitage, Summer reads, Tara Gbolade

Artist, writer, and filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria on Little Birds, and Simon Armitage.

• 28 mins

Maggie O'Farrell, Singing in Choirs and Covid, Mark Billingham's Lockdown Discovery

Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, shortlisted for the Women's Prize.

• 28 mins

Arts in the Midlands, Love Letters to Scotland, Soweto Kinch

Arts in the Midlands, Love Letters to Scotland, and Soweto Kinch's Lockdown Discovery.

• 28 mins

Es Devlin, Drama by postcard, Ali Smith's Summer, photographer Alys Tomlinson

Es Devlin on her artwork marking the 75th anniversary of Nagasaki and Hiroshima

• 41 mins

Xiaolu Guo, Belarus Free Theatre, Blindness, The Leach Pottery

Novelist Xiaolu Guo, Belarus Free Theatre arrests, Bernard Leach's St Ives pottery

• 28 mins

Glyndebourne Opera returns. My Rembrandt film. How dangerous is playing the trumpet?

Glyndebourne Opera returns. My Rembrandt film. How dangerous is playing the trumpet?

• 28 mins

Lovecraft Country, Prison Radio Drama, Women's Prize For Fiction Shortlisted Jenny Offill

TV drama Lovecraft Country, set in 1950s Jim Crow America, reviewed.

• 27 mins

Lyricist Don Black

Lyricist Don Black on writing songs like Diamonds are Forever and Born Free.

• 28 mins

Gloria Estefan, Pinocchio, Shane McCrae

Gloria Estefan on her album Brazil305, a new film version of Pinocchio, poet Shane McCrae.

• 41 mins

An interview with Jamaican dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson

An interview with Jamaican dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, 2020 PEN Pinter Prize winner.

• 28 mins

Modern Productions in a Roman Theatre, the Art of the Prequel, the Pandemic and Redundancies in the Arts Industries

Making modern work in a Roman theatre; how to create a prequel; yet more arts redundancies

• 28 mins

Stanley Spencer's wives, the damage to culture in Beirut, Angie Cruz

The Wives of Stanley Spencer, the destruction of arts and culture in Beirut.

• 28 mins

The One and Only Ivan director Thea Sharrock, Educating Rita, writing about music, research on Covid-19 risk from singing

Thea Sharrock on combining CGI and live action in her family movie about a gorilla.

• 28 mins

Christopher Nolan's Tenet reviewed, British Museum re-opens, Paula Peters on Wampum exhibition, Shedinburgh fringe festival

The long-awaited Tenet on the big screen - Front Row reviews.

• 41 mins

Algorithms in the arts, Composer Hannah Kendall, Daljit Nagra's Poetry Roundup, Cuties film controversy

Algorithms in art, Composer Hannah Kendall, Daljit Nagra's Poetry Roundup, Cuties film.

• 28 mins

An extended interview with dramatist Lucy Prebble

An extended interview with dramatist Lucy Prebble.

• 28 mins

Women’s Prize For Fiction - Natalie Haynes; 2020 International Booker Prize winner; Agatha Christie’s lost play, The Lie

Natalie Haynes on A Thousand Ships; International Booker Prize winner reviewed.

• 28 mins

Eastenders returns, Composer Errollyn Wallen, Katy Perry profiled, I'm Thinking of Ending Things reviewed

The return of Eastenders & composer Errollyn Wallen on rearranging Jerusalem for the Proms

• 28 mins

Luke Jerram, Elena Ferrante's new novel, Bolu Babalola, Britney Spears's conservatorship battle

Luke Jerram on In Memoriam - his artwork to commemorate those lost to the pandemic.

• 41 mins

Robert Macfarlane, bestselling author, walker, mountaineer and campaigner, talks to Kirsty Lang

Robert Macfarlane on his books, collaborating with artists and musicians and campaigning.

• 27 mins

Ruth Jones, Roger Kneebone, Game Review, The Tempest

Ruth Jones, Roger Kneebone on craft and skills, Game Review, The Tempest.

• 28 mins

Bernardine Evaristo shortlisted for Women's Prize, Anoushka Shankar at the Proms, Film Les Misérables reviewed

Bernardine Evaristo, Anoushka Shankar at the Proms, Film Les Misérables reviewed.

• 27 mins

The office in culture, Kate Clanchy, publishers' Super Thursday

The history of the office in culture; Kate Clanchy on her book How to Grow Your Own Poem.

• 28 mins

Mulan review, Lorna Sage's memoir 20 years on, and must art be political?

Does Disney's live-action remake of Mulan work?

• 42 mins

Benjamin Grosvenor performs for Front Row

Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, Venice Film Festival, Understanding artworks.

• 28 mins

Andrew O'Hagan, The Singapore Grip, Theatre at the point of no return

Andrew O'Hagan on his novel Mayflies. Plus ITV's new drama The Singapore Grip.

• 28 mins

The future of Arts broadcasting, Winner of 2020 Women's Prize For Fiction, Film director Antonio Campos

The future of Arts broadcasting, Women's Prize For Fiction winner, Antonio Campos.

• 28 mins

Lang Lang, Diana Rigg remembered, Cinema distribution under Covid-19

Mark Gatiss on Diana Rigg and Lang Lang discusses Bach's Goldberg Variations at the piano.

• 28 mins

David Tennant on playing Dennis Nilsen, BBC National Short Story Award shortlist announced, The Painted Bird reviewed

David Tennant on playing infamous serial killer Dennis Nilsen.

• 41 mins

Dennis Kelly on The Third Day, Nica Burns, Jan Carson, Sir Terence Conran

Writer Dennis Kelly, and theatre producer Nica Burns.

• 28 mins

2020 Booker shortlist, Nicholas Serota, author Sarah Hall

2020 Booker shortlist, Nicholas Serota, BBC National Short Story Award nominee Sarah Hall.

• 28 mins

Tricky, Ratched reviewed, live theatre returns to The Playhouse Londonderry, NSSA nominee Jack Houston

Tricky on his new album, Fall to Pieces. Plus live theatre returns to Northern Ireland

• 28 mins

Rocks, Phoebe Stuckes, Eley Williams

New film Rocks, Poet Phoebe Stuckes, and the JK Rowling controversy.

• 28 mins

Katherine Ryan, Nick Hornby, artist Mark Bradford, TV drama Us reviewed

Katherine Ryan in The Duchess.

• 42 mins

ENO drive in opera, ITV drama Honour, Jesse Armstrong, 'Festival of Brexit'

New ITV drama Honour, Jesse Armstrong, Drive in opera, 'Festival of Brexit'.

• 28 mins

Skin, The Box in Plymouth, Sean Borodale

Skin from Skunk Anansie on her new memoir.

• 28 mins

Mike Bartlett, Miss Juneteenth film, theatres repurposed as courtrooms, Susanna Clarke

Mike Bartlett's Doctor Foster spinoff, Miss Juneteenth, Susanna Clarke's new novel

• 28 mins

David McKee - BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award, Royal Academy dilemma, Serlina Boyd on Cocoa Girl

David McKee, creator of Elmer and Mr Benn, on his BookTrust Lifetime Achievement Award.

• 28 mins