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Front Row

First broadcast from 20021227 to 20100319.

384 episodes

Title	First Broadcast	Repeated	Description
Current British Comedy	20021227		Mark Lawson looks at the new wave of British comedy which has created its own tragi-comic genre. Featuring Ricky Gervais, Armando Ianucci Dylan Moran and Annie Griffin.
	20030108		Francine Stock reveals the winners of this year's Whitbread Book Awards for First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children's Book.
	20030130		Mark Lawson reviews the Royal Shakespeare Company's stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children at the Barbican.
	20030225		Mark Lawson with the arts programme. Tonight's guest is American writer Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
Seek My Face	20030415		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, and reports on Seek My Face, a new novel by John Updike, which looks back at the post-1945 American art world, through the eyes of a fictional painter.
	20030423		John Wilson with the arts show including a report on how art galleries look after works of art which move, create sounds or decay.
	20030424		Mark Lawson with the arts programme. Tonight's guest is novelist William Gibson.
	20030425		John Wilson with the arts programme. Tonight's guest is Blur vocalist Damon Albarn, who talks about the band's forthcoming seventh album, which was partly recorded in Morocco.
jerry Springer: The Opera	20030430		Francine Stock reports from the National Theatre on the opening night of the show which turns a notorious American talk show into musical theatre.
	20030502		Francine Stock chairs the arts show, and investigates the many versions of ancient Greek myths now available for children. Can they be both faithful to the originals and fun?
	20030507		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, and investigates the life of J L Carr, Northamptonshire headmaster, publisher, cricket fan and novelist, best known for books such as A Month In The Country.
	20030509		Francine Stock chairs the arts show.
Musuem Of Docklands	20030521		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, which includes a report on the new Museum in the Docklands which tells the story of LONDON's river, docks and the surrounding communities.
Jumping The Decades	20030526		In 1972, Jumpers - by the young Tom Stoppard - became one of the National Theatre's biggest-ever hits. As the National revives the play, Mark Lawson talks to Stoppard and others about the history of a play which boldly combines philosophy and gymnastics.
	20030529		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, and reports on the shortlist for this year's Turner Prize for visual art, which is announced today.
	20030603		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, including news of the winner of this year's Orange Prize for fiction, announced today.
	20030620		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, including the British Museum's new exhibition of human culture and history through medical eyes.
	20030623		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, and reports on a major retrospective exhibition of work by the artist Bridget Riley, famed for her colour stripe paintings.
	20030624		Mark Lawson visits an exhibition of nineteen chess sets created by artists, including Marcel Duchamp, who played for the French chess team, Yoko Ono, and Damien Hirst.
Madonna Of The Pinks	20030711		Francine Stock chairs the arts show, and reports from the National Gallery on an innovative education project in which teenage mothers create art inspired by Raphael's Madonna Of The Pinks.
	20030818		Mark Lawson meets actor Antony Sher, who has written his first play, set in his native South Africa in the 1960s, looking at the assassination of Henrik Verwoerd, known as the architect of Apartheid.
	20030820		Mark Lawson with the arts programme.
Fringe Report	20030821		Mark Lawson reports on the festivals and fringe, in a special edition before an audience at the Pleasance, Edinburgh. His guests include the best-selling crime writer Ian Rankin, who is about to publish a new book featuring his Edinburgh detective John Rebus.
	20030904		Francine Stock with arts news, reviews and interviews. Featuring an interview with Jeanette Winterson, whose latest book is a children's story entitled The King Of Capri.
	20030912		With Francine Stock, including a report from the Baltic, Gateshead, on a new exhibition by artists Jane and Louise Wilson, who have investigated how industrial areas of north-east ENGLAND have been reinvented over the past five decades. / "With Francine Stock, including a report from the Baltic, Gateshead, on a new exhibition by artists Jane and Louise Wilson, who have investigated how industrial areas of north-east ENGLAND have been reinvented over the past five decades. ".
	20030918		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20030922		Mark Lawson with the arts programme. Including a review of the film Young Adam, a thriller set in Edinburgh and GLASGOW starring Ewan McGregor.
	20030923		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, and investigates the newly-published journals of the novelist John Fowles, which he began in the late 1940s, and which chart his development as a writer and his struggle to achieve literary success.
	20030924		Francine Stock chairs the arts show and meets the architect and designer Nigel Coates, who discusses the future of cities around the world. / Francine Stock with arts news, interviews, and a report on 'Zoomorphic', an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum which focuses on new architecture inspired by animal forms.
	20030925		Mark Lawson with the arts programme.
	20030926		Francine Stock with arts news, reviews and interviews.
	20030929		Mark Lawson with the arts programme. Including a review of the romantic comedy Down With Love, set in NEW YORK City in 1962 and starring Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor.
	20031001		Francine Stock with a report from Dublin on Brian Friel's new play, Performances, which was inspired by the music and love letters of Czech composer Leos Janacek.
	20031003		Francine Stock with arts news, reviews and interviews, and report on Pleasurelands, an exhibition of the art and spectacle of the fairground, opening this week in SHEFFIELD.
	20031008		Francine Stock with arts news, interviews and the verdict on a major new exhibition, 'Gothic: Art for ENGLAND 1400-1547' at the Victoria and Albert Museum, LONDON.
	20031009		Mark Lawson with arts interviews, news and reviews.
	20031013		Mark Lawson talks to Clive James about his new poetry collection.
	20031021		John Wilson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on Intolerable Cruelty, a satirical romantic comedy directed by the Coen brothers and starring George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
	20031024		John Wilson chairs the arts show, and Ian Peacock sits on the least comfortable and most comfortable seats in British arts venues, as nominated by Front Row listeners.
	20031105		Francine Stock chairs the arts show. This edition reassesses the work of the radical French film director Jean-Luc Godard, in the light of a new biography.
	20031107		Mark Lawson with the arts programme.
	20031110		Mark Lawson with the arts programme.
	20031114		Francine Stock chairs the arts show. Tonight's guest is cartoonist and writer Posy Simmonds.
	20031117		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on the film Love Actually, written and directed by Richard Curtis.
	20031119		Arts news, interviews and reviews. / "Arts news, interviews and reviews. " / "Arts news, interviews and reviews. " / "Arts news, interviews and reviews. " / "Arts news, interviews and reviews. ".
	20031120		Mark Lawson with the arts programme.
	20031212		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, and reports on Judi Dench's return to Stratford in a new Royal Shakespeare Company production of All's Well That Ends Well.
The Ghosts Of Rome	20031229		John Wilson investigates our continuing fascination with the Romans, in the light of recent books including Robert Harris's best-selling novel 'Pompeii', Tom Holland's acclaimed history 'Rubicon', and Allan Massie's 'Caligula', a reassessment of the notorious emperor.
Jumpers	20031230		In 1972, Jumpers - by the young Tom Stoppard - became one of the National Theatre's biggest-ever hits. In the wake of this year's National Theatre revival, Mark Lawson talks to Stoppard, actress Diana Rigg and the director Peter Wood about the history of a play which boldly combines philosophy and gymnastics.
	20040107		Francine Stock with arts news, reviews and interviews.
4'33"	20040113		Mark Lawson finds out that there is more to the work of the American composer John Cage than his best known piece, which offered listeners four and a half minutes of silence.
	20040209		Mark Lawson reviews the new film from Lars von Trier in which Nicole Kidman plays a fugitive who arrives in the small town of Dogville. Also an interview with the novelist and playwright David Store.
	20040211		Francine Stock reviews the world premiere of the Thomas Ades opera The Tempest, and writer Thomas Keneally discusses his new book The Tyrant's Novel.
	20040213		Francine Stock with arts news, reviews and interviews.
	20040217		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20040303		Francine Stock meets the painter and postcard collector Tom Phillips, as a selection of his vast collection of postcards goes on show at the National Portrait Gallery, LONDON.
	20040318		Mark Lawson presents the arts programme.
Music For Nothing	20040412		On the fiftieth anniversary of the day Bill Haley recorded Rock Around the Clock, Mark Lawson investigates the current revolution in how we listen to and pay for music, meets the musicians who are sidestepping the major record companies, and asks whether the CD's days are numbered.
	20040419		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on the second part of Quentin Tarantino's tale of a vengeful bride, 'Kill Bill'.
	20040512		Francine Stock chairs the arts show.
	20040601		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show and investigates the fate of the thirty or more films released in Britain last month: how many are still visible on the big screen?
	20040608		John Wilson with arts reviews, interviews and news of the winner of this year's Orange Prize for fiction, announced this evening.
	20040614		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show and meets the composer Philip Glass, whose latest work, commissioned for the 2004 Athens Cultural Olympiad, features musicians from around the world.
	20040714		Arts news, reviews and an interview with Michael Nyman, composer of operas, concertos and scores for films including The Piano and The Draughtsman's Contract.
	20040816		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20040817		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, and meets film-maker Morgan Spurlock, who ate fast food - and nothing else - three times a day for thirty days, and recorded the experience in his film Super Size Me.
	20040826		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, and look back at the life of P G Wodehouse with Robert McCrum, author of a new biography, which re-assesses Wodehouse's wartime broadcasts from Nazi Germany.
	20040901		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show and meets Tom Sharpe, who has decided to write a new novel about the hapless lecturer Henry Wilt, twenty years after his last appearance.
	20040913		Arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20040921		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show and meets Ricky Gervais, who is about to publish 'Flanimals', a book for children.
	20040929		Kirsty Lang chairs the arts show, and meets the author Susanna Clarke, whose 800 page debut novel 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell' has already caught the eye of this year's literary prize judges.
	20041013		John Wilson chairs the arts show and reports on the newly published first volume of memoirs by Bob Dylan, which looks back at his early success in NEW YORK in the early 1960s.
	20041026		John Wilson with the arts programme.
	20041101		Mark Lawson with arts news, reviews and an interview with Ben Elton, whose new novel features a detective attempting to solve some grisly murders, while revisiting his school days via a reunion website.
	20041104		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, and meets the historian Simon Schama, who is publishing a collection of essays about art.
	20041105		John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20041110		Arts news, interviews and the verdict on The Producers, the stage musical version of Mel Brooks's film which has triumphed on Broadway and now opens in LONDON.
	20041112		Arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20041116		Mark Lawson reports from NEW YORK on the reopening of the Museum of Modern Art, which has been expanded and renovated at a cost of around 500 million pounds.
	20041118		John Wilson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on the latest animated adventure from the studio which made Toy Story - The Incredibles stars a superhero who is forced to hide his powers.
	20041122		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, and discusses the art of adapting novels for the cinema with Ian McEwan.
	20041201		Kirsty Lang with arts news, and a report on how jazz pianists approach classical music, with Jacques Loussier and Ramsey Lewis.
	20041213		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show and finds out whether the first of Lemony Snicket's dark tales for children has transferred happily from the page to the cinema screen.
	20041227		Andrew Lloyd-Webber talks to Mark Lawson about his career from Jesus Christ Superstar to The Woman in White, discussing working methods, lost lyricists, borrowed tunes critical hostility and how The Phantom of The Opera finally became a movie.
	20041228		Pride and Prejudice continues to fascinate film-makers. Mark Lawson talks to Lee Hall, who is working on a new adaptation, and Gurinder Chadha, director of Bride and Prejudice.
	20041230		George W Bush has provoked more artistic hostility than any previous first-term President. With guests including film director Jonathan Demme, dramatist David Hare and satirist Rory Bremner, Mark Lawson examines anti-Bush movies, documentaries, novels, plays and jokes and why most American voters ignored them.
	20041231		In 2004, the singer and songwriter Ray Davies received the CBE, was shot in the leg in New Orleans, and saw the album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society re-issued to great acclaim. In conversation with John Wilson, he reflects on Englishness, America and some of his best-loved songs.
	20050103		Mark Lawson is joined in a round-table discussion by Nicholas Hytner, director of the National Theatre, Michael Boyd, artistic director of the RSC, Sean Doran, artistic director of English National Opera, and Tony Hall, chief executive of the Royal Opera House.
	20050110		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on the film Closer, adapted by Patrick Marber from his Olivier Award winning play.
	20050117		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show and meets David Wolstencroft, creator of the MI5 television drama Spooks, who has now written a spy novel.
	20050120		Mark Lawson reports from MANCHESTER on a new exhibition displaying architect Will Alsop's vision for the future of the north.
	20050202		Mark Lawson meets the crime writer Peter Lovesey, whose new book is a tale of murder within a group of would-be authors.
	20050203		With Kirsty Lang, including a report from Tate Modern on a major exhibition of work by the German artist Joseph Beuys, whose chosen materials include felt, wax and animal fat.
	20050208		Mark Lawson reports from Turner Whistler Monet, a Tate exhibition which explores the relationships between the works of these three major nineteenth century painters.
	20050211		Mark Lawson investigates the troubled life and the legacy of the playwright, novelist, painter and photographer August Strindberg, in light of an exhibition of his art at Tate Modern, and a new National Theatre production of 'A Dream Play', in a version by Caryl Churchill.
	20050215		Arts programme.
	20050222		Mark Lawson reports from 'Caravaggio: the Final Years', a major new exhibition at the National Gallery in LONDON.
	20050223		John Wilson with arts news and the verdict on the Oscar-nominated film Hotel Rwanda, based on the true story of a hotel owner who sheltered over 1000 Tutsis during the genocide.
	20050224		Mark Lawson with the arts programme.
	20050228		Harold Pinter reflects on his career, in conversation with Mark Lawson, and looks forward to a new production of 'The Birthday Party', his first full-length play, in BIRMINGHAM.
	20050303		Mark Lawson with the arts programme.
	20050304		Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20050311		Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and the verdict on English National Opera's new production of Leonard Bernstein's On the Town, perhaps best known from the 1949 film which starred Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as sailors with a day's leave in NEW YORK City.
	20050315		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, and investigates the art of the overdub in the recording of classical music.
	20050316		Kirsty Lang reports from the Victoria and Albert Museum, LONDON, on a major new exhibition which charts the influence of the Arts and Crafts design movement.
	20050324		With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on a new Royal Shakespeare Company production of Thomas More, a play partly ascribed to Shakespeare which was banned in the 16th century.
	20050325		Mark Lawson meets virtuoso pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim. They discuss his recent return to playing the music of Bach and his attitude to historical performance practice.
	20050408		Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and the verdict on Vanessa Redgrave's performance in Hecuba by Euripides, in a translation by Tony Harrison.
	20050421		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on Deborah Warner's new staging of Shakepeare's Julius Caesar with a cast including Ralph Fiennes and Simon Russell Beale.
	20050502		Mark Lawson talks to Harold Pinter about his early work, his belief that theatre is a battle between the actors and the audience, and his decision to give up writing plays.
	20050516		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, and reports from Locomotion, the national railway museum, in Shildon, County Durham, one of the finalists for the Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year.
	20050525		Kirsty Lang investigates how museums around Britain are rethinking their displays and collections of African art and artefacts. She also meets the Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, and reports on Konono No 1, a band from the Congo who mix traditional instruments and contemporary electronics.
	20050526		Mark Lawson reports from LIVERPOOL on the opening of Summer of Love, an exhibition of psychedelic art from the 1960s and early 1970s.
	20050530		Mark Lawson examines the continuing appeal of television from the 1970s, as DVD sales of old programmes continue to soar and Hollywood churns out remakes, with Dallas and The Dukes of Hazzard among the latest shows to move from the small screen to the big screen.
	20050531		With John Wilson, including the verdict on the latest creation from The League of Gentlemen. After success on the stage, radio and TV, the comics are about to release their first feature film.
	20050614		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20050615		With Kirsty Lang.
	20050616		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show and meets the writer Bernardine Evaristo, whose new novel Soul Tourists mixes prose and poetry.
	20050617		In conversation with Mark Lawson, the writer David Lodge discusses his novel Author, Author, which explores the friendship between Henry James and the Punch artist George Du Maurier. Lodge also reflects on envy, life after death and why his fourth book is virtually unreadable.
	20050620		John Wilson with arts NEWS, interviews and the verdict on Evil, a film set in a Swedish boarding school which is dominated by brutal pupils.
	20050628		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, and reports on a major exhibition of work by the great British horse painter George Stubbs, which opens at the National Gallery in LONDON on 29/06/05.
	20050630		Mark Lawson with arts NEWS, interviews and a profile of jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, who is 80 this year, and about to perform in Britain for the first time in 15 years.
	20050706		John Wilson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on Some Girls are Bigger than Others, a new show which uses songs by the Manchester band The Smiths.
	20050708		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show and reports on a new exhibition of paintings from the Ministry of Defence's art collection, portraying life on the home front during the Second World War.
	20050719		Mark Lawson with the verdict on Hollywood's latest superhero adventure The Fantastic Four, and news of the nominations for the Mercury Music Prize.
	20050725		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on the new film version of Roald Dahl's Charlie and Chocolate Factory, directed by Tim Burton.
	20050729		John Wilson reports from Iran, as curators from the British Museum prepare for a major exhibition of treasures from ancient Persia, which opens in September.
	20050801		Mark Lawson meets the theatre director Sir Peter Hall, who is 75 this year, and is preparing to direct a fiftieth anniversary production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
	20050805		John Wilson chairs the arts show and meets singer-songwriter Richard Thompson, who is about to release his first solo acoustic album for almost 25 years.
	20050808		Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20050809		Kirsty Lang with the arts programme.
	20050810		John Wilson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on the film The Island, a thriller starring Ewan McGregor which mixes ideas about human cloning with car chases and gunfights.
	20050818		John Wilson meets the photographer Donald McCullin, whose new book is the result of a journey through tribal lands in the valley of the Omo River in Ethiopia.
	20050829		Paul McCartney brings a guitar to the studio to show how he writes songs. In conversation with John Wilson, he reveals that his 1968 song Blackbird has its roots in a fragment of Bach, and also demonstrates how finding exactly the right chord can be a matter of trial and error.
	20050830		Mark Lawson interviews writer Caryl Phillips, whose new book is inspired by the life of Bert Williams, a successful African-American entertainer, who blacked up when he appeared on stage.
	20050831		Kirsty Lang chairs the arts show, and meets David Harrington of the Kronos string quartet, whose latest disc is inspired by the music from Bollywood films, and features the singer Asha Bhosle.
	20050905		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on the exhibition Forgotten Empire: the world of Ancient Persia, at the British Museum.
	20050908		With Mark Lawson, including news of the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, which is announced today.
	20050914		Kirsty Lang with arts news, reviews and an interview with the singer Alison Krauss, whose music appeared on the soundtrack of the Coen Brothers' film O Brother Where Art Thou?
	20050915		With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the novelist John McGahern, whose memoir is an account of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s.
	20050923		With Kirsty Lang, including a report from Baltic, Gateshead on the British Art Show 6, a major touring exhibition which aims to reflect new trends and developments.
	20050926		Mark Lawson meets the writer John Mortimer. His new novel is the tale of a bishop's daughter who volunteers to help a career burglar just released from prison.
	20050929		Mark Lawson investigates changing ideas about the portrayal of Jewish characters in drama and fiction, in the light of a new film version of Oliver Twist, starring Ben Kingsley as Fagin.
	20051003		Mark Lawson meets the writer Alan Bennett, who is about to publish a new volume of his prose. In an extended interview, Bennett reflects on his career as performer, playwright and diarist.
	20051006		Mark Lawson with arts news, reviews and an interview with writer Bret Easton Ellis. He found early fame with his novel Less than Zero, and provoked considerable controversy with American Psycho.
	20051007		With Kirsty Lang, including a review of the premiere of Howard Brenton's play Paul, based on the life and teachings of the man who experienced a divine revelation on the road to Damascus.
	20051010		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and a report from Tate Modern, London, as sculptor Rachel Whiteread prepares to unveil new work commissioned for the vast space of the Turbine Hall.
	20051012		Kirsty Lang chairs the arts show, and re-assesses the life and legacy of Lawrence of Arabia, as revealed in a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London.
	20051013		Mark Lawson with arts news, reviews and an interview with Mark Haddon, author of the highly successful novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, who is about to publish a new volume of poetry.
	20051019		Kirsty Lang chairs the arts show, and meets the artist Peter Blake, whose new exhibition includes a series of fantasy encounters with the likes of Picasso, Tarzan and Elvis.
	20051021		With Kirsty Lang. Including an interview with dramatist Kevin Elyot, who has created a new and updated stage version of Agatha Christie's famous mystery And Then There Were None.
	20051024		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20051025		Mark Lawson with arts news, reviews - plus an interview with Lynne Truss, who has followed her best-selling book about punctuation with Talk to the Hand, an attack on what she calls the 'rudeness of everyday life'.
	20051026		Mark Lawson meets the singer George Melly, now aged 79 and about to publish Slowing Down, an account of growing old.
	20051101		With Kirsty Lang. Arts news and reviews, including a report on a major exhibition of the art of Henri Rousseau, who painted lush jungles but never left his native France.
	20051107		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews; and a report on a major exhibition of artistic treasures from Imperial China.
	20051108		Arts programme with Mark Lawson, including a report on the winners of the Dagger Awards for crime writing.
	20051111		John Wilson with the arts programme.
	20051114		Former Cheers scriptwriter Rob Long, who wrote the best-selling insiders' guide to comedy 'Conversations with my Agent', talks to Mark Lawson about further revelations in the sequel.
	20051115		Mark Lawson with the arts programme.
	20051118		As Peter Hall celebrates his 75th birthday, Mark Lawson talks to him about running both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre - during a career which has involved long periods of depression.
	20051201		With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Matthew Bourne's dance adaptation of Tim Burton's film Edward Scissorhands.
	20051205		Mark Lawson with the arts programme.
	20051214		With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with director Ang Lee, whose new film Brokeback Mountain is the story of the love which develops between two cowboys.
	20051220		John Wilson chairs the arts show, and looks back at one of the music headlines of the year, the moment when Pink Floyd reformed to play at Live 8.
	20051221		Arts programme with John Wilson, including a look ahead at the best radio programmes on offer over the festive season.
	20051222		Mark Lawson unwraps a selection of highlights from the past year, and talks to the names behind the headlines, including Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park, and writer John Le Carre.
	20051223		Mark Lawson unwraps a further selection of highlights from the past year, and talks to the names behind the headlines, including screenwriter and performer Emma Thompson, and actor David Tennant.
	20051226		Paul McCartney brings a guitar to the studio to show how he writes songs. In conversation with John Wilson, he reveals that one of his best-loved tracks has its roots in a fragment of Bach, and also demonstrates at the piano how finding exactly the right chord can be a matter of trial and error.
	20051228		Kirsty Lang meets two of New Orleans most famous musical sons: singer and pianist Harry Connick Jr. and saxophonist Branford Marsalis, who knew each other as children, and have now recorded a disc of duets together.
	20051229		As the centenary of Henrik Ibsen's death approaches, Mark Lawson reports on why leading British writers, directors and actors are still drawn to his plays.
	20051230		Some film music composers enjoy long collaborations with directors, others are drafted in at the last minute. John Wilson reports on the changing role of music in cinema, and talks to leading practitioners, including Gabriel Yared and the director Anthony Minghella
	20060102		Mark Lawson meets Stephen Poliakoff, award-winning writer of The Lost Prince, who has created two new dramas for BBC ONE focusing on life in Britain in the past 20 years.
	20060106		Mark Lawson chairs the arts show.
	20060110		With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the American writer EL Doctorow, author of Ragtime and Billy Bathgate. His new novel is set during the American Civil War.
	20060111		Mark Lawson with the arts programme.
	20060113		With Kirsty Lang, including a report on the Hungarian folk roots of Bartok's music for string quartet, demonstrated by the Takacs Quartet.
	20060116		With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on A Cock and Bull Story, a film version of Laurence Sterne's novel Tristram Shandy, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon
	20060120		Kirsty Lang chairs the arts show, and meets the Australian writer Kate Grenville, whose novel The Idea of Perfection won the Orange Prize in 2001.
	20060123		With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Steven Spielberg's film Munich, about the aftermath of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics.
	20060127		With Kirsty Lang, including a report on a new production of Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale by a company of Iraqi and British performers.
	20060131		With Mark Lawson, including news of this year's Oscar nominations, announced today.
	20060201		Kirsty Lang meets two of New Orleans' most famous musical sons: singer and pianist Harry Connick Jr and saxophonist Branford Marsalis, who knew each other as children. They discuss improvisation and share some trombone jokes.
	20060209		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20060213		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on Good Night, and Good Luck, George Clooney's film about the American newsman Edward Murrow and his battle with Senator Joseph McCarthy.
	20060214		With Mark Lawson, including a review of a new film based on the life of Casanova, with Heath Ledger in the title role.
	20060215		John Wilson talks to director Anthony Minghella and composer Gabriel Yared about the changing role of music in cinema, and their collaborations on Cold Mountain and Breaking and Entering.
	20060217		In the week of the Brit Awards, John Wilson investigates the English factor in pop music. He talks to songwriters Ray Davies and Richard Thompson.
	20060220		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on Capote, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in an Oscar-nominated performance as the writer Truman Capote.
	20060224		With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the controversial Danish film director Lars von Trier, whose new film Manderlay focuses on the legacy of slavery in the American South.
	20060228		Mark Lawson discusses the changing role of television with Jeremy Isaacs, who has written a memoir about his career, including his work on The World at War, and his role as first C4 chief executive.
	20060301		Kirsty Lang with the arts programme.
	20060303		With Mark Lawson, including a first night report on the British premiere of Arthur Miller's play Resurrection Blues, directed by film-maker Robert Altman.
	20060306		Mark Lawson with arts news and interviews, and the verdict on Anthony Hopkins in the film The World's Fastest Indian - the Indian of the title being a record breaking 1920s motorcycle.
	20060309		Kirsty Lang chairs the arts show, and talks to songwriter Nick Cave about his screenplay for The Proposition, a western set in the Australian outback during the 1880s.
	20060313		With Mark Lawson, including a report on the film V for Vendetta, set in 2020 in a totalitarian Britain, with a screenplay by the Wachowski Brothers, the team behind The Matrix.
	20060317		Kirsty Lang with the arts programme.
	20060327		Mark Lawson with arts news and reviews; and an interview with Victoria Pile, creator of the Channel 4 hospital comedy Green Wing.
	20060328		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20060329		With Kirsty Lang, including a report on Opera North's new production of Kurt Weill's rarely staged show Arms and the Cow, the tale of a rogue arms dealer.
	20060331		With John Wilson, including an interview with Jeremy Dyson of The League of Gentlemen, whose debut novel focuses on the troubled life of a teenage TV star.
	20060403		With Mark Lawson, including news of the shortlist of contenders for the £15,000 National Short Story Prize. The stories will be broadcast on Radio 4.
	20060404		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20060405		With Kirsty Lang, including the first-night verdict on Alison Moyet and Dawn French in Carmel Morgan's play, Smaller.
	20060407		With Kirsty Lang. Featuring an interview with novelist Jake Arnott, whose books include The Long Firm trilogy and now Johnny Come Home, featuring a character called Johnny Chrome, a glam-rock star of the early 1970s.
	20060410		With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the writer Philip Martin, whose influential 1970s TV series Gangsters is about to appear on DVD.
	20060425		To complement Daniel Barenboim's Reith Lectures, Mark Lawson talks to composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, whom Barenboim describes as "an important personal and artistic friend".
	20060426		John Wilson with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20060427		With John Wilson, including an interview with writer David Mitchell, best known for his Booker-nominated novels 'number9dream' and Cloud Atlas.
	20060501		Alan Alda, who found fame as Hawkeye in MASH, and who won an Oscar nomination for his role in Scorsese's The Aviator, joins Mark Lawson to reflect on his career - and a childhood spent backstage in his father's burlesque show.
	20060502		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on Tom Cruise in the third Mission Impossible film.
	20060505		Presented by Mark Lawson, and including a re-assessment of the life and work of playwright John Osborne, with John Heilpern - author of a new biography.
	20060508		With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the acclaimed American crime writer Elmore Leonard, who published his first novel more than 50 years ago.
	20060516		Mark Lawson with arts interviews, reviews and news of the shortlist for this year's Turner Prize.
	20060522		Mark Lawson with arts news, reviews, plus an interview with travel writer Jan Morris, whose latest book takes us to the imaginary city-state of Hav.
	20060523		With Mark Lawson. Includes an interview with writer Will Self, whose new novel imagines a future religion based on the rants of a London taxi driver.
	20060525		With Kirsty Lang, including the announcement of the winner of this year's Gulbenkian Prize for Museums and Galleries.
	20060529		Mark Lawson meets playwright Tom Stoppard, whose new play Rock and Roll includes a reflection on life in Prague from the spring of 1968 to the Velvet Revolution of 1990.
	20060612		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20060619		With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Ken Loach's film The Wind that Shakes the Barley, winner of the Palme D'Or at Cannes.
	20060623		Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20060711		Arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20060718		Mark Lawson with arts reviews, interviews and news of the nominations for this year's Mercury Prize for the album of the year.
	20060721		Mark Lawson meets playwright Tom Stoppard, who discusses his acclaimed new play Rock and Roll, which reflects on life in Prague from the spring of 1968 to the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
	20060725		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews, and the second in a series of reports on why some tunes stick in the brain.
	20060731
	20060801		Arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20060808		Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and the verdict on the film Nacho Libre, starring Jack Black as a monastery cook who dreams of success as a professional wrestler.
	20060815		John Wilson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater's film based on the dystopian novel by Philip K Dick
	20060817		With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with John Sutherland, whose new book How to Read a Novel argues that reading fiction well is a skill we should nurture.
	20060822		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews, and the verdict on Pedro Almodovar's new film Volver, starring Penelope Cruz as an impoverished airport cleaner.
	20060824		Mark Lawson meets the writer David Peace, whose new novel The Damned Utd focuses on Brian Clough's 44 days as manager of Leeds United in 1974.
	20060825		John Wilson interviews Joel Meyerowitz, who photographed Ground Zero in the months after the attacks on the World Trade Centre to create a unique archive.
	20060831		Mark Lawson meets writer Vikram Chandra, whose new 900-page novel focuses on a Sikh detective in Mumbai.
	20060901		Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20060908		Kirsty Lang with arts news, plus the verdict on the English National Opera and Asian Dub Foundation collaboration 'Gaddafi: A Living Myth'.
	20060918		With Mark Lawson, including interviews with Oliver Stone, whose new film World Trade Center revisits the events of September 11. Plus Matt Lucas and David Walliams bring a taste of Little Britain.
	20061002		Michael Palin's newly published diaries look back on his years as a member of the Monty Python team. He talks to Mark Lawson
	20061006		Kirsty Lang with arts news, reviews and an interview with Sting, who has recorded an album of lute songs by Elizabethan composer John Dowland.
	20061016		With Mark Lawson, who reassesses the life of Tommy Cooper, in the light of a new biography which reveals the less happy side of the much-loved comedian.
	20061017		With Mark Lawson, including an interview with crime writer Ian Rankin, whose new novel is set against the backdrop of the G8 summit in Scotland in July 2005.
	20061019		Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and reviews.
	20061020		With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with Eoin Colfer, the children's writer behind the popular series of books about teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl.
	20061026		With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Griff Rhys Jones, who has written a memoir recalling the embarrassments and joys of his suburban childhood.
	20061030		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on the controversial film Borat, in which Sacha Baron Cohen plays a hapless Kazakh reporter in America.
	20061121		With Mark Lawson, who is joined by writer Lawrence Norfolk to discuss Against the Day, a new novel by reclusive American author Thomas Pynchon.
	20061220		In an extended interview, John Wilson talks to Noel Gallagher from Oasis, who reflects on his first dreams of stardom, his song-writing and his battles with his brother Liam.
	20061221		Mark Lawson unwraps a selection of highlights from the past year, and talks to names behind the headlines, including Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai and playwright Tom Stoppard
	20061222		Mark Lawson unwraps a further selection of highlights from the past year, talking to the names behind the headlines, including Peter Morgan, writer of the film The Queen.
Michael Palin Special	20061225		In a special edition of Front Row, Mark Lawson talks to Michael Palin. In the late 1960s Palin began to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter - including The Two Ronnies and David Frost - before co-creating one of the great comedy institutions, Monty Python. The creative partnership also included John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam. The BBC first showed Monty Python's Flying Circus in 1969, and the four television series lasted only until 1974, but this then spawned various stage shows, books, records, two films - Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Life of Brian - and most recently, Eric Idle's Broadway and West End hit, Spamalot. Michael Palin reflects on the years before, during and after Monty Python in his new book Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years. In this special Front Row interview he talks to Mark Lawson about the powerful personalities involved in Python, the creative tensions, and his role as the nice guy who 'cleared up the broken crockery'. Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years by Michael Palin is published in hardback by Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
Comedy Special	20061227		Mark Lawson is joined by the cream of British comedy for a Front Row Special. Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Catherine Tate, Stephen Merchant, Rob Brydon, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Armando Ianucci, Jimmy Carr, and Matt Stone & Trey Parker of South Park reveal how they come up with their characters and catchphrases, and where they draw the line. As TV comedy courts controversy over increasingly risque sexual, political and racial gags, Mark asks whether there are any comedy taboos remaining?
	20070202		Mark Lawson meets the American writer Norman Mailer. Now aged 84, Mailer is about to publish a new novel which focuses on the childhood of Adolf Hitler.
	20070205		With Mark Lawson, including an interview with record producer Tony Visconti, who reflects on his collaborations with musicians including Marc Bolan and David Bowie
	20070213		Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on a major retrospective exhibition of the art of Gilbert and George at Tate Modern.
	20070228		With Mark Lawson, including the first night verdict on Daniel Radcliffe's West End stage debut in Peter Shaffer's play Equus.
	20070301		With John Wilson, including an interview with director David Lynch, whose films include Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart. An exhibition of his visual art is about to open in Paris.
	20070302		With Kirsty Lang, including a look at the Wellcome Collection building, opening in summer in London, and offering 1500 exhibits on the history of medicine and human identity.
	20070314		John Wilson reports from China as the British Museum prepares to bring some of the famous Terracotta Army to London for an exhibition later this year.
	20070323		With Kirsty Lang, including a report on veteran keyboard player Joe Zawinul, renowned for his work with Miles Davis and Weather Report, who is 75 this year.
	20070328		With John Wilson, including an interview with Danny Boyle about his science-fiction film Sunshine, and the results of Front Row's recent 100-word story competition.
	20070404		With Kirsty Lang, including news of the shortlist of contenders for the Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year.
	20070406		Mark Lawson investigates recent doubts cast over the authenticity of recordings released under the name of pianist Joyce Hatto and explores the consequences for the music industry.
	20070410		Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to crime writer Donna Leon, whose books are set in and around Venice, where she has lived for more than two decades.
	20070412		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including news of the writers in contention for the 2007 Man Booker International prize.
	20070417		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who reports on the film The Reaping, in which the ten biblical plagues appear to afflict a small American town.
	20070426		With Kirsty Lang. Includes an interview with Steven Isserlis, who has just recorded Bach's Cello Suites, and has a theory about the hidden religious message they contain.
	20070522		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report from Weston Park Museum, Sheffield, a contender for the Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year.
	20070528		Arts news and reviews. John Wilson meets artist Peter Blake, a pioneer of pop art in the 1960s who celebrates his 75th birthday next month with a major exhibition at Tate Liverpool.
	20070530		Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson meets the renowned minimalist composer Philip Glass, whose work this year includes a Oscar-nominated soundtrack for the film Notes on a Scandal.
	20070606		Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to Alex James, who has written a memoir about his years as bass player with Blur.
	20070613		Mark Lawson with arts news and an interview with Eoin McNamee, whose new novel depicts conspiracies and plots leading to the death of Princess Diana in August 1997.
	20070629		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including the verdict on Damon Albarn's opera Monkey: Journey to the West.
	20070702		In a special programme to coincide with a season of his plays on BBC Radio, Mark Lawson profiles the dramatist Tom Stoppard
	20070704		Arts news and reviews, with Mark Lawson reporting from the Manchester International Festival and talking to Johnny Vegas, star of a new play about a man trying to sell his house.
	20070710		With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on a new recording of West Side Story - does it stand up to past versions?
	20070720		Saxophonist John Dankworth, who is 80 this year, and singer Cleo Laine reflect on their life in jazz, and look ahead to their appearance next month at the BBC Proms.
	20070723		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the verdict on The Simpsons Movie as TV's favourite cartoon family reaches the big screen.
	20070809		Arts news and reviews.
	20070813		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Julian Clary about his debut novel Murder Most Fab.
	20070815		Mark Lawson reports on the various Edinburgh festivals in a special programme recorded in front of an audience at the Pleasance, with guests including actor Jamie Bell.
	20070817		Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, who meets superstar violinist Maxim Vengerov on the eve of his Proms appearance in the unfamiliar roles of jazz player and tango dancer.
	20070823		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. She talks to writer Andrey Kurkov, whose new novel satirises political life in the old Soviet Union and in the independent Ukraine.
	20070824		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who reports from the new International Slavery Museum in Liverpool.
	20070827		John Wilson uncovers the history of China's famous terracotta warriors and charts their journey from their home in Xian to the British Museum for a forthcoming exhibition.
	20070905		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with crime writer Ian Rankin about his latest Inspector Rebus novel.
	20070906		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including news of the shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize for fiction.
	20070910		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the first in a series of reports on major artworks in the expression of sex or sexuality. Part of Radio 4's Sex Lives of Us season.
	20070921		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who chairs a discussion on whether the freedom to write about or depict sex more explicitly has helped or hindered creativity.
	20070927		Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, who meets singer and songwriter P J Harvey.
	20071003		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson.
	20071011		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
	20071113		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson.
	20071116		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who reviews a new musical based on the music of Blondie.
	20071128		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report from a major exhibition reflecting on the mysteries of sleep.
	20071207		With Kirsty Lang, including a report from the opening night of Noughts and Crosses, the RSC's stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman's acclaimed novel about a divided society.
	20071226		Arts news and reviews. Kirsty Lang presents a special programme about songs written for Disney films and how they have been re-interpreted, with Oscar-winning composer Richard Sherman at the piano and producer Hal Willner.
	20071228		Arts news and reviews. John Wilson meets architect Norman Foster, who discusses some of his most celebrated designs, including the world's biggest airport in Beijing, Wembley Stadium, the Swiss Re building in London, better known as the Gherkin, and the Millennium Bridge.
	20080115		With Kirsty Lang, who reports on how some directors have decided that less means more when adding music to their films.
	20080211		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who talks to Tony Gilroy, Oscar-nominated writer and director of the film Michael Clayton.
	20080212		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson.
	20080213		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who talks to actor and singer John Barrowman about his recently published autobiography.
	20080219		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a review of a major exhibition of work by experimental artists Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia.
	20080417		Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, who meets members of the band Portishead, back with their first new recording after a gap of a decade.
	20080526		Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson talks to Leonard Cohen about the art of songwriting, his paintings and his retreat from the world in the 1990s.
	20080530		Arts news and reviews. Sheila Hancock talks to Mark Lawson about her career, including her early days in rep with a young Harold Pinter, and reflects on her marriage to John Thaw.
	20080606		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
	20080613		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang
	20080717		Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, who explores why the vinyl LP still fascinates many music lovers 60 years after its first appearance.
	20080723		Arts news and reviews. In a special programme from the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival, Mark Lawson talks to leading writers including Robert Crais, Simon Kernick and Chelsea Cain.
	20080813		Comedy, drama and debate. Kirsty Lang reports from the Edinburgh fringe festival, in a programme recorded in front of an audience at the Pleasance.
	20080825		Arts news and reviews.
	20080901		Arts news and reviews. Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series of comic fantasy novels, talks to Mark Lawson about his new book Nation.
	20080905		Arts news and reviews. Kirsty Lang talks to Egyptian novelist Alaa al Aswany, whose The Yacoubian Building was a literary sensation in the Middle East.
	20080908		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with American comic writer David Sedaris
	20080910		With Mark Lawson. As part of Big Bang Day, the programme includes a probe into how physics has been represented in the arts by Tom Stoppard, John Adams and others.
	20080916		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson
	20080930		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with the American composer John Adams, who has just published a memoir.
	20081006		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Frank Skinner, who has written an account of his life on the road as a stand-up comedian.
	20081007		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Tom Jones.
	20081009		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the TV anthropologist Bruce Parry.
	20081013		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with historian David Starkey, who has just published the first part of a biography of Henry VIII.
	20081016		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an interview with actor Roger Moore, who has published a memoir called My Word Is My Bond.
	20081020		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with actor Tony Curtis, who is publishing a memoir.
	20081023		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang
	20081103		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with Ken Russell, as he prepares to direct a play in New York for the first time.
	20081126		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who meets dramatist Tracy Letts. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who meets dramatist Tracy Letts, writer of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, which receives its British premiere this week.
	20081128		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Arts news, interviews and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
	20081230		Mark Lawson talks to leading comedians about their moves beyond stand-up. Mark Lawson talks to leading comedians about their moves beyond stand-up, and whether comedy needs boundaries. With Alexei Sayle, Chris Addison, Lenny Henry and Al Murray.
	20090415		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. After 30 years together, the Essex electronic synth group Depeche Mode have put artistic differences behind them to release a new album. Co-founder and songwriter Martin Gore discusses the background to their new release. To mark a new radio play about the South African-born cricketer Basil D'Oliveira, his son Damian D'Oliveira and the play's writer Christopher Douglas discuss how Basil, also known as Dolly, became a crucial symbol in the struggle against Apartheid. The latest offering from the creator of Meet the Fockers and Zoolander is I Love You, Man, starring Paul Rudd as friendless Peter Klaven who goes on a series of man-dates to find a best man for his wedding. Mark Eccleston discusses the new film genre dubbed 'bromance'. Does theatre sell out to sell out? As Talawa Theatre Company stages a series of discussions at the Young Vic, director David Lan and writer Roy Williams debate this topic. Including an interview with Martin Gore, who reflects on three decades with Depeche Mode.
	20090522		In a special edition presented by Mark Lawson, the writer John le Carr� reflects on the origins of his most famous character - the charismatic intelligence officer George Smiley. As Radio 4 prepares to broadcast dramatizations of the all the Smiley novels, le Carr� discusses the suggested real-life models for his tubby, highly intelligent hero, and reflects on the actors who have portrayed Smiley on screen. He also looks back at his first attempts at writing fiction, and at his decision to give up his career in the intelligence services to become a full-time author. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who talks to writer John le Carre.
	20090611		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. She talks to Oscar-nominated writer and director Guillermo del Toro, who has co-written a novel featuring a fearsome virus and vampires. Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who meets Guillermo del Toro.
	20090616		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a report from The Wedgwood Museum, Stoke-on-Trent, shortlisted for the 2009 Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson
	20090619		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an interview with saxophonist and composer John Harle, who has written a new work for 800 saxophones. Including an interview with saxophonist and composer John Harle.
	20090622		Hosted by John Wilson. Including an interview with poet Roger Mcgough, who has written a new version of Moliere's play The Hypochondriac. Including an interview with poet Roger Mcgough
	20090625		Presented by Kirsty Lang. With Tehran-born comedian Shappi Khorsandi, who has written a memoir about her family's British life in exile after the 1979 revolution in Iran. Including an interview with the Tehran-born comedian Shappi Khorsandi
	20090626		Presented by Mark Lawson. Including a report on how dramatists select the titles for their plays, with writers Charlotte Keatley, Jez Butterworth and David Edgar. Including a report on how dramatists select the titles for their plays.
	20090629		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies, as the spin-off series Torchwood returns to TV and radio. Including an interview with Russell T Davies about Dr Who spin-off series Torchwood.
	20090701		John Wilson reports on Gay Icons, a National Portrait Gallery exhibition, with images selected by guest curators including Elton John, Ian Mckellen and Billie Jean King. John Wilson reports on Gay Icons, a National Portrait Gallery exhibition.
	20090703		Mark Lawson reports from the Manchester International Festival. Featuring a collaboration between theatre group Punchdrunk, documentary maker Adam Curtis and musician Damon Albarn. Mark Lawson reports from the Manchester International Festival.
	20090724		Presented by Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the psychiatrist and director Avie Luthra, whose film Mad, Sad & Bad stars Meera Syal. Kirsty Lang features an interview with the psychiatrist and director Avie Luthra.
	20090814		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an interview with writer AL Kennedy, who won the Costa Book of the Year prize in 2007, and a report from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including an interview with writer AL Kennedy.
	20090819		Mark Lawson presents a special edition from the Edinburgh Festival, including an interview with impressionist Alistair Mcgowan, who is returning to the Fringe after 10 years. Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson presents a special edition from the Edinburgh Festival.
	20090903		Arts news, interviews and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
	20090928		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Ricky Gervais about his film The Invention of Lying, which he has co-written and co-directed. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Ricky Gervais
	20091002		Arts news and reviews. John Wilson talks to artist Damien Hirst as he paints at his easel, cooks in his kitchen, and visits the Wallace Collection in London, where his paintings will hang along with Old Masters. Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, featuring Damien Hirst
	20091005		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report on the new exhibition of work by the four artists competing to win the 2009 Turner Prize. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson
	20091006		Mark Lawson discusses autumn 2009's crop of major literary and political biographies with critic Peter Kemp, historian Tristram Hunt and biographer Hermione Lee. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson
	20091007		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report from the opening night of David Hare's new play The Power of Yes, an account of the recent financial crisis. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson
	20091008		Kirsty Lang talks to author Eoin Colfer, who has published a new instalment of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the series created by the late Douglas Adams. Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who talks to author Eoin Colfer.
	20091009		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang
	20091012		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with John Irving, whose novels include The World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with John Irving.
	20091013		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who reviews Terry Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which features the late Heath Ledger. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, and Terry Gilliam's latest movie.
	20091014		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson.
	20091015		Arts news and reviews. John Wilson talks to Peter Hook of New Order about his memories of the Hacienda club, and reports on the art works being recreated for the House of Lords. Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including Peter Hook on the Hacienda club.
	20091016		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who reports on Johnny Mad Dog, an award-winning feature film about child soldiers in Africa. Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who reports on the film Johnny Mad Dog.
	20091019		Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on the newly redeveloped Ulster Museum and reviews Jane Horrocks on stage in a new production of Annie Get Your Gun. Mark Lawson reports on the newly redeveloped Ulster Museum.
	20091030		Arts news and reviews. John Wilson presents a special edition live from the BBC's Maida Vale studios, reporting on their 75-year history of recording and broadcasting classical, pop and radiophonic music, and radio drama. Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, with a Maida Vale studios special.
	20091109		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a review of Ang Lee's film Taking Woodstock. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson
	20091110		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Vladmiri Jurowski about Schnittke. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson
	20091113		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a report on comic books and a new poem about light sculptures in Durham from Katrina Porteous. Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang
	20091116		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the verdict on the film Glorious 39, written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff and set on the eve of the Second World War. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the verdict on the film Glorious 39.
	20091117		Mark Lawson interviews Alan Bennett, who reflects on his career and discusses his new stage play, which centres on an imagined meeting between Wh Auden and Benjamin Britten. Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson interviews Alan Bennett
	20091119		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang
	20091130		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with one of the writers shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson
	20091201		Arts news and reviews with John Wilson
	20091201		Arts news and reviews with John Wilson
	20091202		Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an interview with one of the contenders for the BBC National Short Story Award. Arts news and reviews with John Wilson
	20091202		Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an interview with one of the contenders for the BBC National Short Story Award. Arts news and reviews with John Wilson
	20091215		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a jukebox jury who give their verdict on the hits and misses among the 2009 sack of Christmas releases. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson
	20091216		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a selection of the best new crime fiction of 2009, for anyone hoping to track down a gift in the bookshop. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson
	20091222		Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including a selection of radio programmes to listen out for over Christmas. Arts news and reviews with John Wilson
	20091229		According to some predictions, the rise of e-readers - electronic devices which can contain hundreds of books digitally - mark the end of the traditional book. In a special edition of Front Row, Mark Lawson speaks to readers, writers, publishers and e-book manufacturers about whether methods of consuming and producing literature - which we now take for granted - are coming to an end. Mark Lawson reports on rumours of the death of the book.
	20100128		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including an interview with writers Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, whose show Ghost Stories, at Liverpool Playhouse, aims to shock and chill its audiences. Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
	20100202		With Mark Lawson, including news of this year's Oscar nominations. With Mark Lawson, including news of the 2010 Oscar nominations.
	20100211		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
	20100303		class="blq-clearfix"> Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an interview with Velvet Underground founder member John Cale, as he prepares to perform his acclaimed 1973 solo album Paris 1919. Arts news and reviews with John Wilson.
	20100311		Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including a report on Bristol Old Vic's new production Juliet and her Romeo, in which Shakespeare's lovers are elderly and face opposition from their children. Arts news and reviews with John Wilson.
	20100312		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
	20100315		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson.
	20100316		Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an interview with actor Jeremy Irons, as he returns to the Royal Shakespeare Company in a new play by Dennis Kelly. Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with actor Jeremy Irons.
	20100317		Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on a new Buckingham Palace exhibition which aims to challenge the familiar image of Queen Victoria. Mark Lawson reports on a new Buckingham Palace exhibition.
	20100318		Twenty years ago to the day, thieves stole paintings including three Rembrandts and a Vermeer from a Boston museum. John Wilson reports from the US on the largest unsolved art heist ever. Arts news and reviews with John Wilson.
	20100319		Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including the verdict on a new Stratford production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Rupert Goold. Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang.
		20071018	Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Includes a report from Tate Liverpool as this year's Turner Prize exhibition is unveiled, featuring the four artists competing for the award.