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Oct 18th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Eric Idle, inside House of Commons library
Oct 9th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Twelfth Night at the Young Vic, the Swimming Pool in art, Poet Jean Sprackland
Oct 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Sarah Perry on Melmoth, Charles Aznavour, UNESCO on cultural first aid operations, TV drama The Cry
Sep 26th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – The Goodies, Holst the Planets at 100, Debris Stevenson Poet in Da Corner
Sep 19th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Dame Eileen Atkins, Remembering Denis Norden, the banking crash and the arts industry
Sep 17th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Christine and the Queens, Anil Gupta and Iqbal Khan on RSC Tartuffe
Sep 6th BBC Radio 3 John Ruskin’s Eurhythmic Girls – documentary
Sep 5th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Khaled Hosseini, composer Roxanna Panufnik, Dreams as inspiration
Aug 30th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Nick Leather on Mother’s Day, working class book festival, art of drawing comics
Aug 28th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Andrew Miller, the muse, remembering Neil Simon
Aug 16th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – David Suchet, remembering Aretha Franklin, Laura Mvula, Ben Okri
Aug 9th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Alan Garner, Matt Groening’s Disenchantment
Aug 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – The Proclaimers, Gulliver’s Travels, internet art
Jul 30th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Dad’s Army at 50, growth of jazz, mechanical museum, hostile visa environment at WOMAD
Jul 26th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Marlon James on Fran Ross’ Oreo, decolonising museums, Mercury Prize shortlist
Jul 12th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Bernie Taupin, Eve Myles, This Class Works
Jul 10th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Holly Hunter, National Theatre Wales NHS at 70
Jul 4th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Man Booker Prize at 50, Emily Mortimer on The Bookshop, Glasgow Women’s Library
Jun 27th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Bartlett Sher on The King and I, Olivia Laing on Crudo, The Postal Museum (shortlisted for Museum of the Year)
Jun 25th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Duran Duran, Bradford Literature Festival, stained glass artist Brian Clarke
Jun 12th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Rosemary’s Baby/Hereditary & horror cinema, Lucia Joyce
Jun 7th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Rupert Everett, Abir Mukherjee
May 31st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – David Edgar, Viv Albertine and Rebecca Stott on women’s non fiction, Aftermath Art after WW1 at Tate Britain, soap awards/Love Island
May 29th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Francois Ozon, Patrick Heron at Tate St Ives, Rachel Kushner on The Mars Room
May 15th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Richard Eyre on King Lear, Tom Wolfe remembered, Deadpool 2, Royal Academy at 250
May 9th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Neil Gaiman, Hadley Freeman & Ian Christie on rewatching old films in the light of #MeToo, Cannes Film festival
May 3rd BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Kate Mosse on The Burning Chambers, Kanye West, Loewe Craft Prize
Apr 26th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Janelle Monae, The Assassination of Katie Hopkins, Turner Prize shortlist
Apr 23th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Women’s Prize for fiction shortlist, The Shires, Sean O Brien
Apr 18th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Nicola Walker on The Split, Tina Turner musical, cherry blossom season in Japan, booking accessible seat tickets
Apr 10th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Viv Albertine, refurbished Queen Elizabeth Hall, future of BBC3
Apr 5th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – David Morrissey, Monet and Architecture, Rapid Response Unit in Liverpool
Mar 27th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Ready Player One, Church minister for arts, The York Realist
Mar 26th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Anna Chancellor, Hilton Als on White Girls, Bollywood playback/Sufi singer Harshdeep Kaur
Mar 23rd Britain’s Favourite Food Channel 4 contributor
Mar 20th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Caleb Femi, Jimmy Iovine on The Defiant Ones and Dr Dre, Donal Ryan, Glyndebourne Opera cup
Mar 15th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Tomb Raider, immersive theatre, Lisa Halliday
Mar 12th BBC Radio 4 Front Row– Eleanor Bron at 80, The Great Wave, Remembering Ken Dodd
Feb 20th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – I, Tonya, Robin Cousins on ice skating, novelist Jess Kidd, Igbo/Yoruba language and culture
Feb 13th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – The Shape of Water, Terracotta Warriors, YA novelist Samira Ahmed, Ru Paul’s Drag Race
Feb 8th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury, David Hare on Collateral, changing Carmen
Feb 5th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Simple Minds, Cornelia Parker, Mike Bartlett
Feb 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Simple Minds live, Phantom Thread, Alex La Guma, Napoleon Disrobed
Jan 24th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Rebecca Watts on poetry row, Paapa Essiedu on RSC Hamlet, AJ Finn on The Woman In The Window
Jan 16th BBC Radio 4 Front Row Will and Grace, Disney/Pixar’s Coco, London Sinfonietta at 50
Jan 9th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Eve Ensler on The Vagina Monologues/V Day at 20, French crime drama Spiral
Jan 4th BBC Radio 4 Front Row Michelle Terry on The Globe, Hostiles, Rebecca Stott, Jez Butterworth on Britannia
Jan 1st BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Culture and place special from Dundee
2018
Dec 28th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – Vic and Bob, Angela Gheorghiu, theatre ghosts
Dec 20th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – James Norton on McMafia, independent women’s magazines, Joe Stilgoe on The Jungle Book
Dec 14th BBC Radio 4 Front Row – C Emma Rice outgoing director of Shakespeare’s Globe, John Boyega on The Last Jedi, Caroline Fraser on Laura IngallsWilder and Prairie Fires
Dec 14th BBC Radio 4 Inside Science 430pm – from 17 min discussing science and fiction of Arthur C Clarke
Dec 10th Laura Ingalls’ America Radio 3 Sunday Feature – documentary on the legacy of the author of The Little House On The Prairie books
Dec 10th BBC World Service Weekend (listen from 45 min 20 sec) – discussing 150th anniversary of Laura Ingalls’ Wilder and the Little House On The Prairie Books
Dec 9th BBC World Service Business Matters – discussing the business of the Little House on the Prairie books and tourism industry (listen from 14 min 30 seconds)
Dec 5th BBC Radio London Robert Elms Show – listen from 41 min 45 sec discussing Laura Ingalls’ America
Dec 4th BBC Radio 4 Front Row 715pm – Tokio Myers, remembering Shashi Kapoor, Stronger and Jake Gyllenhaal, Douglas Henshall on Network
Nov 21st BBC Radio 4 Front Row 715pm – presenter with John Lithgow, Modigliani at Tate Modern, Costa Prize shortlists
Nov 15th BBC Radio 4 Front Row 715pm – Robert Pattinson, Ian McMillan, Goldsmiths Prize winner Nicola Barker and judge AL Kennedy
Nov 14th BBC Radio 4 Front Row 715pm – Mudbound director Dee Rees, theatre board trustees responsibilities in light of Old Vic/Kevin Spacey allegations, Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot
Nov 9th BBC Radio 4 Front Row 715pm – Hugh Grant, Stephen Fry, gay actors and roles in Hollywood
Nov 2nd BBC Radio 4 Front Row 715pm – Josie Lawrence, keeping TV endings secrets, A Bad Moms Christmas & families in film
Oct 26th Thu BBC Radio 4 Front Row 715pm – Young Marx, Stranger Things 2,
Oct 24th Tue BBC Radio 4 Front Row 715pm – Thor Ragnarok director Taika Waititi, John Keane on Art in the Age of Terror at Imperial War Museum, UK Holocaust Memorial architect David Adjaye, Eisenstein’s October restored
Oct 19th Thu BBC Radio 4 Front Row 715pm – Daniel Radcliffe, Wim Wenders, the Taj Mahal, I Am Not A Witch review
Oct 18th Wed BBC Radio 4 Front Row 715pm – Beth Ditto, Jacky Kay
Oct 13th BBC World Service Heart and Soul – The Reformation today from Copenhagen – presenter
Oct 4th Wed BBC Radio 4 Front Row 715pm– Kate Winslet, Sparks, biographer Jenny Uglow on Edward Lear
Sep Tue 25 BBC Front Row 715pm – Liz Dawn (Vera Duckworth) and Tony Booth remembered, campus in culture, Kwame Kwei-Armah appointment to Young Vic, Susheela Raman
Sat Sep 23 Good Morning Scotland 947am – discussing 50th anniversary of The Prisoner (last item)
Thu Sep 21 BBC Front Row 715pm – Basquiat, Juliet Stevenson on Wings, Tony Blackburn, Jenny Fagan
Tue Sep 19 BBC Front Row 715pm – Bill Murray, Lindsey Hilsum on Oslo, poet Yrsa Daley Ward
Tue Sep 12 BBC Front Row 715pm – Sir Peter Hall Special with Nicholas Hytner, David Edgar, Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn, Maria Ewing, Michael Billington
Fri Sep 8 BBC Front Row 715pm Joanne Froggatt on Liar, Darren Aronofsky on Mother!, 25 years of Classic FM
Thu Sep 7 BBC Front Row 715pm Marian Keyes, Tim Roth, Joe Lycett
Tue Sep 5 BBC Front Row 715pm Woman’s Hour craft awards at V&A, Lloyd Dorfman on arts philanthropy, poet Karen McCarthy Woolf
Sun Sep 3 BBC4 Prom 55 Classical music of India and Pakistan – presenter
Tue Aug 29 BBC R4 Front Row 715pm John Connolly on Stan Laurel novel “he”, Hellboy yellowface casting, Tanika Gupta on Lions and Tigers, Una film
Mon Aug 28 BBC R4 Front Row 715pm Bill Nighy (Limehouse Golem), Hamlet, Steve McCurry on Afghanistan photography
Thur Aug 24 BBC R4 Front Row 715pm Illness in comedy, Thomas Meehan, Ned Beauman, Michael Moore on Broadway
Fri Aug 11 BBC R4 Front Row 715pm – Joe Orton Special
Thu Aug 3 BBC R4 Front Row – Stockard Channing, Matisse in the Studio, Thomas Ades, immersive war art
Tue Aug 1 BBC R4 Front Row – Nicholas Hytner, Bernard MacLaverty, Mail Rail at the Postal Museum, sci fi writers hired by corporations
Mon Jul 31 BBC R4 Front Row – David Walliams, Remembering Sam Shepard and Jeanne Moreau, Zinzi Clemmons
Wed 26th Jul BBC R4 Front Row – Hounds of Love & horror films with Kim Newman, Kathy Reichs, Actor managers
Tue 25th Jul BBC R4 Front Row Daniel Mays. Girls Trip, Asifa Lahore, Helen Mort on Foyle Young Poets’ Prize
Tue 18th Jul BBC R4 Front Row – Jason Bateman on The Ozarks, Nicola Barker on novel H(A)PPY
Thu 13th Jul BBC R4 Front Row – Whales v dinosaurs, Igor Levit, A Dot, Nick Laird
Tue 11th Jul BBC R4 Front Row War for the Planet of the Apes, Tate: Art in the Age of Black Power
Tue 11th Jul BBC R4 Do Pass Go – presenter documentary on board games revival
Thu 6th Jul BBC R4 Front Row – Romola Garai on Queen Anne, Tyrell Alvin McCraney, Lloyd Dorfman on Royal Academy, Lorna Goodison Poet Laureate of Jamaica
Wed 5th Jul BBC R4 Front Row – Spiderman Homecoming, Michael Simkins on acting guilty, Christina and the Queens on Jean Genet, Lapworth Museum of Geology
Thu 29th Jun BBC R4 Front Row Jeremy Deller, A Man Called Ove, 2020 Kenneth Steven
Mon 19th Jun BBC R4 Front Row Diane Keaton, Glow, Carnegie/Kate Greenaway medal winners, Trump Julius Caesar protests in New York
Mon 12th Jun BBC R4 Front Row Brian Cox on Churchill, SF at the Barbican, Helen McCrory
Thur 8th Jun BBC R4 Front Row – Arundhati Roy, Rachel Weisz on My Cousin Rachel, Bamber Gascoigne on Grange Park Opera, Nigella Lawson on Ed Victor
Tue 6th Jun BBC R4 Front Row – Steven Moffat special
Sat 3rd Jun BBC Radio 4 Extra – 9am-10pm The Faces of Sergeant Pepper –Presenting a day of new special interviews and introducing archive programmes about the faces on the album cover.
Thu 1st June BBC R4 Front Row – Salma Hayek, Anna of the Five Towns, Where’s the Wonder Woman merchandise?
Mon 29th May BBC R4 Front Row 715pm – Liverpool special Jimmy McGovern, Sgt Pepper at 50 arts festival, RIBA North
Thu 25th May BBC R4 Front Row Discovered poems by Sylvia Plath, Brian May on Queen in 3D, Mark Millar on Star Wars at 40, Cannes Film Festival
Tue 23 May BBC R4 Front Row Remembering Sir Roger Moore, Twin Peaks, Crime writer Bill Beverely on “Dodgers”
Thu 18th May BBC R4 Front Row – Engelbert Humperdinck, The Red Turtle Director Michael Dedok De Wit, Alex Clark on Bath Festival F rating, Welsh language opera Y Twyr
Wed 17th May BBC R4 Front Row – Guy Ritchie on King Arthur, Redwater, Three Girls and the appeal of true crime tv drama, British Chinese play From Shore To Shore
Mon 15th May BBC R4 Front Row – BAFTA TV losers, Conn Iggulden on Dunstan, Quake and podcast radio drama
Wed 3rd May BBC R4 Front Row – Woody Harrelson, Jude Law and Ivo Van Hove on Obsession, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney on The Journey, Turner Prize shortlist
Wed 26th Apr BBC R4 Front Row Judi Dench on John Gielgud, remembering Jonathan Demme, Granta Best of Young American Novelists list, mean writer reviews
Tue 25th Apr BBC R4 Front Row Thomas Ades’ The Exterminating Angel, poet Patricia Lockwood, director James Gunn on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
Tue 18th Apr BBC R4 Front Row Poet Murray Lachlan Young, violinist Kyung Wha Chung, Clash film, remembering Michael Bogdanov
Mon 17th Apr BBC R4 Front Row: Rules Don’t Apply & the career of Warren Beatty, Stella Duffy on TV drama Born To Kill, poet Inua Ellams
Fri 14th Apr BBC R4 Do Pass Go: documentary on board games – presenter (featured on Pick Of The Week)
Review of Do Pass Go (The Spectator Apr 8th 2017)
Thu 13th Apr BBC R4 Front Row – Kim Stanley Robinson, Adrian Lester, Frog Stone on Bucket, Antarctic artist Shama Rahman
Wed 12th Apr BBC Radio London Robert Elms show (from 1 hour 7 min) – guest discussing board games
Mon 3rd Apr BBC R4 Front Row Baileys Prize shortlist, Vladimir and Anton violinists, Rajiv Joseph on Guards At The Taj, Yevgeny Yetvushenko remembered
Wed 29th Mar BBC R4 Front Row 42nd Street director Mark Bramble, Anish Kapoor, Holly McNish wins Ted Hughes Poetry Prize, Humber Bridge soundscape
Mon 27th Mar BBC R4 Front Row Anthony Head, Yellow Earth’s Tamberlaine, Ai Wei Wei, Line of Duty
Fri 24th Mar ODI – Diplomacy in a changing world Watch discussion with former UK diplomat Tom Fletcher
Tue 21st Mar BBC R4 Front Row Grooming plotline in Corrie, Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales, Ian Rankin on Colin Dexter
Wed 15th BBC R4 Front Row – Bill Condon on Beauty and the Beast, Big Bang Theory prequel, Dave Spikey, Josef Locke
Mon 13th BBC R4 Front Row – Brian Cox on stadium science, NT’s My Country, Sarah Dunant on Michelangelo and Sebastiano, Ed Sheeran and the UK charts
Tue Mar 7th BBC R4 Front Row Judith Kerr and Chris Riddell on The Cat In The Hat at 60, Wolfgang Tillmans, BBFC film classification on sexual orientation, RSC’s Snow in Midsummer
Thur Mar 2nd BBC R4 Front Row Tom Hiddleston, BBC3’s This Country, Certain Women, Moonstruck, Beauty & the Beast Disney diversity
BBC R3 Free Thinking – discussing Teletubbies (first ten minutes)
Sun Feb 26th BBC R3 Sunday Feature: John Ruskin’s Eurythmic Girls (Featured on Pick of The Week)
Mon Feb 2oth BBC R4 Front Row- Patriots Day, Stephen Karam on Speech and Debate, EU Baroque Orchestra leaving UK, The White Helmets/Watani: My Homeland Oscar nominated directors
Mon Feb 13th BBC R4 Front Row – Hidden Figures, Dirty Dancing at 30, Muslim Othello, Simon Armitage on Branwell Bronte
Thur Feb 9th BBC R4 Front Row Prevenge, artist Keith Tyson, novelist John Boyne
Tue Feb 7th BBC R4 Front Row – The Moorside, 20th Century Women, Greenaway on Battleship Potemkin, Pygmalion updated
Thu Feb 2nd BBC R4 Front Row – Julian Fellowes on diverse casting, Roots, Beyonce, John Burnside
Tue Jan 31st BBC R4 Front Row – Northern Broadsides’ Cyrano De Bergerac, Toni Erdmann and decline in European films in UK cinemas, pianist Vikingur Olafsson,
Thur Jan 26th BBC R4 Inside Science – Guest discussing Oliver Lodge and science of spiritualism (from 17 min in – last ten minutes of programme)
Thur Jan 26th BBC R4 Front Row Evelyn Glennie, Lyse Doucet on Christine, Mary Tyler Moore, Garth Jennings on his film Sing
Jan 25th BBC R4 Front Row Everybody’s Talking about Jamie musical, Victoria James on Gilded Cage, Hacksaw Ridge, The allure of Napoleon
Jan 11 BBC R4 Front Row – Dev Patel on Lion, Harvey and the Wallbangers, Our Dancing Town, Tina and Bobby
Jan 9 BBC R4 Front Row Golden Globes & war on Trump, Manchester By The Sea, Francis Spufford on Golden Hill, Hull Blade, John Lockwood Kipling at V&A
Jan 5 BBC R4 Front Row – Peter Cushing and resurrecting dead actors through CGI, Steven Knight on Taboo, Alice Oswald, Shakespeare and science
Jan 3 BBC R4 Front Row Costa Book awards, Sebastian Barry, Unforgotten series 2, remembering John Berger
2016
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 30) Liam Neeson, novelist Christian Jungersen, Assassins Creed and video game films, Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 28) Jane Austen 200th anniversary special
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 23) Riz Ahmed, The Kite Runner on Stage, Angela Carter, Delicious
BBC2 University Challenge (Dec 21) – contestant
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 21) – Helen Mirren, conductor Edward Gardner
BBC Front Row (Dec 14) – Peter Capaldi on Doctor Who, Rogue One, To Sir With Love author, poet Ben Lerner
BBC Front Row (Dec 12) Love at National Theatre, Arts Council England diversity report, The Eagle Huntress, Luke Montague
BBC Radio London (Dec 10th) presenting Robert Elms Show with novelist Linda Grant, Deborah Hyde on London witchesm (both guests in hour 3)
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 8) Snowden, Last Tango in Paris & sex scene exploitation, Famous Five/Ladybird nostalgia books, Manchester’s Monet
BBC R4 Woman’s Hour (Dec 7) Guest on playing Mary in the Nativity play
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 6) Dreamgirls, Christopher Eccleston and Dick Clement on Peter Vaughan, Australia’s Impressionists, Sharing the Turner Prize
BBC World Service (Dec 2) Does Feminism include you?
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 1) City Sculpture Projects, Strictly Ballroom, Moana
BBC R4 Front Row (Nov 22) Adam Driver, Costa Book Prize Shortlists, Gilmore Girls
BBC R4 Front Row (Nov 15) – “Van Gogh” sketchbook, David Oyelewo and Rosamund Pike on A United Kingdom, Cape Town City Ballet row
BBC R4 Front Row (Nov 8) – Andrew Lloyd Webber on School of Rock, Ewan McGregor, Goldsmith prize, Elton John’s Modernist photography at Tate Modern
BBC World Service Heart and Soul (Nov 6) – interviewing Terry Waite 25 years on from his release as a Beirut hostage
BBC Radio London (Nov 5) – presenting Robert Elm show with Mark Millar, Naomi Alderman
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 20) Stella Duffy, Walsall New Art Gallery, Barrie Kosky on opera The Nose, Yves Klein
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 19) Ali Smith on Autumn, Islamic art and the supernatural, The Nicholas Brothers
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 13) – Bob Dylan’s Nobel, Dario Fo, Tutankamun, Seymon Bychkov on Tchaikovsky
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 12)– American Honey, The Book of Harlan author Bernice McFadden, Oil, George Monbiot on loneliness
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 11) – Mira Nair, Lupita Nyongo on Queen of Katwe, The Vulgar, Janet Plater on The Gaul
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 6) – Louis Theroux’s My Scientology Movie , National Poetry Day, Welsh-Breton play
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 5) – Phyllida Lloyd’s The Tempest, Virtual Reality in cinema, Picasso’s portraits
BBC London Robert Elms show Oct 4 (listen from 1 hr 40 min ) guest discussing Ladybird books
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 3) – Sir Tom Stoppard, the Girl on The Train, Suzanne Lacy, Feminist Art
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 27) – Gillian Anderson, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, Pinocchio, Villette
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 21) – The Magnificent Seven, Paul Muldoon, Suzan-Lori Parks
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 20th) – Daniel Radcliffe, sex scenes in novels, William Kentridge
Channel 4 It Was Alright in the 70s – contributor
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 15) – Sam Neill, real locations in novels, Beethoven’s doodles, teaching art history to children
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 13) – Man Booker shortlist, Amos Oz on Judas, Blair Witch & found footage films, Wifredo Lam at Tate Modern
BBC World Service The Forum – on Turmoil and Trump with World War Z author Max Brooks (Sep 10)
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 6) – Viggo Mortensen, Jay McInerney, The Night Manager director Susanne Bier, Pat Mills on Misty comics
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 5) Cold Feet, Maxine Peake on A Streetcar Named Desire, Neon in Blackpool, sound of Star Trek
Mon Aug 29th BBC R4 Front Row 715pm – Poldark, HG Wells, Joe Corré on burning Punk nostalgia, Antartic artist in residence
Sun Aug 28th BBC4 Prom 43 Daniel Barenboim & West Eastern Divan Orchestra 7pm
BBC R4 Front Row (Aug 26) – Antony Sher’s King Lear, James Swallow and Rhianna Pratchett on writing for video games, Hendrik Groen
BBC R4 Front Row (Aug 25) – Casualty at 30, Thomas Ostermeier’s Richard III, Bad Moms, Madeleine Thien
BBC R4 Front Row (Aug 18) – Groundhog Day, Pedro Almodovar on Julieta, Composing for Olympic Dressage, Bertie Carvel
BBC R4 Front Row (Aug 12) – Punk special, Don Letts, women and punk, This is Grime, Scottee
BBC R4 Front Row (Aug 11) – Jamie Cullum, Nerve, novelist Petros Markaris, artist in residence in a care home
BBC R4 Front Row (Aug 8) – sitcoms and Brexit, The Glass Menagerie, Conrad Shawcross, Lincoln Cathedral
BBC R4 One To One (Jul 27) – with journalist, doctor and Second Sight charity founder Lucy Mathen
BBC R4 Front Row (Jul 18) – Simon Pegg on Star Trek Beyond, Beatrix Potter at 150, Stalking the Bogeyman, black and white films
BBC R4 Front Row (Jul 14) – Sol Gabetta, The Secret Agent, Dandyism & Black Masculinity
BBC R4 Front Row (Jul 13) – Jan Ravens on Theresa May, Stranger Things, James Kelman, Alice Oswald, Wole Soyinka
BBC R4 Front Row (Jul 11) – Alan Ayckbourn on The Karaoke Theatre Company, Men and Chicken, Peter Robinson on DCI Banks
BBC R4 Front Row (Jul 7) – Liverpool Biennial special with Mark Leckey
BBC R4 Front Row (Jul 6) Christopher Hampton, Maggie’s Plan, Bristol Arnolfini, Queens of Syria
Cathy Come Home – panel discussion with Ken Loach at the Barbican (Jul 5)
BBC R4 Front Row (Jul 4) Paul Feig on Ghostbusters, Laura Lippman, Georgia O’Keefe
BBC R4 Front Row (Jun 30) – Absolutely Fabulous: The Move, Phil Jupitus on Gordon Murray & Trumpton, Brief Encounters, Olivia de Havilland at 100
BBC R4 My Teenage Diary (Jun 28th)
BBC R4 Front Row (Jun 27) – Jessie Burton, York Art Gallery, Stanley Spencer, From Afar
BBC R4 Front Row 715pm(Jun 22)- Ralph Fiennes on Richard III, Refugees in fiction, Elvis&Nixon, murder of Amjad Sabri
BBC R4 Front Row (Jun 14) – Tate Modern new Switch House, Pierre Laurent-Aimard, Emma Cline The Girls, Penguine Modern Poets
BBC R4 Front Row (Jun 7) Ben Kingsley, Aladdin director Casey Nicholaw, Kim Newman on Outcast, RA Summer Exhibition
BBC R4 Front Row (Jun 6) Don DeLillo, Anthony Horowitz on New Blood, Beth Orton, Peter Schaffer remembered
BBC R4 Front Row (May 31) Nina Stibbe, Moby, The Nice Guys film, Michael Pennington on King Lear in Brooklyn
The Forum BBC World Service on Rivalry (May 28)
BBC R4 Front Row (May 24) – Burt Kwouk remembered, Sue Johnston, Yayoi Kusama, 4.48 Psychosis opera, The Daughter
BBC R4 Front Row (May 16) – Bryan Singer X Men Apocalypse, BBC Young Musician Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Yinka Shonibare, Max Porter, Katherine Chandler
BBC Front Row (May 12) – Mark Billingham, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Turner Prize shortlist, CBSO’s new music director Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla
BBC Front Row (May 10) – Billions, Olivia Chaney, Bryan and Mary Talbot on The Red Virgin graphic novel, Hugh Bonneville on Malvolio
BBC Front Row (May 3)- Alexander Masters, Mona Hatoum, The Windsors, Charles Dance
BBC Front Row (Apr 28) – Mark Gatiss on Doctor Who books, Mark Simpson Pleasure, Opera North, Demolition film, Brideshead Revisited York Theatre Royal
BBC Front Row (Apr 27) Hugh Bonneville, Captain America: Civil War (Anthony and Joe Russo), Alan Kitching, Juliet Stevenson on Rosalind
BBC Front Row (Apr 20) Victoria Wood, Curtis Sittenfield’s Eligible, Maya Sondhi “Sket”
BBC Front Row (Apr 19) Will Sharpe on Flowers, Jane Got A Gun, Don Warrington, Yvette Edwards
BBC Front Row (Apr 12) The Jungle Book, Wellington Arch Angel of Peace, Falco/Flavia Albia mysteries’ writer Lindsey Davis, Goosebumps Alive!
BBC Front Row (Apr 11) Baileys Prize shortlist, National Theatre’s Another World: Losing Our Children To Islamic State, Adrian Lester on Othello, Conceptual Art 1964-79
BBC Front Row (Apr 7) Diana Damrau on ROH Lucia Di Lammermoor, Garth Greenwell, Donald Trump naked art
BBC Front Row (Mar 31) Zaha Hadid, Jeremy Irons, Ronnie Corbett
Is Han Solo A Humanist? – The Theology and Ethics of Star Wars Conway Hall event (Mar 24) – watch here
BBC Front Row (Mar 24) Zootropolis, Blue Eyes, Max Stafford Clark on All That Fall, Streetwise Opera’s St Matthew’s Passion
BBC Front Row (Mar 23) – RSC Hamlet, Ed Vaizey on Culture White Paper, Underworld, Batman V Superman director Zach Snyder
BBC Front Row (Mar 16) – Jane Horrocks, High Rise, Sylvia Anderson remembered, Russian portraits from the age of Tolstoy
BBC R4 Something Understood (Mar 13th) – I sat down and wept
BBC Radio 4 Extra: Floating In Space (Mar 12th)
BBC Front Row (Mar 9th) – George Martin remembered, The Witch, Motown the Musical, Anna Meredith
BBC Front Row (Mar 8th) – Seamus Heaney’s Aeneid Book VI, Handel At Vauxhall, Venice In the Age of Giorgione
BBC Front Row (Mar 3) – Tanita Tikaram, Look Back In Anger at 60, Richard Gere’s Time Out of Mind, Hilma Af Klint
BBC Front Row (Mar 1) – The Brontes – in Haworth with AS Byatt, Truth, Cellist Vincent Segal & Malian kora player Balake Sissoko
BBC Front Row (Feb 23) – Churchill’s Secret, Jonathan Yeo on House of Cards portrait in the Smithsonian, Clare Morrall, Douglas Slocombe
BBC Front Row (Feb 22nd) – Secret In Their Eyes, Cleansed, Stutterer, AB Yehoshua
BBC Front Row (Feb 18th)– David McCallum interview, Soprano Marjorie Owens on Norma at the ENO
BBC Front Row (Feb 17) – Freeheld, Anna Hope on The Ballroom, Jack Garratt, Ian Christie on Unexpected Eisenstein
BBC Front Row (Feb 9) – Pride&Prejudice&Zombies, Steve Coogan on Alan Partridge, Chinelo Okparanta, Leonardo: Mechanics of Genius
BBC Front Row (Feb 4) – Peter Brook, Howard Jacobson,Angel Costumiers, Hamlet in the Calais Jungle
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 27) –Marty Feldman, John Dee, Tibor Reich, Christopher Edge
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 28) –Gina McKee & Christopher Hampton on The Mother, Beyond Beauty: Ancient Egypt, Rokia Traore, Iran & covering up Roman nudes
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 19) Steve Carrell, Suede/Brett Anderson, Oscar whitewash
BBC R4 Something Understood (Jan 17) – Eruptions
BBC R4 I Dressed Ziggy Stardust (Jan 16) – my documentary about teenage girls growing up with David Bowie in 70s suburbia
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 13th) – Ryan Coogler on Creed, local museums closing, Lumiere London, English national anthem
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 12) – Phil Redmond, TS Eliot prize winner Sarah Howe, Akram Khan, Saatchi Gallery’s Champagne Life
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 4) –Quentin Tarantino, Costa Book Awards announced, Kate Atkinson, Nine Lives
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 1) – Tom Hooper on The Danish Girl, Deutschland 83, John Butt on Bach’s Christmas Cantata and Magnificat in Leipzig 1723, Beowulf
2016
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 25) – Roy Hudd special
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 24) – Michael Palin, Blockbuster heroes, Andrew Davies on War and Peace, Katie Puckrick’s alternative Christmas song
Stars of Wonder R4 (Dec 23) – contributor
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 22nd) – Sarah Phelps on And Then There Were None, Snoopy and Charlie Brown: Peanuts Movie, the 70s TV revival, Bad Santa
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 18th) – JJ Abrams on Star Wars The Force Awakens, Christopher Hampton and Josie Rourke on Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Edith Piaf
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 17th) – Star Wars The Force Awakens, Horace, museum gift shops, Xmas TV picks
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 8th) – Mona Lisa, School of Rock the musical, Sharon Bolton on Little Black Lies
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 7th) – Jim Broadbent & Patrick Barlow on A Christmas Carol, By The Sea, V&A rehang of European galleries, TV boxsets
BBC World Service (Dec 2) Does Feminism include you? – chairing panel debate on feminism and intersectionality
BBC R4 Front Row (N0v 30th) – Victor Frankenstein, Andrew McMillan, Reading and Empathy, Winnie the Pooh
BBC R4 Front Row (Nov 26) – Simon Callow on Orson Welles: One Man Band, William Hill Sports Bk of the Year
BBC R4 Something Understood: The Teen Within (Nov 22)
BBC R4 Front Row (Nov 17) – Costa Book nominations, Mockingjay Part 2, The Man In The High Castle, Kareem Abdul Jabbar on Mycroft Holmes
BBC R4 Front Row (Nov 12) – Vikram Seth, The Last Panthers, Dutch artist in the Age of Vermeer, Klaus Maria Brandauer
BBC R4 Front Row (Nov 10) – Umberto Eco, Roger Waters’ The Wall, Tangerine
BBC R4 Front Row (Nov 4) – pianist Nicholas McCarthy, Burnt, Dominic Sandbrook on The Great British Dream Factory
BBC R4 Front Row (Nov 2)– He Named Me Malala, Wynton Marsalis & Nicola Benedetti, Pomona
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 29) – David Mitchell on Slade House, Francesca Cannucci, Sting’s art, Theaster Gates
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 28) – Hussein Chalayan Gravity Fatigue, British Museum’s Egypt after the Pharoahs
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 26) – Anne-Marie Duff on Husbands and Sons, The Affair, Under Milk Wood, Black Souls
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 20) – The World of Charles & Ray Eames, Marlon Brando, Janet Suzman, product placement in Spectre/James Bond
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 15) – Lisa Genova, Pan, Marcus Gardley on A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 14) – Ben Folds, James Shapiro on 1606, India’s writer protests, Giacometti
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 7) – Ted Hughes biography, Suffragette, Beasts of No Nation, Frank Auerbach
BBC World Service The Forum: Why Do We Need The State? (Oct 4)With Timothy Snyder – historian of Nazi Germany
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 30) – The Crucible, Gabriele Finaldi at The National Gallery, Turner Prize, Patrick DeWitt
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 28) – Macbeth, Tipping The Velvet, V&A Fabric of India Creative Industries’ Federation on Diversity
Sep 26th BBC Inside Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and BBC Inside Out North West 730pm – reporter: film on apostacy
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 21) – presenter: Chancellor George Osborne on promoting British culture in China, 99 Homes, Justin Cartwright
BBC R4 Something Understood – The Other Place (Sep 20)
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 15) – Photograph 51 with Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Faulks, Booker shortlist, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 9) – Cyndi Lauper, Salman Rushdie, Secret Cinema refugee protest, Pasolini
Channel 4 It Was Alright In the.. 70s (Sep 6) Series 2 Ep 1
World Service – Prom 40 Sibelius Symphony No 2 (Sep 6) presenter
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 3) – Michel Houellebecq on Submission, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Molly Dineen on Cartel Land
BBC R4 Something Understood: Strains of Paradise (Aug 30)
Young British and Imam in training: World Service Heart and Soul documentary (Aug28)
BBC R4 Front Row (Aug 28) Hanya Yanagihara on A Little Life, No Escape, Site-Specific Theatre, Boys Meets Girl
BBC4 Prom 21 (Aug 27) Alina Ibragivmova solo Bach partitas and sonatas part 2 – presenter
World Service – Prom 44 Daniel Barenboim and the West Eastern Divan Orchestra – presenter (Aug 22)
R4 Front Row (Aug 21) – Andras Schiff, Bad Education Movie, Patrick Ness, Russell Henderson
R4 Front Row (Aug 20) – Dismaland, 45 Years, A Day In the Life of Andy Warhol, French Resistance
Aug 20th BBC4 Prom 19 Alina Ibragimova Bach partitas and sonatas part 1– presenter
R4 Front Row (Aug 14) – Sherlock Holmes Prom, Absolutely Anything, Paul Neagu, Edinburgh Comedy
R4 Front Row (Aug 13) – Philippa Gregory on The Taming of the Queen, Stik, Theeb, Scottish Art at Holyrood,
R4 Front Row (Aug 6) – Guy Ritchie on The Man From Uncle, George Cole, China Mieville, The Last Man On Earth
R4 Front Row (Aug 4) – Ballet star Li Cunxin, Gareth Somers on Shakespeare: 1616, The Bomb in popular culture
BBC R4 Front Row (Aug 3) – Sir James MacMillan, The Gift, Penny Woolcock’s Utopia at the Roundhouse
The scientific ethics of Doctor Who – Conway Hall event (Jul 29)- audio podcast
Radio 4 Front Row (Jul 28) – Joan Armatrading, Michael Moorcock, Index on Censorship on Art and the Law, Hot Pursuit
R4 Something Understood (Jul 26) – Away Being, Coming Home
BBC R4 Front Row (Jul 23) Paul Murray on the Irish banking collapse, Micky Dolenz, Barrie Kosky on Saul at Glyndebourne, Bloomsbury Set BBC2 drama Life In Squares
BBC R4 Front Row (Jul 22) Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, Mack and Mabel, EL Doctorow, Choman Hardi
BBC2 Artsnight: Photography (Jul 15)
BBC R4 Front Row (Jul 13) – Ant Man, Marc Quinn, Clueless at 20, Hyeonseo Lee
BBC1 Celebrity Masterchef ep 8 (Jul 10)
BBC1 Celebrity Masterchef ep 7 (Jul 9)
HG Wells and the H Bomb – R3 Sunday Feature (Jul 5)
BBC Front Row (Jul 3) – Love & Mercy/rock star biopics, Orson’s Shadow, UK Song Map, Liotard
BBC London Robert Elms (Jul 2) – discussing HG Wells and the H Bomb (from 1 hr 39 min)
BBC Front Row (Jul 1) – Louis De Bernieres, Terminator 5, British Paraorchestra, Desmond Elliot prize winner – Claire Fuller
BBC R4 Front Row (Jun 30) – John Waters, Magic Mike XXL, William Tell booing at the ROH, A Song For Jenny, Chinese Art since 1970 at the Whitworth
BBC R4 Front Row (Jun 22) – Barbara Hepworth at Tate Britain, Carnegie/Kate Greenaway award winners, Going Clear Scientology film, Nell Zink
BBC R4 Something Understood (Jun 21) Inebriate of Air
BBC R4 Front Row (Jun 18) – Black Work, Robert Wilson on Krapp’s Last Tape, Manda Scott on Into The Fire
BBC R4 Front Row (Jun 16) – Jordskott, Unfinished Art, We Want You To Watch, Rebecca Dinerstein
BBC R4 Front Row (Jun 8) – The Look of Silence, WB Yeats, Interceptor, Waddesdon bequest at the British Museum
BBC R4 Front Row (Jun 3) – Ali Smith Bailey’s Prize winner, Listen Up Philip, Jonathan Ames on Wake Up, Sir!
BBC R4 Front Row (May 29)– Are we publishing too many books? Hay-on-Wye special
BBC R4 Front Row (May 26) Man Up, Temple, Michel Houellebecq interview preview, Buying Mozart’s hair, Dennis Lehane on World Gone By
BBC R4 Young British and Imam In Training (May 24/25) – presenter
May 21 BBC Asian Network: from 1230pm Nihal Discussing my documentary Young British and Imam In Training
BBC R4 Front Row (May 20) – Jim Dale, Will Young, Man Booker International winner, Spotify
BBC R4 The News Quiz (May 15) – panellist
BBC R4 Front Row (May 12) – Andrew Motion, TC Boyle, The Tribe
BBC R4 Front Row (May 11) – Mike Leigh’s Pirates of Penzance, Quentin Letts on new Culture Secretary, Francois Ozon, Brighton Festival
BBC Front Row (May 6) – Kate Atkinson, Carrie The Musical, Venice Biennale, International Arabic Fiction Prize
The Forum BBC World Service – How Long is Now? (May 5)- presenter
BBC R4 Front Row (Apr 30) – Paul Abbott, Everyman review, Idris Khan
BBC R4 Front Row (Apr 21) – Toni Morrison, Indigenous Australia at the British Museum, Peter Kay’s Car Share, Edgar Allen Poe and Pop music
Something Understood: Deserts (Apr 19)
BBC R4 Front Row (Apr 13) – Gunter Grass, Dear Lupin, The Last Five Years
BBC R4 Front Row (Apr 7) – Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbo, Billie Holliday, Keanu Reeves’ John Wick
BBC R4 Front Row (Mar 26) – National Videogame Arcade, Patrick Gale: A Place Called Winter, Anthony Sher on Death of a Salesman
BBC R4 Front Row (Mar 24) – Russell Crowe, Anish Kapoor, Outlanders, body in ancient Greek art at the British Museum
BBC R4 Front Row (Mar 23) – Cinderella, Nick Broomfield on Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Folio Prize winner Akhil Sharma, Official 2015 election artist Adam Dant
BBC R4 Front Row (Mar 17) – Samuel West on After Electra, Pop Stars not singing their greatest hits, Bloodline, AD Miller
BBC R4 Something Understood: Consider The Lilies (Mar 8)
BBC R4 Front Row (Mar 3)– Sigourney Weaver Chappie, Inventing Impressionism, The Jew of Malta & anti semitism on stage
BBC Front Row (Feb 26) Ralph Fiennes’ Man and Superman, English Heritage, Miranda July
BBC R4 Front Row(Feb 25) – Peter Sellars on The Indian Queen, It Follows, Multitudes and politics on stage, Anna Smaill
BBC Front Row (Feb 18) Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Museum of the Mind, Maidan
BBC R4 Front Row (Feb 9) – The Casual Vacancy, Harriet Walter & Guy Paul on Boa, Folio Prize, Amit Chaudhuri
BBC R4 Something Understood: Inventories of Life (Feb 8)
BBC Weekend (World Service) Feb 7/8 – presenter
BBC Front Row (Feb 3) -Harper Lee, William Nicholson, The Turning, Marlene Dumas
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 27) – Cotton To Gold, Lawrence Norfolk on Inherent Vice, Dara at the National Theatre, Naomi Alderman on Beyond Clueless
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 26) – Mark Millar and Matthew Vaughn on Kingsman; The Secret Service, BP’s donations to Shell, Selling the Wu Tang Clan/The Sexual Objects one copy only exclusive albums, Basil Twist
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 20) – Ex Machina, Jamie Lloyd on The Ruling Class, Max Brooks on The Harlem Hellfighters, Costa Debut novel winner Emma Healey
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 14)– Bradley Cooper on American Sniper, Muhammad in Islamic Art, Adventures of the Black Square, Paula Hawkins’ The Girl On The Train
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 13) – Belle and Sebastian, Whiplash, Wolf Hall, Orfeo
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 8) – Michael Pennington, The Last of the Unjust, Scanner on Minimalist music
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 7) – Steve Carrell on Foxcatcher, Elvis the brand at 80, The Fever
BBC R4 Something Understood (Jan 4) The White North Has Thy Bones
BBC R4 Front Row (Jan 2) – Tamsin Grieg on Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown the Musical, drone photography, Birdman
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 16)– The ethics of Serial, Exodus, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Annie
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 11) – Andrew Lloyd Webber&Trevor Nun on Cats, Winston Churchill’s paintings, Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney, Museum of Childhood’s Dolls’ houses
BBC R4 Front Row (Dec 10) – Marco Polo, behind the scenes at English National Ballet’s The Nutcracker, The Christmas Truce 1914 in art, Manakamana film
BBC R3 The Fundamentalist Queen (Dec 7)- Sunday Feature on Elizabeth Cromwell
Front Row (Dec 4) – Harrison Birtwistle, Jill Lepore on the secret history of Wonder Woman
Nov 27th BBC R4 Arnold of the Five Towns – A celebration of the Edwardian superstar Arnold Bennett
BBC R4 Front Row (Nov 25) – Barry Manilow, David Baddiel and David Schneider on Jewish Comedy, parallel fiction to classic Victorian novels
BBC R4 Front Row (Nov 24) – Jude Law, David Guetta, Nazi-looted art, Post-Pop at the Saatchi Gallery, Kreuzweg/Stations of the Cross
BBC R4 Something Understood (Nov 16th)- Beyond the Grey Towers – an exploration of Durham Cathedral
BBC R4 Front Row (Nov 6th) – Made In Dagenham, Elif Shafak, The Queen’s Gold. comics
BBC R4 Front Row(Nov 4th) – North Korean art, Babylon, Wendy Cope, Border Game
BBC R4 The News Quiz (Oct 31) – panellist
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 28) – The Passing Bells, Night Crawler, Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 15) – Cat Stevens, William Morris, Northern Soul, Ken Burns
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 13) – Great Fire, Rachel Joyce, East Is East, Richard Tuttle, artists’ royalties
BBC R4 Extra Riding Into Town (Oct 13) – My Archive Hour on Westerns
BBC1 Inside Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (Oct 6): Film investigating Rotherham abuse and political correctness – (film starts 11 minutes in)
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 8) – Phyllida Lloyd on her all-female Henry IV, UK Booksellers’ Super Thursday, photographer Robert Wilson on Helmand Returns, The Sensory War 1914-2014 at Manchester Art Gallery
BBC R4 Front Row (Oct 6) – Featuring an interview with Clive James, Effie Gray, Selfie, Niven Govinden
BBC R4 Something Understood (Oct 5)
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 18) – presenter: Denzel Washington on The Equalizer, Leonard Cohen, Howard Brenton on Dr Scroggy’s War, conductor Riccardo Chailly
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 16) – Enda Walsh & Mikel Murfi on Ballyturk, Woody Allen’s Magic in the Moonlight, Andre Singer on Night Will Fall, John Constable at the V&A
BBC R4 Front Row (Sep 9)– presenter. Featuring Joyce DiDonato, James Ellroy, Wallace collection, Booker Prize shortlist
BBC4 Friday Night at the Proms (Sep 5) – presenter (Prom 54 Beethoven Missa Solemnis – John Eliot Gardiner & Monteverdi Choir)
Front Row (R4 Sep 3) – Dan Stevens, Pat Barker & Nicholas Wright on Regeneration on the stage, Val McDermid on ITV drama Chasing Shadows, Matthew Thomas on his debut novel We Are Not Ourselves
Something Understood: The Prince who walked out of his fairy tale (Aug 31)
Weekend – BBC World Service: (Aug 31) – guest: discussing week’s news stories including Rotherham, Ukraine, substance addiction among classical musicians
BBC R4 Front Row (Aug 28)– Margaret Atwood, Folkestone Triennial Michael Sailstorfer
The Forum: Blood (BBC World Service Aug 25)
The Forum: Grasses (BBC World Service Aug 18)
Archive on Four: Riding Into Town BBC R4 (Aug 9) – programme about the postwar British love of the Western and mine, too.
Front Row R4 (Aug 4)– Welcome To New York, DBC Pierre on Hammer horror, DBC Pierre, Tallis Scholars/Sir John Taverner Proms premiere, Gomorrah
Friday Night at the Proms BBC4 (Aug 1)– Prom 15 Ingrid Fliter Mozart Piano Concerto no 23, Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Radio Times preview
Front Row (R4 Jul 29) A Streetcar Named Desire, Gabriel Prokofiev and Daniel Hope, Crime reporters turned novelists Laura Lippman and David Mark
Front Row BBC R4 (Jul 21) Nicholas Cage in Joe, clavichord music, Holy Warriors, V&A’s Disobedient Objects
Sunday BBC R4 (Jul 20) – What makes a good death? children on child poverty, Catholic Church in WW1
Front Row (Jul 17) – Gilbert&George, Harper Lee, Jonathan Harvey, Chichester Theatre
Front Row (Jul 16)– Imperial War Museum WW1 galleries, Linda Grant, The Mill
Front Row (R4 Jul 2) – Monty Python Live, Mark Ruffalo, Nicholas McCarthy, The Crucible
Free Thinking: Woods, Paul Nash and the First World War (Jul 1st BBC R3)
Something Understood: The Outer Limits (Jun 29th BBC R4)
The human urge to push at the limits of the outer space, the deep oceans and the microscopic world
BBC R3 Free Thinking – Barbara Kruger and Laurie Penny on anger and art, Posy Simmonds, The mind of molecules (Jun 25)
BBC R4 Arnold of the Five Towns (Jun 23) – documentary on Edwardian literary superstar Arnold Bennett
BBC World Service The Forum – discussing forgiveness (Jun 21)
BBC R4 Front Row (Jun 19): Don Johnson on Miami Vice and Cold In July, Kate Pullinger on how self publishing changing the book business
BBC i-Wonder website guide to Shia/Sunni Islam (Jun 2014)- presenter
BBC World Service The Forum – presenter – challenging assumptions with Freakonomics author Steven Levitt (June 15)
BBC R4 The News Quiz (Jun 13/14)
BBC World Service The Forum: on Social Intelligence (Jun 7/8 2014)
Front Row R4 (May 29) – Jimmy’s Hall, Leonard Cohen, I Wanna Marry Harry/Almost Royal, Geoff Dyer on life on the USS aircraft carrier George HW Bush
Sunday R4 – (May 25) Pope’s Holy Land visit vicar of Fleet St, Brussels’ Jewish museum murders, IERA Muslim charity investigation
Free Thinking R3 – on Writers and their Notebooks (May 21)
Something Understood R4 -The Power of the Crowd (May 11)
Front Row R4 (May 7) – David Henry Hwang on Yellow Face, Anthony Gormley & Simon Starling on Henry Moore, Eurovision politics, Alice Hoffman on The Museum of Extraordinary Things
Front Row R4 (May 6) – Irvine Welsh, guerilla advertising, Studio Ghibli, playright Rachel De-lahey
Free Thinking R3 (May 1) – Michael Cunningham, modern Turkey & the Armenian genocide, legacy of poet Thom Gunn
Free Thinking R3 (April 24th) – Chris Marker, Vice News, Banksy & Street Art IP
BBC World Service The Forum – Uncharted: Jules Verne, RL Stevenson & the final mapping of the globe) (Apr 13th)
Something Understood: Transience BBC R4 (Apr 6th)
BBC World Service The Forum – Spontaneity (Mar 29th)
Mar 18th BBC R3 Free Thinking Leadership with Archie Brown & Frank Ledwidge, Angela Lansbury Blithe Spirit, Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh
Mar 13th BBC R3 Free Thinking – American identity & literature special with Gary Shteyngart & Jonathan Lethem – presenter
Mar 9th BBC R4 Something Understood on Wilderness Years
Mar 7/8th BBC R4 The News Quiz
Mar 7th BBC R4 Front Row – Alexander McCall Smith, The Walshes, The Rocket, This Will Hurt A Bit
Mar 3rd BBC R4 Front Row – The Grand Budapest Hotel, Alan Ayckbourn on Alain Resnais, Ruin Lust at Tate Britain, novesist Marie Durrieussecq on Cleves/All The Way
Feb 25th BBC R3 Free Thinking – Paul Foot award, Scoundrels, Danny Dorling on housing
BBC R4 Something Understood (Feb 9th)– Up in Flames
BBC R3 Free Thinking (Jan 29th)– Australian culture special with Germaine Greer, Christos Tsiolkas, Aboriginal leader Pat Dodson
BAFTA Children’s Questions Time panel discussion (Jan 27)
BBC R3 Free Thinking (Jan 23) – Jon Savage on Derek Jarman, Simon Russell Beale on playing King Lear, morality in economics and Benefit Street
Free Thinking BBC Radio 3 (Jan 15) Daniel Alarcon, the British Constitution, HBO’s “Girls” and women in TV comedy
Something Understood BBC R4 (Dec 15th) Making by hand
Featuring the story of retired Royal Navy captain Tony Casdigliani and his father, who embroidered insults to Hitler while held as a POW.
Night Waves:Is Business a Dirty Word? Art museums in the Gulf States, Nebraska BBC R3 10pm (Dec 4th)
Exclusive interview with film director John Waters BBC R3 (Nov 6th)
Penny Woolcock: Interview with the One Mile Away film director for Free Thinking (R3 Nov 20th)
What’s Eating You? Lionel Shriver and disgustologist Dr Val Curtis on appetite, obesity and disgust (BBC R3 Free Thinking (Nov 13th)
Who Controls The Countryside? BBC R3 Free Thinking (Nov 7th)
Listed Londoner on Robert Elms, BBC London (Nov 4th). Discussing my special programmes on John Waters (R3), forthcoming Arnold Bennett documentary (R4 Spring 2014), New Malden’s Korean community and the magical London of Cliff Richard’s 1961 film The Young Ones.
The Arts Hour BBC World Service – featuring interviews with Marc Wiese on his film about North Korea Camp 14: Total Control Zone and Sathnam Sanghera on Marriage Material
Sept 26th R3 Night Waves – presenter. Cate Blanchett on Blue Jasmine, The Ugly Renaissance with Sarah Dunant, Maxim Leo on DDR/East German family memoir Red Love, Mira Schendel retrospective
Sept 18th R3 Night Waves – presenter. Rory Kinnear, Australian Art at the Royal Academy, the scientist as hero or villain, “Nothing But A Man” (1964) BFI re-issue
Sept 1st R4 Something Understood 6am, 1130pm – Mending Cracks with Gold
Aug 15th Life and legacy of Rudolph Nureyev BBC R3 – discussion with former Royal Ballet partner Dame Monica Mason and biographer Julie Kavanagh
Aug 2nd Friday Night at the Proms BBC4 Prom 17 – presenter (recorded Thursday 25th July)
July 24th R3 Proms Plus – interviewing Timothy West and Desmond Barrit on playing Falstaff (broadcast in Prom 16 interval on R3)
July 19th BBC4 Prom 6 – presenter (recorded July 16th) Radio Times listing Nobuyuki Tsujiii with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
Something Understood BBC R4 July 14th on Procrastination
My R4 Blogpost on procrastination from Hamlet and the Cuban Missile Crisis to Game of Thrones
July 12th BBC R4 The News Quiz
Something Understood BBC R4 July 7th on Keeping The Past Alive
My R4 blog post on how the ideas behind the programme
BBC R4 Appeal – Acid Survivors
Night Waves BBC R3 Jun 12th – feature interview with Joss Whedon, Marianne Elliott on Sweet Bird of Youth with Kim Cattrall
Weekend Woman’s Hour BBC R4 Jun 1st – Rita Hayworth, Jessica Hynes, The Apprentice, Ute Lemper, misogynist Facebook pages
Woman’s Hour BBC R4 May 28th – Women on The Apprentice, Ute Lemper, Crime writer Dana Stabenow
May 20th BBC R3 Night Waves 10pm – Mafia Wars, Time reborn and Samuel Beckett
May 19th BBC R4 Something Understood – When trust is tested
May 14th BBC R3 Night Waves – Baz Luhrmann’ s 3-D Great Gatsby, India’s “greatest architect” Charles Correa, UKIP & the power of political movements
May 1st BBC R3 Night Waves Billy Liar, Ellen Gallagher at Tate Modern, Small Wars, Faraway Places, Susan Cain on Quiet and Introverts
Sunday BBC R4 April 28th – discussions on drones, Sioux fight to reclaim Wounded Knee, new letters of Charles Wesley, martyrdom of Archbishop Romero in El Salvador
April 26/27th BBC R4 The News Quiz – panellist
April 16/17th World Service I Dressed Ziggy Stardust – documentary
April 14th BBC R4 Something Understood presenter. Theme of Threads
April 11th BBC R3 Night Waves – Legacy of Lady Thatcher with Edwina Currie, Will Self, Peter Hitchens, Dominic Sandbrook Edith Hall, Selina Todd, Mark Littlewood
April 10th BBC R3 Night Waves – Oliver Stone, Chinamanada Adichie, AS Byatt
April 8th 10am BBC R4 Woman’s Hour – Naomi Long MP, Isy Suttie on meddling in love lives, sharia courts, vocational education, novelist Rebeca Wait
April 6th BBC R4 8pm Archive on 4: Riding Into Town – When Britain loved Westerns
Apr 3 Night Waves – Nostalgia and the NHS, John Yorke on the science of storytelling, Adam Rutherford on Creation and genetics
Mar 27th Night Waves –Mohsin Hamid, The Village, Bruce Norris’ The Low Road
Mar 16th I Dressed Ziggy Stardust R4 documentary – this is a link to the World Service version which is still on i-player
Mar 21st The Strand BBC World Service – presenter. Philip Roth film, African cinema, The Firework Maker’s Daughter opera, Napalm Death
Mar 14th The Strand BBC World Service – presenter. The Violin trees of Switzerland
BBC Newswatch – latest programme (broadcast every Friday/Saturday)
BBC1 Sunday Morning Live – latest programme (new series starts June 2013)
Mar 12th BBC R3 Night Waves – presenter Kevin Fong on medical extremes, Haen Farber on her South African Mies Julie, Poet John Agard on Queen & country, Mexican film director Carlos Reydegas on Post Tenebrax Pax
Mar 7th The Strand BBC World Service – Amish Tripathi on Lord Shiva the superhero & a Japanese view of the film Emperor
Feb 28th The Strand BBC World Service– Fire In the Blood, Alejandro Cartgena’s Carpoolers, James Lasdun On Being Stalked
Feb 27th BBC R3 Night Waves 10pm – presenter Apocalypse, Finnegans Wake is a Chinese bestseller, all-American Muslim comedy, Sara Wheeler’s O My America!
Feb 11th BBC R3 Night Waves 10pm – interviewing Amit Chaudhuri on Calcutta, Papal resignations since the 14th century, historian Gill Bennett on 6 moments of British foreign policy crisis, Robert LePage’s Playing Cards: Spades 1
Feb 6th BBC R3 Night Waves –presenter Ice Age Art, Rumer Godden, Pablo Larrain’s film No about Pinochet, novelist Nadeem Aslam on a Pakistani view of the War on Terror
Jan 23rd BBC R3 Night Waves – presenter Kitchen Sink Drama special with Ken Loach
Jan 10th The Strand BBC World Service – presenter – Django Unchained, Lincoln and race in America
December 4th Night Waves BBC R3 – presenter: Fiona Shaw on Julius Caesar & all female/male casting, the history of violence in Buddhism, Tim Pat Coogan on the Irish Famine plot.
November 22nd Free Thinking BBC R3 10pm – Presenter. Interviewing BBC Middle East Jeremy Bowen & Egyptian political economist Tarek Osman on Democracy and the Arab uprisings
November 20th Free Thinking: Not Born This Way? BBC R3 10pm – Interviewing Julie Bindel on the gay gene.
November 7th Free Thinking: The differences between Islam and Christianity BBC R3 1– Presenter. Chairing discussion with Tom Holland and Mona Siddiqui
BBC The Strand Oct 25th – Colm Toibin on mythmaking around Mother Mary, Mali’s Islamist music ban
BBC Night Waves Oct 24th – Wagner and Myth with AS Byatt, Mark Berry, Michael Portillo & Roger Scruton
BBC The Strand Oct 18th – Martin Landau special interview
Night Waves Oct 11th– Anish Kapoor, the Jesus wife fragment & New Testament authenticity, frontline medicine, Beckett
September 26th BBC R3 Night Waves 10pm – presenter: Mars: Curiosity and the Imagination With cosmologist Marcus Chown, physicist Richard M Krauss, science historian Joshua Nall, writers Francis Spufford, Sophia McDougall & Liz Williams
August 31st BBC4 730pm Prom 61 (BBC Symphony Orchestra.Howells Hymnus Paradisi, Elgar First Symphony) – Presenter
August 30th BBC4 730pm Prom 57 (Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester, Frank Peter Zimmerman) Wagner’s Parsifal, Berg Violin Concerto, Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite – Presenter
Prom 23 broadcast BBC4 Thursday August 9th 730pm (recorded July 31st)
Prom 33 broadcast BBC4 Friday August 10th 7pm (recorded August 7th)
July 3rd BBC R3 Night Waves: Samuel West & author Frank Portnay on Procrastination, Will Self & Sophia McDougall on A Clockwork Orange, and Sylvia Syms on Woman In A Dressing Gown
June 6th BBC R3 Night Waves – Margaret Atwood on Ray Bradbury, Robert Caro on LBJ, Janet Suzman on Shakespeare’s women
March 27th 930am BBC R4 One To One – with actor Murray Melvin on taboo busting and challenging homophobia in 60s theatre and cinema
March 20th BBC R4 One To One – with Polish journalist Konstanty Gebert on lessons from fighting Communist dictatorship for the Arab Spring (Radio Times Pick of the Day
March 13th Interview on “Missing Angles” for BBC R4 One To One – with journalist turned doctor/charity campaigner Lucy Mathen
2011
December 10th/11th Profile BBC Radio 4 of Newt Gingrich – Presenter
December 3/4 The Forum on Mystery (BBC World Service) –Presenter with guests: Screenwriter Jonah Nolan(The Prestige/Memento/The Dark Knight), anthropologist Helen Fisher, astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin.
This Week BBC1 November 24th political review of the week
