Following the announcement of the death of the musician Charlie Watts, tonight’s Front Row is an archive edition featuring John Wilson in conversation with the band he was a member of - The Rolling Stones. The programme was recorded in 2012 t

Neil Young interviewed

Aug 6th, 2014 29m 38s

With John Wilson. In a rare extended interview, the Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young discusses his latest disc, a selection of traditional songs, recorded with the uninhibited rock band Crazy Horse. The album includes a version of God Save

Julian Fellowes, Rumer and Maureen Lipman in the Front Row Quiz

Dec 31st, 2012 28m 31s

Mark Lawson turns quizmaster to test the cultural knowledge of two teams in the Front Row Quiz of the Year.Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and film-maker Asif Kapadia join team captain Natalie Haynes to compete against actress Maureen Lip

British actors in America

Dec 28th, 2012 28m 18s

With Mark Lawson.Damian Lewis, Hugh Laurie, Thandie Newton, Adrian Lester, Clive Owen and Ashley Jensen are among the actors who discuss the highs and lows of working as British performers in America.Many high profile American TV shows and film

The creative backstage stars of Strictly, Downton and the Olympics

Dec 27th, 2012 28m 26s

Kirsty Lang turns the spotlight on the backstage stars, some of the key individuals behind-the-scenes who play a key role in big events and major TV shows.The band from Strictly Come Dancing lurk at the back of the stage in the shadows as the b

Neil Young, Pete Townshend, Mick Jagger and more on their musical roots

Dec 26th, 2012 28m 26s

John Wilson talks to musicians including Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Paul McCartney, Emeli Sandé, Jonny Greenwood and Pete Townshend about their first musical influences. Neil Young reveals why he recently recorded a

Working with the family

Dec 25th, 2012 28m 31s

With Mark Lawson.Jack Whitehall, Greg Davies, Niamh Cusack and Frances de la Tour are among the performers and artists who share memories and reflections on working with close members of their families. Christmas is the time when people are mos

People of the Year 2012, part 2

Dec 24th, 2012 28m 25s

Mark Lawson unwraps interviews with arts headline makers of 2012, in the second of two programmes.Writer E L James reflects on a year in which she became a global publishing phenomenon, with her best-selling trilogy which began with Fifty Shade

People of the Year 2012

Dec 21st, 2012 28m 33s

Mark Lawson unwraps new interviews with arts headline makers of the year, in the first of two special programmes. In the wake of the record-breaking success of the James Bond film Skyfall, Judi Dench reflects on her role as M, and director Sam

The Impossible; Simon Amstell; Arts Funding

Dec 20th, 2012 28m 30s

With Kirsty Lang. A new film The Impossible, starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts, focuses on the powerful tsunami which occurred in the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day 2004, and killed over 280,000 people. The film shows how events affected one f

Dustin Hoffman's Quartet reviewed; singer Katy Carr; comedy DVDs

Dec 19th, 2012 28m 32s

With Kirsty Lang.Barry Norman reviews Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut, Quartet. The film is set in a home for retired opera singers and features Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly and Michael Gambon among the all-star cast. Katy Carr is a singer,

Salman Rushdie, Victoria Wood, Christmas Jukebox Jury

Dec 18th, 2012 28m 32s

With Mark LawsonSalman Rushdie has written his first ever screenplay, an adaptation of his own Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight's Children. He reflects on condensing the family saga which follows India from Colonialism to Partition, about fi

Don McCullin; Martin Freeman; albums of the year

Dec 13th, 2012 28m 31s

With John Wilson.Photographer Don McCullin was on Front Row earlier this year talking about an exhibition of some of his most famous photographs of conflict, from Vietnam to Iraq. He said then that - at the age of 75 - his days on the frontline

William Boyd; Ravi Shankar remembered; video games of the year

Dec 12th, 2012 28m 14s

With Kirsty Lang. Writer William Boyd discusses the television adaptation of his novel, Restless, which stars Michael Gambon, Michelle Dockery and Charlotte Rampling. Ravi Shankar, who has died at the age of 92, took the sitar to a global audie

Paul Thomas Anderson on The Master; Jim Cartwright returns to the stage

Dec 11th, 2012 28m 22s

With Mark Lawson. Director Paul Thomas Anderson reflects on his film The Master, which has already won numerous awards and is heavily tipped for Oscar success.In the week that Green Day release the third in a trilogy of albums and Peter Jackson

Paul Auster, Tom Robinson plays Beck

Dec 7th, 2012 28m 34s

With John Wilson.Paul Auster is the best-selling author of The New York Trilogy and Moon Palace. His latest book, Winter Journal, takes him in a more reflective direction, examining his own life through a series of autobiographical fragments an

Ali Smith, Dave Brubeck, crime fiction

Dec 6th, 2012 28m 33s

With Mark Lawson.The 1992 film The Bodyguard, starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, was a huge box office hit. Now a stage musical version of the film has opened, with Heather Headley in the leading role. Music critic Rosie Swash gives he

All-female Julius Caesar; writer Mike Bartlett on The Town

Dec 5th, 2012 28m 15s

With Mark Lawson.Mamma Mia and The Iron Lady director Phyllida Lloyd returns to the stage with a new all-female staging of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. It's set in a women's prison and contains a heavy-metal soundtrack. Harriet Walter takes the

Ben Folds; Elizabeth Price; Charles Dickens museum

Dec 4th, 2012 28m 26s

With John Wilson.Elizabeth Price has won this year's Turner Prize for work including her video installation The Woolworths Choir of 1979. She discusses her inspirations and what winning the prestigious art prize might mean for her future plans.

Seven Psychopaths, Beryl Bainbridge's art

Dec 3rd, 2012 28m 13s

Martin McDonagh won the 2008 Best Original Screenplay Oscar for In Bruges, starring Colin Farrell as an unlucky hit-man. In McDonagh's new film, Seven Psychopaths, Farrell is a struggling screenwriter dragged into the Los Angeles crime world wh

The Mouse and His Child; Sightseers; Robert Greene; Cecilia Bartoli

Nov 30th, 2012 28m 30s

With Kirsty Lang.Following the huge success of Matilda, the RSC has a new Christmas show for family audiences. The Mouse and His Child is based on a book by Russell Hoban, and features the adventures of two wind-up mice, a purple elephant, and

Roddy Doyle, Boris Godunov, The Staves, TV Drama The Fear

Nov 29th, 2012 28m 33s

With Kirsty Lang, Booker Prize-winning novelist Roddy Doyle talks about his new novella, Two Pints. It's a year's dialogue between two men in a Dublin pub over their pints. Beginning with the landmark Royal visit to Ireland in May 2011 and endi

Daniel Radcliffe in A Young Doctor's Notebook, Oliver Sacks, the Hunt

Nov 28th, 2012 28m 32s

With Mark Lawson. Daniel Radcliffe and John Hamm star in A Young Doctor's Notebook, a new four-part TV comedy drama based on a collection of short stories by the celebrated Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. Including graphic scenes, the series i

Great Expectations; Bryan Ferry; Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong

Nov 27th, 2012 28m 18s

With Mark Lawson.Bryan Ferry discusses The Jazz Age, a new album of instrumental versions of his greatest hits including Love Is The Drug, Virginia Plain and Avalon.Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong are the writing duo behind Channel 4 comedies Peep

Trouble With the Curve; Sports Book of the Year; theatre awards

Nov 26th, 2012 28m 21s

With Mark Lawson.Dame Judi Dench, Danny Boyle and Simon Russell Beale were just some of the winners at last night's Evening Standard Theatre Awards. Despite the glamour of the ceremony, the mood was reflective, with speeches addressing proposed