Front Row

BBC

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

Episodes

21/05/2026

Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid

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

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

Reviews of the second series of Rivals and the film The Christophers starring Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel

Director Mark Cousins on his 16-hour epic The Story of Documentary Film

12/05/2026

Highs, lows and Jet-Skis at the Venice Biennale

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

Author Siri Hustvedt on her memoir, Ghost Stories

Antony Gormley in 2D

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

Review: Spanish master Zurbarán at the National Gallery

Paul Weller on his musical evolution

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

The Devil Wears Prada 2, with director David Frankel

Reviewing Richard Gadd’s follow up to his hit Baby Reindeer

Antoine Fuqua's controversial biopic of Michael Jackson

Vivaldi film, author Ben Lerner and V+A East's Music Is Black exhibition

Echoes of Shakespeare in a Scottish gangster drama