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• Johnny Marr on his new album

  October 6, 2026 · 42 min

  The legendary Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr is back with his fifth solo album The Age of Everything, which he's described as the most cathartic album he's ever written. He joins Samira to talk about road-testing these songs before recording…

• SNL, Paul Greengrass and The Bayeux Tapestry

  October 5, 2026 · 42 min

  Two of the young stars of Saturday Night Live UK on bringing live satire back to television. Director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, Captain Philips, United 93) on how the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 inspired his new film, Uprising…

• Review Show: Tom Cruise in the film Digger

  October 1, 2026 · 43 min

  Susannah Clapp and Nick Hilton join Tom Sutcliffe to review Tom Cruise as a prosthetic laden billionaire oil tycoon in the film Digger, who is out to save humanity after causing a global catastrophe. They also discuss Sky legal drama War…

• Actors David Harewood and Sir Simon Russell Beale

  September 30, 2026 · 42 min

  Sherwood and Homeland star David Harewood talks to us about his lead role in Channel 4's new legal drama Pierre, which is co-written by John Donnelly and playwright Roy Wiliams. Actor Simon Russell Beale discusses playing Liberace on…

• BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award 2026

  September 29, 2026 · 42 min

  Tom Sutcliffe hosts the ceremony for BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award 2026, in partnership with University of Cambridge, live from BBC Broadcasting House in London. As well as the announcements of the winners of both…

• Es Devlin retrospective, Sebastian Faulks, Turner Prize, Apple Music Hall

  September 28, 2026 · 42 min

  The multi-award winning stage designer and artist Es Devlin talks to Samira as a retrospective of her work opens at the Design Museum in London. Devlin has created sets for theatre and opera and also for stadium concerts, fashion shows…

• Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival

  September 24, 2026 · 42 min

  A special edition of Front Row from the BBC's poetry and performance festival - Contains Strong Language Since self-publishing a poetry pamphlet in 2020, Donna Ashworth has gone on to become the UK's bestselling living poet of the decade…

• Review Show: Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel, South Korean alien invasion thriller Hope and an adaptation of 1984.

  September 23, 2026 · 42 min

  In this week's Review Show, our guest critics Hannah McGill and Fergus Morgan join Kirsty Wark to discuss three dystopian thrillers: Bestselling novelist Emily St John Mandel's latest work of speculative fiction, Exit Party, chronicles…