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Audrey Niffenegger on the sequel to her hugely successful novel The Time Traveller's Wife

Best-selling author of The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger talks about her much-anticipated sequel Life Out of Order, which returns to the story of the time travelling father and daughter. ...

2026-10-27

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Reviewing Fatherland, Possible Love and Martin Guerre

Reviewers Alexander Larman and Bidisha consider two films: Fatherland, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, starring Sandra Huller, it tells the story of novelist Thomas Mann's tour of war-ravaged Germany i...

2026-10-23

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Director Sofia Coppola on Making Marie Antoinette

Director Sofia Coppola on completing her mother Eleanor’s documentary about the making of Sofia’s feature Marie Antoinette, following her death. The film goes behind the scenes of the lavish 2006 biop...

2026-10-22

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Winne-the-Pooh at 100, and Renoir in Love review

As A A Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, one of the most loved bears in children's literature reaches 100, Jane Riordan, author of the new Pooh books, and Hollie Piff, EH Shepard archivist at the University of...

2026-10-21

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Taika Waititi on adapting Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun for the big screen

Academy Award-winning director Taika Waititi on his screen adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun, in which 'artificial friends' have been created to provide companionship for lonely t...

2026-10-20

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Review Show: Kristin Scott Thomas in Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard

Critic David Benedict and journalist Muriel Zagha discuss Kristin Scott Thomas in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, adapted by award winning playwright Conor McPherson. They also discuss survival thrill...

2026-10-16

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Comedian Leo Reich on his Channel 4 sitcom It Gets Worse

Comedian Leo Reich, who has been named as one of the "best British talent" by The Times, and who has previously appeared in Lena Dunham's Netflix romcom Too Much, talks to us about creating his own si...

2026-10-15

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Anne-Marie Duff, M John Harrison, Bayreuth 150th anniversary

Bad Sisters actress Anne-Marie Duff talks to Samira about her latest role as Julie in Helen Edmundson’s play in Some Woman on stage at the National Theatre in London. In the next of our interviews wi...

2026-10-14

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Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on Hay Fever

We speak backstage with Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on appearing in Noel Coward's Hay Fever in London's West End. Writer Douglas Stuart on John of John, nominated for this year's Booker Pri...

2026-10-13

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Review Show: The Social Reckoning, The 90s at Tate Britain and reaction to Nobel Prize winner Anne Carson

Zoe Williams and Laurence Scott join Tom Sutcliffe to review: The Social Reckoning, Aaron's Sorkin's new film which revisits the world of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg 16 years after his hit The Socia...

2026-10-09

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Does the discovery of a 'talkie' made in 1926 change cinema history?

News broke today of a discovery which may rewrite cinematic history. In 1926 Scottish playwright Graham Moffat's film - Till the Bells Ring - using pioneering audio technology which allowed sound and ...

2026-10-08

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Johnny Marr on his new album

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 ro...

2026-10-07

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SNL, Paul Greengrass, The Bayeux Tapestry and Sarah Hall

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...

2026-10-06

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Review Show: Tom Cruise in the film Digger

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. ...

2026-10-02

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Actors David Harewood and Sir Simon Russell Beale

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 ...

2026-10-01

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BBC National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award 2026

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 t...

2026-09-30

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

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 ...

2026-09-29

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Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival

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...

2026-09-25

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

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 specul...

2026-09-24

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Comedian Russell Kane on playing an older Romeo

Comedian Russell Kane tells us about playing an older Romeo in a new take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy. Author Samantha Ellis gives her verdict on the new film adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense an...

2026-09-23

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