'I don’t think we’re there yet with disability.'

Fresh from his @bbcstrictly win @chrismccausland joined us to talk about his @skytv festive film #BadTidings and how he thinks the TV industry is doing at depicting disability on screen.

Listen now on @BBCSounds 🎧

Catch up with all our #BookerPrize2024 coverage on @BBCSounds and right here now ⬇️

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The moment Samantha Harvey wins the #BookerPrize2024 for her novel Orbital and dedicates the award to earth and peace.

Catch up with the ceremony broadcast live on Front Row with @SamiraAhmedUK on @BBCSounds now 🎧

Huge congratulations to Ross Raisin, winner of the BBC National Short Story Award #BBCNSSA with @Cambridge_Uni for his story Ghost Kitchen. 👏

Listen to last night's Front Row with @tds153 live from the ceremony on @BBCSounds 🎧⬇️ #shortstories

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A real treat in store on Front Row tonight. @grosvenorpiano performs a beautiful Bach chorale and talks about the monumental Busoni Piano Concerto, the longest concerto ever written, which he's performing @bbcproms. Hear him give a sneak preview @BBCRadio4 at 7.15pm @tds153

Barbie director Greta Gerwig reveals how her favourite movie musicals inspired her.

She spoke to @samirahmeduk about the film, up for 8 #Oscars including best picture.

Catch up with all our interviews with nominees from Christopher Nolan to Lily Gladstone on @BBCSounds now! 🎧

‘It’s completely barking.’

From wobbly sets to ‘absurd’ storylines, Helena Bonham Carter is channelling Crossroads legend Noele Gordon on TV this Christmas. She and writer @RussellTDavies spoke to @SamiraAhmedUK all about Nolly. Listen on @BBCSounds 🎧

Did you know Ridley Scott started his career at the BBC?

He shares his directing tips with Tom Sutcliffe @tds153 and reveals how he got his first job.

Listen to his Front Row interview on @BBCSounds for #Napoleon and more.

Andy Serkis & @Louisa_Harland talk to Tom @tds153 about new play Ulster American @RiversideLondon plus we talk graphic novels with @MsRachelCooke & @IanDunt and explore panto and gender with @Rob_Madge_02 @vikkistone and more. 7.15pm @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

‘It’s a very different time in Wonka’s life.’

As Timothée Chalamet @RealChalamet hits the big screen in @WonkaMovie, director Paul King talks to @SamiraAhmedUK about his version of Roald Dahl’s famed chocolatier 🍫⬇️

We'll be remembering Benjamin Zephaniah tonight, join Tom Sutcliffe @tds153 from 7.15pm on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds 📻🎧 Plus we review the week's releases and discuss the art of the Christmas ad. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

'It's the slow, quiet creep in the middle of the night.’

Julia Roberts tells Front Row's @NickAhad it was tough filming new psychological thriller #LeavetheWorldBehind with director Sam Esmail, as she scares so easily. Listen tonight from 7.15pm on @BBCRadio4 or @BBCSounds 📻🎧

Don't forget to check out the exact spot where @paullynchwriter wrote his #BookerPrize2023 winning novel Prophet Song.

All six of this year's nominated authors shared their writing spaces with Front Row 👀👇

‘Books could take me to another world.’

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says books transformed her life while she was detained in Iran. She was a special guest at the #BookerPrize2023 ceremony, hosted by @SamiraAhmedUK live on Front Row @BBCRadio4 📻Listen on @BBCSounds now 🎧 ⬇️

‘My writing has saved me.’

Congratulations to @paullynchwriter the winner of the #BookerPrize2023 for his dystopian novel Prophet Song. 🎉

His win was announced live on Front Row on @BBCRadio4 presented by @SamiraAhmedUK. Listen to @TheBookerPrizes ceremony on @BBCSounds 🎧📻

📣 And the winner of the #BookerPrize2023 is… Paul Lynch for his novel Prophet Song 👏

Hear the ceremony on @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

And we’re live on @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds to reveal the winner of the #BookerPrize2023 – join us! 🎧📻
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We’re ready to bring you all the action from the #BookerPrize2023 ceremony on @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds from 9.30pm. Join @SamiraAhmedUK to find out this year’s winner @TheBookerPrizes 🎧📻📚
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We’re coming LIVE from the #BookerPrize2023 ceremony this evening! Join @SamiraAhmedUK on @bbcradio4 @bbcsounds from 9.30pm. We're poised to bring you all the action and reveal this year's @thebookerprizes winner…
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'I wrote my novel on handfuls of post-its.’

The six authors up for the #BookerPrize2023 show us where they wrote the books on the shortlist.

The winner will be revealed TONIGHT! Join us live from @TheBookerPrizes ceremony with @SamiraAhmedUK on @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds at 9.30pm.

‘I wrote my novel on handfuls of post-its.’

The six authors nominated for the #BookerPrize2023 show us where they wrote the books on the shortlist.

Front Row's @samiraahmed hosts the ceremony LIVE on @bbcradio4 @bbcsounds on Sunday night, join us to find out who wins 📻🎧

‘I’ve had my time… it’s their time now.’

Jodie Foster tells Front Row why she’s stepped away from leading roles and prefers being a supporting actor. She and co-star Annette Bening spoke to @tds153 about their new film Nyad 🎧 listen on @BBCSounds now

‘Somebody’s earlobe can drive us insane.’

Oscar-winning writer and director @emeraldfennell talks to Tom @TDs153 about her new film Saltburn and her love of extreme close-ups. Listen to the full interview on @bbcsounds now 🎧📻⬇️

‘We see the stuff that is human… armpit hair, stubble rash.’

Oscar-winning writer and director @emeraldfennell tells Tom @tds153 why extreme close-ups were so vital in her new film Saltburn. Listen to the full interview on @BBCSounds now 🎧📻⬇️

‘It’s like the beating of your heart.'

Dame Judi Dench shares her secret to performing Shakespeare - also known as ‘The man who pays the rent’ in her new book.

Listen to #ThisCulturalLife with @JohnWilson14 on @BBCSounds and watch on @iplayer now. #bbcshakespeare

‘It’s like the beating of your heart, that’s why I love it so much.’

Dame Judi Dench shares her secret to performing Shakespeare. Listen to #ThisCulturalLife with @JohnWilson14 on @BBCSounds and watch it on @iplayer now. #bbcshakespeare

“I've got into terrible trouble for laughing.” 🤣

Dami Judi Dench tells @JohnWilson14 about getting the giggles at the worst possible time on stage.

Listen to #ThisCulturalLife on @BBCSounds @bbcradio4 or watch on
@bbciplayer now. #bbcshakespeare

‘I played a snail. I had an enormous shell.’

Dame Judi Dench has been remembering her acting debut as a mollusc.

Listen to #ThisCulturalLife with @johnwilson14 on @bbcradio4 and @bbcsounds on Saturday at 7.15pm. Watch on BBC Four @bbciplayer on Sunday at 7pm. #bbcshakespeare

‘Suddenly we were respectable musicians.’

@duranduran’s Simon Le Bon and John Taylor spoke to @samiraahmeduk about how they’ve managed to outlive other 80s bands to make their 16th studio album Danse Macabre.

Hear the full interview now on @bbcradio4 and @bbcsounds 🎧 📻 ⬇️

Looking for a Halloween album? @duranduran join @SamiraAhmedUK to discuss theirs. Plus Bosnian-born artist Dobrivoje Beljkasic at 100, @FilkinsDrift walk 870 miles and @sannewman on retelling Orwell’s 1984. All on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds tonight at 7.15 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

‘People don’t expect me to have a Yorkshire accent.’

Sir Patrick Stewart @SirPatStew has been embracing his Yorkshire roots with @SamiraAhmedUK on @BBCRadio4 this week.

Catch up with the full interview on @BBCSounds now. ⬇️

‘It was too theatrical… I hardly ever smiled!’

Sir Patrick Stewart @SirPatStew tells @SamiraAhmedUK it was ‘uncomfortable’ rewatching his early scenes as Captain Picard on #StarTrek while researching his memoir #MakingitSo.

Hear the full interview on @bbcsounds now ⬇️ 🎧

The Chemical Brothers @chembrothers on their 30 year journey from student housemates to DJ superstars, the Matrix reboot launching Aviva Studios @factoryintl and Rufus Norris on @NationalTheatre at 60 📻🎧 Listen from 7.15pm ⬇️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

'You have to be a bit of a tortoise...never lose that soft centre but make sure you've got a bit of a protection armour with your shell.' @bonnie_langford on surviving showbiz, @SondheimFriends & screaming in @bbcdoctorwho for @BBCFrontRow tonight @ 7:15 bbc.in/45EpbNg

Front Row goes on the trail of this painting, stolen in an audacious heist in 1989, as it’s returned to a Glasgow museum. It’s been missing for more than three decades, but how was it recovered? Hear more on @BBCFrontRow on @BBCRadio4 at 7.15

On tonight's #BBCFrontRow @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds with @SamiraAhmedUK: comedian #StewartLee & theatre director @WilsWilson888 on re-writing the Porter's scene from #Macbeth for performer Alison Peebles @TheRSC. Plus we discover the music of Connie Converse bbc.in/3qH2tWr

At 7:15 tonight @BBCRadio4: @AlexClark3 guides us through the #BookerPrize longlist; @SamiraAhmedUK visits the #FreddieMercury costume archive ahead of the exhibition & auction @Sothebys & the future of Scottish theatre + @Data_Cult @joycemcm @TronTheatre. bbc.in/3rS6lnT

Tonight we have an extraordinary performance from Felix Klieser, who plays the French horn using his left foot. Hear him on Front Row @BBCRadio4 at 7.15pm ahead of his debut next week at the @bbcproms.

Tonight on Front Row: Booker Prize winning author Ben Okri talks about Tiger Work, his collection of poems, short stories and essays exploring the climate crisis and musing on the end of days. Join Antonia Quirke on @bbcradio 4 at 7.15 and on @BBCSounds

Why is the girl crying in her latte? You can find out along with all the details of Cate Blanchett’s electrifying performance in that music video when @sparksofficial talk to @SamiraAhmedUK on @BBCFrontRow, on @BBCRadio4 this evening at 7.15 and on @BBCSounds

Tonight: ‘It’s always about the storytelling, about the words and the imagery. I feel like songwriting is just a vessel for that story I want to tell.’ @arloparks talks to Tom Sutcliffe @tds153 about My Soft Machine, the follow-up to her critically acclaimed first album.

Imagine a world without Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Tempest - we only have them in Shakespeare's First Folio. We mark its 400th year on Monday. @tds153 talks to @OldFortunatus, @DrCLaoutaris & @ProfFarahKC & visits @GuildhallLib with Greg Doran of @TheRSC bbc.in/3zDvqni

Hear @NickAhad on @BBCRadio4 at 7.15pm w @alexgibneyfilm on his new @TheBorisBecker doc; @kathyclugston's moving funny look at #NorthernIreland artists marking 25th years since #GoodFridayAgreement; & @Keke_Thom of @ContactMcr & Gavin Wade of @eprjcts on putting artists in charge

Congratulations to @LettyMcHugh on winning @BarbellionPrize- for best representing the experience of chronic illness &/ or disability. On #BBCFrontRow at 7:15 hear the first interview with Letty on her Book of Hours: An Almanac for The Seasons of The Soul. bbc.in/3XzDTkX

'Imperfection is part of the humanity that breathes in great works of art.' Nine time Grammy award-winning music producer @RickRubin shares his thoughts on #creativity with Tom Sutcliffe @tds153 on #BBCFrontRow @BBCRadio4. 🎧 Listen now @BBCSounds: bbc.in/3ZNWVGA

#ThisCulturalLife returns Saturday 31st Dec at 7.15pm @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds. Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes tells @JohnWilson14 how Godspell and Antony & Cleopatra were among the creative sparks that led him to @DonmarWarehouse @007 @1917 & beyond
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Oh that’s me- I can see myself in it…’ Mother & daughter Sonia Cummings & Emily Lewis on being part of the #WarmShores sculptures by artist Thomas J. Price for #WindrushDay @Create_London & @hackneycouncil bbc.in/3WHavJr

In August @jacobcollier to give a spinetingling live performance of Never Gonna Be Alone with @LizzyMcAlpine and @victoriacanal

On tonight's #BBCFrontRow: @NickAhad speaks to the pioneering dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson about releasing his new collection at 70. Plus, Laura Robertson @doublenegativeL reviews the #TurnerPrize @tateliverpool & Nick visits Turn It Up @sim_manchester. bbc.in/3W9egYr

'All awards are very nice to have but they don't make you any better...' Oscar winner Glenda Jackson shares her creative influences in #ThisCulturalLife tonight on BBCFour & @BBCiPlayer at 9pm, followed by BAFTA winning drama Elizabeth Is Missing & 1965's Horror of Darkness

Which of these made the cut? Tonight at 7:15pm #BBCFrontRow reacts to the #BookerPrize shortlist announcement with the literary critic @maxjliu.& find out the winner when @TheBookerPrizes ceremony is broadcast live on Front Row @BBCRadio4 on 17th October: bbc.in/3Qg9i85

Find out why Taiwan has a new cultural landmark, the Taipei Performing Arts Centre, on #BBCFrontRow @BBCRadio4 & @BBCSounds at 7:15pm with @NickAhad and @debra_craine. 🎭 🎧 bbc.in/3dFCuYs

'It's a comedic role which I've never done in my life, opposite one of the world's leading comediennes- I would be crazy not to do this!' @Beverleyknight & #JenniferSaunders talk #SisterActMusical with @tds153 on #BBCFrontRow tonight at 7:15pm @BBCRadio4. bbc.in/3OGbipk

Join Front Row in the workshop tonight at 7:15pm on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCSounds to hear reporter @geetapendse exploring Derby’s @MuseumofMaking with Workshop Supervisor Steve Smith: bbc.in/3nFOQ4P 📻 🎧 #BBCFrontRow #MuseumOfTheYear

Who knew the Dusty Springfield classic You Don't Have To Say You Love Me had its roots in an Italian love song? @JackSavoretti did- he tells @ShahidhaBari more & performs a multilingual medley for #BBCFrontRow on @BBCRadio4.🎵 Listen now @BBCSounds:🎧 bbc.in/3y3exTh

'There's a place for us, Somewhere a place for us...'🎵 Male soprano @samuelmarinob shares his rare voice with his hopes for inclusivity in #opera, as he performs Bernstein & Gluck on #BBCFrontRow @BBCRadio4 + @ElleOsiliWood. Catch up on @BBCSounds: 🎧 bbc.in/3L65ioY

‘It’s true that I like monsters & I’ve written a few monsters in my time.’ Playwright #DavidHare tells Kirsty Lang #BBCFrontRow @BBCRadio4 about New York city planner Robert Moses, the subject of his new play #StraightLineCrazy @_bridgetheatre. Listen now: bbc.in/3qdjG6G

‘It was beautiful, it was sprawling, it hummed with an electrical strangeness. It was majestic.’ The writer Olivia Laing reflects on the work of the late author and essayist #JoanDidion for #BBCFrontRow with @tds153. Listen here 🎧bbc.in/3EpYAGc

"We think of bewilderment as bafflement or disorientation but in the etymology of that word there is also 'be-wilding', to return to a wild state."🌳 Author Richard Powers on his novel #Bewilderment, shortlisted for @TheBookerPrizes.📖 Listen now:🎧 bbc.in/3pN8WMC