Actor Fiona Shaw discusses her latest film Park Avenue, director Gaby Dellal's 'tense and witty drama about mother-daughter relationships set in New York. Filmmaker Lynne Ramsay talks to us about her new film Die My Love, a portrait of postpartum psychosis starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. 50 years on from the band's first gig, music writer Jon Savage and photographer Dennis Morris discuss the impact and influence of punk pioneers Sex Pistols. We also hear about the transformation of a historic and sacred well by artist Joanna Kessel. Presenter: Kirsty Wark
Producer: Mark Crossan
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Edgar Wright on The Running Man
Do Vermeer's paintings contain hidden religious symbolism? Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon argues that the enigmatic painter's membership of a radical Christian group has been long overlooked.Writer John Updike became a sensation when is candid and controversial novel Rabbit, Run was published in 1960. Now his posthumously published letters shine a new light on his work and relationships with the women in his life - from his mother and mother-in-law to lovers and wives. We discuss this legacy with James Schiff, the man who edited them, as well as his "successor" Gish Jen and literary critic Suzi Feay. Director Edgar Wright is on to discuss new dystopian action thriller The Running Man.And to mark Commemoration Day, a reading of The Mother by May Herschel Clark, from a new collection of women's World War One poetry.
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Winner of the 2025 Booker Prize announced live from the ceremony
Samira Ahmed presents live from Old Billingsgate in London, where the announcement of the winner of the 2025 Booker Prize is taking place.The novels on the shortlist: Flesh by David Szalay, The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller, The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits, Audition by Katie Kitamura, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai, and Flashlight by Susan Choi.As well as speaking to the winner, Samira talks to some of the judges including actor Sarah Jessica Parker and Chair of judges novelist Roddy Doyle. Plus Penelope Lively, the only writer to have won both the Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal for children’s books, talks about the transformative power of literature for children. Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Claire Bartleet
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All the authors shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025
The six authors shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize discuss their novels ahead of tonight's ceremony, which is broadcast live on Radio 4 at 9.30pm in a special extra edition of Front Row.Andrew Miller on The Land in Winter
Kiran Desai on The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
David Szalay on Flesh
Katie Kitamura on Audition
Susan Choi on Flashlight
Ben Markovits on The Rest of Our LivesPresenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Timothy Prosser
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Daniel Day Lewis on his return to the big screen
On this week's Front Row review, we discuss a new production of Othello with David Harewood as the Moor and Toby Jones as Iago.
Tom speaks with Daniel Day Lewis about his return to the big screen in a film directed by his son Ronan: Anemone.
And The Choral; a new film written by Alan Bennett, directed by Nicholas Hytner and with a stellar cast, how good is it?Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
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