Lionel Shriver on her latest novel Mania, in which she creates an alternative USA where the Mental Parity Movement insists that everyone is equally clever. Can a friendship between two women survive when they hold polarised views on this particular “culture war”?
Why are universities all over the country closing arts courses and cutting jobs? Front Row investigates and considers the consequences.
Playwright Tyrell Williams talks about his acclaimed play Red Pitch, about three young lads dreaming of football stardom. But what happens when their local football pitch is under threat, as a result of gentrification?
The fire at the Old Stock Exchange in Copenhagen has been called Denmark's Notre Dame moment. Front Row hears about the art that was in the building, what has been lost, what has been saved and what will be done now.
Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Julian May
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Marc Quinn at Kew, The Fall Guy,
Spirited Away at London Coliseum, Eurovision build-up, terminal diagnosis films
Michelangelo exhibition at British Museum, Jembaa Groove perform, Inside Number 9
Hanif Kureishi, Ingrid Persaud, Arts Council funding
Pet Shop Boys, review of Challengers film and Expressionists exhibiition
The Legend of Ned Ludd, Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, Mohammad Barrangi
Women and Shakespeare, best beach reads, Black British music exhibition
Designer Sir Kenneth Grange, Taylor Swift's new album, Venice Art Biennale
London Tide with music by PJ Harvey, Salman Rushdie's story of survival: Knife and tenor Ian Bostridge
Sir John Akomfrah, bicentenary of Byron's death and sped-up music
The Book of Clarence, Liberation Squares, Northern Ireland's filming boom
Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black and Percival Everett's James reviewed
Folk musician Martin Simpson, movie icon Anna May Wong, and classical music leaders criticise Arts Council England
Nathan Hill, Maggie Rogers, International Booker shortlist
Yinka Shonibare, Sean Shibe, cinema and digital decay
Beyonce’s new album Cowboy Carter, Netflix drama Ripley, Io Capitano movie reviewed
50 years of ABBA’s Waterloo, Harewood House exhibition, Trevor Griffiths remembered, the rise of eco fiction and drama
Dev Patel on Monkey Man, which books are on the curriculum?
The National Gallery at 200
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