Writer Bernard MacLaverty, Nicholas Hytner's Queer Icon, Riding the Mail Rail

Nicholas Hytner's Queer Icon, writer Bernard MacLaverty, riding the Mail Rail.

• 30 mins

Emergency services on screen; plus Sally Hawkins, Josette Bushell-Mingo, and Damian Barr

Emergency services on screen; plus Sally Hawkins, Josette Bushell-Mingo, and Damian Barr.

• 30 mins

Stockard Channing, Matisse in the Studio, Thomas Ades, representations of war

Actor Stockard Channing on her new stage role, feminism and the enduring power of Grease.

• 30 mins

Irvine Welsh's Performers, Bookshop economics, England Is Mine, CN Lester on Stone Butch Blues

Irvine Welsh, Bookshop economics, Morrissey's early years and CN Lester's Queer Icon.

• 30 mins

Trust Me writer Dan Sefton, Atomic Blonde, Colm Toibin's Queer Icon, Posthumous publishing

Trust Me, posthumous publishing, a review of Atomic Blonde, and Colm Toibin's Queer Icon.

• 30 mins

Queer Icons

Highlights from Front Row's Queer Icons project, presented by Alan Carr.

• 27 mins

Philippa Gregory, Regina Spektor, TV's Eden and Rebecca Root's Queer Icon

Regina Spektor plays live; author Philippa Gregory; TV's Eden; plus Rebecca Root.

• 30 mins

Daniel Libeskind

An interview with architect Daniel Libeskind.

• 30 mins

Henry Goodman as Lucien Freud, Isaac Julien, Lawrence Osborne, Nikesh Shukla, Sarah Shaffi

Henry Goodman as Lucien Freud, YA BAME writers, Isaac Julien, Lawrence Osborne.

• 30 mins

Joe Orton

An exploration of the life and legacy of the playwright Joe Orton.

• 30 mins

Shappi Khorsandi and Gillian Clarke on stage in the BBC's Big Blue Tent at the Edinburgh Festival

Shappi Khorsandi and Nassim Soleimanpour in front of a live audience in Edinburgh.

• 30 mins

John Eliot Gardiner, Apphia Campbell, The Nature of Forgetting, Reviewing at the Edinburgh Festivals

Live from Edinburgh with guests including Sir John Eliot Gardiner on Monteverdi at 450.

• 30 mins

Edinburgh International Books Festival: Val McDermid talks to Paul Auster and Denise Mina

Val McDermid at Edinburgh International Books Festival with Paul Auster and Denise Mina.

• 30 mins

Lucy Porter, Martin Creed, and Soweto Gospel Choir on stage at the Edinburgh Festival

Comedian Lucy Porter and comedy tutor Jojo Sutherland give John a lesson in stand-up.

• 30 mins

Peter Kosminsky on The State, Ben Whishaw, The secrets of Vermeer's studio

Peter Kosminsky on his new jihadi drama; Ben Whishaw on playing an aerospace billionaire.

• 30 mins

Authors' better, but not-so-famous, books; Kathryn Bigelow; Eric Ravilious; a Shakespeare Sonnet in Pidgin

Not-so-famous but better books; Kathryn Bigelow; Eric Ravilious; a great sonnet in Pidgin.

• 30 mins

Steven Soderbergh returns to film-making with Logan Lucky

Director Steven Soderbergh on Logan Lucky; Gwendolyn Brooks' poems; Cormoran Strike novels

• 30 mins

Illness in comedy series, Ned Beauman, Thomas Meehan

Illness in comedy series with Peep Show creator Sam Bain.

• 28 mins

Ronnie Wood, Shakespeare plays on screen, Taylor Swift's new song, Peter Hoeg

Ronnie Wood on his paintings; Cinematic adaptions of Shakespeare; Taylor Swift's new song.

• 30 mins

Bill Nighy, The ever-changing appeal of Hamlet, Photographer Steve McCurry

Bill Nighy on his acting style, Janet Suzman on Hamlet, and Steve McCurry on Afghanistan.

• 30 mins

Stan Laurel novel; Tanika Gupta; film Una; Ed Skrein Walks Away

Tanika Gupta play; John Connolly on Stan Laurel; Una review; Ed Skrein & whitewashing row.

• 30 mins

Composer Alma Deutscher, Bake Off's return, Controversial statues, Last Days of June

Twelve-year-old composer, pianist and violinist Alma Deutscher talks to Kirsty Lang.

• 30 mins

Brian Cox on playing real people, Author Omar Robert Hamilton, Game of Thrones legacy, Venice Film Festival opening

Brian Cox, Omar Robert Hamilton, Game of Thrones legacy and Venice Film Festival.

• 30 mins

Patti Cake$, Lord of the Flies, Nicole Krauss, James Ngcobo

Nicole Krauss' new novel, an all-female Lord of the Flies, James Ngcobo on The Suitcase.

• 30 mins

Suranne Jones returns as Doctor Foster, Lancashire's Fabrications Festival, Josephine Barstow on Sondheim's Follies

Doctor Foster is back; Stephen Sondheim's Follies; remembering Steely Dan's Walter Becker.

• 30 mins

Woman's Hour Craft Exhibition, Lloyd Dorfman, Karen McCarthy Woolf, John Ashbery

Woman's Hour Craft Exhibition at the V&A; poets John Ashbery and Karen McCarthy Woolf.

• 30 mins

Roddy Doyle, Heroes in TV dramas, Stephen King's IT

Roddy Doyle, Stephen King's IT film, heroes in TV dramas and the art of sports commentary.

• 30 mins

Marian Keyes, Tim Roth, Joe Lycett

Marian Keyes on her new novel The Break, and Tim Roth on Tin Star.

• 30 mins

Joanne Froggatt, Darren Aronofsky, 25 years of Classic FM

Downton Abbey's Joanne Froggatt, and Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky.

• 30 mins

Stephen Frears and Ali Fazal, Pears' Cyclopaedia final edition, Jeff Pope on Cilla

Victoria and Abdul, the last edition of Pears' Cyclopaedia, and Cilla The Musical.

• 30 mins