Front Row: Archive 2014

John Wilson has live news of the winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and speaks to the artist Cornelia Parker who has curated a monochrome room at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition. He also meets English National Ballet's lead principal Daria Klimentová as she prepares for her final professional performance, in Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Albert Hall, and hears about two stage adaptations of American anti-war novels currently on in the UK.

Kirsty Lang talks to conductor and violinist Bernard Haitink as he looks back over his career as he celebrates his 85th birthday. Catherine Bray reviews buddy cop movie sequel 22 Jump Street, starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. Róisín Murphy, the lead singer of Moloko, is back with a solo EP all in Italian, covering some classic Italian torchsongs. She tells Kirsty why she's decided to make life difficult for herself by singing in a language she can't speak fluently. And the directors of a new free-running theatre show The Roof, which takes place in a converted outdoor car park next to London's National Theatre, discuss the challenges of parkour on rooftops and why the audience are handed out headphones as they enter the arena.

Fruitvale Station is the debut film from director Ryan Coogler and it won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance in 2013. It narrates the last day in the life of Oscar Grant, a young African American man who was shot by transport police in California on New Year's Day in 2009. Gaylene Gould reviews the film. Clean Bandit scored a number one with their single Rather Be which fused classical music with electronic dance rhythms. As they release their debut album, they discuss how they found their musical style and the reaction from the classical world. Terry Gilliam is returning to the English National Opera to direct Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini, teaming up again with music director Edward Gardner. Terry and Edward discuss the director/conductor relationship and the appeal of Berlioz's seldom performed work. Author Joshua Ferris, best known for his debut novel Then We Came to the End, discusses his latest book, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. Set in a Manhattan dental practice, it explores faith, belonging and the power of the internet.

In a special programme from the Hay Festival, John Wilson talks to thriller writer Lee Child about the latest in his Jack Reacher series. Award-winning biographer Lucy Hughes-Hallett explains why she is writing her first novel. Children's authors and former Children's Laureates Michael Morpurgo and Julia Donaldson discuss how their writing has developed over the course of their careers. Plus songwriter, author and performer Cerys Matthews talks about how the poetry of Dylan Thomas has inspired her.

Tonight's Front Row, presented by Samira Ahmed, reviews Ken Loach's new film Jimmy's Hall - based on the true story of 1930s Irish hero Jimmy Gralton, who defied his parish priest and built a community hall.

Also in the programme: Liel Leibovitz on Leonard Cohen's enduring appeal and why he wrote a biography of him; Geoff Dyer on being a writer-in-residence aboard an American naval vessel; and three fictional US television characters take on the British Royal family.

With Kirsty Lang. A tribute to the poet and author Maya Angelou, Simon Russell Beale discusses performing all of Shakespeare's sonnets; a review of Angelina Jolie as the evil Queen in Maleficent. Plus, we hear about the work and life of MF Husain, dubbed in the art world as the Picasso of India.

Kirsty Lang discusses Venus in Fur, the new film by Roman Polanksi; playwright Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, whose 2001 play Bezhti was pulled from theatres after rioting, on her new work for the Birmingham Rep Theatre - Khandan - about cultural clashes in a modern Sikh family; Boyd Hilton reviews HBO / Sky Atlantic drama The Normal Heart, starring Julia Roberts as a doctor dealing with the AIDs crisis in 80s New York; and author Michael Cunningham (The Hours), who has based the characters in his new novel The Snow Queen on real-life friends.

Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood discusses the world premiere of her first opera Pauline, live from Vancouver; Ranald McInnes on the Glasgow Art School fire; Neel Mukherjee on his new novel The Lives of Others, set during the political unrest in India in the 1960s; Amat Escalante, director of new film Heli, reveals the background to his drama about drugs, violence and corruption in a remote community in rural Mexico; and Jake Arnott reviews new British TV drama Quirke starring Gabriel Byrne and written by Andrew Davies and Conor McPherson, an adaptation of the novels by Benjamin Black (John Banville).

Producer Jerome Weatherald.

John Wilson with guitarist and songwriter Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders who discusses her new solo album Stockholm. Hynde looks back at being on campus in her native Ohio in 1970 on the day the National Guard opened fire on unarmed students, leaving four dead. As two exhibitions of work by Mondrian open at Tate Liverpool and Turner Contemporary in Margate this summer, the curators discuss Mondrian's art and legacy. Also tonight, we hear from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and review a new production of Miss Saigon, which returns to the London stage 25 years after it first opened.

Kirsty talks to Kathleen Turner and Ian McDiarmid who are starring in Bakersfield Mist in London's West End, and meets artist Bill Viola who has created a new permanent installation for St Paul's Cathedral. Also tonight, musician St Vincent discusses her literary influences, and should opera stars be critiqued on their appearance?