Front Row

As a documentary about her life reaches cinemas, musician and activist Pauline Black, the lead singer in 2-tone hit band The Selecter, talks about her career.

We hear from the curators of the Waters Rising exhibition at Perth Museum, which features representations of flooding in literature and art over many centuries.

And as an unfinished play by award-winning writer Oliver Emanuel comes to Radio 4, and an unstaged play by writer, poet and musician Beldina Odenyo is produced in Glasgow, we discuss posthumously completing a loved one's creative work.

Presenter: Kate Molleson

Directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui talk about their new documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, which uses never-seen-before family archive to tell the story of the famed Superman actor. He became a champion of disability rights after being left paralysed from a horse riding accident.

The final of Front Row's interviews with the authors on this year's Booker Prize shortlist - Samantha Harvey on her novel Orbital.

As a banana stuck to a wall with duct tape is presented for auction with an estimated sale of 1 million dollars, FT columnist Melanie Gerlis, who regularly writes about the art market, explains what you get for the price and why someone would pay that.

Councillor Liz Green - Chair of the Culture, Tourism, and Sport Board at the Local Government Association - talks about the impact of the Government's decision to reconsider £100m funding for six cultural regeneration projects across the UK.

Presenter: Nick Ahad

Actors Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch on their modern day remake of The Day of the Jackal.

Political satire in the US Elections: Helen Lewis of the Atlantic and Mike Gillis of the Onion discuss.

We take a look at how to write a novel with Hattie Crisell and Sara Collins.

and remember the music producer and innovator extraordinaire, Quincy Jones, who’s died at the age of 91.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed

Arifa Akbar and Peter Bradshaw join Tom Sutcliffe to review the film Anora which was written and directed by Sean Baker. Set in contemporary New York the romantic drama won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. They also review the stage production of Dr. Strangelove. The original film version of the black comedy starred Peter Sellers in three roles, in this version Steve Coogan takes on four parts. And they discuss Ali Smith's 13th novel Gliff which focuses on a brutal surveillance state in the future.

Plus, French composer Gabriel Faure is best known for his Requiem – but to mark 100 years since his death, cellist Steven Isserlis tells Tom how he’s playing a series of concerts at London’s Wigmore Hall, to highlight his other work including his cello sonatas and piano quintets.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe

Actor Billy Crystal talks about his role as a child psychiatrist in Before, the new thriller series from Apple TV.

Marina Diamandis on pivoting from songwriting to poetry, as she publishes her first collection, Eat the World.

Live music from performers at the Nordic Music Days festival which celebrates contemporary classical music and is in Scotland for the first time.

Plus response to Rachel Reeves' first budget, from the BBC's Media & Arts Correspondent David Sillito.

Presenter: Kirsty Wark

Hugh Grant talks about his new psychological thriller Heretic, where he plays a man who lures two young female missionaries into his home for an intense debate about belief and faith that takes increasingly sinister turns.

The Government has pledged to build 1.5 million new homes by 2029 - but what will they look like? Winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects' 2024 Neave Brown Award for Housing, architect Jessam Al-Jawad and the Observer's architecture critic Rowan Moore discuss the future look of our towns and cities and how Europe could provide inspiration for social housing.

The Booker Prize will be awarded next month and Yael van der Wouden has been shortlisted for her first novel, The Safekeep. It examines the silent histories and repression of 1960s Dutch society through the prism of two very different women and the contested house they occupy.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed

Steve McQueen talks about his new film Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and set in London during the Second World War.

Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael are among the artists on show in the UK's largest exhibition of drawings from the Italian Renaissance, at the King's Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Samira is joined by the curator Martin Clayton and Renaissance historian Maya Corry.

Booker shortlisted author Rachel Kushner on her novel Creation Lake, about an American spy-for-hire.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed

Critic and film producer Jason Solomons and BBC New New Generation Thinker Jade Cuttle join Tom Sutcliffe to review Emilia Pérez. The musical thriller follows a drug cartel leader who wants to fake their death and change gender.

They also review Dahomey, an award winning documentary which follows 26 plundered artefacts as they are returned to their African home of Benin.

Tim Burton talks about turning his life's work into an exhibition at the Design Museum, which includes childhood drawings, set designs and costumes from films such as Beetlejuice, Batman Returns and Corpse Bride.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe

Musician and novelist Malachy Tallack talks about his new novel That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz, and performs live from the accompanying album.

To mark 20 years since Edinburgh became the world's first Unesco City of Literature, we hear about the growth of this international network which celebrates reading, writers and storytelling.

Plus a visit to a new exhibition of magnificent textile art drawn from National Trust of Scotland properties, which showcases this intricate artform and represents the impact of King George III and international trade on interior fashions.

And film critic Hannah McGill discusses the career of filmmaker Mike Leigh's long-time collaborator, the celebrated cinematographer Dick Pope, who died this week.

Presenter: Kirsty Wark

William Kentridge is one of the major figures in the contemporary art world with an award-winning body of work that includes drawings, films, theatre and opera productions. His latest creation -Self Portrait As A Coffee Pot - is a nine part televisual work of art which, filed with images, music, dancers, and actors, explores the joy and power of making art.

Robert Laycock, CEO of Marlow Film Studios and Isabel Davis, Executive Director of Screen Scotland discuss the challenges of expanding the studio capacity in the UK for the British film industry.

Jacob Fortune-Lloyd on playing Brian Epstein in new film, Midas Man, which looks at the life and career of the man who turned The Beatles from a scruffy band in Liverpool into international superstars

Presenter: Nick Ahad