Front Row Weekly

Actor Clive Owen; rock star Alice Cooper; singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette; violinist Nicola Benedetti; author Jeanette Winterson on witch trials; highlights from the Edinburgh Festival fringe.

TV Comedian Alan Davies returns to stand-up – a theatrical experiment to find out how much audiences value culture. John Wilson talks to Tony Gilroy – creator the Bourne films and remembers film composer Marvin Hamlisch who composed scores for The Sting and The Way We Were

Mark Thomas on an operatic tribute to his father and Booker Prize winning author James Kelman discusses his new novel. Marilyn Monroe is remembered in a new exhibition and director Lynn Alleway discusses her experiences of making a documentary about the Amish in America

Writer Colin Dexter; comedian Ruby Wax; Terry Jones and Anne Dudley on turning The Owl and the Pussycat into an opera; a review of David Starkey on the Churchills; the latest commission for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall; a review of Mark Rylance in Richard III; director Fernando Meirelles.

Rapper Ice-T talks about his film, Something for Nothing: The Art of Rap and poet Julia Copus discusses her new collection of poetry; the ballerina Monica Mason talks about her career at the Royal Ballet. Actors Hattie Morahan and Domonic Rowan on hissing and booing in the theare. Children's author Eoin Colfer discusses the infamous Artemis Fowl. And director Asif Kapadia on his film Odyssey which is a portrait of London since it won its bid to host the Olympic Games

Poet James Fenton; John Morton, creator of the TV comedy Twenty Twelve; Jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis; author Nicola Barker; William Fiennes on Joseph Mitchell; crime writer Andrea Camilleri.

Bryn Terfel; Richard Wilson’s Italian Job recreation; novelist Monique Roffey; soul singer Bobby Womack; Nick Hewer moves from The Apprentice to agriculture; new scores for Hitchcock’s silent films and keeping on track with Chariots of Fire.

Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter on writing together; classical guitarist Milos Karadaglic; playwright Joe Penhall; the new Edvard Munch exhibition reviewed; singer Macy Gray; TV writer Jed Mercurio; Simon Armitage on The Poetry Parnassus.

Director Sam Mendes on TV Shakespeare; Ed Stoppard on wartime codebreaker Alan Turing; Prunella Scales on turning 80; the British Paraorchestra; actor Adrian Lester takes questions from would-be actors and author Helene Hegelmann on her prizewinning novel Axolotl Roadkill.

Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young; Janet Suzman and Alan Howard on the art of acting; author Jon McGregor, winner of the lucrative International Impac Dublin Literary Award; and artist Rachel Whiteread.