Front Row Weekly

Choreographer Akram Khan; artist Jeremy Deller on his new work for the Venice Biennale; dramatist Lucy Kirkwood; Cathy Come Home and This Life producer Tony Garnett; Novelist Audrey Niffenegger; Paul Morley on his new book about the north.

Richard Branson reflects on the 40th anniversary of Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells. Dan Brown talks about his latest thriller Inferno and Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini on his new novel, And the Mountains Echoed.

Andrew Lloyd Webber looks at the restoration of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Writer Allan Cubitt reveals the advantages of setting his new TV drama in Belfast. Ken Bruce, Kirsty Wark and Richard Bacon discuss the art of playing themselves. Front Row's Jukebox Jury deliver their verdicts on this year's Eurovision Song Contest contenders. And John Wilson meets the photographer Rankin and the musician Karl Hyde from Underworld.

Agnetha Fältskog talks about her years with ABBA and her new solo career; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie nominates Tutu, by painter Ben Enwonwu, for Cultural Exchange; soprano Angela Gheorghiu reflects on her work and her controversial reputation; actor Kwame-Kwei Armah discusses his new role as artistic director of Center Stage theatre in Baltimore; James Hamilton-Paterson discusses his new book, set during the height of the Cold War.

TV producer Tony Garnett; Zoe Wanamaker; The Eagles; artist Ellen Gallagher; Lucy Moore on dancer Nijinsky; and actor Geoffrey Rush.

Front Row launches the Cultural Exchange project: Tracey Emin discusses her favourite painting - Vermeer's Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid. Nick Park, creator of Wallace & Gromit, invites Mark Lawson to his new ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Hermione Lee assesses the new National Theatre production of Othello. Baroness Virginia Bottomley and Sir Peter Bottomley review The Politician's Husband. Photographer René Burri reflects on some of his most iconic images taken through the years. Ian Gillan and Ian Paice, of the band Deep Purple, discuss their new album Now What?!

Director Oliver Stone discusses his latest TV documentary series. The Untold History of the United States; Shahidha Bari reviews the Tate Modern's major exhibition of work by Saloua Raouda Choucair; US Country and Western singer Kacey Musgraves discusses the inspirations for her music; Howard Brenton on his new play about the imprisonment of Ai Weiwei; David Baldacci on the art of writing crime thrillers; William McIlvanney discusses his new Laidlaw trilogy of novels.

The re-opening of The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; new ballet boss Tamara Rojo; musician James Blake on his new album; Brazilian photographer Sebastio Salgado; writer Maya Angelou on her life and work; Michael Dobbs and Haydn Gwynne on portraying Margaret Thatcher

A rare interview with writer Anne Tyler; Kirsty Lang reports on how British films aim to reach new audiences in China; Julian Barnes discusses his new book; actress Olga Kurylenko; playwright Richard Bean; Greg Bellow on his father Saul.

John Logan on Skyfall and Peter and Alice; Madness frontman Suggs; Choreographer Gillian Lynne; singer Michael Bolton; film-maker Penny Woolcock; Comedian Lee Mack.