Saxophonist Soweto Kinch has curated this year’s Koestler Arts exhibition, Another Me, featuring 150 artworks by inmates from a number of prisons and secure units across the UK.  Kinch discusses the works, and performs a piece from his forthcoming album The Black Peril. As plans are unveiled for Galway’s year as 2020 European Capital of Culture, John talks to film producer Arthur Lappin and creative director Helen Marriage. Sam Fender’s album is set to be number one this week. The 25-year-old from North Shields won the BRITs Critics’ Choice Award last year, and talks to John Wilson about combining lyrics about domestic violence, male suicide and white privilege with an hypnotic electric guitar rock aesthetic drawing on his musical hero Bruce Springsteen. Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Hilary Dunn

Soweto Kinch, Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture launch, Sam Fender

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To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, music critic Norman Lebrecht and conductor JoAnn Falletta discuss what makes it revolutionary and why it's so challenging to perform. Michael McManus spent most of his career as a political advisor but has subsequently become a playwright.  His new play Party Games is a political comedy that questions the power of AI and the influence of unelected advisors. A new exhibition at the Bodleian Library in Oxford - Write, Cut, Rewrite - looks at the drafts, additions and omissions behind key artistic decisions from great writers.  Writer Lawrence Norfolk and poet Alice Oswald talk about the importance of rewriting and editing. Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Torquil MacLeod

Party Games play, 200 years of Beethoven’s 9th, literary editing

Nick visits Scarborough and talks to Sir Alan Ayckbourn as he rehearses an old play - Things We Do For Love - and looks forward to the staging of his 90th play - Show and Tell. Turner prize winning Artist Jeremy Deller, whose public artworks include We're Here Because We're Here to commemorate the Battle of the Somme, reveals his plans for a new creation for Scarborough's Marine Drive.  The Scarborough Spa Orchestra is the UK's only remaining professional seaside orchestra, and Nick meets its two of its members, music director Paul Laidlaw and flautist Kathy Seabrook.  Poets Charlotte Oliver and Wendy Pratt discuss finding inspiration in Scarborough. Presenter: Nick Ahad
Producer: Ekene Akalawu

Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Jeremy Deller, Scarborough Spa Orchestra

Harvey Keitel stars in The Tattooist of Auschwitz - a six-part Sky Atlantic series based on the best-selling novel by Heather Morris, inspired by the real-life story of Holocaust prisoners Lali and Gita Sokolov.  Marc Quinn’s exhibition Light into Life is at Kew Gardens from Saturday (4th May) until Sunday 29 September 2024. The Fall Guy, directed by David Leitch, stars Ryan Gosling as a stuntman and Emily Blunt as his film director ex who entices him out of retirement. All three are reviewed by Naomi Alderman and Jason Solomons. And producer Trevor Horn assesses the legacy of guitarist Duane Eddy whose death was announced yesterday.     Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Torquil MacLeod

The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Marc Quinn at Kew, The Fall Guy,

Award winning director behind Les Miserables John Caird and co-writing partner Maoko Imai talk about adapting the iconic Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away for stage, as it arrives at the London Coliseum from Japan.  Two new documentaries are exploring how dignity, beauty and even joy can be found following a terminal diagnosis. Simon Chambers and Kit Vincent, the filmmakers behind Much Ado About Dying and Red Herring respectively, discuss. And the BBC's Eurovision reporter Daniel Rosney lifts a lid on preparations for the forthcoming song contest in Malmo. Presenter: Antonia Quirke 
Producer: Ciaran Bermingham

Spirited Away at London Coliseum, Eurovision build-up, terminal diagnosis films

Historian Andrew Graham-Dixon and art curator Kate Bryan discuss Michelangelo: the last decades, a major new exhibition at the British Museum which focuses on the last thirty years of Michelangelo’s life.  Reece Shearsmith discusses the ninth and final series of the BAFTA award winning Inside No. 9. Written with Steve Pemberton, the six episodes will feature new stand-alone stories, starting with ‘Boo To A Goose’ . Guest stars include Charlie Cooper and Katherine Kelly. Jembaa Groove perform live. The Berlin-based band produce Ghanaian highlife/American R&B; fusion music, an optimistic and positive sound created when they got together during the covid pandemic. Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Claire Bartleet

Soweto Kinch, Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture launch, Sam Fender

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