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Harriet, Les Mis茅rables and social realist films, risk in publishing, street art

Slave abolitionist Harriet Tubman's story makes it to the big screen, we review.

• 28 mins

Coldplay and Leonard Cohen albums, Norman Cornish, Roy Chubby Brown controversy

Stig discusses new albums from Coldplay and the late Leonard Cohen

• 28 mins

Rapper Wretch 32, Hamlet on the Faroe Islands, Blue Story controversy

Wretch 32's memoir Rapthology, and Hamlet on the Faroe Islands

• 28 mins

Costa Book Prize shortlist, Rian Johnson on Knives Out, art theft

We announce the 2019 Costa Book Prize shortlist and Rian Johnson on comedy Knives Out

• 28 mins

Tributes to Clive James and Sir Jonathan Miller

Clive James and Sir Jonathan Miller remembered.

• 28 mins

Atlantics, Scheherazade and 1001 Nights, Political parties' arts manifestos

Poets Ruth Padel and Daljit Nagra on Scheherazade, the storyteller in 1001 Nights

• 28 mins

The Boy in the Dress, Turner Prize Shortlisted Artists, The First Nowell

A review of new musical The Boy in the Dress based on David Walliams' book

• 28 mins

Edward Norton, Elizabeth is Missing, artist Luke Jerram

Edward Norton on Motherless Brooklyn, TV adaptation of Elizabeth is Missing reviewed

• 28 mins

Difficult comedy audiences, Netflix v cinema?, Honey Boy, Romesh Gunesekera

Difficult comedy audiences, Honey Boy, Romesh Gunesekera and Netflix v Cinema?

• 28 mins

Lesley Manville, Turner Prize, Bat for Lashes

Award-winning actress Lesley Manville talks about her latest film, Ordinary Love

• 28 mins

Front Row at 麻豆社 Music Introducing Live

Ferris & Sylvester perform at 麻豆社 Music Introducing Live

• 27 mins

Inua Ellams on Three Sisters, Noah Baumbach on Marriage Story, Art goes Bananas

Inua Ellams on transposing Chekhov's Three Sisters to 1960s Nigeria.

• 28 mins

Gender Imbalance in Art Collections, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, Three Sisters Rewired

Why women artists are hugely under presented in art collections and what to do about this.

• 28 mins

Teenage Dick, Traces review, Olga Neuwirth, Nobel Prize for Literature controversy

A darkly comic take on Richard III with Teenage Dick.

• 28 mins

Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing

Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing

• 28 mins

Francesca Hayward on Cats and Romeo and Juliet, Joker composer Hildur Gu冒nad贸ttir

Ballet star Francesca Hayward on Romeo and Juliet and the new film version of Cats

• 28 mins

Jonathan Pryce, Survival literature, Fictional politicians

Jonathan Pryce on playing one of The Two Popes, and survival fiction.

• 28 mins

Mark Gatiss, Kate Rusby, Creating New Traditions

Mark Gatiss on his TV offerings - Martin's Close for Christmas, and Dracula at New Year

• 28 mins

Taron Egerton, A Christmas Carol, Joe Stilgoe

Taron Egerton on playing Elton John in the musical film Rocketman.

• 30 mins

Saoirse Ronan, The Book People goes into administration, How to paint babies

Saoirse Ronan on playing Jo March in Little Women, indie publisher calamity, babies in art

• 28 mins

Robert De Niro on The Irishman, subverting the gaze, The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

Fairview director Nadia Latif and portraitist Lorna May Wadsworth on challenging the gaze

• 28 mins

JJ Abrams, musicals moving from stage to screen, Derek Owusu

JJ Abrams on directing The Rise of Skywalker - the last film in the 42-year Star Wars saga

• 28 mins

The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting, Reviving the high street with culture

The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting in Leeds, and reviving the high street with culture.

• 28 mins

Screenwriter Amanda Coe, Bad films we love, Diana Evans

Amanda Coe discusses her screenplay for TV drama The Trial of Christine Keeler

• 28 mins

Motown legends Brian and Eddie Holland

Legendary Motown songwriters Brian and Eddie Holland

• 28 mins

Candice Carty-Williams in conversation with Bernardine Evaristo

Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo discuss their dazzling literary year.

• 27 mins

Art and Churches

An exploration of the evolving role of art in churches and cathedrals

• 28 mins

A decade of TV, Ballet podcast Tom and Ty Talk, Long Day's Journey into Night reviewed, Neil Innes

Boyd Hilton and Eleanor Stanford on how television has changed in the last decade

• 28 mins

Cultural Quiz of 2019

We test our guests' knowledge of 2019 in the arts.

• 28 mins

Beethoven at 250

A celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven, marking the composer's 250th anniversary

• 28 mins