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Coming under the Front Row spotlight today are: Kenneth Branagh鈥檚 new stage production of King Lear, in which he both stars and directs, and How to Have Sex, a new coming of age film about the trend for post-exam holidays abroad, by first time director Molly Manning Walker, and which won the Un Certain Regard award at Cannes this summer. Theatre critic Susannah Clapp and journalist and Good Bad Billionaire podcast host Zing Tsjeng review.

A new track by The Beatles dubbed their 鈥渇inal song鈥� has been released 45 years after it was first conceived. The track, Now and Then, uses John Lennon鈥檚 vocals and all four Beatles feature on it. We'll have a listen and review.

鈥楬e first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died.鈥�

Lady Morton鈥檚 epitaph, written in the 17th century, is the shortest verse in The Penguin Book of Elegy. The new anthology gathers hundreds of poems of memory, mourning, and consolation, by writers ranging from Virgil, born in 70 BCE, to Raymond Antrobus, born in 1986. Andrew Motion, the book鈥檚 co-editor, discusses the ways elegy shapes memory, giving it meaning. He also reflects on the variety of elegy and how it stretches beyond the human, honouring loss of landscape, species and cultures.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Corinna Jones