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17/11/2009
Mark Lawson interviews writer Alan Bennett.
18/11/2009
Bill Bailey on orchestras, Fay Weldon on Nabokov and the latest Coen brothers film.
19/11/2009
Ian Rankin on writing a graphic novel; Irish rock band Ash's A to Z of touring.
20/11/2009
Richard Linklater on his new film and Christopher Frayling reviews School of Saatchi.
23/11/2009
Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an interview with writer Dave Eggers.
24/11/2009
James Earl Jones on Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and playing Darth Vadar.
25/11/2009
John Wilson debates arts policy with Ben Bradshaw and his opposition counterparts.
26/11/2009
Four of the women playing the Queen in a new TV series discuss the role with John Wilson.
27/11/2009
Robert Englund on life as Freddy Krueger; a review of the new TV sitcom, Big Top.
30/11/2009
New Cameron Diaz film, The Box; the National Short Story Award.
01/12/2009
Florence and the Machine, and artists responding to climate change at the Royal Academy.
02/12/2009
Carol Ann Duffy and Posy Simmonds on their Christmas collaboration.
03/12/2009
Including reviews of Tamzin Outhwaite in Sweet Charity and John Malkovich in Disgrace.
04/12/2009
Green Wing's Julian Rhind-Tutt, and a review of TV drama Small Island.
07/12/2009
The announcement of the winner of the 大象传媒 National Short Story Award; silent films on TV.
08/12/2009
Including 2009 Turner Prize-winning artist Richard Wright.
09/12/2009
Michael Frayn discusses his travel writing; Elvis Costello on the Black-E arts centre.
10/12/2009
Heidi Thomas on writing Cranford; children's books for over 9s; film-maker Sally Potter.
11/12/2009
Harry Hill on his show TV Burp; Alexander Hanson on the production of A Little Night Music
14/12/2009
Robert Downey Jnr and Jude Law on Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes and a review of Avatar.
15/12/2009
Terry Wogan on bowing out, and a review of new film Nine.
16/12/2009
The Cat in the Hat on stage; St Trininan's 2; crime books for Christmas; countertenors.
17/12/2009
Catherine Tate; Rope on screen and stage; artist Conrad Shawcross; audio books.
18/12/2009
Keira Knightley in The Misanthrope and an interview with John Hurt.
21/12/2009
Kenneth Branagh on Wallander and John Wilson on the last decade's cultural highlights.
22/12/2009
Eddie Izzard on 2012 and political aims; TV Hamlet and Turn Of The Screw reviewed.
23/12/2009
Mark Lawson talks to some of 2009's key cultural figures.
24/12/2009
The names behind the cultural headlines of 2009.
25/12/2009
Mark Lawson in conversation with Alan Bennett in a special edition of Front Row.
28/12/2009
The lives of Somerset Maugham, Muriel Spark and William Golding in a biography special.
29/12/2009
Mark Lawson reports on rumours of the death of the book.