Barrister Robert Rinder, TV's Judge Rinder, and novelist Stella Duffy talk to Harriett Gilbert about the books that matter deeply to them, including one about facing death. Show more

Kirsty Wark presents the literary panel game, as writers and broadcasters Will Self and Germaine Greer fight it out against novelist Stella Duffy and politician Menzies Campbell. Show more

To mark 100 years of romance publishers Mills and Boon, literary novelist Stella Duffy takes on the challenge of writing for them, a task that ends up being harder than it looks. Show more

Cultural discussion programme. Tom Sutcliffe considers the relationship between play and creativity with Steven Johnson, Stella Duffy, Tim Harford and Ed Smith. Show more

Thomas Vinterberg's film The Commune, Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars, The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss, Britain's Pompeii, and illuminated manuscripts at the Fitzwilliam. Show more

Josh falls out with everyone at a family funeral and spectacularly fails to keep news of his wife’s pregnancy secret. From 2016. Show more

Guests Daisy Goodwin and Michael Gove MP take on Simon Hoggart and Stella Duffy in the literary panel show. Presented by David Baddiel.

It’s the big day and Josh has the birth ball and meditation music - but at a crucial moment, disaster strikes. From 2016. Show more

Simon Heffer, New Generation Thinker Will Abberley, director of Fun Palaces Stella Duffy and Tiffany Jenkins join Matthew Sweet to debate the ideas of poet Matthew Arnold. Show more

Arts news, interviews and reviews, including The Look of Silence, Waddesdon Galleries at the British Museum, WB Yeats and a review of Interceptor. Samira Ahmed presents. Show more

A review of Warren Beatty in Rules Don't Apply; Poet Inua Ellams discusses and performs from his collection #Afterhours; Born to Kill reviewed; the everlasting pull of pop. Show more

Artist Richard Long on A Line Made by Walking; measuring the quality of art paid for by the public; Stella Duffy nominates her Queer Icon; Daljit Nagra on Liu Xiaobo's poetry. Show more

Stella Duffy discusses her novel London Lies Beneath; the future of The New Art Gallery Walsall; Yves Klein in Liverpool reviewed; Director Barrie Kosky on Shostakovich's The Nose. Show more

Presented by John Wilson. Members of Genesis discuss a new documentary about the band, and Sarah Churchwell reviews David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, which stars Lindsay Lohan. Show more

Stella Duffy on crime drama The Fall, Bryan Ferry on his solo album Avonmore, theatre exploring climate science and the school system, and Peder Balke at the National Gallery. Show more

Arts news with Samira Ahmed, including Julianne Moore and Ellen Page in Freeheld, novelist Anna Hope on her new book, and singer and multi-instrumentalist Jack Garratt. Show more

Stella Duffy, Kei Miller, Julian Baggini, Aowen Jin and Philip Venables attempt to define inspiration. Plus, how can an orchestra play an entire symphony from memory? Show more

Acclaimed South African writer Damon Galgut on his novel Arctic Summer, plus Kate Colquhoun and Judith Flanders on Victorian true crime and AL Kennedy road tests new writing apps. Show more

Mariella Frostrup talks to Ali Smith, who has been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize for the third time for How to Be Both. Plus Stella Duffy, Kamila Shamsie and an insider tip. Show more

Crime writer Joseph Knox talks to Mariella Frostrup about his follow-up to his hugely successful debut Sirens. Show more