Front Row Daily

Veronese at the National Gallery, writer John Morton on following Olympic comedy Twenty Twelve with BBC based satire W1A, Labor Day reviewed and the “extinct” instrument, the Violoncello Da Spalla.

Harry Hill and Sean Foley on I Can't Sing; a review of George Michael's Symphonica album; Neil Hannon discusses the personal inspiration for his latest work To Our Fathers in Distress; and a review of A Long Way Down.

David Hare on The Julian Worricker trilogy; Rodgriguez on Searching For Sugar Man; the art of stage kissing; Dominic Dromgoole on staging Hamlet in North Korea

Terry Gilliam on The Zero Theorem, novelist Siri Hustvedt tackles sexism in the art world, and artist Michael Craig-Martin does pink high heels

Veronica Mars review; Kickstarter funding; Vivienne Franzmann; Andres Neuman; Fake Bands.

Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin reviewed; changing book publicity tactics discussed; the return of Shetland to the BBC; novelist Karen Joy Fowler on chimp manners.

Folio Prize winner George Saunders live from the award ceremony; Cézanne and the Modern show at the Ashomolean, guitarist Jeff Beck - and Damian Barr on the appeal of the gay best friend in movies.

With Samira Ahmed, Alexander McCall Smith discusses The Forever Girl; a review of The Walshes, a comedy from the creator of Father Ted; Stella Feehily on her play This May Hurt A Bit, starring Stephanie Cole; and the South Park computer game.

Three poets laureate on reflecting nations in verse; Elizabeth McGovern on song-writing; The Widower, with Reece Shearsmith as a killer, reviewed; director Jamie Lloyd on Urinetown

Elbow's lead singer Guy Garvey on the band's new album, David Frost's memorial in Westminster Abbey, 300: Rise of an Empire reviewed and how does the situation in Ukraine affect the British Council's plans for exhibitions in Russia.

John Wilson takes a tour of a Viking exhibition, reviews 37 Days - a drama set just before the outbreak of World War One - plus he discusses unreleased recordings of Johnny Cash with his singer's son.

French author Marie Darrieussecq on her novel All the Way, playwright Alan Ayckbourn remembers film director Alain Resnais, Iain Sinclair on the Ruin Lust exhibition at Tate Britain and Larushka Ivan-Zedeh reviews The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Presented by John Wilson Damon Albarn is famed for his collaborations with a wide range of partners. As he prepares to play songs from his forthcoming debut solo album, for a special 6Music festival gig,he talks to John about going it alone. Maxine Peake stars in the BBC legal drama Silk where she plays the role of Martha Costello QC. As series three begins,she discusses how Martha's character has grown. Maxine is also one of the subjects in a new exhibition at the Lowry dedicated to portrait painter Jonathon Yeo. They describe their experience of creating a portrait. Suranne Jones plays one half of television police duo Scott and Bailey. She's now playing one of Virginia Woolf's most distinctive creations, Orlando, in a new production at the Royal Exchange Theatre. 18 year old musician Kiran Leonard is a multi-instrumentalist who lists Mothers of Invention, Sufjan Stevens, Albert Ayler, Krzysztof Penderecki, and the Beach Boys, as just a handful of his influences.

Marc Almond and John Harle discuss their collaboration The Tyburn Tree; Liverpool's Everyman Theatre reopens; novelist Gary Shteyngart on his memoir Little Failure and Emily Eavis talks about plans for this year's Glastonbury.

Peter Gabriel; The Great War in Portraits; Paco Pena on Paco de Lucia; Helen Oyeyemi; Mark Thomas on Bill Hicks.