Front Row Daily

The verdict on the film Prince Avalanche; Mark Lawson visits a Luton primary school which has a Frank Auerbach painting for a day; theatre director Michael Blakemore.

Paul McCartney on his new album. Rachel Campbell-Johnston on a new exhibition at the British Museum, El Dorado. And Sebastian Junger discusses his film about the war photojournalist Tim Hetherington.

Rufus Norris will succeed Nicholas Hytner as the new director of the National Theatre. Norris, who has been associate director of the National Theatre for two years, where he directed the Amen Corner and London Road among other productions, will take over from April 2015. He talks to Mark Lawson about his future plans. As Sir David Jason, the star of Only Fools And Horses, Open All Hours, The Darling Buds of May, and A Touch of Frost, marks his five decade long career with an autobiography, he reveals why his career began almost by accident and how he can do an uncanny impression of Julian Clary. The artist Jeremy Deller shows Mark around his latest exhibition, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, which has opened at Manchester Art Gallery. The show, which will tour the UK, explores what Deller sees as the continuing impact of the Industrial Revolution on British popular culture.

Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson on their new musical, The Light Princess, Sarah Crompton reviews Enough Said, author Iain Sinclair on a new exhibition of Paul Klee's work at the Tate Modern and Rachel Cooke reviews Stephen Fry: Out There and Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life.

Including an interview with writer Penelope Lively; a review of the new Julian Fellowes version of Romeo and Juliet; Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout and new British/French crime drama The Tunnel.

Tom Hanks on his new film Captain Phillips. AS Byatt and Hermione Lee discuss 2013 Nobel Literature Laureate Alice Munro. And American artist Dana Schutz.

Including an interview with Jennifer Saunders as she publishes her memoir; a review of a new stage adaptation of Roddy Doyle's The Commitments and a look at two new exhibitions that shine a light on portraiture from different eras.

Front Row is live from the BBC National Short Story Awards with interviews from the chair of the judges, Mariella Frostrup and the winner, Sarah Hall. Mark Lewisohn on the first volume of his history of The Beatles and Rosie Boycott reviews The Fifth Estate.

John Eliot Gardiner discusses his new book on Bach. Le Week-End and Breathless reviewed.

John Wilson meets sitar-player Anoushka Shankar and learns how the death of her father Ravi affected her music; TV's Truckers reviewed; rare interview with artist Frank Auerbach

Mark Lawson with actress Saoirse Ronan – star of the film `How I Live Now` , reviews of Moira Buffini's play,Handbagged,about Margaret Thatcher and the Queen and Shunga: Sex and Humour in Japanese Art, at the British Museum.And as Michael Symmons Roberts wins the Forward Prize for a book of poems which are each limited to 15 lines, Front Row reflects on size restrictions in Art - with Ian Christie on film, David Hepworth on music and Cathy Rentzenbrink on literature

David Tennant and Gregory Doran on their new production of Richard II, Bill Bryson on his latest book, One Summer: America 1927, and Bel Mooney reviews a TV series, Masters of Sex, and a film, Thanks for Sharing, which both focus on sex.

Mark Lawson on the film Sunshine on Leith; Adil Ray on his TV persona Citizen Khan; Malcolm Mackay, on Glasgow crime; Artist John Keane on the exhibition, Art Under Attack.

Austenland reviewed, Stephen Poliakoff on his 1975 TV drama Hitting Town, Australian author Hannah Kent, and Hugh Pearman on Elmgreen and Dragset at the V&A

Review of Atlantis, the new family drama from the BBC; an interview with Michael Morpurgo on the eve of his 70th birthday; Lavinia Greenlaw on her BBC National Short Story Award contender; new film about Hannah Arendt reviewed.