<description>&lt;p&gt;American guitarist Pat Metheny on how the discovery of a particular Argentinian guitar string took his latest album Moondial in a new direction. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a school by the renowned Victorian architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh comes to the open market, we discuss whether Glasgow does enough to look after its built heritage. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And we hear from the outgoing artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre and the artistic director of Birmingham Hippodrome about new initiatives to promote musical theatre. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Plus we remember actor Timothy West, whose death was announced earlier today. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Presenter: Kirsty Wark
Producer: Mark Crossan&lt;/p&gt;</description>

American guitarist Pat Metheny, and news of initiatives to promote musical theatre.

American guitarist Pat Metheny on how the discovery of a particular Argentinian guitar string took his latest album Moondial in a new direction. As a school by the renowned Victorian architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh comes to the open market, we discuss whether Glasgow does enough to look after its built heritage. And we hear from the outgoing artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre and the artistic director of Birmingham Hippodrome about new initiatives to promote musical theatre. Plus we remember actor Timothy West, whose death was announced earlier today. Presenter: Kirsty Wark
Producer: Mark Crossan

American guitarist Pat Metheny, New initiatives to encourage musical theatre, and Does Glasgow look after its built heritage?

<description>&lt;p&gt;Samira Ahmed is live from the Booker Prize 2024 ceremony. As well as hearing from the six shortlisted authors, Samira speaks to judges novelist Sara Collins and musician Nitin Sawhney. Campaigner for social justice Baroness Lola Young talks about the transformative power of literature. Chair of judges, artist and writer Edmund de Waal announces the winner of this prestigious award for fiction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Claire Bartleet&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Which of the six shortlisted authors will win the 2024 Booker Prize?

Samira Ahmed is live from the Booker Prize 2024 ceremony. As well as hearing from the six shortlisted authors, Samira speaks to judges novelist Sara Collins and musician Nitin Sawhney. Campaigner for social justice Baroness Lola Young talks about the transformative power of literature. Chair of judges, artist and writer Edmund de Waal announces the winner of this prestigious award for fiction.Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Claire Bartleet

Winner of the 2024 Booker Prize announced live from the ceremony

<description>&lt;p&gt;Ahead of tonight's Booker Prize ceremony, Front Row hears from all of the shortlisted authors: Percival Everett, Samantha Harvey, Rachel Kushner, Anne Michaels, Yael van der Wouden and Charlotte Wood.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then at 9.30pm, in a special extra edition of Front Row, Samira Ahmed hosts the ceremony. Find out who will win the prestigious literary prize. 
 
Producer: Claire Bartleet
Presenter: Samira Ahmed&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Interviews with the authors shortlisted for tonight's Booker Prize.

Ahead of tonight's Booker Prize ceremony, Front Row hears from all of the shortlisted authors: Percival Everett, Samantha Harvey, Rachel Kushner, Anne Michaels, Yael van der Wouden and Charlotte Wood.Then at 9.30pm, in a special extra edition of Front Row, Samira Ahmed hosts the ceremony. Find out who will win the prestigious literary prize. 
 
Producer: Claire Bartleet
Presenter: Samira Ahmed

Booker Shortlisted Authors

<description>&lt;p&gt;Rolling Stones guitarist, Ronnie Wood discusses his parallel career as an artist. As a new exhibition of his work opens at the Andrew Martin showroom in London, Ronnie talks about how he has drawn inspiration from Delacroix, Caravaggio and Picasso. As a new three part series Boybands Forever starts on BBC2 and the iplayer, we explore what was behind the rise and fall of the boybands of the nineties and noughties with Richie Neville of Five and Hannah Verdier from Smash Hits. And, keyboard music from before the invention of the piano. Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen performs from her new album Reformation, a collection of pieces by Tudor-era composers William Byrd, John Bull, Orlando Gibbons and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Ruth Watts&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood talks about his other career as an artist.

Rolling Stones guitarist, Ronnie Wood discusses his parallel career as an artist. As a new exhibition of his work opens at the Andrew Martin showroom in London, Ronnie talks about how he has drawn inspiration from Delacroix, Caravaggio and Picasso. As a new three part series Boybands Forever starts on BBC2 and the iplayer, we explore what was behind the rise and fall of the boybands of the nineties and noughties with Richie Neville of Five and Hannah Verdier from Smash Hits. And, keyboard music from before the invention of the piano. Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen performs from her new album Reformation, a collection of pieces by Tudor-era composers William Byrd, John Bull, Orlando Gibbons and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck.Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Ruth Watts

Ronnie Wood, the rise and fall of boybands, Mishka Momen

<description>&lt;p&gt;Nancy Durrant and Nii Ayikwei Parkes join Tom Sutcliffe to review The Piano Lesson, the latest August Wilson play to be adapted for the screen by the family of Denzel Washington. Directed by Malcolm Washington and starring John David Washington, Samuel L Jackson and Danielle Deadwyler, a brother and sister argue over the future of an heirloom piano. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We discuss Jonathan Coe's return with new novel The Proof of My Innocence, a satirical murder mystery. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Florence in 1504 is the backdrop for the Royal Academy's new exhibition of drawings by Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael, and we hear from ceramicist Felicity Aylieff at Kew Gardens where her new exibition featues large scale pots up to five metres high.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Sarah Jane Griffiths&lt;/p&gt;</description>

We review The Piano Lesson, the latest film from Denzel Washington and his family.

Nancy Durrant and Nii Ayikwei Parkes join Tom Sutcliffe to review The Piano Lesson, the latest August Wilson play to be adapted for the screen by the family of Denzel Washington. Directed by Malcolm Washington and starring John David Washington, Samuel L Jackson and Danielle Deadwyler, a brother and sister argue over the future of an heirloom piano. We discuss Jonathan Coe's return with new novel The Proof of My Innocence, a satirical murder mystery. Florence in 1504 is the backdrop for the Royal Academy's new exhibition of drawings by Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael, and we hear from ceramicist Felicity Aylieff at Kew Gardens where her new exibition featues large scale pots up to five metres high.Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Sarah Jane Griffiths

Review: The Piano Lesson, Florence 1504, Jonathan Coe's The Proof of My Innocence

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