Archive 2012

The Boxing Day Quiz! Mark Lawson poses cultural brain-teasers to writers and performers.

Musicians including Kate Bush, Brian Wilson and Nick Mason revisit their archives.

Costa Book Awards category winners announced;Tony Marchant; Ronald Searle Tribute.

Actor Michael Fassbender, and Julian Lloyd Webber and Tasmin Little on Delius.

Mark Lawson on two new TV comedies; director Tom Hooper on life after The King's Speech.

Kirsty Lang reports on how puppets have entered the theatrical mainstream.

Mark Lawson talks to Steven Spielberg about his version of War Horse.

JC Chandor on his film Margin Call; Freddie Flintoff's documentary about depression.

John Wilson with historian Thomas Asbridge, singer Emeli Sande, photographer Guy Martin.

Mark Lawson meets two artists who painted Tony Blair; Antony Gormley's new collaboration.

John Wilson talks to Heidi Thomas about Call the Midwife, and to trumpeter Alison Balsom.

Leonardo DiCaprio as J Edgar Hoover; TS Eliot Prize winner; British Film Industry report.

William Boyd on David Hockney's landscape paintings; Steven Soderbergh's film Haywire.

Mark Lawson reviews Madonna's W.E., and Ian Rankin on his unpublished first novel.

Leonard Cohen and his new disc; screenwriter Abi Morgan; Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus.

Soldiers' stories on stage; Norma Percy on Putin; L'Atalante. John Wilson presents.

With Mark Lawson, including a review of George Clooney in the film The Descendants.

Mark Lawson reports on the 2012 Academy Award nominations.

Costa Book of the Year winner Andrew Miller and Swedish crime writer Jens Lapidus.

Hajj at the British Museum; romantic film Like Crazy; comedy performer Andi Osho.

Turner in Margate; mezzo-soprano Alice Coote; Joe Orton revisited; Lana Del Rey reviewed.

Kate Winslet and Jodie Foster in the film Carnage; Waiting for Godot with a black cast.

Charlize Theron in Young Adult, and Australian novelist Kate Grenville.

Actor Ashley Walters; Howard Hodgkin's Indian art collection; Katherine Kelly on stage.