The Arts Interviews

The Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue, Edward Enninful, sits down with Amol Rajan to discuss his upbringing, the health of the fashion industry and what he's going to do next.

The singer-songwriter Nick Cave, best known for fronting his band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds talks to BBC Newsnight. The artist talks about the death of one of his 15- year-old twin sons, Arthur, seven years ago, and how he has addressed loss and grief through music, particularly his hugely lauded album Ghosteen. He talks about his new book, Faith, Hope and Carnage, which is distilled from a series of telephone conversations, during lockdown, between Cave and journalist Sean O'Hagan, in which Cave talks about questions of belief, faith, grief, love and his music. In a rare TV interview, Kirsty Wark also hears about his project, The Red Hand Files, in which he solicits questions online and then responds to the ones which pique his interest with advice and musings which are often tender, and sometimes funny.

Kirsty Wark speaks to Felix Kammerer, the Austrian theatre actor and star of the new Netflix adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front, the German language movie that has garnered 14 Bafta and 5 Oscar nominations.

Katie Razzall meets one of the pioneers of reality TV, Fenton Bailey, to discuss an extraordinary career and why reality TV has always been camp.

In a joint exclusive interview to mark the one-year anniversary of the ABBA Voyage show, ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson sit down with Newsnight's Victoria Derbyshire.

The BBC's Culture editor Katie Razzall talks to Christopher Nolan, one of the world's most renowned film directors, on the eve of the release of his new film Oppenheimer.

Sir Ridley Scott, the celebrated British director behind Alien, Gladiator, Thelma & Louise and his latest film – Napoleon – reflects on his career.

Katie Razzall, the BBC's culture editor, speaks to actor David Tennant in an interview to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio.

Celebrated actors Sir Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn, along with survivors of the Kindertransport, reflect on the new film One Life, which tells the remarkable story of Sir Nicholas Winton.

Martha Kearney speaks to academy award winner Cate Blanchett about her latest film, The New Boy. Set in Australia in the 1940s, the film tells the story of a young Aboriginal boy who is sent to an orphanage. Blanchett is a producer, but she also stars in it as a Catholic nun. She explains that what drew her to this story was her love for Australia and a curiosity about religion.