Front Row, Front Row, Dancer and choreographer Gene Kelly's wife and biographer Patricia Ward Kelly on Starstruck

Front Row

Front Row

Dancer and choreographer Gene Kelly's wife and biographer Patricia Ward Kelly on Starstruck

15 April 2026

42 minutes

Available for over a year

Scottish Ballet's Starstruck honours Gene Kelly's creative legacy and his passion for creating "dance for the common man". His wife Patricia Ward Kelly tells us about this fusion of ballet, jazz, tap and tango danced to the music of Chopin, Ravel and Gerswhin.

As the winner of the inaugural Sherborne Prize for Travel Writing is announced as Adam Weymouth for his book Lone Wolf, about a journey from Slovenia to Italy across the Alps, Adam joins us along with veteran writer Colin Thubron to discuss the art of travel writing.

And as he receives an Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize and as his work goes on show at the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition in London, photographer Joel Meyerowitz talks to us about his career - documenting everything from London in the swinging sixties to New York in the aftermath of 9/11.

Presenter: Kirsty Wark

Producer: Mark Crossan