The Leopard, Natasha Brown, Manchester International Festival, Elizabeth Fritsch

As Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's novel The Leopard is dramatised for television, director Tom Shankland and film critic Peter Bradshaw discuss the power of this classic Italian novel.

Natasha Brown's first novel, Assembly, saw her favourably compared to Virginia Woolf and won a Betty Trask award. Her eagerly-awaited second novel Universality has just been published and she discusses leaving her career in finance to write fiction.

Low Kee Hong, the new Creative Director of Manchester International Festival, shares his vision for the festival and talks about the 2025 programme which has been revealed today.

Ceramicist Elizabeth Fritsch is the subject of a major retrospective at the Hepworth Wakefield. Curator, writer, and editor Natalie Baerselman le Gros, who specialises in contemporary ceramics, reflects on the work of an artist who describes herself as a painter who makes pots.

Presenter: Nick Ahad

Producer: Ekene Akalawu