Lauren Laverne

Rhianna Dhillon reviews new film ‘Captain Marvel’, Ricky Gervais’ latest Netflix endeavour ‘After Life’ and the return of ‘Derry Girls’. In The Maths of Life Dr Hannah Fry gets into big money maths, plus the complex stuff behind dolphins, bubbles and sonar. Simon Amstell joins Lauren to talk about his new film ‘Benjamin’ and actor Lupita Nyong'o chats about her new film ‘Us’ - written and directed by the brilliant Jordan Peele.

On This Week's Watchlist, Rhianna Dhillon talks favourites in the form of a touching true story on Netflix, a new Brit-comedy on the big screen and the return of BBC Three’s Fleabag. In The Maths Of Life Dr Hannah Fry tells us how you can’t just scale up an ant to human size and expect it to pick up an elephant. Plus the universal law of urination. No, we hadn’t heard about that either, but it’s a real thing.

Rhianna Dhillon reviews the best in TV and streaming in ‘This Week’s Watchlist’. In ‘The Maths Of Life’ Dr Hannah Fry tells us how we can use game theory to keep the kids in line, and Tim Key gets into his role in the brand new show 'This Time with Alan Partridge'. Ahead of their performance at this year’s 6 Music Festival in Liverpool, The Cinematic Orchestra and Little Simz join us to talk about what we can expect from their sets. Stephen Merchant and Nick Frost drop by to talk about their new film ‘Fighting With My Family’ which is all about the professional wrestler Paige.

Rhianna Dhillon reviews Joe Cornish's latest film ‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Netflix's ‘The Umbrella Academy’ and the new TV show ‘Traitors’. Dr Hannah Fry tells us how to win massively in monopoly and breaks down the maths behind Artificial Intelligence. Chiwetel Ejiofor joins us to chat about directing his first feature film 'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind' and Keira Knightley drops by to talk about her new Post-World War II film ‘The Aftermath’

On This Week's Watchlist, Rhianna Dhillon brings us the lowdown on last week’s BAFTA Awards and she reviews the new David Bowie Documentary ‘Finding Fame, Netflix’s Big Mouth Valentine Special’ and the Oscar nominated ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’. Dr Hannah Fry gets into curvy pizza and why a considerable number of nuns have given their brains to science.