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Emily is a new film starring Emma Mackey (of Sex Education fame) as the author of Wuthering Heights, Emily Bront\xeb. Emily is as wild as the windswept moorland she lives in; her relationships with her sisters, Anne and Charlotte, her dissolute brother, Branwell, and her lover, the curate Weightman, are as raw as the relentless rain, and as tender as the flashes of sunshine. But writer and Director Frances O\u2019Connor\u2019s debut film is very much an imagined life. So, what will reviewers Samantha Ellis, author of a biography of Emily\u2019s sister, Anne, and the archaeologist Mike Pitts make of it?

Samantha and Mike will also review Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt. The new exhibition at the British Museum brings together more than 240 objects, some shown for the first time, and some very famous -the Rosetta Stone, Queen Nedjmet\u2019s Book of the Dead - to tell the story of the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Exhibitions about ancient Egypt tend to focus on the dead \u2013 mummies, Tutankhamun \u2013 this one is about how the Egyptians lived, wrote, and spoke.

Lord Vaizey, former Conservative Culture Minister from 2010- 2016 has been appointed Chair of the Parthenon Project advisory panel. He joins Front Row to discuss the campaign to return the \u201cElgin Marbles\u201d to Greece.

Concluding Front Row's interviews with all of this year's Booker Prize shortlisted novelists is Shehan Karunatilaka. He discusses his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almedia, a dark satire set against the backdrop of a civil war-ravaged Sri Lanka.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe\nProducer: Kirsty McQuire

Main Image: Temple lintel of King Amenenhat III, Hawara, Egypt, 12th Dynasty, 1855 - 08 BC. \xa9 The Trustees of the British Museum.