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A reimagining of Caryl Churchill\u2019s ground-breaking and celebrated play, Top Girls, opens this week at the Liverpool Everyman which sets the play \u2013 about female ambition and success across centuries and cultures - in Merseyside. Playwright Charlotte Keatley and theatre critic Susannah Clapp discuss the play\u2019s themes and its continuing impact forty years after its premiere.

Prince Harry\u2019s book Spare and the ripples it\u2019s created have led to questions about the writing and publication of memoirs. In recent years, there has been a widening of the voices encouraged to write and getting published, but what is the impact on the authors, and should there be a greater duty of care? Agent Rachel Mills and Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love, a memoir about losing her brother, join Front Row to discuss.

The show must go on has long been the mantra of those working in theatre but last August, David Byrne, Artistic Director of New Diorama Theatre, made an astonishing announcement which began with the words, \u201cThe end of the show must go on\u201d and went on to state that the theatre would be closing its doors for at least six months to allow time for an artistic reset. As New Diorama Theatre reopens, David joins Front Row to discuss what the resetting has revealed.

Presenter: Nick Ahad\nProducer: Ekene Akalawu

Picture: Top Girls \u2013 Lauren Lane as Pope Joan \u2013 Photographer\u2019s Credit Marc Brenner