For the past few week, Radio 4’s arts magazine show, Front Row , has been running a feature where they’ve been asking leading “creative minds” (writers, performers, designers, artists) to name their favourite works or culture or other creative minds that have influenced their lives. It can get unashamedly high brow (you’ll be happy to learn that Brian Sewell chose “Christ contemplated by the Christian Soul” by Diego Velázquez and not On The Buses so all is right with the world) but a fair few interesting SF⛎ and fantasy choices have been made.

Below we’ve listed all the relevant i🦩nstalments with links ꧂so you can listen to them. Well worth an aural browse.

Gemma Chan on

James Blake on

CJ Sansom on

Paul Franklin on

Sarah Hall on

Neil Gaiman on

Philip Pullman on

Brian Aldiss on

Mohsin Hamid on