Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Reviewing the RSC's 6-hour Middlemarch adaptation, an Agatha Christie exhibition and Gentle Monster film
Thursday
RSC's 6-hour Middlemarch adaptation, an Agatha Christie exhibition and Gentle Monster film
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Reinventing fairy tales for the 21st century
Wednesday
Comedian and author Daniel Foxx and the author of a new cultural history of Cinderella.
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John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell on Martin McDonagh's new film Wild Horse Nine
Tuesday
Plus Marlon James on his Booker Prize-shortlisted novel The Disappearers.
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Audrey Niffenegger on the sequel to her hugely successful novel The Time Traveller's Wife
Monday
Plus actor Kyle MacLachlan on his memoir, and the evolution of vampires in literature.
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Reviewing Fatherland, Possible Love and Martin Guerre
Thu 22 Oct 2026
Reviewing films Fatherland and Possible Love, and Martin Guerre, the musical.
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Director Sofia Coppola on Making Marie Antoinette
Wed 21 Oct 2026
Director Sofia Coppola on Making Marie Antoinette; novelist Hernan Diaz.
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Winne-the-Pooh at 100, and Renoir in Love review
Tue 20 Oct 2026
Celebrating Winnie-the-Pooh, reviewing Renoir, Douglas Dunn tribute, and Luke Kennard.
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Taika Waititi on adapting Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Klara and the Sun for the big screen
Mon 19 Oct 2026
Plus Tony award winning Broadway actor Jonathan Groff takes on Shakespeare.
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Review Show: Kristin Scott Thomas in Chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard
Thu 15 Oct 2026
Plus survival thriller Whalefall and Elif Shafak's novel about Gustave Flaubert.
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Comedian Leo Reich on his Channel 4 sitcom It Gets Worse
Wed 14 Oct 2026
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.
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Anne-Marie Duff, M John Harrison, Bayreuth 150th anniversary
Tue 13 Oct 2026
Samira talks to Anne-Marie Duff and M John Harrison, the 150th anniversary of Bayreuth.
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Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on Hay Fever
Mon 12 Oct 2026
Also Douglas Stuart, London Film Festival and AI writing prize-winning books.
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Review Show: The Social Reckoning, The 90s at Tate Britain and reaction to Nobel Prize winner Anne Carson
Thu 8 Oct 2026
Plus Barbara Kingsolver's new novel Partita.
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Does the discovery of a 'talkie' made in 1926 change cinema history?
Wed 7 Oct 2026
News of a film made in 1926 which pioneered the use of new sound and audio technology.
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Johnny Marr on his new album
Tue 6 Oct 2026
Monet's letters and Booker shortlisted author Rebecca Perry.
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SNL, Paul Greengrass, The Bayeux Tapestry and Sarah Hall
Mon 5 Oct 2026
Saturday Night Live, film director Paul Greengrass, Booker-nominated novelist Sarah Hall
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Review Show: Tom Cruise in the film Digger
Thu 1 Oct 2026
Sienna Miller and Dominic West in Sky legal drama War and The Standard of Living play.
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Actors David Harewood and Sir Simon Russell Beale
Wed 30 Sep 2026
Simon Russell Beale on playing Liberace on stage and David Harewood on his new legal drama
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麻豆社 National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award 2026
Tue 29 Sep 2026
The winners of both prizes are announced live from 麻豆社 Broadcasting House.
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Es Devlin retrospective, Sebastian Faulks, Turner Prize, Apple Music Hall
Mon 28 Sep 2026
Stage designer Es Devlin, novelist Sebastian Faulks, the Turner Prize and Apple Music Hall
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Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival
Thu 24 Sep 2026
A special edition of Front Row from the 麻豆社's Contains Strong Language festival
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Review Show: Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel, South Korean alien invasion thriller Hope and an adaptation of 1984.
Wed 23 Sep 2026
Our critics review three new dystopian thrillers - in novel form, on screen and on stage.
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Comedian Russell Kane on playing an older Romeo
Tue 22 Sep 2026
John Coltrane's centenary and the Booker Prize shortlist 2026.
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Roger Taylor, drummer from the super band Queen, on his latest album
Mon 21 Sep 2026
Plus the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and ex-politicans under pressure in The Wargame.
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Review Show: Rose Tremain鈥檚 The Housekeeper, inspired by Daphne du Maurier鈥檚 Rebecca
Thu 17 Sep 2026
Plus film Queen at Sea starring Juliette Binoche and Thelma & Louise the musical.
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The Proclaimers on their new album, You May Offend
Wed 16 Sep 2026
Novelist Kate Atkinson on her new novel, Our Noble Selves.
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Hermione Lee on her biography of the notoriously private author Anita Brookner
Tue 15 Sep 2026
Plus Ian McCulloch on Echo & the Bunnymen's new album.
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The Beatles' early days, Juliette Binoche's directorial debut, Jack Thorne
Mon 14 Sep 2026
Samira talks to Hunter Davies, Juliette Binoche, Jack Thorne and Lucy Caldwell.
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Review Show: Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum
Thu 10 Sep 2026
Rebecca F Kuang's new novel, and the 麻豆社 National Short Story Award is back.
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