Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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David Beckham; Graham Nash; Dracula
Thu 31 Oct 2013
Arts news with John Wilson, including David Beckham on life in front of the camera.
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Joan Collins, Castiglione, Ian Rankin on Rory Gallagher, Drinking Buddies
Wed 30 Oct 2013
Arts news with Mark Lawson, including an interview with Joan Collins on age and husbands.
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Susan Stroman; Short Term 12; Ross Noble
Tue 29 Oct 2013
Mark Lawson reviews the film Short Term 12, a drama set in a foster home for teenagers.
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Sandra Bullock; Leonard Bernstein; The most-performed plays
Mon 28 Oct 2013
Mark Lawson interviews Sandra Bullock, who plays a medic lost in space in the film Gravity
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25/10/2013
Fri 25 Oct 2013
Kirsty Lang meets Elizabeth Gilbert, whose books include the bestseller Eat Pray Love.
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Earth, Wind and Fire; From Here to Eternity, Chinese paintings; Sir Anthony Caro
Thu 24 Oct 2013
Earth Wind and Fire, From Here to Eternity reviewed, and Sir Anthony Caro remembered.
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Judi Dench, Julian Barnes on Daumier, Ambassadors, Ibsen's Ghosts
Wed 23 Oct 2013
Arts news. Dame Judi Dench discusses her role in the film Philomena with Mark Lawson.
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From Derry-Londonderry, UK City of Culture 2013
Tue 22 Oct 2013
Mark Lawson reports on the Turner Prize in Derry-Londonderry, UK City of Culture 2013.
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Susan Hill; Pop art design; GF Newman; Fake movie trails
Mon 21 Oct 2013
Mark Lawson interviews writer Susan Hill as she publishes a new novel Black Sheep.
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Morrissey autobiography; Clio Barnard; Glee's Cory Monteith tribute
Fri 18 Oct 2013
Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including Philip Hoare on Morrissey's Autobiograph
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Prince Avalanche reviewed; Masterpiece in a primary school; Theatre director Michael Blakemore
Thu 17 Oct 2013
The film Prince Avalanche starring Paul Rudd; theatre director Michael Blakemore.
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Paul McCartney; El Dorado; Sebastian Junger on Tim Hetherington
Wed 16 Oct 2013
Arts news. John Wilson meets Paul McCartney, who talks about his latest album, New.
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Rufus Norris; David Jason; Jeremy Deller
Tue 15 Oct 2013
Actor David Jason; Rufus Norris, next director of the National Theatre; Jeremy Deller.
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The Light Princess; Paul Klee; Enough Said
Mon 14 Oct 2013
Mark Lawson reviews the comedy film Enough Said, starring the late James Gandolfini.
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Penelope Lively; Julian Fellowes' Romeo and Juliet; Paddy McAloon
Fri 11 Oct 2013
Novelist Penelope Lively; Julian Fellowes' Romeo and Juliet; Prefab Sprout's Paddy McAloon
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Tom Hanks; Alice Munro; Dana Schutz
Thu 10 Oct 2013
Mark Lawson talks to Tom Hanks, star of Captain Phillips, a film about modern-day piracy.
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Jennifer Saunders; The Commitments on stage; Elizabethan portraits
Wed 9 Oct 2013
Jennifer Saunders reflects with Mark Lawson on her career so far as she publishes a memoir
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麻豆社 National Short Story Award; Mark Lewisohn on The Beatles; The Fifth Estate
Tue 8 Oct 2013
John Wilson reports live from the 麻豆社 National Short Story Award ceremony.
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John Eliot Gardiner, Le Week-End, Breathless
Mon 7 Oct 2013
Le Week-End and Breathless reviewed, and John Eliot Gardiner on his new book about Bach.
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Anoushka Shankar; TV drama Truckers; Frank Auerbach
Fri 4 Oct 2013
Anoushka Shankar on her new album, TV's Truckers reviewed and Frank Auerbach painting.
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Saoirse Ronan; Thatcher meets the Queen; Erotic art from Japan
Wed 2 Oct 2013
Mark Lawson meets actress Saoirse Ronan, who stars in the film How I Live Now.
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David Tennant and Gregory Doran; Bill Bryson; Sex on film and TV
Tue 1 Oct 2013
Mark Lawson talks to David Tennant as he prepares to play Richard II at the RSC, Stratford
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Sunshine on Leith; Adil Ray; Malcolm Mackay; Art Under Attack
Mon 30 Sep 2013
Mark Lawson reports on Art Under Attack, an exhibition about physical attacks on artworks.
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Austenland, Stephen Poliakoff, Hannah Kent, Elmgreen and Dragset
Fri 27 Sep 2013
Kirsty Lang talks to Stephen Poliakoff, and Viv Groskop reviews romantic comedy Austenland
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Atlantis; Michael Morpurgo; Hannah Arendt; 麻豆社 National Short Story Award
Thu 26 Sep 2013
Arts news with Kirsty Lang, including a review of the new family drama Atlantis.
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Johnny Vegas, William Boyd, 麻豆社 Short Story Award
Wed 25 Sep 2013
Mark Lawson meets writer William Boyd, as he publishes a new James Bond novel.
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Fourth Plinth art; Stephen King reviewed; Alfred and Adrian Brendel; 麻豆社 Short Story Award
Tue 24 Sep 2013
Mark Lawson on the artworks competing to occupy the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.
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Hugh Jackman; The Wrong Mans; 麻豆社 National Short Story Award 2013
Mon 23 Sep 2013
Mark Lawson reviews Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal in the film thriller Prisoners.
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麻豆社 Short Story Award; Jack Vettriano retrospective; poet John Cooper Clarke
Fri 20 Sep 2013
The 麻豆社 National Short Story Award 2013 shortlist; Jack Vettriano retrospective review.
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Woody Allen interview, with Sally Hawkins and Mike Leigh
Thu 19 Sep 2013
Mark Lawson interviews Woody Allen, whose new film Blue Jasmine stars Cate Blanchett.
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