Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Andrew O'Hagan, The Singapore Grip, Theatre at the point of no return
Tue 8 Sep 2020
Andrew O'Hagan on his novel Mayflies. Plus ITV's new drama The Singapore Grip.
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Benjamin Grosvenor performs for Front Row
Mon 7 Sep 2020
Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, Venice Film Festival, Understanding artworks.
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Mulan review, Lorna Sage's memoir 20 years on, and must art be political?
Fri 4 Sep 2020
Does Disney's live-action remake of Mulan work?
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The office in culture, Kate Clanchy, publishers' Super Thursday
Thu 3 Sep 2020
The history of the office in culture; Kate Clanchy on her book How to Grow Your Own Poem.
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Bernardine Evaristo shortlisted for Women's Prize, Anoushka Shankar at the Proms, Film Les Mis茅rables reviewed
Wed 2 Sep 2020
Bernardine Evaristo, Anoushka Shankar at the Proms, Film Les Mis茅rables reviewed.
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Ruth Jones, Roger Kneebone, Game Review, The Tempest
Tue 1 Sep 2020
Ruth Jones, Roger Kneebone on craft and skills, Game Review, The Tempest.
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Robert Macfarlane, bestselling author, walker, mountaineer and campaigner, talks to Kirsty Lang
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Robert Macfarlane on his books, collaborating with artists and musicians and campaigning.
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Luke Jerram, Elena Ferrante's new novel, Bolu Babalola, Britney Spears's conservatorship battle
Fri 28 Aug 2020
Luke Jerram on In Memoriam - his artwork to commemorate those lost to the pandemic.
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Eastenders returns, Composer Errollyn Wallen, Katy Perry profiled, I'm Thinking of Ending Things reviewed
Thu 27 Aug 2020
The return of Eastenders & composer Errollyn Wallen on rearranging Jerusalem for the Proms
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Women鈥檚 Prize For Fiction - Natalie Haynes; 2020 International Booker Prize winner; Agatha Christie鈥檚 lost play, The Lie
Wed 26 Aug 2020
Natalie Haynes on A Thousand Ships; International Booker Prize winner reviewed.
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An extended interview with dramatist Lucy Prebble
Tue 25 Aug 2020
An extended interview with dramatist Lucy Prebble.
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Algorithms in the arts, Composer Hannah Kendall, Daljit Nagra's Poetry Roundup, Cuties film controversy
Mon 24 Aug 2020
Algorithms in art, Composer Hannah Kendall, Daljit Nagra's Poetry Roundup, Cuties film.
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Christopher Nolan's Tenet reviewed, British Museum re-opens, Paula Peters on Wampum exhibition, Shedinburgh fringe festival
Fri 21 Aug 2020
The long-awaited Tenet on the big screen - Front Row reviews.
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The One and Only Ivan director Thea Sharrock, Educating Rita, writing about music, research on Covid-19 risk from singing
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Thea Sharrock on combining CGI and live action in her family movie about a gorilla.
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Stanley Spencer's wives, the damage to culture in Beirut, Angie Cruz
Wed 19 Aug 2020
The Wives of Stanley Spencer, the destruction of arts and culture in Beirut.
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Modern Productions in a Roman Theatre, the Art of the Prequel, the Pandemic and Redundancies in the Arts Industries
Tue 18 Aug 2020
Making modern work in a Roman theatre; how to create a prequel; yet more arts redundancies
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An interview with Jamaican dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson
Mon 17 Aug 2020
An interview with Jamaican dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, 2020 PEN Pinter Prize winner.
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Gloria Estefan, Pinocchio, Shane McCrae
Fri 14 Aug 2020
Gloria Estefan on her album Brazil305, a new film version of Pinocchio, poet Shane McCrae.
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Lyricist Don Black
Thu 13 Aug 2020
Lyricist Don Black on writing songs like Diamonds are Forever and Born Free.
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Lovecraft Country, Prison Radio Drama, Women's Prize For Fiction Shortlisted Jenny Offill
Wed 12 Aug 2020
TV drama Lovecraft Country, set in 1950s Jim Crow America, reviewed.
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Glyndebourne Opera returns. My Rembrandt film. How dangerous is playing the trumpet?
Tue 11 Aug 2020
Glyndebourne Opera returns. My Rembrandt film. How dangerous is playing the trumpet?
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Xiaolu Guo, Belarus Free Theatre, Blindness, The Leach Pottery
Mon 10 Aug 2020
Novelist Xiaolu Guo, Belarus Free Theatre arrests, Bernard Leach's St Ives pottery
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Es Devlin, Drama by postcard, Ali Smith's Summer, photographer Alys Tomlinson
Fri 7 Aug 2020
Es Devlin on her artwork marking the 75th anniversary of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
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Arts in the Midlands, Love Letters to Scotland, Soweto Kinch
Thu 6 Aug 2020
Arts in the Midlands, Love Letters to Scotland, and Soweto Kinch's Lockdown Discovery.
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Maggie O'Farrell, Singing in Choirs and Covid, Mark Billingham's Lockdown Discovery
Wed 5 Aug 2020
Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, shortlisted for the Women's Prize.
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Little Birds writer Sophia Al-Maria, Simon Armitage, Summer reads, Tara Gbolade
Tue 4 Aug 2020
Artist, writer, and filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria on Little Birds, and Simon Armitage.
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Barbara Kingsolver as poet, Es Devlin's Lockdown Discovery, Sculptor Thomas J. Price, pianist Leon Fleisher remembered
Mon 3 Aug 2020
Barbara Kingsolver, designer Es Devlin, and artist Thomas J Price
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Sir Alan Parker remembered, Beyonc茅's Black is King, Prodigal Son, Natasha Trethewey, Don Hahn
Fri 31 Jul 2020
Sir Alan Parker remembered by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
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Whipped cream on The Fourth Plinth, Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee, and Booker Prize nominated Avni Doshi
Thu 30 Jul 2020
Heather Phillipson's Trafalgar Square whipped cream sculpture, and Derry Girls' Lisa McGee
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Hilary Mantel, Electronic at The Design Museum, Ai Wei Wei, the future for the panto?
Wed 29 Jul 2020
Hilary Mantel, Electronic at The Design Museum, Ai Wei Wei, the future for the panto?
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