Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Film director Alice Wu, writer Frank Cottrell Boyce, the allure of Golden Brown and baritone Peter Brathwaite remakes paintings
Tue 5 May 2020
Alice Wu on her film, The Half of It, a queer love triangle based on Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Nicola Benedetti, Music Memories, The Tempest
Mon 4 May 2020
Nicola Benedetti on her new free online tuition sessions and her Elgar album.
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Crafts in lockdown, V铆kingur 脫lafsson performs Glass, Netflix series Hollywood and Lionel Shriver novel reviewed
Fri 1 May 2020
The benefits of craft, V铆kingur 脫lafsson performs live, Netflix series Hollywood reviewed
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Emma Thompson, Damien Chazelle, Film news
Thu 30 Apr 2020
Dame Emma Thompson, and Damien Chazelle on The Eddy.
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Singer James Bay, film director Pablo Larra铆n, tribute to actor Irrfan Khan and new drama by disabled writers
Wed 29 Apr 2020
James Bay plays his hit Hold Back the River live, and offers tips on playing the guitar.
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Nmon Ford, Eavan Boland, Kit de Waal, London Mozart Players
Tue 28 Apr 2020
Baritone Nmon Ford on new opera Orfeus, which fuses opera with house music.
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Randy Newman; song lyrics in Latin; Romeo and Juliet; the NHS on radio and TV
Mon 27 Apr 2020
Randy Newman's new song; Romeo and Juliet performed; the NHS on radio and TV.
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Normal People, V铆kingur 脫lafsson, Se谩n Hewitt, Theresa Lola
Fri 24 Apr 2020
Sophie Raworth and Naomi Alderman on TV drama Normal People. And pianist V铆kingur 脫lafsson
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Moffie director Oliver Hermanus, Sharon D Clarke, Lesbian visibility, Anna Meredith
Thu 23 Apr 2020
Director Oliver Hermanus and Sharon D. Clarke on World Book Night.
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Paapa Essiedu, Arts Minister Caroline Dinenage, Turning our tragedies into comedy
Wed 22 Apr 2020
Paapa Essiedu's Hamlet, Arts Minister Caroline Dinenage, Turning tragedy into comedy
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Organist Anna Lapwood, The Women鈥檚 Prize for Fiction shortlist, Gangs of London
Tue 21 Apr 2020
Organist Anna Lapwood performs, and we announce The Women鈥檚 Prize for Fiction shortlist.
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Jackie Kay, Roderick Williams, Killing Eve Season 3 and C Pam Zhang
Mon 20 Apr 2020
Roderick Williams, Jackie Kay, author C Pam Zhang and Killing Eve Season 3
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Adam Macqueen's thriller, pianist V铆kingur 脫lafsson, a podcast masterclass and the amazing set of Treasure Island
Fri 17 Apr 2020
Adam Macqueen on imagining, in his first novel, that Jeremy Thorpe did murder his lover.
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Virus Art, Naomi Alderman, Angela Barnes
Thu 16 Apr 2020
Artist Luke Jerram on replicating Covid-19 in sculpture.
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Sir Patrick Stewart on Shakespeare's Sonnets, Shahnaz Ahsan, Devs
Wed 15 Apr 2020
Patrick Stewart on his daily performance of Shakespeare's Sonnets.
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Russell Howard, Siobhan Miller, International Prize for Arabic Fiction, John Mullan on Northanger Abbey
Tue 14 Apr 2020
Russell Howard on his new lockdown TV show made from his childhood bedroom.
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V铆kingur 脫lafsson, Christabel Blackburn, Nitin Sawhney, Audiobooks
Thu 9 Apr 2020
Icelandic pianist V铆kingur 脫lafsson, Front Row's first Artist-in-Residence.
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James Graham on Quiz, Braids, changes in the ways we listen to music, and John Prine
Wed 8 Apr 2020
James Graham on Quiz, his three-part television drama about the coughing major controversy
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AL Kennedy, Sam Sweeney performs live, lockdown listening habits
Tue 7 Apr 2020
AL Kennedy's new short stories and fiddle player Sam Sweeney performs live
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Wordsworth Anniversary, Kerry Shale radio play, Critic Gillian Reynolds, Composer Nainita Desai
Mon 6 Apr 2020
Wordsworth anniversary, Kerry Shale on working with Kubrick, composer Nainita Desa.
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Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, Gaming, Cressida Cowell in the Culture Clinic
Fri 3 Apr 2020
Soweto Kinch on Miles Davis's album Bitches Brew, and Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell.
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Dua Lipa, Sara Collins, Edinburgh festivals cancelled, Molly O鈥機athain
Thu 2 Apr 2020
Dua Lipa discusses her new album Future Nostalgia.
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The Dramatist James Graham
Wed 1 Apr 2020
Kirsty Lang interviews playwright James Graham, author of Quiz, This House and Ink.
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Soprano Chen Reiss, Theatre Online, National Poetry Competition
Tue 31 Mar 2020
Soprano Chen Reiss on her recording of Beethoven's Arias
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Icelandic pianist V铆kingur 脫lafsson plays live from Reykjavik
Mon 30 Mar 2020
Icelandic pianist V铆kingur 脫lafsson talks to Front Row and plays live from Reykjavik
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Gloria Gaynor, Offline Arts, film Vivarium and novel Hamnet reviewed, Culture Clinic
Fri 27 Mar 2020
Gloria Gaynor on Grammy-winning album Testimony and on going viral against the virus
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Owen Sheers, Nikita Lalwani, Writing in isolation
Thu 26 Mar 2020
Owen Sheers on adapting The Snow Spider for TV, Nikita Lalwani on her new novel You People
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Eliza Carthy, Art galleries and coronavirus, Terrence McNally obituary
Wed 25 Mar 2020
Folk musician Eliza Carthy, art galleries under coronavirus, Terrence McNally obituary.
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