Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Episodes to download
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Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey, Daisy Coulam, Bill Bryson
Fri 3 Jan 2020
Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey on their new Guy Ritchie film The Gentlemen
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Jojo Rabbit reviewed, Alex Michaelides, protecting artworks from light damage
Thu 2 Jan 2020
Taika Waititi directs and stars as Adolf Hitler in his Nazi satire Jojo Rabbit - we review
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Beethoven at 250
New Year's Day 2020
A celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven, marking the composer's 250th anniversary
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A decade of TV, Ballet podcast Tom and Ty Talk, Long Day's Journey into Night reviewed, Neil Innes
Mon 30 Dec 2019
Boyd Hilton and Eleanor Stanford on how television has changed in the last decade
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Art and Churches
Fri 27 Dec 2019
An exploration of the evolving role of art in churches and cathedrals
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Candice Carty-Williams in conversation with Bernardine Evaristo
Boxing Day 2019
Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo discuss their dazzling literary year.
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Motown legends Brian and Eddie Holland
Christmas Day 2019
Legendary Motown songwriters Brian and Eddie Holland
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Screenwriter Amanda Coe, Bad films we love, Diana Evans
Christmas Eve 2019
Amanda Coe discusses her screenplay for TV drama The Trial of Christine Keeler
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The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting, Reviving the high street with culture
Mon 23 Dec 2019
The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting in Leeds, and reviving the high street with culture.
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JJ Abrams, musicals moving from stage to screen, Derek Owusu
Fri 20 Dec 2019
JJ Abrams on directing The Rise of Skywalker - the last film in the 42-year Star Wars saga
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Robert De Niro on The Irishman, subverting the gaze, The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Fairview director Nadia Latif and portraitist Lorna May Wadsworth on challenging the gaze
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Saoirse Ronan, The Book People goes into administration, How to paint babies
Wed 18 Dec 2019
Saoirse Ronan on playing Jo March in Little Women, indie publisher calamity, babies in art
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Taron Egerton, A Christmas Carol, Joe Stilgoe
Tue 17 Dec 2019
Taron Egerton on playing Elton John in the musical film Rocketman.
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Mark Gatiss, Kate Rusby, Creating New Traditions
Mon 16 Dec 2019
Mark Gatiss on his TV offerings - Martin's Close for Christmas, and Dracula at New Year
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Jonathan Pryce, Survival literature, Fictional politicians
Fri 13 Dec 2019
Jonathan Pryce on playing one of The Two Popes, and survival fiction.
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Francesca Hayward on Cats and Romeo and Juliet, Joker composer Hildur Gu冒nad贸ttir
Thu 12 Dec 2019
Ballet star Francesca Hayward on Romeo and Juliet and the new film version of Cats
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Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing
Wed 11 Dec 2019
Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing
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Teenage Dick, Traces review, Olga Neuwirth, Nobel Prize for Literature controversy
Tue 10 Dec 2019
A darkly comic take on Richard III with Teenage Dick.
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Gender Imbalance in Art Collections, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, Three Sisters Rewired
Mon 9 Dec 2019
Why women artists are hugely under presented in art collections and what to do about this.
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Inua Ellams on Three Sisters, Noah Baumbach on Marriage Story, Art goes Bananas
Fri 6 Dec 2019
Inua Ellams on transposing Chekhov's Three Sisters to 1960s Nigeria.
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Front Row at 麻豆社 Music Introducing Live
Thu 5 Dec 2019
Ferris & Sylvester perform at 麻豆社 Music Introducing Live
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Lesley Manville, Turner Prize, Bat for Lashes
Wed 4 Dec 2019
Award-winning actress Lesley Manville talks about her latest film, Ordinary Love
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Difficult comedy audiences, Netflix v cinema?, Honey Boy, Romesh Gunesekera
Tue 3 Dec 2019
Difficult comedy audiences, Honey Boy, Romesh Gunesekera and Netflix v Cinema?
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Edward Norton, Elizabeth is Missing, artist Luke Jerram
Mon 2 Dec 2019
Edward Norton on Motherless Brooklyn, TV adaptation of Elizabeth is Missing reviewed
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The Boy in the Dress, Turner Prize Shortlisted Artists, The First Nowell
Fri 29 Nov 2019
A review of new musical The Boy in the Dress based on David Walliams' book
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Atlantics, Scheherazade and 1001 Nights, Political parties' arts manifestos
Thu 28 Nov 2019
Poets Ruth Padel and Daljit Nagra on Scheherazade, the storyteller in 1001 Nights
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Tributes to Clive James and Sir Jonathan Miller
Wed 27 Nov 2019
Clive James and Sir Jonathan Miller remembered.
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Costa Book Prize shortlist, Rian Johnson on Knives Out, art theft
Tue 26 Nov 2019
We announce the 2019 Costa Book Prize shortlist and Rian Johnson on comedy Knives Out
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Rapper Wretch 32, Hamlet on the Faroe Islands, Blue Story controversy
Mon 25 Nov 2019
Wretch 32's memoir Rapthology, and Hamlet on the Faroe Islands
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