Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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The Capture, Venice Film Festival highlights, Enid Blyton reevaluated
Mon 2 Sep 2019
麻豆社 TV fake news thriller The Capture - we speak to the creator Ben Chanan.
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Salman Rushdie on Quichotte, Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir
Fri 30 Aug 2019
Salman Rushdie on his new novel Quichotte, based on the Cervantes classic, Don Quixote.
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Mrs Lowry and Son reviewed, Anna Calvi, Poet Stephen Sexton
Thu 29 Aug 2019
Anna Calvi performs live and talks about her score for Peaky Blinders.
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James Graham on drama and constitutional turmoil, Jeff Pope on A Confession, The literary arts and The Troubles
Wed 28 Aug 2019
Screenwriter Jeff Pope talks about his new ITV drama A Confession starring Martin Freeman.
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Colson Whitehead, Duke Ellington's Sacred Music, Carnival Row, Sheila Steafel
Tue 27 Aug 2019
Colson Whitehead's novel The Nickel Boys, Duke Ellington's Sacred Music, Carnival Row
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Edna O'Brien on her new novel Girl, her first The Country Girls, and her career in between
Mon 26 Aug 2019
Edna O'Brien talks about her new novel, her first and her six-decade career.
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Andrew Davies on Sanditon, Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, the literature of citizen and state
Fri 23 Aug 2019
Andrew Davies on his television dramatisation of Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon
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Danny Brocklehurst on Brassic, Why are fewer people taking English A level?, Fisherwomen
Thu 22 Aug 2019
Bafta winner Danny Brocklehurst on new comedy drama Brassic.
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Conductor John Wilson, Interior design, The Wizard of Oz
Wed 21 Aug 2019
Conductor John Wilson on composer Erich Korngold, and the art of interior design.
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Antonio Banderas, Philippa Gregory and V.V. James on witches in literature, umbrellas in chinese culture
Tue 20 Aug 2019
Antonio Banderas on playing film director Pedro Almodovar in Pain and Glory.
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Louise Doughty, Robert Icke's The Doctor, Edinburgh Festival Highlights
Mon 19 Aug 2019
Louise Doughty, Robert Icke's The Doctor and Edinburgh festival highlights.
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The true story behind blockbuster film Jaws, Benjamin Zephaniah, Catherine Cohen's cabaret
Fri 16 Aug 2019
The true story behind Jaws, Benjamin Zephaniah, Catherine Cohen, self-care at the Fringe.
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Basil Brush, Christina Bianco, Climate Change theatre and new musicals at Edinburgh Fringe
Thu 15 Aug 2019
As the Fringe becomes increasingly woke, can artists stay both entertaining and right on?
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Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, How to listen to a symphony, black paint controversy, 14th August cultural events
Wed 14 Aug 2019
Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio on their film Tarantino's Once Upon a Time鈥� in Hollywood
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Live from the Edinburgh Festivals
Tue 13 Aug 2019
Henning Wehn, Ambrose Parry, Travis Alabanza on stage at the Edinburgh Festivals
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Lemn Sissay, Queen Victoria's piano, Euphoria
Mon 12 Aug 2019
Poet Lemn Sissay on his new memoir, and Queen Victoria's grand piano
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Cary Grant and Notorious, Festival cancellations, Movement directors, Anna Symon
Fri 9 Aug 2019
Cary Grant's Notorious restored, the role of movement directors, Anna Symon on Deep Water
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The art of calligraphy, conductor Martyn Brabbins, Playmobil: The Movie
Thu 8 Aug 2019
Paul Antonio on the art of calligraphy, and Proms conductor Martyn Brabbins
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Candace Bushnell, Dance about rugby, Concern over the captioning of audiobooks, New play 8 Hotels
Wed 7 Aug 2019
Sex and the City writer Candace Bushnell, dance about rugby, Paul Robeson drama 8 Hotels
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Toni Morrison remembered, the Sound of Space in Music
Tue 6 Aug 2019
Stig Abell and guests pay tribute to the American writer Toni Morrison.
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The Crucible, the music of Peterloo, Patrick Bronte and DA Pennebaker
Mon 5 Aug 2019
A new ballet interpretation of The Crucible, and two musical perspectives on a massacre.
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Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw, T茅a Obreht, Kathy Hinde, Dalia Stasevska
Fri 2 Aug 2019
We review Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw and Kathy Hinde composes with sounds from a bog
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k.d. lang, paying inheritance tax with art, ceramicist Magdalene Odundo
Thu 1 Aug 2019
k.d. lang reveals that she is retiring from music now that the muse has left her.
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Notre-Dame organist Olivier Latry, Gurinder Chadha, Rupert Everett's Uncle Vanya
Wed 31 Jul 2019
Notre-Dame's organist Olivier Latry on the recent fire, and film director Gurinder Chadha
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Herman Melville and Moby Dick, Luddite rebellion on stage, TV's I Am the Night
Tue 30 Jul 2019
The great whaling novel Moby Dick and - is there something to be said for Luddism?
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Blacking-up in opera, How to watch Shakespeare, Fiona Kidman, Carlos Cruz-Diez
Mon 29 Jul 2019
Blacking-up in opera, How to watch Shakespeare, Fiona Kidman's novel and Carlos Cruz-Diez.
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Horrible Histories, Barbara Strozzi at 400, Barney Norris, V&A and Extinction Rebellion
Fri 26 Jul 2019
Horrible Histories review, Barbara Strozzi at 400 and Extinction Rebellion at the V&A.
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Oklahoma!, Audience behaviour, Mercury Prize shortlist
Thu 25 Jul 2019
Oklahoma! at Chichester Festival Theatre. And is audience behaviour getting worse?
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The Booker Prize Longlist, A Tea Journey at Compton Verney gallery, Fashion influenced by TV
Wed 24 Jul 2019
A look at the 2019 Booker Prize longlist. Plus the influence of TV on high street fashion.
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The Current War, How culture affects relationship expectations, Experimental novels, Cool culture
Tue 23 Jul 2019
The Current War, culture and relationships, experimental novels, and cool culture
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