Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Episodes to download
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Rita Ora, Writing About Sex, Die Hard at 30
Fri 14 Dec 2018
Rita Ora on her six-year journey to release her second album, Phoenix.
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Lee Mack, Magic Mike on stage, Prose poetry
Thu 13 Dec 2018
Not Going Out's Lee Mack, and Magic Mike on stage
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Aquaman, Mike Bartlett
Wed 12 Dec 2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Aquaman reviewed, and playwright Mike Bartlett
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Mortal Engines, Tenancy, Ren Hang, Martin Jenkinson
Tue 11 Dec 2018
Mortal Engines reviewed, photographers Ren Hang and Martin Jenkinson discussed.
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Tamara Lawrance, The 1975's Matty Healy, Meet Vermeer
Mon 10 Dec 2018
Actress Tamara Lawrance on 麻豆社 One's adaption of Andrea Levy novel The Long Song
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Springsteen on Broadway, Disfigured Villains, Beautiful Books for Christmas
Fri 7 Dec 2018
Review of Bruce Springsteen's new film Springsteen on Broadway
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Jimmy McGovern, Tania Bruguera, Arts and insomnia
Thu 6 Dec 2018
Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern on his new 麻豆社 One drama Care, Cuban artist Tania Bruguera
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Maggi Hambling, Ellie Kendrick, Beastie Boys
Wed 5 Dec 2018
Maggi Hambling on her portraits of artists, and Beastie Boys on 40 years in hip hop
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An Elephant Sitting Still, Chinese film industry, David Szalay, Unesco and Reggae
Tue 4 Dec 2018
David Szalay talks about his new book, Turbulence, an original Radio 4 commission.
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Robert Redford's Career, Fiction within Fiction, Poet Fred D'Aguiar
Mon 3 Dec 2018
Robert Redford's swansong, fictional characters reading fiction and poet Fred D'Aguiar
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Strictly's Shirley Ballas, Young Composer Sarah Jenkins, National Theatres of Scotland and Wales
Fri 30 Nov 2018
Head Judge Shirley Ballas on the appeal of Strictly and her own dancing career.
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Mowgli, American poet Dana Gioia, Art on prescription
Thu 29 Nov 2018
Review of the film Mowgli starring Andy Serkis, Cate Blanchett and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Disobedience, Rachel Maclean, Juli谩n Fuks, Diversity Backstage
Wed 28 Nov 2018
Review of the film adaptation of Disobedience, starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams
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Sports Book of the Year, Jim Carrey in Kidding, Astral Weeks at 50
Tue 27 Nov 2018
30 years of William Hill Sports Book of the Year, and 50 of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks
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Jamie Dornan, Bernardo Bertolucci remembered, Joseph Hillier
Mon 26 Nov 2018
Actor Jamie Dornan, Bernardo Bertolucci remembered, the UK's largest sculpture
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Mrs Wilson, Vegan Art, Akwaeke Emezi
Fri 23 Nov 2018
We review Ruth Wilson in the 麻豆社 drama Mrs Wilson, in which she plays her own grandmother.
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2018 Palme d鈥橭r winner Shoplifters, Costa Book Awards shortlist announced, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
Thu 22 Nov 2018
We review Japanese film Shoplifters, winner of the 2018 Palme d鈥橭r at the Cannes festival.
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Kurt Russell on playing Santa, Poet Ruth Fainlight, Damien Hirst's Qatar sculptures
Tue 20 Nov 2018
Kurt Russell on The Christmas Chronicles, poet Ruth Fainlight
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Marianne Faithfull, I'm a Celebrity without Ant, Kirsty Latoya
Mon 19 Nov 2018
Marianne Faithfull on her new album, Negative Capability.
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Jane Fonda
Fri 16 Nov 2018
Jane Fonda, the two-time Academy Award-winning actress, looks back at her 60-year career.
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Golden Age of Irish Prose - North and South of the Border, Hepworth Sculpture Prize Winner
Thu 15 Nov 2018
Irish writing north and south of the border - a golden age of prose?
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Arts Education in schools - a Front Row debate from Leicester
Wed 14 Nov 2018
Stig Abell chairs a debate about the current state of arts education in schools.
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Fantastic Beasts 2, Viruses turned into art, Fernand L茅ger, Heart of Darkness
Tue 13 Nov 2018
Fantastic Beasts 2 review, viruses turned into art, Fernand L茅ger, Heart of Darkness.
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The Coen Brothers, stage fright, The Interrogation of Tony Martin
Mon 12 Nov 2018
Joel and Ethan Coen on their homage to the western The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Schott, 11-11: Memories Retold video game
Fri 9 Nov 2018
Helena Bonham Carter on how she drew on her own experience of depression for film 55 Steps
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Marin Alsop, Russell Howard, Political cartoonists
Thu 8 Nov 2018
Conductor Marin Alsop on Brahms's A German Requiem, and comedian Russell Howard.
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Danny Boyle's Armistice Day tribute, White Teeth the musical, singer-songwriter and poet Emily Maguire
Wed 7 Nov 2018
White Teeth, the musical, Danny Boyle's Armistice Day tribute, singer Emily Maguire
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Steve McQueen, Erica Whyman on Romeo and Juliet, Gender-swapped theatre
Mon 5 Nov 2018
Steve McQueen on heist thriller Widows.
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Boy George, Colourisation of film, John Cooper Clarke
Fri 2 Nov 2018
Boy George on Culture Club's first album for nearly two decades.
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Cecelia Ahern, The world's tallest statue, Pansori opera, Homecoming TV adaptation
Thu 1 Nov 2018
Best-selling Irish novelist Cecelia Ahern discusses her new short story collection, Roar
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