Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Wilfred Owen Commemoration, Markus Zusak, Sarah DeLappe
Wed 31 Oct 2018
Wilfred Owen's life and work remembered through art, 100 years since his death.
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Dark Heart, La Traviata, Parks and concerts
Tue 30 Oct 2018
Chris Lang's new TV drama Dark Heart reviewed, and Chris Addison on La Traviata.
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Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsg氓rd in The Little Drummer Girl, Darkness and writing, Tom Odell
Mon 29 Oct 2018
Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsg氓rd discuss the TV adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl
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Thom Yorke, Audiobooks and reading, Beetlejuice at 30
Fri 26 Oct 2018
If you've listened to an audiobook, can you say you've read the book?
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Freddie Mercury biopic, Composer Howard Blake, Hepworth Prize for Sculpture
Thu 25 Oct 2018
The biopic of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody, is reviewed.
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Mike Leigh on Peterloo, CJ Sansom, The rise of adult gaming
Tue 23 Oct 2018
Mike Leigh discusses his latest film Peterloo, about the 1819 massacre in Manchester
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Author Luke Jennings on his Killing Eve trilogy, Disgusting artworks, Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Deuce
Mon 22 Oct 2018
How have artists used disgust in their work to both enthral and repel the viewer?
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Eric Idle, Halloween, Cicely Berry remembered, The House of Commons library
Thu 18 Oct 2018
Python Eric Idle on his autobiography. The 11th film in the Halloween franchise reviewed.
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Gerard Butler, Male body in movies, Novelist Olga Tokarczuk
Wed 17 Oct 2018
Gerard Butler and the male body in movies - is bigger always better?
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Playing Linda Loman, Informer, Geology-inspired art, Ciar谩n Hodgers
Tue 16 Oct 2018
Playing Linda Loman, Informer review, art inspired by geology, Ciar谩n Hodgers
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#MeToo one year on - what's changed in the arts?
Mon 15 Oct 2018
One year on from the beginning of the #MeToo movement, what's changed? Daniel York Loh
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Paul Greengrass on 22 July, Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence, How can arts organisations thrive?
Fri 12 Oct 2018
Paul Greengrass on 22 July, his film about the Norwegian terrorist attack on a summer camp
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Desiree Akhavan, Bad Times at the El Royale, 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize, Mother Courage
Thu 11 Oct 2018
Desiree Akhavan on the challenges of writing, directing and starring in The Bisexual.
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Reading and Mental Health
Wed 10 Oct 2018
A special on how reading improves mental health, with Marian Keyes and Russell Kane.
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The swimming pool in art, Kwame Kwei-Armah's Twelfth Night, Poet Jean Sprackland
Tue 9 Oct 2018
The role that the swimming pool plays in film and art.
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Bernard Cribbins, Claire Foy and Ryan Gosling on First Man, Butterfly
Mon 8 Oct 2018
Bernard Cribbins on his autobiography and Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy discuss First Man
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Jodie Whittaker on Doctor Who, Quentin Blake, Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore
Fri 5 Oct 2018
Jodie Whittaker on regenerating as the 13th Doctor, and the dark art of Quentin Blake
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Alice Walker, Yayoi Kusama and a poem for National Poetry Day from Sean Street
Thu 4 Oct 2018
Alice Walker, artist Yayoi Kusama and a new poem for National Poetry Day from Sean Street
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The art of physical comedy, Damien Hirst, Andre Aciman, The impact of the arts on mental health
Wed 3 Oct 2018
The art and history of physical comedy: why is the unfortunate mishap hilarious?
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麻豆社 National Short Story Award Winner
Tue 2 Oct 2018
We announce the winners of the 2018 麻豆社 Short Story Awards live from Cambridge University
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Sarah Perry, The Cry, Cultural First Aid
Mon 1 Oct 2018
The Essex Serpent author Sarah Perry discusses her new novel Melmoth, The Cry reviewed
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Contains Strong Language festival, Sean Scully, A Northern Soul
Fri 28 Sep 2018
Front Row live from the Contains Strong Language festival in Hull
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Lord of the Flies, Silence in art, Javier Marias
Thu 27 Sep 2018
Lord of the Flies with an all-female cast, and the significance of silence in art.
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The Goodies, Holst's The Planets at 100, Debris Stevenson
Wed 26 Sep 2018
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie look back at their 70s cult comedy series
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Oceania exhibition, Suede, How the police help crime writers
Tue 25 Sep 2018
The first major UK exhibition of art from the Pacific, and former Britpop band Suede
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Cary Fukanaga, Royal Opera House CEO, Nureyev Documentary
Fri 21 Sep 2018
New James Bond director Cary Fukanaga discusses his latest Netflix series, Maniac
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MIA, Man Booker Shortlist, Short Story Award nominee Nell Stevens, Playwright Stephen Jeffreys remembered.
Thu 20 Sep 2018
Kieran Yates reviews Matangi/Maya/MIA, a documentary about the political rapper MIA
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Eileen Atkins, the financial crash and the arts, Denis Norden remembered, Ingrid Persaud
Wed 19 Sep 2018
Eileen Atkins on her latest stage role in Florian Zeller鈥檚 The Height of the Storm
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The Little Stranger, creating art in the dark, and Kiare Ladner, 麻豆社 NSSA nominee
Tue 18 Sep 2018
Director Lenny Abrahamson on his film adaption of Sarah Waters鈥� novel The Little Stranger
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Christine and the Queens, Sarah Hall, Tartuffe set in a Birmingham Muslim community
Mon 17 Sep 2018
Christine and the Queens, Sarah Hall, Tartuffe set in a Birmingham Muslim community
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