Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Mezzo-Soprano Sarah Connolly, Inspire Season Commissions, The Producers at 50
Fri 3 Aug 2018
Opera star Sarah Connolly sings English songs.
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What is Inspiration? Plus playing music from memory with the Aurora Orchestra
Thu 2 Aug 2018
Stella Duffy, Kei Miller, Julian Baggini and Aowen Jin attempt to define inspiration.
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Nature as artistic inspiration - live from Epping Forest, Loch Lomond and Helen's Bay
Wed 1 Aug 2018
Tracy Chevalier and Brian Irvine on why the British landscape inspires so many artists.
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Love Island, Melvin Burgess, Milos Karadaglic and Joby Talbot, Roy Foster on Brian Friel
Tue 31 Jul 2018
Love Island is over, but what is the cultural impact? Plus Melvin Burgess on his new book.
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Dad's Army at 50, Jazz on streaming services, Marvellous Mechanical Museum
Mon 30 Jul 2018
Fifty years of Dad's Army, jazz renaissance on streaming services, and automata on show.
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Iceman, Suicide in the performing arts, Samuel Barber opera Vanessa
Fri 27 Jul 2018
Iceman, the film inspired by the discovery of Otzi, the prehistoric man.
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Marlon James, Mercury Prize shortlist, Decolonising museum collections
Thu 26 Jul 2018
Marlon James champions cult novel Oreo and we assess this year's Mercury Prize shortlist.
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Andre Holland, Housing for artists, Feminist sci-fi
Wed 25 Jul 2018
Moonlight actor Andre Holland on playing Othello with Mark Rylance as Iago.
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Exit the King, Man Booker Longlist, Tony Walsh, Nick Drnaso
Tue 24 Jul 2018
Playwright Patrick Marber on Exit the King, starring Rhys Ifans and Indira Varma.
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John Hurt's paintings, The Fool in King Lear, Summer reads for the UK
Mon 23 Jul 2018
John Hurt as Artist, and the role of the Fool in King Lear.
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout, American footballer-turned-opera star Morris Robinson, Commercial bookclubs
Fri 20 Jul 2018
Morris Robinson, American footballer-turned-opera star, tells his story - and sings.
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The Lehman Trilogy, Now That's What I Call Music 100, Zaffar Kunial
Thu 19 Jul 2018
Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles on The Lehman Trilogy play.
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Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner, Diversity in children's fiction, Yves Klein at Blenheim Place
Wed 18 Jul 2018
Alan Bennett and director Nicholas Hytner discuss their new play Allelujah!
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Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America?, Glasgow School of Art Rebuild, Anita Corbin, China's Most Expensive Film Flops
Tue 17 Jul 2018
The verdict on Sacha Baron Cohen's new TV series and rebuilding the Glasgow School of Art.
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Pierce Brosnan on Mamma Mia, Irish arts funding, Summer reads
Mon 16 Jul 2018
Pierce Brosnan on his role in the Mamma Mia sequel, and arts funding news from Ireland.
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Agn猫s Varda, The rise of grime, Artistic superstitions
Fri 13 Jul 2018
Agn猫s Varda on her life in film and art.
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Eve Myles, Bernie Taupin, This Class Works exhibition
Thu 12 Jul 2018
Eve Myles on Welsh-noir thriller Keeping Faith.
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Singer Olly Alexander, Veteran documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, Can a critic call an actor overweight?
Wed 11 Jul 2018
Olly Alexander from Years and Years discusses the band's new album Palo Santo and performs
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Oliver Knussen remembered, Natalie Dormer, Life modelling
Mon 9 Jul 2018
Mark Anthony Turnage and Roger Wright remember the life and work of Oliver Knussen.
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100 Poems by Seamus Heaney, Jesse Jones, Ulysses at the Abbey Theatre
Fri 6 Jul 2018
Seamus Heaney's wife and daughter talk about gathering his poems in a new collection.
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Rob Brydon on Swimming With Men, Laura Wade, Ferens Art Gallery
Thu 5 Jul 2018
Rob Brydon on the set of film Swimming With Men, playwright Laura Wade, Claude Lanzmann.
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Emily Mortimer, Man Booker Prize at 50, Glasgow Women's Library
Wed 4 Jul 2018
Actor Emily Mortimer on a new film adaption of Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop.
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Film director Haifaa al-Mansour, Sharp Objects, Brooklands Museum, Holiday reads
Tue 3 Jul 2018
Saudi Arabia's first female director, Haifa al-Mansour.
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Maxine Peake, Gillian Lynne remembered, Whitney documentaries
Mon 2 Jul 2018
Maxine Peake on her new play Queens of the Coal Age, and a tribute to Dame Gillian Lynne.
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Fun Home, Portrayal of lesbians in drama, Caryl Phillips, Tate St Ives
Fri 29 Jun 2018
We review the stage musical adaption of Alison Bechdel's memoir Fun Home.
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Japan Special: Ryuichi Sakomoto, Japanese Short Stories, Sou Fujimoto
Thu 28 Jun 2018
Ryuichi Sakomoto on his extraordinary career in music and beyond.
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Bartlett Sher and The King and I, Olivia Laing, Museum of the Year report
Wed 27 Jun 2018
The King and I director Bartlett Sher, and Olivia Laing on her debut novel Crudo.
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Michael Jackson at the National Portrait Gallery, Kynren in Bishop Auckland
Tue 26 Jun 2018
Michael Jackson's personal photographer Todd Gray talks to John Wilson.
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Duran Duran, The Bradford Literature Festival, Stained Glass artist Brian Clarke, and the Poetry of Sun and Summer
Mon 25 Jun 2018
John Taylor and Roger Taylor on 40 years of making music in Duran Duran.
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