Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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David Mamet, Meghan Markle in Suits, Poetry Jukebox
Thu 29 Mar 2018
American playwright, director and novelist David Mamet on his book Chicago.
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Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs, Sporting theme tunes, National poetry competition winner, AJ Pearce
Wed 28 Mar 2018
Wes Anderson on his film, Isle of Dogs, set on a trash island in Japan.
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Ready Player One, Church Ministers for the Arts, Mental Institutions in Film, The York Realist
Tue 27 Mar 2018
Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg's return to the sci-fi genre, is reviewed.
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Anna Chancellor, Harshdeep Kaur, Hilton Als
Mon 26 Mar 2018
Anna Chancellor on her new TV drama, Ordeal by Innocence, and singer Harshdeep Kaur.
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Sonia Boyce, Debussy, Black Men Walking
Fri 23 Mar 2018
Sonia Boyce discusses her career blazing a trail for black female artists.
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Macbeth, The British Council, Performing couples who tour
Thu 22 Mar 2018
Rufus Norris and Kit Monkman on Macbeth's relevance to modern times.
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Steven Soderbergh's Unsane, America's Cool Modernism, Life after the Double Act, Stage Blood
Wed 21 Mar 2018
Steven Soderbergh on his film Unsane starring Claire Foy, shot entirely on three iphones.
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Jimmy Iovine, Donal Ryan, Glyndebourne Opera Cup, Spring equinox poems
Tue 20 Mar 2018
Jimmy Iovine, the man behind hits from Springsteen to Dr Dre, talks about his long career.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Mon 19 Mar 2018
A special extended interview with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber as he turns 70.
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Tom Jones and Jennifer Hudson on The Voice, Art galleries on screen
Fri 16 Mar 2018
Tom Jones and Jennifer Hudson discuss their role as judges on the TV talent show The Voice
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Tomb Raider, Lisa Halliday, Immersive theatre
Thu 15 Mar 2018
The verdict on the return of video game heroine Lara Croft to the big screen.
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Mary Magdalene, Icelandic fiction, Joseph Morpurgo, Stephen Hawking in culture
Wed 14 Mar 2018
A review of film Mary Magdalene, and the rich world of Icelandic fiction.
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Paddy Considine, Gemma Bodinetz, Integrated Casting
Tue 13 Mar 2018
Paddy Considine on Journeyman, Gemma Bodinetz on the Everyman Rep, and integrated casting.
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Eleanor Bron, The Great Wave, Ken Dodd
Mon 12 Mar 2018
Eleanor Bron at 80, The Great Wave at the National Theatre and the comic art of Ken Dodd.
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Ian McKellen, A Wrinkle in Time, Disability Champion Andrew Miller, Aida Muluneh
Fri 9 Mar 2018
Sir Ian McKellen on his career in theatre and on screen.
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Jessica Jones, Women's Prize for Fiction nominees, The Cherry Orchard, Redressing the gender balance in the music industry
Thu 8 Mar 2018
Detective Jessica Jones returns to television screens. Have her superpowers diminished?
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David Attenborough on painter John Craxton, Wonder Wheel, #MeToo poetry anthology
Wed 7 Mar 2018
David Attenborough on why he loves the work of painter John Craxton.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Picasso at the Tate, David Oyelowo
Tue 6 Mar 2018
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Picasso at Tate Modern, David Oyelowo.
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You Were Never Really Here, Colin Currie, Charlotte Salomon
Mon 5 Mar 2018
Lynne Ramsay's thriller, You Were Never Really Here, reviewed, Percussionist Colin Currie.
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Jess Thom on Beckett's Not I, Disbelieved women in fiction, Deep Throat Choir
Fri 2 Mar 2018
Jess Thom on why Beckett's Not I speaks to her so strongly as someone with Tourette's.
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Civilisations, Wendy Cope, Contemporary Chinese Art
Thu 1 Mar 2018
We review new TV series Civilisations which explores thousands of years of visual culture.
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Sharon Horgan, Maya Youssef, Samantha Harvey
Wed 28 Feb 2018
Sharon Horgan in Game Night, Maya Youssef on the qanun and Samantha Harvey's new novel.
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A Fantastic Woman, playing drunk, Lewis Gilbert and paintings under paintings
Tue 27 Feb 2018
A Fantastic Woman reviewed, playing drunk, paintings under paintings, and Lewis Gilbert.
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The Assassination of Gianni Versace, All Too Human exhibition, Debut novelist Mick Kitson
Mon 26 Feb 2018
The Assassination of Gianni Versace, All Too Human, Girls on the run in new novel Sal.
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Red Sparrow, Adapting novels for the stage, Neanderthal art
Fri 23 Feb 2018
The verdict on Jennifer Lawrence as a prima ballerina-turned-Russian spy in Red Sparrow.
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Tracey Thorn, Rival Biographers, Image Licensing, Stormzy
Thu 22 Feb 2018
Tracey Thorn, rivalry between biographers, licensing museum images and Stormzy.
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Carey Mulligan, Spoiler Alert!, Mosaic and the Death of the Lead Guitar
Wed 21 Feb 2018
Carey Mulligan, spoilers discussed, Mosaic and the death of the lead guitar.
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I, Tonya; Robin Cousins on the art of ice skating; Jess Kidd
Tue 20 Feb 2018
I, Tonya reviewed, plus Robin Cousins considers the art and the sport of ice skating.
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Suffrage art and a celebration of female artists
Mon 19 Feb 2018
To mark 100 years since women got the vote we look at suffrage art.
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Art in response to trauma: Louise Allen and Maude Julien
Fri 16 Feb 2018
Writers of two memoirs on how art and literature served as a lifeline in very dark times.
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