Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Christopher Plummer, Saudi Arts, Helen Dunmore
Fri 5 Jan 2018
Christopher Plummer on replacing Kevin Spacey in All the Money in the World.
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Michelle Terry, Jez Butterworth, Rebecca Stott, Hostiles
Thu 4 Jan 2018
Shakespeare's Globe's new artistic director Michelle Terry, and the Costa biography winner
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Neil Cross, Katherine Rundell, Book prize judging
Wed 3 Jan 2018
Neil Cross, creator of Luther, talks about his new 麻豆社 One series Hard Sun.
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Costa Book Awards winners, Elizabeth Friedlander, musical interpolation
Tue 2 Jan 2018
The category winners of the Costa Book Awards 2017 are announced exclusively on Front Row.
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Making Culture At Home
New Year's Day 2018
How arts organisations root themselves in their local communities.
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Kay Mellor, Frankenstein, Swimming with Men
Fri 29 Dec 2017
Kay Mellor on her new ITV drama Girlfriends.
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Vic and Bob, Angela Gheorghiu, Theatre ghost stories
Thu 28 Dec 2017
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer on their return to TV, plus opera star Angela Gheorghiu.
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Incredible! The unstoppable rise of the comic book superhero
Wed 27 Dec 2017
They dominate the box office. Just why are we turning to comic books for today's heroes?
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Gary Oldman
Boxing Day 2017
Gary Oldman on his career-defining performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.
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Christmas Party with Jon Culshaw, Josie Lawrence, Austentatious, Patience Agbabi, Inua Ellams and Steve Edis
Christmas Day 2017
Games and performances including impressions, improvised song and poetry readings.
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Emily Watson, Older women on screen, Christmas songs
Fri 22 Dec 2017
Emily Watson on the new TV adaptation of Little Women, and older women on screen.
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Jodie Foster, Molly's Game, Christmas film round-up, Hamilton, Imtiaz Dharker
Thu 21 Dec 2017
Jodie Foster on directing Black Mirror, The Hamilton phenomenon, Christmas film round-up.
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James Norton, Independent Magazines, New Jungle Book Musical
Wed 20 Dec 2017
James Norton on McMafia, Independent magazines, Joe Stilgoe on the new Jungle Book musical
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Mavis Staples, Carmen Maria Machado, Christmas ghost stories
Tue 19 Dec 2017
Mavis Staples, Carmen Maria Machado and Christmas ghost stories.
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The League Of Gentlemen, Gina Yashere, Jenny Eclair, Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World
Mon 18 Dec 2017
As The League of Gentlemen returns we ask how much has the climate for comedy changed?
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The Hayward Gallery reopening, Emily Wilson, The art of literary translation
Fri 15 Dec 2017
Emily Wilson, the art of literary translation, the Hayward Gallery reopening.
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Emma Rice, John Boyega, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Thu 14 Dec 2017
Theatre director Emma Rice discusses her final production at Shakespeare's Globe.
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Wed 13 Dec 2017
The winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature talks to John Wilson.
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Christmas TV, Theatre from the Calais Jungle, Protecting live music.
Tue 12 Dec 2017
Staying in or going out? Festive TV reviewed. And how live music venues could be protected
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The Bette Davis/Joan Crawford Feud, The Twilight Zone, A Snow Poem
Mon 11 Dec 2017
The Bette Davis/Joan Crawford Feud series, The Twilight Zone on stage and a snow poem.
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Vanessa Redgrave, Imperium, French African artefacts, Sally Rooney
Fri 8 Dec 2017
Vanessa Redgrave looks back over her long and varied career, and Imperium at the RSC.
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Christopher Nolan, Guys and Dolls, City of Culture 2021
Thu 7 Dec 2017
Christopher Nolan, director of Inception and The Dark Knight, looks back at his career.
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Jonathan Yeo, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Designing awards
Wed 6 Dec 2017
Portrait painter Jonathan Yeo makes his first sculpture using virtual reality.
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Stronger, Shashi Kapoor, Douglas Henshall, Tokio Myers
Mon 4 Dec 2017
Jake Gyllenhaal in Stronger, the true story of a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Cecilia Bartoli, The Face, Louis CK film
Fri 1 Dec 2017
Cecilia Bartoli and Sol Gabetta on their album intertwining voice and cello, Dolce Duello.
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Sir Michael Parkinson, Wonder, A Christmas Carol
Thu 30 Nov 2017
Michael Parkinson's American Songbook, review of Wonder, adaptations of A Christmas Carol.
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Amy Sherman-Palladino, Hollywood Film Awards Season, Costume Workers
Wed 29 Nov 2017
Screenwriter Amy Sherman-Palladino on her new TV comedy drama, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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Chinese characters on TV, Actor James Franco, Sports Book of the Year
Tue 28 Nov 2017
James Franco on new film The Disaster Artist about 'the Citizen Kane of bad films'.
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Joyce DiDonato, European Capital of Culture, Puppets in theatre
Mon 27 Nov 2017
Soprano Joyce DiDonato on tackling the vocal pyrotechnics of Rossini.
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