Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Nancy Meyers, Jenny Erpenbeck, Literary modern classics, Turner Prize show
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Romcom director and writer Nancy Meyers, and what makes a literary modern classic.
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Gerald Scarfe, Novelist Maja Lunde, The Judas Passion
Fri 22 Sep 2017
Celebrated political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe; new oratorio The Judas Passion.
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Juliet Stevenson, Basquiat, Tony Blackburn, NSSA shortlisted Jenni Fagan
Thu 21 Sep 2017
Juliet Stevenson on playing a fierce female aviator in the play Wings.
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Benedict Cumberbatch, Giles Coren, Borg vs McEnroe, Will Eaves
Wed 20 Sep 2017
Benedict Cumberbatch talks about bringing Ian McEwan's novel The Child in Time to TV.
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Bill Murray and Jan Vogler; Oslo reviewed; Poet Yrsa Daley-Ward; Helen Oyeyemi, 麻豆社 National Short Story Award nominee
Tue 19 Sep 2017
The Hollywood actor and cellist Jan Vogler discuss their new classical album.
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Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn on action movie Kingsman, Jasper Johns, 麻豆社 National Short Story Award
Mon 18 Sep 2017
麻豆社 National Short Story Award shortlisted author Cynan Jones, Jasper Johns retrospective.
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Jack Dee, Joanna Trollope reveals the 麻豆社 National Short Story Award Shortlist
Fri 15 Sep 2017
Jack Dee talks to John Wilson about his new sitcom Bad Move.
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Ute Lemper, Steelworks play We're Still Here, Vasily Petrenko
Thu 14 Sep 2017
Singer Ute Lemper, Welsh play We're Still Here, Russian conductor Vasily Petrenko.
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Sara Pascoe, Man Booker Prize shortlist, Robert Lindsay
Wed 13 Sep 2017
Comedian Sara Pascoe on Pride and Prejudice, Man Booker shortlist, actor Robert Lindsay.
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Sir Peter Hall remembered
Tue 12 Sep 2017
Sir Peter Hall, director of theatre, opera and film, remembered by friends and colleagues.
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Stephen Frears and Ali Fazal, Pears' Cyclopaedia final edition, Jeff Pope on Cilla
Mon 11 Sep 2017
Victoria and Abdul, the last edition of Pears' Cyclopaedia, and Cilla The Musical.
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Joanne Froggatt, Darren Aronofsky, 25 years of Classic FM
Fri 8 Sep 2017
Downton Abbey's Joanne Froggatt, and Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky.
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Marian Keyes, Tim Roth, Joe Lycett
Thu 7 Sep 2017
Marian Keyes on her new novel The Break, and Tim Roth on Tin Star.
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Roddy Doyle, Heroes in TV dramas, Stephen King's IT
Wed 6 Sep 2017
Roddy Doyle, Stephen King's IT film, heroes in TV dramas and the art of sports commentary.
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Woman's Hour Craft Exhibition, Lloyd Dorfman, Karen McCarthy Woolf, John Ashbery
Tue 5 Sep 2017
Woman's Hour Craft Exhibition at the V&A; poets John Ashbery and Karen McCarthy Woolf.
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Suranne Jones returns as Doctor Foster, Lancashire's Fabrications Festival, Josephine Barstow on Sondheim's Follies
Mon 4 Sep 2017
Doctor Foster is back; Stephen Sondheim's Follies; remembering Steely Dan's Walter Becker.
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Patti Cake$, Lord of the Flies, Nicole Krauss, James Ngcobo
Fri 1 Sep 2017
Nicole Krauss' new novel, an all-female Lord of the Flies, James Ngcobo on The Suitcase.
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Brian Cox on playing real people, Author Omar Robert Hamilton, Game of Thrones legacy, Venice Film Festival opening
Thu 31 Aug 2017
Brian Cox, Omar Robert Hamilton, Game of Thrones legacy and Venice Film Festival.
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Composer Alma Deutscher, Bake Off's return, Controversial statues, Last Days of June
Wed 30 Aug 2017
Twelve-year-old composer, pianist and violinist Alma Deutscher talks to Kirsty Lang.
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Stan Laurel novel; Tanika Gupta; film Una; Ed Skrein Walks Away
Tue 29 Aug 2017
Tanika Gupta play; John Connolly on Stan Laurel; Una review; Ed Skrein & whitewashing row.
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Bill Nighy, The ever-changing appeal of Hamlet, Photographer Steve McCurry
Mon 28 Aug 2017
Bill Nighy on his acting style, Janet Suzman on Hamlet, and Steve McCurry on Afghanistan.
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Ronnie Wood, Shakespeare plays on screen, Taylor Swift's new song, Peter Hoeg
Fri 25 Aug 2017
Ronnie Wood on his paintings; Cinematic adaptions of Shakespeare; Taylor Swift's new song.
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Illness in comedy series, Ned Beauman, Thomas Meehan
Thu 24 Aug 2017
Illness in comedy series with Peep Show creator Sam Bain.
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Authors' better, but not-so-famous, books; Kathryn Bigelow; Eric Ravilious; a Shakespeare Sonnet in Pidgin
Tue 22 Aug 2017
Not-so-famous but better books; Kathryn Bigelow; Eric Ravilious; a great sonnet in Pidgin.
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Peter Kosminsky on The State, Ben Whishaw, The secrets of Vermeer's studio
Mon 21 Aug 2017
Peter Kosminsky on his new jihadi drama; Ben Whishaw on playing an aerospace billionaire.
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Lucy Porter, Martin Creed, and Soweto Gospel Choir on stage at the Edinburgh Festival
Fri 18 Aug 2017
Comedian Lucy Porter and comedy tutor Jojo Sutherland give John a lesson in stand-up.
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Edinburgh International Books Festival: Val McDermid talks to Paul Auster and Denise Mina
Thu 17 Aug 2017
Val McDermid at Edinburgh International Books Festival with Paul Auster and Denise Mina.
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John Eliot Gardiner, Apphia Campbell, The Nature of Forgetting, Reviewing at the Edinburgh Festivals
Wed 16 Aug 2017
Live from Edinburgh with guests including Sir John Eliot Gardiner on Monteverdi at 450.
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Shappi Khorsandi and Gillian Clarke on stage in the 麻豆社's Big Blue Tent at the Edinburgh Festival
Mon 14 Aug 2017
Shappi Khorsandi and Nassim Soleimanpour in front of a live audience in Edinburgh.
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