Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Mona Hatoum, The Windsors, Alexander Masters, Charles Dance
Tue 3 May 2016
Alexander Masters on his book A Life Discarded, plus artist Mona Hatoum.
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Capability Brown
Mon 2 May 2016
Capability Brown, born 300 years ago this year, changed the landscape of Georgian England.
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Ricky Gervais, The Secret, Mark Elder, The return of the repertory company
Fri 29 Apr 2016
Ricky Gervais discusses his latest projects including his film Special Correspondents.
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Mark Gatiss on Doctor Who, Brideshead Revisited, Pleasure, Demolition
Thu 28 Apr 2016
Mark Gatiss on the novelisations of Doctor Who, and Bryony Lavery on Brideshead Revisited.
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Hugh Bonneville on Ibsen, Captain America directors, Juliet Stevenson
Wed 27 Apr 2016
Samira Ahmed talks to Hugh Bonneville about Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People.
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Alain de Botton, Son of Saul, Josie Rourke and Nick Payne, Jazz biopics
Tue 26 Apr 2016
Alain de Botton, Son of Saul, Josie Rourke and Nick Payne, jazz biopics.
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Hugh Grant, Wellcome Prize winner, Lisa Jen, Pablo Bronstein
Mon 25 Apr 2016
Kirsty Lang talks to Hugh Grant about his new film Florence Foster Jenkins.
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400 years of Shakespeare with Rufus Wainwright, Kim Cattrall, Dominic Cooke and William Leahy
Fri 22 Apr 2016
Shakespeare died 400 years ago this week. John Wilson marks this anniversary.
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Remembering Prince, Opera North's Ring Cycle, novelist Georgina Harding
Thu 21 Apr 2016
Mica Paris, biographer Matt Thorne and journalist Kevin Le Gendre on the legacy of Prince.
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Victoria Wood remembered, Curtis Sittenfeld, Maya Sondhi, Lucian Msamati
Wed 20 Apr 2016
Producer Geoff Posner remembers Victoria Wood. Plus Lucian Msamati on Iago.
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Sharpe on Flowers, Don Warrington on Lear, Yvvette Edwards
Tue 19 Apr 2016
Samira Ahmed talks to Will Sharpe about his TV show Flowers. Plus Don Warrington on Lear.
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Malorie Blackman, Bastille Day, Sam Gold, Simon Russell Beale
Mon 18 Apr 2016
Arts news, interviews and reviews.
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Kevin Costner in Criminal, Kenneth Branagh, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, Laika the spacedog
Fri 15 Apr 2016
Criminal and why London attracts so many film-makers. Plus The Comedy About A Bank Robbery
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Peter Greenaway, George Shaw, Zoe Wanamaker, Chloe Esposito
Thu 14 Apr 2016
Eisenstein in Guanajuato, a provocative film by Peter Greenaway, and artist George Shaw.
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PJ Harvey's new album, Arnold Wesker, 2016 Proms, Wellcome exhibition
Wed 13 Apr 2016
Featuring a review of PJ Harvey's first new album in five years. John Wilson presents.
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The Jungle Book, Lindsey Davis, Wellington Arch Sculpture, Romola Garai, Goosebumps Alive
Tue 12 Apr 2016
Including a review of a new, live-action version of The Jungle Book. Samira Ahmed presents
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Adrian Lester on Othello, Baileys Shortlist, Conceptual Art, Nicolas Kent
Mon 11 Apr 2016
Samira Ahmed reveals the shortlist for 2016's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
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Helen Mirren, Cyprus Avenue and X, Barrie Rutter, Jem Lester
Fri 8 Apr 2016
News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, literature, film and music.
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Palme d'Or winner Dheepan, Diana Damrau, Noma Dumezweni, Garth Greenwell
Thu 7 Apr 2016
A review of the Palme d'Or-winning film Dheepan plus German soprano Diana Damrau.
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Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art
Wed 6 Apr 2016
Duncan Campbell, Muriel Gray, and Claire Barclay on why Glasgow inspires so many artists.
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Timothy Spall, Catherine Tate, 11.22.63, Dutch flowers.
Tue 5 Apr 2016
Timothy Spall in The Caretaker, Catherine Tate, 11.22.63 reviewed, Dutch flowers.
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The Rolling Stones Exhibitionism, Hans Rosenfeldt, Alex Turner, Ian McKellen
Mon 4 Apr 2016
Exhibitionism: The Rolling Stones, Hans Rosenfeldt, Alex Turner, Ian McKellen.
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Adrian Lester on Undercover, National Poetry Competition, Victoria, James Shapiro
Fri 1 Apr 2016
Kirsty Lang talks to Adrian Lester and Peter Moffat about new TV drama Undercover.
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David Tennant, Eddie the Eagle, Alison Brackenbury, Jeff Nichols, Evelyn Glennie
Wed 30 Mar 2016
Kirsty Lang talks to Jeff Nichols about his new film Midnight Special.
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Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe
Mon 28 Mar 2016
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe look back over three decades as Pet Shop Boys.
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Kirsty Lang interviews theatre producer Sonia Friedman
Fri 25 Mar 2016
Kirsty Lang talks to theatre producer Sonia Friedman about staging Harry Potter.
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The Passion, Zootropolis, Max Stafford Clark, Blue Eyes
Thu 24 Mar 2016
Samira Ahmed on a new version of Bach's St Matthew Passion sung by homeless people.
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The RSC's Hamlet, Culture Minister Ed Vaizey, Batman v Superman, Underworld
Wed 23 Mar 2016
The RSC's Hamlet, Ed Vaizey on the Culture White Paper, Batman v Superman, Underworld.
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Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard, Maigret with Rowan Atkinson, Sunken Cities
Tue 22 Mar 2016
Glenn Close discusses her role as Norma Desmond in hit musical Sunset Boulevard.
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The A Word, Neil LaBute, Remembering Barry Hines, Ottessa Moshfegh
Mon 21 Mar 2016
Kirsty Lang is joined in the studio by Peter Bowker, writer of new drama The A Word.
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