Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Marina Abramovi膰 on her dream creation - Balkan Erotic Epic
Tue 7 Oct 2025
Marina Abramovi膰 on creating a dream in her new performance artwork Balkan Erotic Epic
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Kathryn Bigelow and Kiran Desai
Mon 6 Oct 2025
Film director Kathryn Bigelow and Booker-nominee author Kiran Desai
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Review Show: The Smashing Machine film and Ben Elton鈥檚 autobiography
Thu 2 Oct 2025
Plus a major retrospective of photographer Lee Miller at Tate Britain.
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Steve Coogan on the return of Alan Partridge
Wed 1 Oct 2025
Steve Coogan speaks to Kirsty Wark about his new spoof documentary about mental health.
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麻豆社 National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award
Tue 30 Sep 2025
Tom hosts this year's 麻豆社 National Short Story Award ceremony.
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Actors Matthew McConaughey and Harris Dickinson on their latest films
Mon 29 Sep 2025
Actors Matthew McConaughey and Harris Dickinson on their latest films.
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Leonardo DiCaprio comes on Front Row to talk about One Battle After Another
Thu 25 Sep 2025
Leonardo DiCaprio and director Paul Thomas Anderson on their film One Battle After Another
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Will & Grace star Eric McCormack on his latest TV role.
Wed 24 Sep 2025
Eric McCormack on his role in the 麻豆社 thriller series Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue.
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Stephen Knight on House of Guinness
Tue 23 Sep 2025
Stephen Knight on his new House of Guinness TV series, Roddy Doyle on the Booker Shortlist
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Late-night shows under fire
Mon 22 Sep 2025
Another late-night host gets fired for offending Trump - we discuss the industry fallout.
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Front Row at the Contains Strong Language festival in Bradford
Thu 18 Sep 2025
A special edition of Front Row live from the Contains Strong Language festival in Bradford
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Review Show: Ian McEwan's new novel and Small Acts of Love at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre
Wed 17 Sep 2025
Kirsty Wark and her guests discuss novelist Ian McEwan's latest book, What We Can Know.
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Robert Redford remembered, Mark Ronson and Picasso on stage
Tue 16 Sep 2025
Hollywood icon Robert Redford remembered and hit record producer Mark Ronson on his memoir
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Robert Plant and Alan Moore
Mon 15 Sep 2025
Robert Plant on his new album, and comic book legend Alan Moore gives a rare interview.
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Review Show: David Bowie Centre and the 麻豆社 National Short Story Award Shortlist
Thu 11 Sep 2025
Plus the film Spinal Tap II and Jung Chang鈥檚 sequel to her best-selling memoir Wild Swans.
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The Grand Finale of Downton Abbey
Wed 10 Sep 2025
The Grand Finale of Downton Abbey. Plus bestselling writer Adam Kay on his debut novel.
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Marks and Gran on Freud and Hitler, Jeneba Kanneh-Mason performance, Medea on stage and screen
Tue 9 Sep 2025
Birds of a Feather creators Marks and Gran on their new play about Freud and Hitler.
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Maxine Peake on Mary Whitehouse, West End star Marisha Wallace
Mon 8 Sep 2025
Maxine Peake, Marisha Wallace, and a rediscovered book about the rise of the Nazis
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Review Show: CMAT's new album, The Office spin-off series The Paper, Jacob Elordi in On Swift Horses
Thu 4 Sep 2025
CMAT's new album Euro-Country, sitcom spin-off The Paper and gay romance On Swift Horses.
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Bryan Adams鈥� new album, plus writer Damian Barr
Wed 3 Sep 2025
The Canadian rock legend on his new music, and the Maggie & Me author鈥檚 latest novel.
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Aaron Sorkin on adapting Harper Lee's novel To Kill Aa Mockingbird for the stage
Tue 2 Sep 2025
Aaron Sorkin on To Kill a Mockingbird, Bradford Live, Toyah Willcox, Raymond Antrobus.
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Sebastian Faulks' memoir
Mon 1 Sep 2025
Sebastian Faulks' memoir, St Etienne play live, the return of sketch show TV.
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Review: Historical TV epic King and Conqueror, and Boudicca's Daughter by Elodie Harper
Thu 21 Aug 2025
Plus film Young Mothers, and the 5-year project celebrating dramatist Brian Friel.
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Indigenous Australian didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton performs live
Wed 20 Aug 2025
The Director of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards reveals this year's shortlist.
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Tom Hiddleston on becoming a dancing accountant in new Stephen King film, The Life of Chuck
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Tom Hiddleston, Sir Anish Kapoor, A Good Yarn in Bradford, Noises Off in Scarborough.
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Should Stephen Fry play Lady Bracknell? Author R.F. Kuang and Marlowe and Shakespeare
Mon 18 Aug 2025
Samira Ahmed talks to Rebecca Kuang and discusses genderblind casting.
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Review show: Brigadoon at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Brigadoon in Regent's Park, The Bitter Water of the Lake by Giulia Caminito.
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Our critics' guide to the best theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Wed 13 Aug 2025
Mary Queen of Scots as a punk and a rock star. Plus our critics' picks of the Fringe.
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Norwich Castle reopening, plus director Adrian Noble
Tue 12 Aug 2025
Historian Alice Loxton on Norwich Castle's 拢27 million revamp. Plus director Adrian Noble.
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Peter Sellers at 100
Mon 11 Aug 2025
The BFI has launched a new season of Peter Sellers films to mark his centenary.
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