Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Michael Palin, The Last of Us Part II reviewed, Anthony Thwaite, Rethink - Nicola Triscott, Roadmap to Reopening Theatres
Michael Palin on Waiting for Godot
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Crisis in theatre, Stuart Evers new novel, Eurovision the film, Bristol鈥檚 Colston statue
Theatre Royal Plymouth in crisis, Stuart Evers novel, Eurovision the film, Colston statue.
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Griselda Pollock
Griselda Pollock, the first art historian to win the prestigious Holberg Prize.
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Rethink The Arts
Rethinking the arts for a post Covid-19 world.
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Talking Heads, Jarvis Cocker, Thomas Clay
We review the remake of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads and consider the art of the monologue
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Rebel Wilson, Ian Holm remembered, Bob Dylan, The Luminaries
Rebel Wilson on her TV series Last One Laughing, and actor Sir Ian Holm remembered.
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Vera Lynn remembered, guitarist Sean Shibe, PlacePrints audio plays reviewed, Poetry from Alison Brackenbury
Tributes to Dame Vera Lynn, guitarist Sean Shibe and PlacePrints audio plays reviewed.
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Judd Apatow, Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for children's literature, job losses in theatre, Alison Brackenbury
Judd Apatow on The King of Staten Island, and the Carnegie and Greenaway winners announced
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Jean Toomer's Cane adapted, Bloomsday, Alison Brackenbury, Museums in lockdown
Jean Toomer's Cane adapted, Bloomsday, Alison Brackenbury, Museums in lockdown
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Tracey Emin, Alison Brackenbury, Book Covers
Tracey Emin on the artworks she has produced during lockdown.
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The Salisbury Poisonings, V铆kingur 脫lafsson, Walter Scott Prize, Pilgrims
TV drama The Salisbury Poisonings, and V铆kingur 脫lafsson's final performance for Front Row
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Simon Bird, Whiteness, Ruth Patterson, Tony Walsh
Simon Bird on Days of the Bagnold Summer, Whiteness discussed, Ruth Patterson, Tony Walsh
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Robert Lindsay, Tony Hall, How to make a new musical
Robert Lindsay on his first acting job 50 years ago. Plus 麻豆社 DG Tony Hall.
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Spike Lee; Hope Mirrlees' Paris - A Poem; and are we being more creative in lockdown?
Spike Lee on Da 5 Bloods, his film about African American veterans returning to Vietnam.
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Michaela Coel, The Comedy Women in Print Prize, Bristol's Colston statue
Actor and writer Michaela Coel on I May Destroy You, and Bristol's Colston statue.
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V铆kingur 脫lafsson, David Greig, El Presidente, Inclusive publishing
V铆kingur 脫lafsson performs Bach. Plus David Greig's new play.
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Andrew Patterson, Writing about Race, Mark Damazer Chair of Booker Prize Foundation
Andrew Patterson on The Vast of Night, an homage to 50s sci-fi TV.
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David Tennant and Michael Sheen in Staged, Ethiopian poetry, Talking About Race
Staged, starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen, and an anthology of Ethiopian poetry.
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Carrie Mae Weems, Liz Lochhead, How will museums reflect the pandemic
Carrie Mae Weems on the role art can play in the current crisis in the US
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Sitting in Limbo, Joanna Briscoe, Christo, The Uncertain Kingdom
TV drama about the Windrush scandal reviewed and Joanna Briscoe on her new novel Seduction
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Indira Varma, V铆kingur 脫lafsson, Snowpiercer and The Lockdown Plays reviewed, DJ Mr Switch, Tom Morris
Indira Varma on A Room of One's Own.
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Can arts venues survive social distancing?
Will the finances ever stack up and what is lost when there's no crowd?
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John Grisham, re-opening of museums and galleries, the best of theatre online
Bestselling author John Grisham on his latest novel.
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Tracee Ellis Ross, Walter Iuzzolino, Southbank Centre
Tracee Ellis Ross on The High Note, and Walter Iuzzolino on Walter Presents.
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Kirsty Lang talks to American writer AM Homes
AM Homes, writer of darkly comic fiction, talks about her novels, short stories and memoir
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The County & Little Fires Everywhere; The Archers; V铆kingur 脫lafsson; poetry to console
Little Fires Everywhere and The County reviewed. The Archers and Coronavirus
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Unprecedented: Real Time Theatre from a State of Isolation, Rubaiyat Hossain, Abigail Pogson, Martin Green
Unprecedented - new plays respond to the pandemic, Rubaiyat Hossain on her new film.
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Simon Schama on Rembrandt's The Night Watch, can the performing arts survive coronavirus?
We take a close look at the masterpiece as a hyper-resolution photograph of it goes online
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Stephen La Rivi猫re, Nancy Kerr, Silas Marner
Nebula-75 creator Stephen La Rivi猫re, and singer Nancy Kerr.
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Tom Sutcliffe talks to playwright and poet Inua Ellams
Inua Ellams, writer of hit play Barber Shop Chronicles, on his life and work.