Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Review Show: Bugonia, Salman Rushdie stories, The Line of Beauty
Thursday
Tom and guests review new short stories from Salman Rushdie and Emma Stone in Bugonia
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Live from Derry: two of the stars of police drama Blue Lights
Wednesday
Dearbhaile McKinney and Martin McCann on their roles in the police series Blue Lights.
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Prunella Scales, Palestine 36 film, Making Documentaries with World Leaders
Tuesday
Annemarie Jacir on her historical epic film, Palestine 36.
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Reese Witherspoon on her novel and Colin Farrell on his new film
Monday
Thriller writer Harlan Coben and actor Reese Witherspoon discuss Gone Before Goodbye.
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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere - Tom and guests deliver their verdict
Thu 23 Oct 2025
Tom and guests review Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere and Harper Lee's new book.
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John Grisham on his new thriller, The Widow
Wed 22 Oct 2025
John Grisham, actor Josh O'Connor and news of a culture summit in Glasgow
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Steve Martin and Alison Brown talk bluegrass and banjos
Tue 21 Oct 2025
Comedy giant Steve Martin on bluegrass music with pioneering banjo player Alison Brown.
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Cathy Tyson on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Mon 20 Oct 2025
Cathy Tyson, plus the stolen 'Crown Jewels of France'
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Guillermo Del Toro discusses his new Frankenstein film
Thu 16 Oct 2025
Guillermo Del Toro discusses his new Frankenstein film.
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Richard Ashcroft on his new album
Wed 15 Oct 2025
Richard Ashcroft on his new album, Lovin You. A play without a script.
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Sam Ryder performs live
Tue 14 Oct 2025
KPop Demon Hunters directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans.
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Review Show: I Swear film and The Poems of Seamus Heaney
Thu 9 Oct 2025
Susan Sarandon's UK stage debut in Mary Page Marlowe and Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket.
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Tamsin Greig on her role in Sally Wainwright's Riot Women
Wed 8 Oct 2025
Tamsin Greig on Sally Wainwright's Riot Women and Booker Prize-shortlisted Susan Choi.
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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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蜜芽传媒 National Short Story Award and Young Writers Award
Tue 30 Sep 2025
Tom hosts this year's 蜜芽传媒 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 蜜芽传媒 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 蜜芽传媒 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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