Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Episodes to download
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            Reviews - Douglas is Cancelled, Ronald Moody Sculptures, The Importance of Being Earnest
Thu 27 Jun 2024
Reviews of Douglas is Cancelled, Ronald Moody sculptures, The Importance of Being Earnest.
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            Next to Normal, British TV history, In the Eye of the Storm
Wed 26 Jun 2024
Musical star Caissie Levy, Modernism in Ukraine exhibition and key moments in TV history.
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            The Marilyn Conspiracy, Rachel Podger, Emma Glass
Tue 25 Jun 2024
Rachel Podger plays live, a new play about Marilyn Monroe, Emma Glass's novel Mrs Jekyll.
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            Kyoto, Nathaniel Rateliff, Midsummer Day poetry
Mon 24 Jun 2024
A play inspired by a climate conference, live Americana, and poems for midsummer.
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            Review: Film Green Border, Exhibition Stories of Henry VIII's Queens, TV: Federer: Twelve Final Days. Plus Joseph Coelho
Thu 20 Jun 2024
Six Lives exhibition, Asif Kapadia’s Federer, Yoto Carnegie Medal winner Joseph Coelho.
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            Graham Gouldman, Jaws anniversary, queering Shakespeare
Wed 19 Jun 2024
Graham Gouldman performs, Jaws at 50 and queering Shakespeare with Will Tosh.
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            Stephen Fry, New Comedians, Questlove
Tue 18 Jun 2024
Stephen Fry on new film Treasure, new stand-ups discussion, Questlove on Hip-Hop history.
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            Kiss Me Kate, UK election: culture policies, Persephone Books
Mon 17 Jun 2024
Stephanie J Block sings from Kiss Me Kate, UK election: culture policies, Persephone Books
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            Review of films Sasquatch Sunset and Ama Gloria and a look at Vivienne Westwood's clothes
Thu 13 Jun 2024
The Women's Prize for fiction and non fiction and the Walter Scott prize announced.
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            James Shapiro, BEKA, Molly Bloomsday
Wed 12 Jun 2024
Groundbreaking 1930s US theatre, live music from BEKA, and an all-women festival.
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            Liverpool's Taylor Swift Art Trail, Les Dennis, the state of UK festivals
Tue 11 Jun 2024
Taylor Swift art trail, Les Dennis in Twelfth Night, independent festivals at risk?
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            Jon Bon Jovi, Clare Pollard & Marina Warner, Viggo Mortensen and Vikki Krieps
Mon 10 Jun 2024
Jon Bon JovI, Clare Pollard and Marina Warner, The Dead Don't Hurt
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            Review: Film - Rosalie, TV - Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, Book - The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
Thu 6 Jun 2024
A wild west love story, the world of Paris fashion, and an unconventional marriage.
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            Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship
Wed 5 Jun 2024
Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship.
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            Queenie, Female pirates, dating dramas
Tue 4 Jun 2024
Candice Carty-Williams, portraying modern dating on stage, and female pirates in fiction.
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            Richard Linklater, Ultimate 90s Bollywood Song, Esther Swift
Mon 3 Jun 2024
The director on his new film, Hit Man, and the Scottish harpist plays live.
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            Review: The Beast, We Are Lady Parts, Beyond Fashion exhibition
Thu 30 May 2024
Samira Ahmed and guests review some of this week's TV and film releases.
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            Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett, Degas exhibitions, Chigozie Obioma
Wed 29 May 2024
Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett, Degas exhibitions, Chigozie Obioma on his new novel.
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            Bernard Butler, Kafka, Benedict Cumberbatch
Tue 28 May 2024
Benedict Cumberbatch's new TV drama, Bernard Butler's solo album and a Kafka exhibition.
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            Hay Festival 2024 - Young Adult Fiction
Mon 27 May 2024
Anthony Horowitz, Alex Wheatle, Manon Steffan Ros and Frances Hardinge.
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            The Sympathizer, Ivor Novello Awards, Michelle Terry on Richard III
Thu 23 May 2024
The Sympathizer, Michelle Terry on her Richard III, and the Ivor Novello Awards.
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            Vicky McClure, LS Lowry and the sea, International Booker Prize 2024
Wed 22 May 2024
Vicky McClure on new TV thriller Insomnia, International Booker Prize, Lowry and the sea.
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            Colm TóibÃn, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron, Iain Sinclair on John Deakin
Tue 21 May 2024
Colm TóibÃn's Long Island, Miranda Rutter & Rob Harbron, Iain Sinclair finds Deakin's Soho
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            George Miller, Miranda July, Orchestral Qawwali Project
Mon 20 May 2024
Mad Max director George Miller and the visual artist and film-maker Miranda July.
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            Review: Big Cigar on AppleTV, Elton John’s photos at V&A, animated/live action film If
Thu 16 May 2024
The Big Cigar, Elton John’s Fragile Beauty, film IF plus the Dylan Thomas Prize winner.
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            John Cleese's Fawlty Towers on stage, Beatrice Harrison, Cannes
Wed 15 May 2024
John Cleese talks to Tom Sutcliffe about adapting his classic sitcom for the stage.
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            Withnail and I on stage, Women & Art at Tate Britain, Alan Murrin
Tue 14 May 2024
Withnail and I on stage, 400 years of women in art, Alan Murrin on Ireland before divorce
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            Damian Barr on Maggie & Me, Italian neorealist film, A.I. and Fake Art
Mon 13 May 2024
Maggie & Me adapted for stage and how A.I. is tackling fake art online.
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            La Chimera, Bodkin, a new novel called Great Expectations reviewed
Thu 9 May 2024
Boyd Hilton and Jo Hamya review.
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            Sir Stephen Hough, Arab Strap, can authors make money?
Wed 8 May 2024
Pianist and composer Stephen Hough, the future of publishing, Scottish band Arab Strap.
 
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