Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Episodes to download
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Art in Shetland, Timothy Ogene, Sharon Heal and Paul McCartney
Wed 10 Nov 2021
Jen Stout reports on the ancient and modern arts in Shetland.
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Venice and climate change, the story that inspired Dostoevsky, Dean Stockwell remembered
Tue 9 Nov 2021
Venice under threat, the story that inspired Dostoevsky, Dean Stockwell remembered.
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Jeymes Samuel on The Harder They Fall, author Sofi Oksanen, John Gilchrist of UK Theatre, Paul McCartney
Mon 8 Nov 2021
Film-maker and musician Jeymes Samuel AKA The Bullitts on his film The Harder They Fall.
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Spencer, Alan Cumming and Paul McCartney
Thu 4 Nov 2021
Alexandra Shulman and Leila Latif discuss Spencer, the controversial new film about Diana.
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The 2021 Booker Prize Ceremony
Wed 3 Nov 2021
The winner of the 2021 Booker Prize is announced live from the Radio Theatre at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½.
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Little Amal, Anne Carson, Paul McCartney and The National Trust
Tue 2 Nov 2021
Little Amal, Anne Carson, Paul McCartney and the future of The National Trust.
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Armando Iannucci, Booker shortlisted author Maggie Shipstead, Paul McCartney on Penny Lane
Mon 1 Nov 2021
Armando Iannucci discusses his mock-heroic epic poem and Paul McCartney on Penny Lane.
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Passing film, Colin in Black and White, Booker Prize book group on Bewilderment, Paul McCartney
Thu 28 Oct 2021
Michael Donkor and Jan Asante review the film Passing and series Colin in Black and White.
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The reopening of the Hall for Cornwall, Paul McCartney on Eleanor Rigby and Booker Prize nominated author Nadifa Mohamed
Wed 27 Oct 2021
Front Row visits Truro to report on the re-opening of the Hall for Cornwall.
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Booker shortlisted novelist Patricia Lockwood, Science Museum director Ian Blatchford, Paul McCartney
Tue 26 Oct 2021
Science Museum greenwashing claims: museum director Ian Blatchford responds.
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Paul McCartney, Paul Muldoon, Booker Prize Book Group on The Promise
Mon 25 Oct 2021
Paul McCartney reveals how he wrote The Beatles’ classic, All My Loving.
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Booker Prize Book Group: Anuk Arudpragasam on A Passage North
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Bradford Postcard; Ron’s Gone Wrong; Re-directing a play
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Front Row goes to Bradford to check out what’s happening on the arts scene
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Short Story Award and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Young Writers' Award winners
Tue 19 Oct 2021
We announce the winners of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ National Short Story Award and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Young Writers' Award.
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Arinzé Kene on playing Bob Marley; Clare Norburn sings John Dowland; the first Working Class Writers Festival
Mon 18 Oct 2021
Arinzé Kene on playing Bob Marley in the new musical Get Up, Stand Up!
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The RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture, Succession, John Le Carré’s final novel, The London Film Festival
Thu 14 Oct 2021
The RIBA Stirling Prize for architecture is announced
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Theatre director Emma Jordan, Omagh's Ulster American Folk Park and Ridley Scott
Wed 13 Oct 2021
Emma Jordan on The Border Game, Omagh's Ulster American Folk Park and Ridley Scott.
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Suzan-Lori Parks, Owen Sheers, stolen artefacts and the portrayal of scientists
Tue 12 Oct 2021
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.
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Joan Collins, Armistead Maupin and Verbatim Theatre
Mon 11 Oct 2021
Joan Collins discusses her memoir My Unapologetic Diaries
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Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah, Cush Jumbo's Hamlet, Poet Laureate Simon Armitage
Thu 7 Oct 2021
Cush Jumbo as Hamlet, Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah and poet Simon Armitage.
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The Arts in Aberystwyth, The Boy with Two Hearts in Cardiff and Welsh film director Craig Roberts
Wed 6 Oct 2021
The arts in Aberystwyth; The Boy with Two Hearts in Cardiff; Welsh director Craig Roberts
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Wole Soyinka, post-pandemic theatre, Michael Winterbottom
Tue 5 Oct 2021
Wole Soyinka on his new novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth.
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Hilary Mantel, Lianne La Havas, Candice Carty Williams, Kieran Hurley
Mon 4 Oct 2021
Hilary Mantel on adapting The Mirror and the Light for the stage.
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No Time To Die, Soul Train, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Fri 1 Oct 2021
Charlie Higson & Naima Khan review the new Bond film No Time To Die.
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Dave Grohl, Jimmy Savile
Thu 30 Sep 2021
Dave Grohl on new memoir "The Storyteller", and Dramatizing Jimmy Savile?
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David Chase, Laura Lomas, Betty Campbell statue
Wed 29 Sep 2021
Sopranos writer David Chase on new film The Many Saints of Newark.
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Comedian Njambi McGrath, Turner Prize shortlist review, 25 Years of Buena Vista Social Club
Tue 28 Sep 2021
Kenyan British Comedian Njambi McGrath on her new show Accidental Coconut.
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Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, K-pop band BTS address the UN and new film, The Man Who Sold His Skin
Mon 27 Sep 2021
Arthur C. Clarke Award winner, BTS at the UN and new film, The Man Who Sold His Skin.
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Dame Elizabeth Blackadder, Megan Swann, Richard Smyth, The Story of Looking.
Fri 24 Sep 2021
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder celebrated.
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The Contains Strong Language Festival
Thu 23 Sep 2021
Front Row at the Contains Strong Language Festival from Coventry, UK City of Culture 2021
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