Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Episodes to download
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Mark-Anthony Turnage, V&A East, Patricia Lockwood
Wed 30 Jun 2021
Mark-Anthony Turnage on setting Arsenal's 1989 title-winning match to music.
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Dickens readings, Smart Fund, Randall Goosby
Tue 29 Jun 2021
Dickens reading his own works, Smart Fund, Randall Goosby's album Roots.
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Simon Russell Beale, French Exit, Lisa Taddeo
Mon 28 Jun 2021
Simon Russell Beale on playing JS Bach on stage.
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Si芒n Owen on Under Milk Wood, Nick Broomfield, Essex stereotypes in culture
Fri 25 Jun 2021
Si芒n Owen on adapting Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood for the National Theatre
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Marianela N煤帽ez, Charlotte Perriand exhibition review, Latitude Festival
Thu 24 Jun 2021
Royal Ballet Principal Ballerina Marianela N煤帽ez on Sleeping Beauty at the ROH.
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The Overseas Student, Cherie Jones, India's Parliamentary District row
Wed 23 Jun 2021
Tanika Gupta on her play about an 19 year old Gandhi studying law in the UK.
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Joan Armatrading, Erland Cooper, EU cultural quotas
Tue 22 Jun 2021
Singer Joan Armatrading on her new album, and composer Erland Cooper.
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Lauryn Redding, Claire Barnett-Jones, Supernova film, Venice Biennale
Mon 21 Jun 2021
Lauryn Redding on Bloody Elle, her musical reopening Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre.
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Ian McKellen on playing Hamlet
Fri 18 Jun 2021
50 years after last playing Hamlet, Sir Ian McKellen returns to the role.
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Lisa Dwan on Beckett's Happy Days, the winner of the Walter Scott Prize
Thu 17 Jun 2021
We announce the winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
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Colin Macleod, Jason Reynolds, Hanna Flint reviews 'Together'
Wed 16 Jun 2021
Colin Macleod performs, Jason Reynolds, Hanna Flint reviews 'Together'
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Timothy Spall, Shaan Sahota, Universal Basic Income for artists
Tue 15 Jun 2021
Actor Timothy Spall on his new painting exhibition, Out of the Storm.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gerda Stevenson, Implications of the Covid restrictions extension
Mon 14 Jun 2021
Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on his new musical film, In the Heights
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Simon Armitage, After Life, The Disciple
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, and After Life on stage
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Noel Gallagher, Amanda Whittington, Mount Recyclemore
Thu 10 Jun 2021
Noel Gallagher on Back the Way We Came, a hits album from a decade with High Flying Birds.
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Faridah 脌b铆k茅-脥y铆m铆d茅, Danny Elfman, Emily Davison statue
Wed 9 Jun 2021
Faridah 脌b铆k茅-脥y铆m铆d茅 on her debut, Ace of Spades, which landed a million-dollar book deal
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Ai Weiwei, Claire Fuller, Seamus Heaney's poetry on location
Tue 8 Jun 2021
Artist Ai Weiwei on Gilded Cage, his new sculpture at Blenheim Palace.
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Florian Zeller on The Father; Jeffrey Boakye; Ita O'Brien
Mon 7 Jun 2021
Florian Zeller on his film The Father starring Anthony Hopkins.
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Joanna Scanlan, Kneehigh, Chibundu Onuzo, Time Review
Fri 4 Jun 2021
Actress Joanna Scanlan talks about her role as Mary in After Love.
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Sorious Samura, Susanna Clarke, Edinburgh Fringe, Liverpool Biennial
Thu 3 Jun 2021
Sierra Leonean journalist Sorious Samura on his documentary, Sing, Freetown
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Es Devlin on Forest for Change, artist Phoebe Boswell, Covid amateur choirs update
Wed 2 Jun 2021
Forest for Change created by Es Devlin.
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Films Gunda and First Cow reviewed, Actor and writer Amy Trigg, Composer Dan Jones
Tue 1 Jun 2021
Animal films Gunda and First Cow reviewed.
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Paulette Randall
Mon 31 May 2021
Paulette Randall on the London 2012 Olympics and directing the plays of August Wilson.
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Pianist Mitsuko Uchida, Bolton Octagon reopens, Ghazal poetry, Anne Boleyn reviewed
Fri 28 May 2021
Pianist Mitsuko Uchida returns to the Wigmore Hall.
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Chris Addison on Breeders; Nadifa Mohamed's new novel; 蜜芽传媒 Proms 2021 debuts
Thu 27 May 2021
Chris Addison discusses the new series of his comedy, Breeders.
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101 Dalmations prequel, Cruella; Two Tone Exhibition in Coventry, City of Culture; new play The Merthyr Stigmatist
Wed 26 May 2021
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh discusses Disney's anticipated 101 Dalmatians prequel, Cruella.
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Slavery exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, Grime artist Bugzy, the decline or resurgence of crafts
Tue 25 May 2021
The Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam opens a landmark exhibition, Slavery.
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David Weil on Solos, Novelist Brit Bennett, Great British Photography Challenge
Mon 24 May 2021
Writer-producer David Weil on new Amazon fantasy series, Solos.
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Front Row on Bob Dylan at 80
Fri 21 May 2021
Front Row on Bob Dylan at 80, with Bob Geldof, Ann Powers, Martin Carthy and Kerry Shale
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Barbara Hepworth retrospective, Broadening museum boards, Othello as a woman
Thu 20 May 2021
A look at the largest publlc exhbition of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth's work.
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