Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Episodes to download
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Covid pilot events, Ian Rankin, Janine Jansen, Neal Cooper
Wed 1 Sep 2021
Professor John Drury from Sussex University explains the Covid risks posed by large crowds
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Hugh Quarshie and Steve Coogan, the Paraorchestra, Daisy Haggard
Tue 31 Aug 2021
Hugh Quarshie and Steve Coogan, the Paraorchestra, Daisy Haggard.
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Actor Liz Carr on Silent Witness and Hollywood
Mon 30 Aug 2021
Actor Liz Carr looks back at her career, and how it took her from the Wirral to Hollywood.
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Paula Hawkins, Nia DaCosta, Our Ladies film review, Paralympic dressage music
Fri 27 Aug 2021
Paula Hawkins, Nia DaCosta, Our Ladies film review, and paralympic dressage music.
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Underwater Museum in Cyprus, Poet Fred D'Aguiar, Helen Zaltzman on Answer Me This podcast
Thu 26 Aug 2021
Jason deCaires Taylor on his new underwater museum Musan, built off the coast of Cyprus.
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Natalya Romaniw, John Tanner, Josh Azouz, Charlie Watts
Tue 24 Aug 2021
David Hepworth on the late Charlie Watts, Natalya Romaniw on preparing to play Tosca.
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Kalena Bovell, Don Everly, Jack Thorne, Reza Mohammadi
Mon 23 Aug 2021
American conductor Kalena Bovell makes her Proms debut with Chineke! Orchestra this week.
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Nicolas Cage film Pig, Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney, The White Lotus, Sisters
Fri 20 Aug 2021
Nicolas Cage film Pig, Singer-songwriter Moses Sumney at the Proms, comedy The White Lotus
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Cinderella, Sean Shibe, Censor, Firstsite
Thu 19 Aug 2021
At last, Cinderella went to the ball! Sarah Crompton reviews Lloyd Webber's musical.
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Live from The Edinburgh Festival, including film-maker Isaac Julien
Wed 18 Aug 2021
Live from The Edinburgh Festival, including film director Isaac Julien.
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Live from the Edinburgh Festival with Henning Wehn, Frances Poet, Fara and Arusa Qureshi
Tue 17 Aug 2021
Coming live from the Edinburgh Festival, with Henning Wehn and playwright Frances Poet
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Music in Afghanistan, The Song Project, Manchester Collective
Mon 16 Aug 2021
Ahmad Sarmast on hopes for music-making as Afghanistan falls under Taliban control.
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Vikingur Olafsson, Power in publishing, Thackray Museum of Medicine.
Fri 13 Aug 2021
Pianist Vikingur Olafsson is in the studio to talk about audiences, live music, and Mozart
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The Courier, Deceit, 2.22 A Ghost Story review
Thu 12 Aug 2021
Director Dominic Cooke talks about creating the new film, The Courier.
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Celebrating Stravinsky
Wed 11 Aug 2021
Russian composer Igor Stravinsky died 50 years ago. Is his influence still felt?
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Paradise, John Boyne, Stuart Semple
Tue 10 Aug 2021
Kae Tempest on Paradise, their adaptation of Sophocles' Philoctetes starring Lesley Sharp.
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Phil Wang, Shape Open exhibiton, All Bound Together, Lost manuscripts of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Mon 9 Aug 2021
Phil Wang joins us to discuss his stand-up show, Philly Philly Wang Wang.
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Sir Tom Stoppard, Ryan Bancroft, Museum of The Year, Nick Laird
Fri 6 Aug 2021
Tom Stoppard on the return of his award-winning play, Leopoldstadt
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Sarah, Duchess of York on her new novel, Max Richter
Thu 5 Aug 2021
Sarah, Duchess of York, talks to Nick Ahad about her novel, Her Heart for a Compass.
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Repairing Beirut's museum artefacts, Vivo, DCMS performer Visas
Wed 4 Aug 2021
Repairing artefacts damaged in the Beirut port explosion, one year ago today
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Elif Shafak, Jonathon Heyward, Stillwater review
Tue 3 Aug 2021
Booker Prize shortlisted writer Elif Shafak on her new novel The Island of Missing Trees.
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Kathleen Marshall and Sutton Foster, Tim Renkow, Scarlett Johansson suing Disney.
Mon 2 Aug 2021
Kathleen Marshall and Sutton Foster on Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre in London.
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Billie Eilish reviewed, Sir James MacMillan on the First Night of the Proms, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edinburgh Art Festival
Fri 30 Jul 2021
Laura Snapes reviews the new Billie Eilish album, Happier Than Ever.
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Derby: 300 Years of Making
Thu 29 Jul 2021
Museum of Making, Derby County Football Club's Poet-in-Residence, Kedleston Hall
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Tokyo: Art & Photography, Brett Goldstein and Nick Mohammed, Wellcome Photography Prize
Wed 28 Jul 2021
Tokyo: Art & Photography, and Brett Goldstein and Nick Mohammed on TV series Ted Lasso.
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David Lan on The Walk, The 2021 Booker Prize longlist, David Livingstone birthplace re-opening
Tue 27 Jul 2021
Samira talks to theatre director David Lan live from Gaziantep about The Walk.
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Morris Hayes on posthumous Prince album, reopenings in Northern Ireland, actor Amir El-Masry on new film Limbo
Mon 26 Jul 2021
Prince's longtime music director Morris Hayes on posthumous new album Welcome 2 America.
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April De Angelis, Tokyo Olympics, Jordan Tannahill, Neil Mendoza
Fri 23 Jul 2021
Playwright April De Angelis joins Tom to talk about her new musical, Gin Craze!
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McKellen's Hamlet reviewed, Mercury Prize nominees, Alex Von Tunzelmann on statues
Thu 22 Jul 2021
Susannah Clapp reviews the new production of Hamlet, starring Ian McKellen.
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