Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Xiaolu Guo, Belarus Free Theatre, Blindness, The Leach Pottery
Mon 10 Aug 2020
Novelist Xiaolu Guo, Belarus Free Theatre arrests, Bernard Leach's St Ives pottery
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Es Devlin, Drama by postcard, Ali Smith's Summer, photographer Alys Tomlinson
Fri 7 Aug 2020
Es Devlin on her artwork marking the 75th anniversary of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
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Arts in the Midlands, Love Letters to Scotland, Soweto Kinch
Thu 6 Aug 2020
Arts in the Midlands, Love Letters to Scotland, and Soweto Kinch's Lockdown Discovery.
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Maggie O'Farrell, Singing in Choirs and Covid, Mark Billingham's Lockdown Discovery
Wed 5 Aug 2020
Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, shortlisted for the Women's Prize.
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Little Birds writer Sophia Al-Maria, Simon Armitage, Summer reads, Tara Gbolade
Tue 4 Aug 2020
Artist, writer, and filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria on Little Birds, and Simon Armitage.
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Barbara Kingsolver as poet, Es Devlin's Lockdown Discovery, Sculptor Thomas J. Price, pianist Leon Fleisher remembered
Mon 3 Aug 2020
Barbara Kingsolver, designer Es Devlin, and artist Thomas J Price
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Sir Alan Parker remembered, Beyonc茅's Black is King, Prodigal Son, Natasha Trethewey, Don Hahn
Fri 31 Jul 2020
Sir Alan Parker remembered by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
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Whipped cream on The Fourth Plinth, Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee, and Booker Prize nominated Avni Doshi
Thu 30 Jul 2020
Heather Phillipson's Trafalgar Square whipped cream sculpture, and Derry Girls' Lisa McGee
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Hilary Mantel, Electronic at The Design Museum, Ai Wei Wei, the future for the panto?
Wed 29 Jul 2020
Hilary Mantel, Electronic at The Design Museum, Ai Wei Wei, the future for the panto?
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Shawanda Corbett, Booker longlist 2020, Claire Oakley
Tue 28 Jul 2020
Shawanda Corbett, The Booker longlist, Claire Oakley
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Shirley Collins, Kit de Waal, Caine Prize for African Writing winner, Olivia de Havilland remembered
Mon 27 Jul 2020
Folk singer Shirley Collins on her album Heart's Ease.
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Mira Nair on A Suitable Boy, Taylor Swift's album Folklore, the film How to Build a Girl, Alberta Whittle and Theatre News
Fri 24 Jul 2020
Director Mira Nair on her television adaptation of Vikram Seth's novel, A Suitable Boy.
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Jimmy McGovern; crime writing prize; dancing in lockdown; photographer Tyler Mitchell
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Jimmy McGovern; crime writing; dancing in lockdown; photographer Tyler Mitchell.
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Tom Sutcliffe talks to screenwriter and film director Oliver Stone about his memoir Chasing the Light
Wed 22 Jul 2020
Director Oliver Stone on getting into Hollywood chronicled in his memoir Chasing the Light
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Nell Dunn, Kelly O'Sullivan, 846, Q Magazine
Tue 21 Jul 2020
Nell Dunn on her new memoir The Muse, Kelly O'Sullivan, 846, Q Magazine.
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Josephine Mackerras, Sean Edwards, summer theatre round-up, John Mullan on Mansfield Park
Mon 20 Jul 2020
Josephine Mackerras on her film, Alice, about a woman who becomes an escort.
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Alfre Woodard, film Come As You Are and Ellie Goulding album Brightest Blue reviewed, Richard Herring
Fri 17 Jul 2020
Alfre Woodard on playing a death row prison warden in Clemency.
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Get Carter director Mike Hodges, Tate Bursary artist Oreet Ashery, the plight of arts freelancers in the pandemic
Thu 16 Jul 2020
Mike Hodges, director of Get Carter, on his 1989 film Black Rainbow, with Rosanna Arquette
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Winning back audience trust, the doctor turned novelist, musical collaboration in lockdown
Wed 15 Jul 2020
Winning back audience trust, the doctor turned novelist, musical collaboration in lockdown
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The Chicks, Hammed Animashaun, Liz Johnson Artur
Tue 14 Jul 2020
The Chicks, the biggest selling U.S. female band, on their new album Gaslighter.
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Anish Kapoor, The Plot Against America, Rachel De-Lahay, drive in comedy
Mon 13 Jul 2020
Review of The Plot Against America, Rachel De-Lahay, Anish Kapoor, Daniel Sloss.
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The Kanneh-Masons, Minack Theatre, Imran Perretta
Fri 10 Jul 2020
Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason perform live from their family home.
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Philip Pullman on Northern Lights 25 years on, Mrs America reviewed, Simon Schama
Thu 9 Jul 2020
Philip Pullman and Northern Lights 25 years on, Simon Schama and a review of Mrs America.
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Katori Hall; cinema after lockdown; documenting empty arts spaces
Wed 8 Jul 2020
US playwright Katori Hall; the future of cinema after lockdown.
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Rufus Wainwright, Neil Mendoza, Tate Bursaries, Ringo at 80
Tue 7 Jul 2020
Rufus Wainwright, Neil Mendoza, Tate Bursaries and Ringo Starr at 80.
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Funding for the arts, Wayne McGregor, Ennio Morricone
Mon 6 Jul 2020
Arts funding - is it enough? Wayne McGregor's new ballet and a tribute to Ennio Morricone.
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Theatres in pink, David Pickard on the 蜜芽传媒 Proms, Friday Review on Hamilton, Decolonising arts curriculum in school
Fri 3 Jul 2020
Theatres wrapped in pink to campaign for survival.
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The Secrets She Keeps, Fyzal Boulifa, Urdu poetry in Bradford
Thu 2 Jul 2020
The Secrets She Keeps, Fyzal Boulifa on his new film Lynn + Lucy, Urdu poetry in Bradford.
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Director Werner Herzog, actor Danny Sapani, Watford bookclub
Wed 1 Jul 2020
Werner Herzog on his latest film, Danny Sapani on play Les Blancs, Watford's big bookclub.
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The Arts in Crisis
Tue 30 Jun 2020
Simon Rattle and other leading figures discuss the crisis facing the arts.
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