Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Algorithms in the arts, Composer Hannah Kendall, Daljit Nagra's Poetry Roundup, Cuties film controversy
Mon 24 Aug 2020
Algorithms in art, Composer Hannah Kendall, Daljit Nagra's Poetry Roundup, Cuties film.
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Christopher Nolan's Tenet reviewed, British Museum re-opens, Paula Peters on Wampum exhibition, Shedinburgh fringe festival
Fri 21 Aug 2020
The long-awaited Tenet on the big screen - Front Row reviews.
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The One and Only Ivan director Thea Sharrock, Educating Rita, writing about music, research on Covid-19 risk from singing
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Thea Sharrock on combining CGI and live action in her family movie about a gorilla.
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Stanley Spencer's wives, the damage to culture in Beirut, Angie Cruz
Wed 19 Aug 2020
The Wives of Stanley Spencer, the destruction of arts and culture in Beirut.
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Modern Productions in a Roman Theatre, the Art of the Prequel, the Pandemic and Redundancies in the Arts Industries
Tue 18 Aug 2020
Making modern work in a Roman theatre; how to create a prequel; yet more arts redundancies
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An interview with Jamaican dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson
Mon 17 Aug 2020
An interview with Jamaican dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, 2020 PEN Pinter Prize winner.
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Gloria Estefan, Pinocchio, Shane McCrae
Fri 14 Aug 2020
Gloria Estefan on her album Brazil305, a new film version of Pinocchio, poet Shane McCrae.
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Lyricist Don Black
Thu 13 Aug 2020
Lyricist Don Black on writing songs like Diamonds are Forever and Born Free.
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Lovecraft Country, Prison Radio Drama, Women's Prize For Fiction Shortlisted Jenny Offill
Wed 12 Aug 2020
TV drama Lovecraft Country, set in 1950s Jim Crow America, reviewed.
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Glyndebourne Opera returns. My Rembrandt film. How dangerous is playing the trumpet?
Tue 11 Aug 2020
Glyndebourne Opera returns. My Rembrandt film. How dangerous is playing the trumpet?
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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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