Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Episodes to download
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Fire in Australian art and culture, writer Ben Richards and The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel
Wed 15 Jan 2020
Three Australian writers on of artists' response to the country's relationship with fire
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Michael B Jordan & Jamie Foxx, Spotlight directory, TS Eliot Prize winner Roger Robinson
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Michael B Jordan & Jamie Foxx, Spotlight directory, TS Eliot Prize winner Roger Robinson
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2020 Oscar Nominations
Mon 13 Jan 2020
John talks to Oscar nominees including Florence Pugh, Charlize Theron and Jonathan Pryce
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Jonathan Coe, Johnny Flynn on Magnitsky the Musical, Selena Gomez album reviewed
Fri 10 Jan 2020
Jonathan Coe, winner of the Costa Novel Award 2019, discusses Middle England
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Laurie Nunn on Sex Education, Mary Jean Chan, Podcast news
Thu 9 Jan 2020
Sex Education creator Laurie Nunn, and Costa Poetry winner Mary Jean Chan
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Freddie Fox, Costa Children's Prize winner Jasbinder Bilan, theatre ticket pricing
Wed 8 Jan 2020
Freddie Fox on Freddie Fox on playing Jeremy Bamber in ITV's drama White House Farm.
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BAFTAs so white, Adam Sandler, Costa First Novel winner Sara Collins, Fidelio reinvented
Tue 7 Jan 2020
Adam Sandler talks about Uncut Gems and Sara Collins on her gothic novel
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Sam Mendes on WWI movie 1917, Costa Book Awards 2019 winners
Mon 6 Jan 2020
Sam Mendes on WWI movie 1917 and we announce the Costa Book Awards 2019 category winners
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Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey, Daisy Coulam, Bill Bryson
Fri 3 Jan 2020
Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey on their new Guy Ritchie film The Gentlemen
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Jojo Rabbit reviewed, Alex Michaelides, protecting artworks from light damage
Thu 2 Jan 2020
Taika Waititi directs and stars as Adolf Hitler in his Nazi satire Jojo Rabbit - we review
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Beethoven at 250
New Year's Day 2020
A celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven, marking the composer's 250th anniversary
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A decade of TV, Ballet podcast Tom and Ty Talk, Long Day's Journey into Night reviewed, Neil Innes
Mon 30 Dec 2019
Boyd Hilton and Eleanor Stanford on how television has changed in the last decade
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Art and Churches
Fri 27 Dec 2019
An exploration of the evolving role of art in churches and cathedrals
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Candice Carty-Williams in conversation with Bernardine Evaristo
Boxing Day 2019
Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo discuss their dazzling literary year.
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Motown legends Brian and Eddie Holland
Christmas Day 2019
Legendary Motown songwriters Brian and Eddie Holland
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Screenwriter Amanda Coe, Bad films we love, Diana Evans
Christmas Eve 2019
Amanda Coe discusses her screenplay for TV drama The Trial of Christine Keeler
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The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting, Reviving the high street with culture
Mon 23 Dec 2019
The Goes Wrong Show, Slow Painting in Leeds, and reviving the high street with culture.
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JJ Abrams, musicals moving from stage to screen, Derek Owusu
Fri 20 Dec 2019
JJ Abrams on directing The Rise of Skywalker - the last film in the 42-year Star Wars saga
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Robert De Niro on The Irishman, subverting the gaze, The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Fairview director Nadia Latif and portraitist Lorna May Wadsworth on challenging the gaze
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Saoirse Ronan, The Book People goes into administration, How to paint babies
Wed 18 Dec 2019
Saoirse Ronan on playing Jo March in Little Women, indie publisher calamity, babies in art
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Taron Egerton, A Christmas Carol, Joe Stilgoe
Tue 17 Dec 2019
Taron Egerton on playing Elton John in the musical film Rocketman.
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Mark Gatiss, Kate Rusby, Creating New Traditions
Mon 16 Dec 2019
Mark Gatiss on his TV offerings - Martin's Close for Christmas, and Dracula at New Year
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Jonathan Pryce, Survival literature, Fictional politicians
Fri 13 Dec 2019
Jonathan Pryce on playing one of The Two Popes, and survival fiction.
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Francesca Hayward on Cats and Romeo and Juliet, Joker composer Hildur Guðnadóttir
Thu 12 Dec 2019
Ballet star Francesca Hayward on Romeo and Juliet and the new film version of Cats
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Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing
Wed 11 Dec 2019
Mike Bartlett, staging of art exhibitions, Any One Thing
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Teenage Dick, Traces review, Olga Neuwirth, Nobel Prize for Literature controversy
Tue 10 Dec 2019
A darkly comic take on Richard III with Teenage Dick.
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Gender Imbalance in Art Collections, Whitechapel Bell Foundry, Three Sisters Rewired
Mon 9 Dec 2019
Why women artists are hugely under presented in art collections and what to do about this.
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Inua Ellams on Three Sisters, Noah Baumbach on Marriage Story, Art goes Bananas
Fri 6 Dec 2019
Inua Ellams on transposing Chekhov's Three Sisters to 1960s Nigeria.
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Front Row at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Introducing Live
Thu 5 Dec 2019
Ferris & Sylvester perform at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Music Introducing Live
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