Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Episodes to download
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Notre-Dame organist Olivier Latry, Gurinder Chadha, Rupert Everett's Uncle Vanya
Wed 31 Jul 2019
Notre-Dame's organist Olivier Latry on the recent fire, and film director Gurinder Chadha
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Herman Melville and Moby Dick, Luddite rebellion on stage, TV's I Am the Night
Tue 30 Jul 2019
The great whaling novel Moby Dick and - is there something to be said for Luddism?
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Blacking-up in opera, How to watch Shakespeare, Fiona Kidman, Carlos Cruz-Diez
Mon 29 Jul 2019
Blacking-up in opera, How to watch Shakespeare, Fiona Kidman's novel and Carlos Cruz-Diez.
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Horrible Histories, Barbara Strozzi at 400, Barney Norris, V&A and Extinction Rebellion
Fri 26 Jul 2019
Horrible Histories review, Barbara Strozzi at 400 and Extinction Rebellion at the V&A.
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Oklahoma!, Audience behaviour, Mercury Prize shortlist
Thu 25 Jul 2019
Oklahoma! at Chichester Festival Theatre. And is audience behaviour getting worse?
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The Booker Prize Longlist, A Tea Journey at Compton Verney gallery, Fashion influenced by TV
Wed 24 Jul 2019
A look at the 2019 Booker Prize longlist. Plus the influence of TV on high street fashion.
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The Current War, How culture affects relationship expectations, Experimental novels, Cool culture
Tue 23 Jul 2019
The Current War, culture and relationships, experimental novels, and cool culture
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Macy Gray, Morris Dance Protest at Parliament, Libraries - Threatened and Reprieved
Mon 22 Jul 2019
Macy Gray talks, performs work from her latest album, Ruby, and sings her huge hit, I Try.
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Fab 5 Freddy, Laurie Anderson, Summer reads, film trailers
Fri 19 Jul 2019
Hip hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy on the hidden black figures of Italian Renaissance art.
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Illuminated River, Jon Favreau on The Lion King, RIBA Stirling shortlist
Thu 18 Jul 2019
Why the River Thames is about to become the world's longest artwork
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Conductor Karina Canellakis, a review of Channel 4 drama series I Am... and the director of cricket documentary The Edge
Wed 17 Jul 2019
Karina Canellakis on conducting the first night of the Proms.
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Philip Glass and Phelim McDermott, Political knitting, Black women in theatre, Statues of performers
Tue 16 Jul 2019
The power of knitting as protest and a huge statue of Ed Sheeran is unveiled in Moscow.
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Dominic Dromgoole, new theatres, Karina Ramage
Mon 15 Jul 2019
Dominic Dromgoole, new theatres, Karina Ramage.
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Deborah Moggach, Elsinore computer game, Ivo van Hove, Can high notes shatter glass?
Fri 12 Jul 2019
Deborah Moggach on new novel The Carer
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Pavarotti documentary, Wendell Berry, Port Eliot Festival closure, How our attitudes are reflected in culture
Thu 11 Jul 2019
Pavarotti documentary reviewed, and how our attitudes are reflected in culture.
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Peter Gynt, how to listen to opera, The Left Behind, Rip Torn
Wed 10 Jul 2019
Peter Gynt at the National Theatre reviewed and hard-hitting Welsh drama The Left Behind
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Cressida Cowell, the new children's laureate; Cherie Blair goes into film
Tue 9 Jul 2019
Children's laureate Cressida Cowell, Cherie Blair, and Life of Pi on the stage
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Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Clara Schumann, Dark Money, Tree authorship row
Mon 8 Jul 2019
Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Clara Schumann
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Olly Alexander, Midsommar, Britain's First Female Artists, Leon Kossoff obituary
Fri 5 Jul 2019
Olly Alexander on gay pop songs and his Glastonbury speech
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Chanya Button on Vita & Virginia, Michael Frayn's Noises Off, Mental health in gaming, Ode to Joy
Wed 3 Jul 2019
New film Vita & Virginia, Noises Off, mental health in gaming, the story of Ode to Joy
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Howard Jacobson; Othello Remixed; Museum of the Year shortlister - St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff
Tue 2 Jul 2019
Howard Jacobson, Othello Remixed, MOTY St Fagans National Museum of History in Cardiff
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Cornelia Funke, V&A Dundee, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Mon 1 Jul 2019
Inkheart writer Cornelia Funke on Pan's Labyrinth, a collaboration with Guillermo del Toro
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Todd Douglas Miller, 50 years of queer books, Cultural and political memes
Fri 28 Jun 2019
Todd Douglas Miller on his documentary Apollo 11 which uses previously unseen archive
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Kate Atkinson, YA fiction controversy, Queer writing in the noughties
Thu 27 Jun 2019
Novelist Kate Atkinson on her new Jackson Brodie thriller, Big Sky.
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In Fabric, Queer books of the '90s, HMS Caroline, A forgotten female script
Wed 26 Jun 2019
In Fabric stars a red dress with murderous intent. Front Row reviews the new horror film.
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British-Vietnamese playwright Tuyen Do, Cindy Sherman exhibition, Michael Jackson 10 years on, Queer Books - the 80s
Tue 25 Jun 2019
British-Vietnamese playwright Tuyen Do, Cindy Sherman, Michael Jackson, Queer Books - 80s.
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Cardiff Singer of the World 2019, 50 years of queer books, Museum of the Year nominee Pitt Rivers
Mon 24 Jun 2019
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Cardiff Singer of the World winner Andrei Kymach, queer literature of the 1970s
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Richard Curtis's Film Yesterday, a summer solstice poem, Bradford Literature Festival protests
Fri 21 Jun 2019
Richard Curtis on his new film, Yesterday, and The Beatles, the rom-com and time itself
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Lee Krasner, Ben Platt, Chasing Rainbows
Thu 20 Jun 2019
Abstract expressionist Lee Krasner's life and art discussed
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