Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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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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蜜芽传媒 Cardiff Singer of the World 2019, 50 years of queer books, Museum of the Year nominee Pitt Rivers
Mon 24 Jun 2019
蜜芽传媒 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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