Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Oceania exhibition, Suede, How the police help crime writers
Tue 25 Sep 2018
The first major UK exhibition of art from the Pacific, and former Britpop band Suede
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Cary Fukanaga, Royal Opera House CEO, Nureyev Documentary
Fri 21 Sep 2018
New James Bond director Cary Fukanaga discusses his latest Netflix series, Maniac
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MIA, Man Booker Shortlist, Short Story Award nominee Nell Stevens, Playwright Stephen Jeffreys remembered.
Thu 20 Sep 2018
Kieran Yates reviews Matangi/Maya/MIA, a documentary about the political rapper MIA
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Eileen Atkins, the financial crash and the arts, Denis Norden remembered, Ingrid Persaud
Wed 19 Sep 2018
Eileen Atkins on her latest stage role in Florian Zeller鈥檚 The Height of the Storm
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The Little Stranger, creating art in the dark, and Kiare Ladner, 蜜芽传媒 NSSA nominee
Tue 18 Sep 2018
Director Lenny Abrahamson on his film adaption of Sarah Waters鈥� novel The Little Stranger
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Christine and the Queens, Sarah Hall, Tartuffe set in a Birmingham Muslim community
Mon 17 Sep 2018
Christine and the Queens, Sarah Hall, Tartuffe set in a Birmingham Muslim community
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Killing Eve, 蜜芽传媒 National Short Story Award Shortlist, Ghetts
Fri 14 Sep 2018
Killing Eve, the new series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge, reviewed.
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Crazy Rich Asians, Touching the Void, Novels about the super rich, Leeds Piano Competition
Thu 13 Sep 2018
Touching the Void at the Bristol Old Vic, Crazy Rich Asians.
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Michael Caine, Wagner's music in Israel, V&A Dundee
Wed 12 Sep 2018
Sir Michael Caine looks back on his career in Hollywood.
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Sally Rooney, Trust, Catwalk music, Serena Williams cartoon
Tue 11 Sep 2018
Sally Rooney on her new novel, Normal People, which is winning ecstatic reviews.
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Nick Payne on Wanderlust, YolanDa Brown, Battersea Arts Centre after the fire
Mon 10 Sep 2018
Wanderlust's creator Nick Payne, and BAC's Grand Hall re-opens after the fire in 2015.
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Inspire Artist Commissions: Alison Brackenbury, Vaseem Khan, Testament
Fri 7 Sep 2018
Special edition podcast looking back over a five week challenge for three artists.
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Alison Brackenbury, Vaseem Khan and Testament reveal their finished artworks for the Inspire season
Fri 7 Sep 2018
Three artists unveil the work they've created for Front Row's Inspire season.
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New 蜜芽传媒 drama Press, Kate Tempest, John Wilson learns the art of watercolouring
Thu 6 Sep 2018
Mike Bartlett and Charlotte Riley on new 蜜芽传媒 drama Press; Kate Tempest's new collection.
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Khaled Hosseini, Roxanna Panufnik, The inspiration of dreams
Wed 5 Sep 2018
Composer Roxanna Panufnik on her new CD and writing for the Last Night of the Proms.
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The Seagull, Refashioning Shakespeare, Alison Balsom
Tue 4 Sep 2018
The Seagull review, Reimagining Shakespeare and Alison Balsom's inspirations.
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John Simm, Patrick Ness, Testament
Mon 3 Sep 2018
John Simm on his latest role in TV drama, Strangers.
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Proms at Alexandra Palace, Venice Film Festival, Inspire - myths and legends
Fri 31 Aug 2018
The theatre at Alexandra Palace re-opens after 80 years.
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Nick Leather on Mother's Day, Natasha Carthew, Drawing comic-book characters
Thu 30 Aug 2018
Nick Leather discusses his TV drama Mother's Day, about the Warrington bomb.
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Idris Elba, director; Listed buildings; Stig Abell, poet
Wed 29 Aug 2018
Idris Elba on directing his first film, Yardie. Plus, are there too many listed buildings?
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The muse in history, Andrew Miller, Vanity Fair, Neil Simon remembered
Tue 28 Aug 2018
Andrew Miller on his new novel, Muses in History (part of our Inspire season), Vanity Fair
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Ian McMillan, The internet as a source for horror, Patrick Gale, The end of The Big Bang Theory
Fri 24 Aug 2018
Ian McMillan on graveyard inspiration, and the internet as a setting for horror.
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BSO Resound at the Proms, Edinburgh Comedy Awards shortlist, Creativity and the brain, Melissa Harrison
Thu 23 Aug 2018
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra disabled-led ensemble, Resound, on their Proms debut.
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Bodyguard, Fanfiction, Bryony Lavery's stage adaptation of The Lovely Bones, Vaseem Khan
Wed 22 Aug 2018
We review Jed Mercurio's latest TV drama, Bodyguard, starring Richard Madden.
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BlacKkKlansman, Helen Lederer, Alison Brackenbury, Esi Edugyan
Tue 21 Aug 2018
Spike Lee's film BlacKkKlansman, Helen Lederer, Alison Brackenbury, Esi Edugyan.
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Sir Lenny Henry, Alan Cumming in Instinct, Divine inspiration in the arts
Mon 20 Aug 2018
Sir Lenny Henry looks back at his career on the occasion of his 60th birthday.
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Dwarfs in art, Barbara Rae, Christopher Robin
Fri 17 Aug 2018
How people with dwarfism have been represented in art and culture.
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Aretha Franklin remembered, David Suchet, Laura Mvula and Ben Okri
Thu 16 Aug 2018
Aretha Franklin, the 'Queen of Soul', has died - Front Row assesses her life and work.
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Brian May and Professor Roger Taylor, Doctors' shows at the Fringe, Rachel Parris
Wed 15 Aug 2018
Brian May on his passion for Victorian 3D photography, and three Fringe shows by doctors.
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Live from Edinburgh with drag act Denim, Maggie O'Farrell, Penelope Skinner and Terry O'Donovan
Tue 14 Aug 2018
Drag queen band Denim, Maggie O'Farrell, and dramatizing our online lives.
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