Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Mowgli, American poet Dana Gioia, Art on prescription
Thu 29 Nov 2018
Review of the film Mowgli starring Andy Serkis, Cate Blanchett and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Disobedience, Rachel Maclean, Juli谩n Fuks, Diversity Backstage
Wed 28 Nov 2018
Review of the film adaptation of Disobedience, starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams
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Sports Book of the Year, Jim Carrey in Kidding, Astral Weeks at 50
Tue 27 Nov 2018
30 years of William Hill Sports Book of the Year, and 50 of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks
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Jamie Dornan, Bernardo Bertolucci remembered, Joseph Hillier
Mon 26 Nov 2018
Actor Jamie Dornan, Bernardo Bertolucci remembered, the UK's largest sculpture
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Mrs Wilson, Vegan Art, Akwaeke Emezi
Fri 23 Nov 2018
We review Ruth Wilson in the 蜜芽传媒 drama Mrs Wilson, in which she plays her own grandmother.
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2018 Palme d鈥橭r winner Shoplifters, Costa Book Awards shortlist announced, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
Thu 22 Nov 2018
We review Japanese film Shoplifters, winner of the 2018 Palme d鈥橭r at the Cannes festival.
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Kurt Russell on playing Santa, Poet Ruth Fainlight, Damien Hirst's Qatar sculptures
Tue 20 Nov 2018
Kurt Russell on The Christmas Chronicles, poet Ruth Fainlight
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Marianne Faithfull, I'm a Celebrity without Ant, Kirsty Latoya
Mon 19 Nov 2018
Marianne Faithfull on her new album, Negative Capability.
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Jane Fonda
Fri 16 Nov 2018
Jane Fonda, the two-time Academy Award-winning actress, looks back at her 60-year career.
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Golden Age of Irish Prose - North and South of the Border, Hepworth Sculpture Prize Winner
Thu 15 Nov 2018
Irish writing north and south of the border - a golden age of prose?
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Arts Education in schools - a Front Row debate from Leicester
Wed 14 Nov 2018
Stig Abell chairs a debate about the current state of arts education in schools.
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Fantastic Beasts 2, Viruses turned into art, Fernand L茅ger, Heart of Darkness
Tue 13 Nov 2018
Fantastic Beasts 2 review, viruses turned into art, Fernand L茅ger, Heart of Darkness.
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The Coen Brothers, stage fright, The Interrogation of Tony Martin
Mon 12 Nov 2018
Joel and Ethan Coen on their homage to the western The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
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Helena Bonham Carter, Ben Schott, 11-11: Memories Retold video game
Fri 9 Nov 2018
Helena Bonham Carter on how she drew on her own experience of depression for film 55 Steps
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Marin Alsop, Russell Howard, Political cartoonists
Thu 8 Nov 2018
Conductor Marin Alsop on Brahms's A German Requiem, and comedian Russell Howard.
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Danny Boyle's Armistice Day tribute, White Teeth the musical, singer-songwriter and poet Emily Maguire
Wed 7 Nov 2018
White Teeth, the musical, Danny Boyle's Armistice Day tribute, singer Emily Maguire
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Steve McQueen, Erica Whyman on Romeo and Juliet, Gender-swapped theatre
Mon 5 Nov 2018
Steve McQueen on heist thriller Widows.
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Boy George, Colourisation of film, John Cooper Clarke
Fri 2 Nov 2018
Boy George on Culture Club's first album for nearly two decades.
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Cecelia Ahern, The world's tallest statue, Pansori opera, 蜜芽传媒coming TV adaptation
Thu 1 Nov 2018
Best-selling Irish novelist Cecelia Ahern discusses her new short story collection, Roar
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Wilfred Owen Commemoration, Markus Zusak, Sarah DeLappe
Wed 31 Oct 2018
Wilfred Owen's life and work remembered through art, 100 years since his death.
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Dark Heart, La Traviata, Parks and concerts
Tue 30 Oct 2018
Chris Lang's new TV drama Dark Heart reviewed, and Chris Addison on La Traviata.
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Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsg氓rd in The Little Drummer Girl, Darkness and writing, Tom Odell
Mon 29 Oct 2018
Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsg氓rd discuss the TV adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl
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Thom Yorke, Audiobooks and reading, Beetlejuice at 30
Fri 26 Oct 2018
If you've listened to an audiobook, can you say you've read the book?
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Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, Composer Howard Blake, Hepworth Prize for Sculpture
Thu 25 Oct 2018
Biopic of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody, reviewed
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Mike Leigh on Peterloo, CJ Sansom, The rise of adult gaming
Tue 23 Oct 2018
Mike Leigh discusses his latest film Peterloo, about the 1819 massacre in Manchester
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Author Luke Jennings on his Killing Eve trilogy, Disgusting artworks, Maggie Gyllenhaal on The Deuce
Mon 22 Oct 2018
How have artists used disgust in their work to both enthral and repel the viewer?
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Eric Idle, Halloween, Cicely Berry remembered, The House of Commons library
Thu 18 Oct 2018
Python Eric Idle on his autobiography. The 11th film in the Halloween franchise reviewed.
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Gerard Butler, Male body in movies, Novelist Olga Tokarczuk
Wed 17 Oct 2018
Gerard Butler and the male body in movies - is bigger always better?
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Playing Linda Loman, Informer, Geology-inspired art, Ciar谩n Hodgers
Tue 16 Oct 2018
Playing Linda Loman, Informer review, art inspired by geology, Ciar谩n Hodgers
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#MeToo one year on - what's changed in the arts?
Mon 15 Oct 2018
One year on from the beginning of the #MeToo movement, what's changed? Daniel York Loh
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