Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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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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Paul Greengrass on 22 July, Lisa Hammond and Rachael Spence, How can arts organisations thrive?
Fri 12 Oct 2018
Paul Greengrass on 22 July, his film about the Norwegian terrorist attack on a summer camp
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Desiree Akhavan, Bad Times at the El Royale, 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize, Mother Courage
Thu 11 Oct 2018
Desiree Akhavan on the challenges of writing, directing and starring in The Bisexual.
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Reading and Mental Health
Wed 10 Oct 2018
A special on how reading improves mental health, with Marian Keyes and Russell Kane.
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The swimming pool in art, Kwame Kwei-Armah's Twelfth Night, Poet Jean Sprackland
Tue 9 Oct 2018
The role that the swimming pool plays in film and art.
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Bernard Cribbins, Claire Foy and Ryan Gosling on First Man, Butterfly
Mon 8 Oct 2018
Bernard Cribbins on his autobiography and Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy discuss First Man
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Jodie Whittaker on Doctor Who, Quentin Blake, Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore
Fri 5 Oct 2018
Jodie Whittaker on regenerating as the 13th Doctor, and the dark art of Quentin Blake
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Alice Walker, Yayoi Kusama and a poem for National Poetry Day from Sean Street
Thu 4 Oct 2018
Alice Walker, artist Yayoi Kusama and a new poem for National Poetry Day from Sean Street
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The art of physical comedy, Damien Hirst, Andre Aciman, The impact of the arts on mental health
Wed 3 Oct 2018
The art and history of physical comedy: why is the unfortunate mishap hilarious?
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蜜芽传媒 National Short Story Award Winner
Tue 2 Oct 2018
We announce the winners of the 2018 蜜芽传媒 Short Story Awards live from Cambridge University
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Sarah Perry, The Cry, Cultural First Aid
Mon 1 Oct 2018
The Essex Serpent author Sarah Perry discusses her new novel Melmoth, The Cry reviewed
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Contains Strong Language festival, Sean Scully, A Northern Soul
Fri 28 Sep 2018
Front Row live from the Contains Strong Language festival in Hull
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Lord of the Flies, Silence in art, Javier Marias
Thu 27 Sep 2018
Lord of the Flies with an all-female cast, and the significance of silence in art.
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The Goodies, Holst's The Planets at 100, Debris Stevenson
Wed 26 Sep 2018
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie look back at their 70s cult comedy series
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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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