Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Maxine Peake, Gillian Lynne remembered, Whitney documentaries
Mon 2 Jul 2018
Maxine Peake on her new play Queens of the Coal Age, and a tribute to Dame Gillian Lynne.
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Fun 蜜芽传媒, Portrayal of lesbians in drama, Caryl Phillips, Tate St Ives
Fri 29 Jun 2018
We review the stage musical adaption of Alison Bechdel's memoir Fun 蜜芽传媒.
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Japan Special: Ryuichi Sakomoto, Japanese Short Stories, Sou Fujimoto
Thu 28 Jun 2018
Ryuichi Sakomoto on his extraordinary career in music and beyond.
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Bartlett Sher and The King and I, Olivia Laing, Museum of the Year report
Wed 27 Jun 2018
The King and I director Bartlett Sher, and Olivia Laing on her debut novel Crudo.
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Michael Jackson at the National Portrait Gallery, Kynren in Bishop Auckland
Tue 26 Jun 2018
Michael Jackson's personal photographer Todd Gray talks to John Wilson.
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Duran Duran, The Bradford Literature Festival, Stained Glass artist Brian Clarke, and the Poetry of Sun and Summer
Mon 25 Jun 2018
John Taylor and Roger Taylor on 40 years of making music in Duran Duran.
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Fly by Night, Tim Winton, Poems by teenagers, Music discovered in a painting
Fri 22 Jun 2018
Fly by Night pigeon art, Tim Winton's new novel, Kate Clanchy and her student poets.
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James Corden, Poet Raymond Antrobus, Arts Minister Michael Ellis
Thu 21 Jun 2018
James Corden talks to John Wilson about bringing his Late Late Show to London.
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Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain, GLOW star Kate Nash, Pop-up arts
Wed 20 Jun 2018
Singer and GLOW star Kate Nash, and model-turned-photographer Lee Miller and Surrealism.
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Caitlin Moran, Beyonce and Jay-Z's new album, National Youth Folk Ensemble, Frank Styles
Tue 19 Jun 2018
Caitlin Moran on her latest novel How to be Famous about fame, Britpop and revenge porn.
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Snatches, Carnegie Prize Winner, Best New Video Games, Glasgow School of Art fire
Mon 18 Jun 2018
Vicky Featherstone on Snatches, celebrating the lives of women over the past 100 years.
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Frida Kahlo, Fly by Night, Queer Eye, Cats in literature
Fri 15 Jun 2018
The new Frida Kahlo exhibition Making Her Self Up at the V&A and Queer Eye on TV.
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Ocean's 8, Football kit design, Tacita Dean on drawing, Classical pianist Alexis Ffrench on hip-hop
Thu 14 Jun 2018
Ocean's 8 reviewed, football kit, hip-hop's lesson for the classics, the art of drawing.
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Eddie Izzard, Wilko Johnson and novelist Benjamin Markovits
Wed 13 Jun 2018
Comedian Eddie Izzard talks about why he is reading all of Dickens' novels aloud.
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Timothy Spall, Tracy Chapman's Fast Car turns 30, Novelist Lissa Evans
Mon 11 Jun 2018
Timothy Spall on playing every part in his new film Stanley, a Man of Variety.
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Pieter-Dirk Uys, Joan Bakewell and Christopher Frayling on older audiences, Ga毛l Faye
Fri 8 Jun 2018
South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys on his new autobiographical show.
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Rupert Everett, Abir Mukherjee, Sex and the City 20 years on
Thu 7 Jun 2018
Rupert Everett on writing, directing and playing Oscar Wilde in The Happy Prince.
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Women's Prize for Fiction winner, Jurassic World, Sunderland musician Nadine Shah, The Future Library
Wed 6 Jun 2018
Front Row announces and interviews the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.
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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Shebeen in Nottingham, Will Sharpe, Vampyr video game
Tue 5 Jun 2018
The 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition opens and is reviewed by Jacky Klein.
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David Edgar, Women's non-fiction writing, Art in the aftermath of World War One
Mon 4 Jun 2018
Playwright David Edgar at 70, Art in the wake of WW1, Women's non-fiction writing.
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Orlando Bloom, Grief as muse, Antony Gormley, Novello Award-winning rapper Dave.
Fri 1 Jun 2018
Orlando Bloom on his return to the stage as a cop and assassin in Killer Joe.
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Westminster Abbey, The culture of the countryside, Gillian Allnutt
Thu 31 May 2018
A visit to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey.
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Ang茅lique Kidjo, Book Club reviewed, Roseanne controversy, novelist Anuradha Roy
Wed 30 May 2018
Beninese singer-songwriter Ang茅lique Kidjo performs live and the film Book Club reviewed.
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Fran莽ois Ozon's L'Amant Double, Patrick Heron, Rachel Kushner
Tue 29 May 2018
Fran莽ois Ozon on his latest film, the psychological thriller L'Amant Double.
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Dame Cleo Laine
Mon 28 May 2018
At the age of 90, jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine looks back at her extraordinary career.
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Akram Khan, Egon Schiele and Francesca Woodman exhibition, soldier-turned-novelist Kevin Powers
Fri 25 May 2018
Akram Khan shows us his home studio and discusses a life in dance.
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Orla Kiely, British Asian theatre, Belinda Bauer
Thu 24 May 2018
Designer Orla Kiely on her famous Stem graphics.
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Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge on Star Wars, Andrew Sean Greer, Comic novels
Tue 22 May 2018
Phoebe Waller-Bridge on being L3, a female droid in the latest Star Wars episode.
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Ian McKellen, The Handmaid's Tale Season 2, Bill Gold remembered, Tishani Doshi
Mon 21 May 2018
Ian McKellen on life as an actor, review of The Handmaid's Tale Season 2, Tishani Doshi.
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