Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Episodes to download
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The Lehman Trilogy, Now That's What I Call Music 100, Zaffar Kunial
Thu 19 Jul 2018
Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles on The Lehman Trilogy play.
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Alan Bennett and Nicholas Hytner, Diversity in children's fiction, Yves Klein at Blenheim Place
Wed 18 Jul 2018
Alan Bennett and director Nicholas Hytner discuss their new play Allelujah!
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Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America?, Glasgow School of Art Rebuild, Anita Corbin, China's Most Expensive Film Flops
Tue 17 Jul 2018
The verdict on Sacha Baron Cohen's new TV series and rebuilding the Glasgow School of Art.
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Pierce Brosnan on Mamma Mia, Irish arts funding, Summer reads
Mon 16 Jul 2018
Pierce Brosnan on his role in the Mamma Mia sequel, and arts funding news from Ireland.
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Agn猫s Varda, The rise of grime, Artistic superstitions
Fri 13 Jul 2018
Agn猫s Varda on her life in film and art.
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Eve Myles, Bernie Taupin, This Class Works exhibition
Thu 12 Jul 2018
Eve Myles on Welsh-noir thriller Keeping Faith.
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Singer Olly Alexander, Veteran documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, Can a critic call an actor overweight?
Wed 11 Jul 2018
Olly Alexander from Years and Years discusses the band's new album Palo Santo and performs
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Oliver Knussen remembered, Natalie Dormer, Life modelling
Mon 9 Jul 2018
Mark Anthony Turnage and Roger Wright remember the life and work of Oliver Knussen.
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100 Poems by Seamus Heaney, Jesse Jones, Ulysses at the Abbey Theatre
Fri 6 Jul 2018
Seamus Heaney's wife and daughter talk about gathering his poems in a new collection.
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Rob Brydon on Swimming With Men, Laura Wade, Ferens Art Gallery
Thu 5 Jul 2018
Rob Brydon on the set of film Swimming With Men, playwright Laura Wade, Claude Lanzmann.
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Emily Mortimer, Man Booker Prize at 50, Glasgow Women's Library
Wed 4 Jul 2018
Actor Emily Mortimer on a new film adaption of Penelope Fitzgerald's The Bookshop.
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Film director Haifaa al-Mansour, Sharp Objects, Brooklands Museum, Holiday reads
Tue 3 Jul 2018
Saudi Arabia's first female director, Haifa al-Mansour.
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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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