Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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Stronger, Shashi Kapoor, Douglas Henshall, Tokio Myers
Mon 4 Dec 2017
Jake Gyllenhaal in Stronger, the true story of a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Cecilia Bartoli, The Face, Louis CK film
Fri 1 Dec 2017
Cecilia Bartoli and Sol Gabetta on their album intertwining voice and cello, Dolce Duello.
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Sir Michael Parkinson, Wonder, A Christmas Carol
Thu 30 Nov 2017
Michael Parkinson's American Songbook, review of Wonder, adaptations of A Christmas Carol.
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Amy Sherman-Palladino, Hollywood Film Awards Season, Costume Workers
Wed 29 Nov 2017
Screenwriter Amy Sherman-Palladino on her new TV comedy drama, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
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Chinese characters on TV, Actor James Franco, Sports Book of the Year
Tue 28 Nov 2017
James Franco on new film The Disaster Artist about 'the Citizen Kane of bad films'.
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Joyce DiDonato, European Capital of Culture, Puppets in theatre
Mon 27 Nov 2017
Soprano Joyce DiDonato on tackling the vocal pyrotechnics of Rossini.
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Benjamin Clementine performs live
Fri 24 Nov 2017
Benjamin Clementine, Oscar Wilde's Women, and David LaChapelle.
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Inua Ellams on Barber Shop Chronicles, Battle of the Sexes, Charles Causley, Godless
Thu 23 Nov 2017
Inua Ellams on his play Barber Shop Chronicles. Plus a review of TV drama Godless.
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James Bolam on Rodney Bewes, Gilbert & George, Marnie the opera
Wed 22 Nov 2017
Actor James Bolam talks about his Likely Lads co-star, Rodney Bewes, who died yesterday.
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Modigliani, Costa Book Awards shortlists, John Lithgow
Tue 21 Nov 2017
The announcement of the Costa Book Awards shortlists and Modigliani reviewed.
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Cate Blanchett, Priscilla Presley, Arts Manifestos
Mon 20 Nov 2017
Priscilla Presley on forty years of looking after Elvis's legacy, plus Cate Blanchett.
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Fenella Fielding, Gluck, Mona Arshi, Call of Duty
Fri 17 Nov 2017
Fenella Fielding, 90, recalls her famous, steamy Carry On moment, and playing Hedda Gabler
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Noel Gallagher, Poets in Zimbabwe, Surrealism in Egypt
Thu 16 Nov 2017
Noel Gallagher discusses his new album.
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Robert Pattinson, Ian McMillan, the voice behind the puppet, Goldsmiths Prize winner
Wed 15 Nov 2017
Robert Pattinson, Ian McMillan, the voices behind the puppets, Goldsmith Prize winner.
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Dee Rees, Pussy Riot, Theatre governance
Tue 14 Nov 2017
Dee Rees on her film, Mudbound, which explores the racial divide in 1940s Mississippi.
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Annette Bening, Music managers, Drama podcast review
Mon 13 Nov 2017
Annette Bening discusses Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, co-starring Jamie Bell.
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Sheridan Smith, Fred D'Aguiar, Maxine Peake play, UNESCO Creative Cities
Fri 10 Nov 2017
Sheridan Smith on her first solo album.
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Christian Slater and Sam Yates, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, Ivor Wood
Thu 9 Nov 2017
Christian Slater and Sam Yates on Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, Animator Ivor Wood's legacy
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Hugh Grant, Stephen Fry, Hollywood and homosexuality
Wed 8 Nov 2017
Hugh Grant on how his early stage career equipped him to play the villain in Paddington 2.
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Front Row
Tue 7 Nov 2017
Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook, the Louvre in Abu Dhabi plus film director Yorgos Lanthimos
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Kenneth Lonergan on Howards End, The Florida Project, Artists as curators
Mon 6 Nov 2017
Kenneth Lonergan on his adaptation of EM Forster's Howards End.
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Modern fairytales with Joanne Harris and Jonathan Coe; Call Me by Your Name; Catalonian culture
Fri 3 Nov 2017
Writers Joanne Harris and Jonathan Coe on their latest work; Film director Luca Guadagnino
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Kenneth Branagh, Keeping TV secrets, Josie Lawrence, Parents in film
Thu 2 Nov 2017
Kenneth Branagh is Poirot; Josie Lawrence is Mother Courage; Keeping TV secrets.
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Tracey Emin, Minette Walters, Gauguin biopic
Wed 1 Nov 2017
Artist Tracey Emin, author Minette Walters, and a film about French painter Paul Gauguin.
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Lisette Oropesa, Richard Flanagan, Kate MccGwire
Tue 31 Oct 2017
Opera singer Lisette Oropesa, novelist Richard Flanagan, artist Kate MccGwire.
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Bill Bailey, Philip Pullman, Alias Grace
Mon 30 Oct 2017
Bill Bailey tries out the Front Row keyboard. Shahidha Bari talks to Philip Pullman.
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Annie Leibovitz, Andy Serkis, David Bomberg
Fri 27 Oct 2017
Annie Leibovitz on her photographs of a turbulent decade.
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Stranger Things 2, Richard Bean on Young Marx, The Essay
Thu 26 Oct 2017
Richard Bean on his new play Young Marx, and Stranger Things 2 reviewed.
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Women and Sexism in the Arts
Wed 25 Oct 2017
Have the Harvey Weinstein revelations created a watershed moment?
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Taika Waititi on Thor, Art in the Age of Terror, David Adjaye, Eisenstein's October
Tue 24 Oct 2017
Taika Waititi takes on the Marvel universe in his new film, Thor: Ragnarok.
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