Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
Episodes to download
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Stephen Frears and Ali Fazal, Pears' Cyclopaedia final edition, Jeff Pope on Cilla
Mon 11 Sep 2017
Victoria and Abdul, the last edition of Pears' Cyclopaedia, and Cilla The Musical.
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Joanne Froggatt, Darren Aronofsky, 25 years of Classic FM
Fri 8 Sep 2017
Downton Abbey's Joanne Froggatt, and Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky.
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Marian Keyes, Tim Roth, Joe Lycett
Thu 7 Sep 2017
Marian Keyes on her new novel The Break, and Tim Roth on Tin Star.
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Roddy Doyle, Heroes in TV dramas, Stephen King's IT
Wed 6 Sep 2017
Roddy Doyle, Stephen King's IT film, heroes in TV dramas and the art of sports commentary.
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Woman's Hour Craft Exhibition, Lloyd Dorfman, Karen McCarthy Woolf, John Ashbery
Tue 5 Sep 2017
Woman's Hour Craft Exhibition at the V&A; poets John Ashbery and Karen McCarthy Woolf.
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Suranne Jones returns as Doctor Foster, Lancashire's Fabrications Festival, Josephine Barstow on Sondheim's Follies
Mon 4 Sep 2017
Doctor Foster is back; Stephen Sondheim's Follies; remembering Steely Dan's Walter Becker.
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Patti Cake$, Lord of the Flies, Nicole Krauss, James Ngcobo
Fri 1 Sep 2017
Nicole Krauss' new novel, an all-female Lord of the Flies, James Ngcobo on The Suitcase.
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Brian Cox on playing real people, Author Omar Robert Hamilton, Game of Thrones legacy, Venice Film Festival opening
Thu 31 Aug 2017
Brian Cox, Omar Robert Hamilton, Game of Thrones legacy and Venice Film Festival.
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Composer Alma Deutscher, Bake Off's return, Controversial statues, Last Days of June
Wed 30 Aug 2017
Twelve-year-old composer, pianist and violinist Alma Deutscher talks to Kirsty Lang.
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Stan Laurel novel; Tanika Gupta; film Una; Ed Skrein Walks Away
Tue 29 Aug 2017
Tanika Gupta play; John Connolly on Stan Laurel; Una review; Ed Skrein & whitewashing row.
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Bill Nighy, The ever-changing appeal of Hamlet, Photographer Steve McCurry
Mon 28 Aug 2017
Bill Nighy on his acting style, Janet Suzman on Hamlet, and Steve McCurry on Afghanistan.
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Ronnie Wood, Shakespeare plays on screen, Taylor Swift's new song, Peter Hoeg
Fri 25 Aug 2017
Ronnie Wood on his paintings; Cinematic adaptions of Shakespeare; Taylor Swift's new song.
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Illness in comedy series, Ned Beauman, Thomas Meehan
Thu 24 Aug 2017
Illness in comedy series with Peep Show creator Sam Bain.
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Authors' better, but not-so-famous, books; Kathryn Bigelow; Eric Ravilious; a Shakespeare Sonnet in Pidgin
Tue 22 Aug 2017
Not-so-famous but better books; Kathryn Bigelow; Eric Ravilious; a great sonnet in Pidgin.
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Peter Kosminsky on The State, Ben Whishaw, The secrets of Vermeer's studio
Mon 21 Aug 2017
Peter Kosminsky on his new jihadi drama; Ben Whishaw on playing an aerospace billionaire.
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Lucy Porter, Martin Creed, and Soweto Gospel Choir on stage at the Edinburgh Festival
Fri 18 Aug 2017
Comedian Lucy Porter and comedy tutor Jojo Sutherland give John a lesson in stand-up.
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Edinburgh International Books Festival: Val McDermid talks to Paul Auster and Denise Mina
Thu 17 Aug 2017
Val McDermid at Edinburgh International Books Festival with Paul Auster and Denise Mina.
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John Eliot Gardiner, Apphia Campbell, The Nature of Forgetting, Reviewing at the Edinburgh Festivals
Wed 16 Aug 2017
Live from Edinburgh with guests including Sir John Eliot Gardiner on Monteverdi at 450.
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Shappi Khorsandi and Gillian Clarke on stage in the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Big Blue Tent at the Edinburgh Festival
Mon 14 Aug 2017
Shappi Khorsandi and Nassim Soleimanpour in front of a live audience in Edinburgh.
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Henry Goodman as Lucien Freud, Isaac Julien, Lawrence Osborne, Nikesh Shukla, Sarah Shaffi
Thu 10 Aug 2017
Henry Goodman as Lucien Freud, YA BAME writers, Isaac Julien, Lawrence Osborne.
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Philippa Gregory, Regina Spektor, TV's Eden and Rebecca Root's Queer Icon
Tue 8 Aug 2017
Regina Spektor plays live; author Philippa Gregory; TV's Eden; plus Rebecca Root.
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Trust Me writer Dan Sefton, Atomic Blonde, Colm Toibin's Queer Icon, Posthumous publishing
Mon 7 Aug 2017
Trust Me, posthumous publishing, a review of Atomic Blonde, and Colm Toibin's Queer Icon.
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Irvine Welsh's Performers, Bookshop economics, England Is Mine, CN Lester on Stone Butch Blues
Fri 4 Aug 2017
Irvine Welsh, Bookshop economics, Morrissey's early years and CN Lester's Queer Icon.
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Stockard Channing, Matisse in the Studio, Thomas Ades, representations of war
Thu 3 Aug 2017
Actor Stockard Channing on her new stage role, feminism and the enduring power of Grease.
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Emergency services on screen; plus Sally Hawkins, Josette Bushell-Mingo, and Damian Barr
Wed 2 Aug 2017
Emergency services on screen; plus Sally Hawkins, Josette Bushell-Mingo, and Damian Barr.
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Writer Bernard MacLaverty, Nicholas Hytner's Queer Icon, Riding the Mail Rail
Tue 1 Aug 2017
Nicholas Hytner's Queer Icon, writer Bernard MacLaverty, riding the Mail Rail.
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David Walliams, Jeanne Moreau and Sam Shepard remembered, Zinzi Clemmons, Jukebox musicals
Mon 31 Jul 2017
David Walliams on Gangsta Granny, and Jeanne Moreau and Sam Shepard remembered.
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