Front Row Podcast
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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23/03/2017
Thu 23 Mar 2017
Charlotte Rampling, Moira Buffini, The Clearing, and the politics of Eurovision.
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Paula Rego, Danny Huston, Ghetto Film School
Wed 22 Mar 2017
Nick Willing on his mother, the artist Paula Rego; Actor Danny Huston; Ghetto Film School.
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Soaps and social issues, Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzalez, Colin Dexter remembered
Tue 21 Mar 2017
Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzalez on the ghosts of the Chateau Marmont Hotel.
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Chuck Berry remembered, The Lost City of Z, Howard Hodgkin portraits, Poem for the Spring equinox
Mon 20 Mar 2017
Ray Mears reviews the film The Lost City of Z. Chuck Berry remembered.
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Derek Walcott, Costume Designer Jenny Beavan, Playlists
Fri 17 Mar 2017
Kirsty Lang discusses the work of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott.
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Get Out, Lost Without Words, Compton Verney, Music Streaming
Thu 16 Mar 2017
Get Out reviewed,Joan Bakewell on older actors,Compton Verney's Creating The Countryside
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Beauty and the Beast, Dave Spikey, Big Bang Theory prequel, Josef Locke
Wed 15 Mar 2017
Bill Condon on making Beauty and the Beast, comedian Dave Spikey's unusual lucky mascot.
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Saxophonist John Harle, The Salesman reviewed, Singer-songwriter ESKA
Tue 14 Mar 2017
John Harle on how to play the saxophone, The Salesman, singer-songwriters.
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Professor Brian Cox, Sarah Dunant on Michelangelo, My Country, The UK charts
Mon 13 Mar 2017
Turning science into an art form with Brian Cox, and Sarah Dunant responds to Michelangelo
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Paul Weller, Duncan Macmillan on City of Glass, Catfight, My Feral Heart
Fri 10 Mar 2017
Paul Weller on composing his first film score, Duncan Macmillan on adapting Paul Auster.
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Howard Hodgkin remembered; Imogen Cooper; Edward Albee
Thu 9 Mar 2017
Classical pianist Imogen Cooper plays live in the studio.
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Roger McGough and Brian Patten on 50 years of The Mersey Sound, Lizzie Nunnery, Andrew McMillan
Wed 8 Mar 2017
Roger McGough and Brian Patten on The Mersey Sound, Lizzie Nunnery, Andrew McMillan.
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Judith Kerr on The Cat in the Hat; Wolfgang Tillmans; Snow in Midsummer
Tue 7 Mar 2017
Authors Judith Kerr and Chris Riddell discuss Dr Seuss; artist Wolfgang Tillmans.
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Sean Foley directs The Miser, Kate Whitley sets Malala's speech to music, Sonia Friedman and David Babani
Mon 6 Mar 2017
Sean Foley directs Moliere, Malala's UN speech as a choral piece.
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Stormzy, Cornelia Parker, Krzysztof Penderecki
Fri 3 Mar 2017
British grime and hip hop artist Stormzy on his new album.
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Tom Hiddleston, This Country, Certain Women, Gustav Metzger remembered
Thu 2 Mar 2017
Tom Hiddleston on Kong: Skull Island; Charlie and Daisy May Cooper on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½3's This Country.
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Hugh Jackman, National Poet of Wales Ifor ap Glyn, Richard Bean
Wed 1 Mar 2017
Kirsty Lang talks to Hugh Jackman about the film Logan.
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Jojo Moyes, Prime Suspect 1973, Independent bookstores, Swan Lake in Hull
Tue 28 Feb 2017
It took nine novels before Jojo Moyes found success; fancy being a cygnet in Hull?
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Moonlight at the Oscars, Mary Beard, Author Ross Raisin, Mary Magdalene in art
Mon 27 Feb 2017
Moonlight at the Oscars, Mary Beard, author Ross Raisin, Mary Magdalene in art.
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Sadiq Khan, Jake Arnott, The Tale of Januarie opera
Fri 24 Feb 2017
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Jake Arnott on The Fatal Tree, The Tale of Januarie opera.
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John Cleese, A first for Jay Z, Electricity: The spark of life
Thu 23 Feb 2017
Monty Python's John Cleese on farce. Jay Z is inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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David Tennant, second novels, Brits and Oscars - who are they for?
Wed 22 Feb 2017
David Tennant on Broadchurch, Britain's favourite second novel and are awards irrelevant?
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Gurinder Chadha on Viceroy's House, America after the Fall, Christopher Bailey
Tue 21 Feb 2017
Gurinder Chadha on her film Viceroy's House, and American Gothic at the Royal Academy.
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Patriots Day, Stephen Karam, EU Baroque Orchestra, Syria documentaries
Mon 20 Feb 2017
Patriots Day, playwright Stephen Karam, EU Baroque Orchestra, documentaries about Syria.
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Gary Barlow's The Girls, SS-GB, Sidney Nolan, The Great Wall
Fri 17 Feb 2017
Reassessing body confidence with Gary Barlow as The Girls, his first musical, opens.
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The Founder, Neil Jordan, See Me Now, Luke Jerram's Treasured City
Thu 16 Feb 2017
Neil Jordan, See Me Now, Luke Jerram's Treasured City, Robert Siegel on The Founder.
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John Adams
Wed 15 Feb 2017
John Wilson talks to the American composer John Adams about his life and work.
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Eduardo Paolozzi, Self-publishing, Neil Gaiman
Tue 14 Feb 2017
John Wilson explores the work of the artist Eduardo Paolozzi.
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Hidden Figures, Dirty Dancing writer, Muslim Othello, Simon Armitage
Mon 13 Feb 2017
The film Hidden Figures reviewed, and Dirty Dancing writer Eleanor Bergstein 30 years on.
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Keanu Reeves, Chad Stahelski, Petrograd Madonna, Rag'n'Bone Man
Fri 10 Feb 2017
Keanu Reeves on his three decade career, from Hamlet to action hero John Wick.
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