Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Margaret Cavendish, Margareth Olin, Christmas TV
Margaret Cavendish, Margreth Olin, Christmas TV
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Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland on Ulster American, Panto and Gender Roles, Graphic Novels with Rachel Cooke and Ian Dunt
Andy Serkis and Louisa Harland on Ulster American, panto and gender roles, graphic novels.
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Benjamin Zephaniah, Wim Wenders' Anselm,The Famous Five, Xmas Ads
Front Row pays tribute to the poet Benjamin Zephaniah.
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Paul King on directing Wonka, Best non-fiction books of 2023, British pop art artist Pauline Boty
Paul King on directing Wonka, Best non-fiction books of 2023, Pop Art artist Pauline Boty.
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Shane Meadows on the British film industry, Children’s books round-up, the Turner Prize
Shane Meadows on the British film industry, Children’s books round-up, the Turner Prize
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Julia Roberts on Leave the World Behind, guitarist MILOÅ , The Peasants
Julia Roberts on Leave the World Behind, guitarist MILOÅ , Hugh Welchman on The Peasants.
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Front Row reviews Eileen and The House of Bernarda Alba
Front Row reviews Eileen and The House of Bernarda Alba
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Billie Marten, Yinka Shonibare, Richard Mantle on Opera North
Sir Richard Mantle on Opera North, Billie Marten performs live, Yinka Shonibare in Leeds.
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AI and publishing, terrible record covers, Fred D'Aguiar
AI and publishing, terrible record covers, Fred D'Aguiar.
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Maria Callas, Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane, Rory Pilgrim
Maria Callas at 100 reassessed, Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane, Rory Pilgrim.
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The Booker Prize Ceremony 2023
A special edition of Front Row, live from the Booker Prize for Fiction.
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Maestro, reality TV Squid Game, Brutalist architecture
Bernstein film Maestro, reality TV Squid Game, proposed Brutalist architecture museum.
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Joanna Hogg, map making, Ghislaine Leung
Joanna Hogg, map making, Ghislaine Leung.
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Ridley Scott's Napoleon, Albert Hall tickets resales, Bob Mortimer's winning comedy fiction
Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music
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The Alehouse Boys, Sarah Bernstein and AS Byatt
The Alehouse Boys rework Schubert, Booker shortlisted author Sarah Bernstein, and AS Byatt
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Annette Bening and Jodie Foster
We review a new book on Amazing Grace and the film Rustin.
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The Barber of Seville in Yorkshire dialect, Art as experience, Turner Prize nominee Jesse Darling, Northern Creative Corridor
The Barber of Seville in Yorkshire dialect; Turner Prize nominee Jesse Darling.
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Emerald Fennell, Lucy Frazer and Paul Harding
Emerald Fennell, Lucy Frazer and Paul Harding.
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Todd Haynes, Trevor Horn, new galleries at the Imperial War Museum
Todd Haynes, Trevor Horn, new galleries at the Imperial War Museum.
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Anatomy of a Fall, Pete McKee, Wu-Tang Clan 30th anniversary
Anatomy of a Fall, Pete McKee on Frank & Joy, Wu-Tang Clan 30th anniversary.
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Front Row reviews 1623, to mark the anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio
Front Row reviews 1623 to mark the anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio.
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Billy Bragg, Paul Murray, feminist art of the 1970s
Billy Bragg, Booker Paul Murray, feminist art of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Rebecca Lucy Taylor aka Self Esteem, Judi Jackson, the rise of the Ghanaian art scene
We take a detailed look at a new Arts Access Scheme.
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Kenneth Branagh in King Lear, Andrew Motion on Elegies
Kenneth Branagh in King Lear, Andrew Motion on Elegies, new Beatles song.
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Henry Winkler, Northern Ballet, David Fennessey
Henry Winkler, Northern Ballet, David Fennessey
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Duran Duran, Dobrivoje Beljkasic at 100 and Sandra Newman on retelling Orwell’s 1984
Duran Duran, Dobrivoje Beljkasic at 100 and Sandra Newman on retelling Orwell’s 1984.
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Backstairs Billy, Jonathan Escoffery, National Theatre Wales
Backstairs Billy, Jonathan Escoffery, and National Theatre Wales.
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David Fincher’s The Killer and the week’s highlights reviewed
Rhianna Dhillon and John Mullan review David Fincher's The Killer and a Fantasy exhibition
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A history of 2 Tone, actor Martin Shaw remembers producer Bill Kenwright, Booker-shortlisted author Chetna Maroo, Lyonesse
A history of 2-Tone, Booker-shortlisted author Chetna Maroo, new play Lyonesse.
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Patrick Stewart, Steven Isserlis, The art of skateboard design
Sir Patrick Stewart, cellist Steven Isserlis, and the art of skateboard design.