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Front Row Episodes

  1. 09/10/2001

    Playwright August Wilson discusses his attitude to writing.

  2. Ian McEwan

    Mark Lawson talks to writer Ian McEwan about his work in a programme from 2001.

  3. Sir Paul McCartney

    Sir Paul McCartney talks about the lyrics to some of the Beatles' most famous songs.

  4. Bread and Roses review; Irvine Welsh; Artemis Fowl

    Author Irvine Welsh discusses his life and work with Mark Lawson.

  5. Anna Friel in Lulu; 15 Minutes review; Doris Lessing; Stories of the Woods

    Doris Lessing discusses her life and career with Mark Lawson.

  6. 08/11/2000

    Mark Lawson talks to author Margaret Atwood about winning the Booker Prize for Fiction.

  7. 13/07/2000

    Dave Eggers author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius talks to Mark Lawson.

  8. 11/06/1999

    Tom Wolfe explains the ideas behind new journalism.

  9. 05/04/1999

    Gore Vidal discusses writing and politics.

  10. Stephen King

    Stephen King, the world's best-selling author, talks about a life of horror in 1998

  11. When Mary Beard met Margaret Atwood

    Mary Beard meets the acclaimed Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood for Front Row Late

  12. TV: Colin from Accounts; Musical: Why Am I So Single? Hak Baker performs

    The writers of Why Am I So Single and SIX talks about writing hit musicals

  13. Sky Peals film, documentary Doom Scroll, & could a book written 100 years ago be the ultimate millennial read?

    Jazz age novel, Ex-Wife - have we rediscovered a classic?

  14. Sky Peals film, documentary Doom Scroll, & could a book written 100 years ago be the ultimate millennial read?

    Jazz age novel, Ex-Wife - have we rediscovered a classic?

  15. Sir Tom Stoppard

    Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard discusses his play, Leopoldstadt, in an extended interview.

  16. Samantha Spiro as Barbara Windsor, Lost sculpture of the Festival of Britiain and a retro album from Danger Mouse

    John Wilson talks to Samantha Spiro about playing Barbara Windsor

  17. Queer Icons

    Highlights from Front Row's Queer Icons project, presented by Alan Carr.

  18. Paulo Coelho, Your Name, Turner Contemporary, the art of writing non-fiction

    Front Row - Paulo Coelho, Your Name, Turner Contemporary, the art of writing non-fiction

  19. Oliver Stone

    Film director Oliver Stone speaks to Tom Sutcliffe about his long film career

  20. Martin Scorsese

    The legendary film director on masculinity, music and redemption in The Irishman.

  21. Inspire Artist Commissions: Alison Brackenbury, Vaseem Khan, Testament

    Special edition podcast looking back over a five week challenge for three artists.

  22. Front Row Special: Rachmaninoff 鈥� the 20th century鈥檚 great romantic

    Celebrating the music of composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.

  23. Front Row 25th March 2019

    Front Row 25th March 2019

  24. Front Row

    Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook, the Louvre in Abu Dhabi plus film director Yorgos Lanthimos

  25. Deadpool & Wolverine, Cherry Jones, Leyla McCalla

    Cherry Jones on staging John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath today

  26. David Attenborough, Andrew Lincoln, War Artists

    Kirsty Lang talks to David Attenborough and to the actor Andrew Lincoln.

  27. Costa Book Awards Special: Jon McGregor, Katherine Rundell, Rebecca Stott, Helen Dunmore and Gail Honeyman

    A special episode featuring the five category winners of the Costa Book Awards 2017

  28. Contains Strong Language Festival in Birmingham with Linton Kwesi Johnson, Peaky Blinders dance & poet Annaliese Broughton

    Dub poet and performer Linton Kwesi Johnson talks to Nick Ahad ahead of his 70th birthday.

  29. Christy Lefteri's The Book of Fire, Artistic Directors in theatre, Palestinian Embroidery

    Fiction inspired by climate change, pressures on theatres, Palestinian embroidery

  30. As a generation of choreographers pass, we hear from the new generation rising

    Front Row marks the deaths of three great choreographers.

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