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Front Row Episodes

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    Was 1975 the best year for music?

    Sarah Moss, the latest on the Elgin Marbles, was 1975 the best year for music?

  2. Twin Peaks creator plus Ian Rankin on Frederick Forsyth

    Discussing the legacy of David Lynch's ground-breaking cult television series

  3. Review show: Paris Lees drama What It Feels Like for a Girl

    Plus reviews of Lollipop movie and Atmosphere, the new novel from Taylor Jenkins Reid.

  4. Daisy Goodwin on her play about the late Queen and her dresser

    Daisy Goodwin on her play about the late Queen and her dresser, By Royal Appointment.

  5. Nick Mohammed on comedy and improvisation

    Nick Mohammed talks about his comedy stand-up show and new film Deep Cover.

  6. Fiddler on the Roof returns to the stage

    Samira discusses the Olivier award-winning production of Fiddler on the Roof.

  7. Imelda Staunton in Mrs Warren's Profession

    Samira Ahmed and guests review Imelda Staunton in Mrs Warren's Profession

  8. Paul Hartnoll of Orbital on the band's Brown album, and a new biography of Muriel Spark.

    Paul Hartnoll of Orbital on the band's Brown album, and a new biography of Muriel Spark.

  9. Will Butler formerly of Arcade Fire on his play set in a recording studio

    Stereophonic play, Skin from Skunk Anansie on their new album, Joseph Wright exhibition.

  10. Alison Steadman live from Hay Festival

    Live from the Hay Festival, Alison Steadman talks to Samira about her career

  11. Mission Impossible & Benicio Del Toro

    Benicio Del Toro on his role in Wes Anderson's film The Phoenician Scheme.

  12. Shirley Manson of Garbage

    Shirley Manson of Garbage, Winner of the International Booker Prize, Artist Jeremy Deller.

  13. Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyonc茅

    Musician Rhiannon Giddens returns to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyonc茅.

  14. Joanne Harris on the return of Chocolat

    Joanne Harris on the return of Chocolat, Cannes Film Festival, and art from ancient India.

  15. Review: Sondheim's final musical Here We Are, The Marching Band, Daniel Kehlmann's The Director

    Stephen Sondheim's final musical, Here We Are, is one of the week's highlights reviewed.

  16. Ocean with Attenborough, Garden Design, Turning Contemporary Politics into Opera

    Ocean with Attenborough, the history and future of gardens, new opera inspired by politics

  17. Morcheeba perform, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway 100th anniversary

    Writer Elif 艦hafak on Mrs Dalloway at 100, Morcheeba's acoustic version of Call For Love.

  18. Suzanne Vega sings in the studio, P Diddy trial, Mother Courage in County Durham

    Suzanne Vega performs a track from her new album, in the Front Row studio.

  19. Review, The Wedding Banquet, Isabel Allende, The Brightening Air

    Reviews of a new remake of The Wedding Banquet, and a new Isabel Allende novel.

  20. Leni Riefenstahl, Queen Elizabeth Memorial, Keli

    Leni Riefenstahl documentary, digital designs for Queen Elizabeth's memorial and Keli.

  21. Hamlet Radiohead mashup, Stoke-on-Trent pottery in crisis

    A new production of Hamlet created in collaboration with Thom Yorke from Radiohead

  22. A snapshot of culture on VE Day 1945

    The music, books, films and theatre that defined VE Day 1945.

  23. Review: John Lennon docs, Tina Fey's The Four Seasons and The Great Gatsby musical

    John Lennon's life after The Beatles explored in two documentaries, plus The Great Gatsby.

  24. King James VI & I, Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, The Extraordinary Miss Flower

    An exhibition about James VI of Scotland and I of England sheds new light on the monarch.

  25. Noddy Holder of Slade, Stephen Rea and Simone de Beauvoir

    Stephen Rea on performing Beckett, and Noddy Holder discusses cult film Slade in Flame.

  26. Universal Theme Park, Olivier award-winning play Giant, Two to One

    Mark Rosenblatt talks about his Olivier award-winning play about Roald Dahl, Giant.

  27. Review: Self Esteem's album A Complicated Woman; RSC's Much Ado About Nothing; Julie Keeps Quiet tennis film

    Reviews of Self Esteem's third album and the RSC's football-themed Much Ado About Nothing.

  28. The ethics of publishing posthumous diaries, Pianist Igor Levit, and Memorials to great women.

    Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

  29. Dante's Inferno in Jamaica, Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time re-examined, Shakespeare's first theatre

    Jamaica's former poet laureate, Lorna Goodison on Dante's Inferno.

  30. JMW Turner: 250th anniversary of Britain's greatest painter

    Mike Leigh and Alvaro Barrington on the life and influence of landscape artist JMW Turner.

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