Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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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?
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Twin Peaks creator plus Ian Rankin on Frederick Forsyth
Discussing the legacy of David Lynch's ground-breaking cult television series
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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.
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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.
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Nick Mohammed on comedy and improvisation
Nick Mohammed talks about his comedy stand-up show and new film Deep Cover.
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Fiddler on the Roof returns to the stage
Samira discusses the Olivier award-winning production of Fiddler on the Roof.
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Imelda Staunton in Mrs Warren's Profession
Samira Ahmed and guests review Imelda Staunton in Mrs Warren's Profession
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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.
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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.
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Alison Steadman live from Hay Festival
Live from the Hay Festival, Alison Steadman talks to Samira about her career
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Mission Impossible & Benicio Del Toro
Benicio Del Toro on his role in Wes Anderson's film The Phoenician Scheme.
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Shirley Manson of Garbage
Shirley Manson of Garbage, Winner of the International Booker Prize, Artist Jeremy Deller.
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Musician Rhiannon Giddens on returning to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé
Musician Rhiannon Giddens returns to her North Carolina roots after working with Beyoncé.
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Joanne Harris on the return of Chocolat
Joanne Harris on the return of Chocolat, Cannes Film Festival, and art from ancient India.
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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.
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Ocean with Attenborough, Garden Design, Turning Contemporary Politics into Opera
Ocean with Attenborough, the history and future of gardens, new opera inspired by politics
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Morcheeba perform, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway 100th anniversary
Writer Elif Åžhafak on Mrs Dalloway at 100, Morcheeba's acoustic version of Call For Love.
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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.
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Review, The Wedding Banquet, Isabel Allende, The Brightening Air
Reviews of a new remake of The Wedding Banquet, and a new Isabel Allende novel.
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Leni Riefenstahl, Queen Elizabeth Memorial, Keli
Leni Riefenstahl documentary, digital designs for Queen Elizabeth's memorial and Keli.
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Hamlet Radiohead mashup, Stoke-on-Trent pottery in crisis
A new production of Hamlet created in collaboration with Thom Yorke from Radiohead
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A snapshot of culture on VE Day 1945
The music, books, films and theatre that defined VE Day 1945.
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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.
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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.
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Noddy Holder of Slade, Stephen Rea and Simone de Beauvoir
Stephen Rea on performing Beckett, and Noddy Holder discusses cult film Slade in Flame.
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Universal Theme Park, Olivier award-winning play Giant, Two to One
Mark Rosenblatt talks about his Olivier award-winning play about Roald Dahl, Giant.
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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.
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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
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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.
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JMW Turner: 250th anniversary of Britain's greatest painter
Mike Leigh and Alvaro Barrington on the life and influence of landscape artist JMW Turner.