Front Row Episodes Episode guide
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Andrew O'Hagan, The Singapore Grip, Theatre at the point of no return
Andrew O'Hagan on his novel Mayflies. Plus ITV's new drama The Singapore Grip.
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Benjamin Grosvenor performs for Front Row
Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, Venice Film Festival, Understanding artworks.
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Mulan review, Lorna Sage's memoir 20 years on, and must art be political?
Does Disney's live-action remake of Mulan work?
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The office in culture, Kate Clanchy, publishers' Super Thursday
The history of the office in culture; Kate Clanchy on her book How to Grow Your Own Poem.
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Bernardine Evaristo shortlisted for Women's Prize, Anoushka Shankar at the Proms, Film Les Misérables reviewed
Bernardine Evaristo, Anoushka Shankar at the Proms, Film Les Misérables reviewed.
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Ruth Jones, Roger Kneebone, Game Review, The Tempest
Ruth Jones, Roger Kneebone on craft and skills, Game Review, The Tempest.
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Robert Macfarlane, bestselling author, walker, mountaineer and campaigner, talks to Kirsty Lang
Robert Macfarlane on his books, collaborating with artists and musicians and campaigning.
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Luke Jerram, Elena Ferrante's new novel, Bolu Babalola, Britney Spears's conservatorship battle
Luke Jerram on In Memoriam - his artwork to commemorate those lost to the pandemic.
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Eastenders returns, Composer Errollyn Wallen, Katy Perry profiled, I'm Thinking of Ending Things reviewed
The return of Eastenders & composer Errollyn Wallen on rearranging Jerusalem for the Proms
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Women’s Prize For Fiction - Natalie Haynes; 2020 International Booker Prize winner; Agatha Christie’s lost play, The Lie
Natalie Haynes on A Thousand Ships; International Booker Prize winner reviewed.
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An extended interview with dramatist Lucy Prebble
An extended interview with dramatist Lucy Prebble.
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Algorithms in the arts, Composer Hannah Kendall, Daljit Nagra's Poetry Roundup, Cuties film controversy
Algorithms in art, Composer Hannah Kendall, Daljit Nagra's Poetry Roundup, Cuties film.
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Christopher Nolan's Tenet reviewed, British Museum re-opens, Paula Peters on Wampum exhibition, Shedinburgh fringe festival
The long-awaited Tenet on the big screen - Front Row reviews.
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The One and Only Ivan director Thea Sharrock, Educating Rita, writing about music, research on Covid-19 risk from singing
Thea Sharrock on combining CGI and live action in her family movie about a gorilla.
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Stanley Spencer's wives, the damage to culture in Beirut, Angie Cruz
The Wives of Stanley Spencer, the destruction of arts and culture in Beirut.
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Modern Productions in a Roman Theatre, the Art of the Prequel, the Pandemic and Redundancies in the Arts Industries
Making modern work in a Roman theatre; how to create a prequel; yet more arts redundancies
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An interview with Jamaican dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson
An interview with Jamaican dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, 2020 PEN Pinter Prize winner.
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Gloria Estefan, Pinocchio, Shane McCrae
Gloria Estefan on her album Brazil305, a new film version of Pinocchio, poet Shane McCrae.
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Lyricist Don Black
Lyricist Don Black on writing songs like Diamonds are Forever and Born Free.
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Lovecraft Country, Prison Radio Drama, Women's Prize For Fiction Shortlisted Jenny Offill
TV drama Lovecraft Country, set in 1950s Jim Crow America, reviewed.
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Glyndebourne Opera returns. My Rembrandt film. How dangerous is playing the trumpet?
Glyndebourne Opera returns. My Rembrandt film. How dangerous is playing the trumpet?
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Xiaolu Guo, Belarus Free Theatre, Blindness, The Leach Pottery
Novelist Xiaolu Guo, Belarus Free Theatre arrests, Bernard Leach's St Ives pottery
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Es Devlin, Drama by postcard, Ali Smith's Summer, photographer Alys Tomlinson
Es Devlin on her artwork marking the 75th anniversary of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
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Arts in the Midlands, Love Letters to Scotland, Soweto Kinch
Arts in the Midlands, Love Letters to Scotland, and Soweto Kinch's Lockdown Discovery.
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Maggie O'Farrell, Singing in Choirs and Covid, Mark Billingham's Lockdown Discovery
Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, shortlisted for the Women's Prize.
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Little Birds writer Sophia Al-Maria, Simon Armitage, Summer reads, Tara Gbolade
Artist, writer, and filmmaker Sophia Al-Maria on Little Birds, and Simon Armitage.
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Barbara Kingsolver as poet, Es Devlin's Lockdown Discovery, Sculptor Thomas J. Price, pianist Leon Fleisher remembered
Barbara Kingsolver, designer Es Devlin, and artist Thomas J Price
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Sir Alan Parker remembered, Beyoncé's Black is King, Prodigal Son, Natasha Trethewey, Don Hahn
Sir Alan Parker remembered by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
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Whipped cream on The Fourth Plinth, Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee, and Booker Prize nominated Avni Doshi
Heather Phillipson's Trafalgar Square whipped cream sculpture, and Derry Girls' Lisa McGee
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Hilary Mantel, Electronic at The Design Museum, Ai Wei Wei, the future for the panto?
Hilary Mantel, Electronic at The Design Museum, Ai Wei Wei, the future for the panto?